Atalanta Fugiens · Emblem XXXII
Corallus sub aquis ut crescit et aere induratur, sic lapis.
As coral grows under water and hardens in the air, so the stone.
Emblem XXXII
It grows in one element and becomes fixed in another. Nothing is used until it has hardened.
A question to carry
What has grown in you that has not yet hardened?
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.