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\"\"<\/a>With a snowstorm predicted, I snip the seed heads of yarrow plants.<\/p>\n

Some are tossed in a little gully that stays moist in drought, others onto the tall grass over the dogs’ graves.<\/p>\n

The stems I leave to rot.((A reference to how the I Ching<\/a> was originally cast, through a sort of trance-inducing procedure of sorting yarrow stalks to determine the value of each line of the hexagram<\/a>.))<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

With a snowstorm predicted, I snip the seed heads of yarrow plants. Some are tossed in a little gully that stays moist in drought, others onto the tall grass over the dogs’ graves. The stems I leave to rot.((A reference to how the I Ching was originally cast, through a sort of trance-inducing procedure of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[190,206],"class_list":["post-10960","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-divination","tag-plants"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6xQTg-2QM","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":4697,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=4697","url_meta":{"origin":10960,"position":0},"title":"D&D in Ptolemaic Egypt","author":"Chas S. 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