Atalanta Fugiens · Emblem VI
Seminate aurum vestrum in terram albam foliatam.
Sow your gold in the white, leafy earth.
Emblem VI
Gold kept in a box stays gold. Gold sown in prepared, whitened earth can multiply. The value has to be planted, and only after the ground is ready.
A question to carry
What are you guarding that needs to be planted?
Emblem of the day
Michael Maier's Atalanta Fugiens (1618), with the Latin motto, a translation and a reading for each plate.
Engraving in the public domain.