Guan Di lot 1 of 100
Walking alone above the clouds
Very good (大吉, 甲甲). Grades differ between editions, and many Taiwanese temples print none. Shown as Wikisource gives it, with the stem pair 甲甲.
巍巍獨步向雲間
玉殿千官第一班
富貴榮華天付汝
福如東海壽如山
Towering and alone, you walk up into the clouds.
In the jade hall a thousand officials stand, and you are in the first rank.
Wealth and glory are given to you by Heaven.
Blessing as wide as the eastern sea, long life like the mountain.
What this lot says
This is a lot about standing out. The verse puts you above the crowd and at the head of the court, and it says Heaven, not effort, is the giver.
If your question is about a promotion or a role with responsibility, the verse reads as encouragement. Its last two lines name wealth, blessing and long life as Heaven's gift, so they are a reminder to hold such standing with thanks.
A lot is a prompt for reflection. It cannot promise a result, and it is no substitute for medical, legal or financial advice.
The story behind it
Emperor Gaozu enters the pass; the eighteen scholars of Yingzhou (漢高祖入關；十八學士登瀛洲)
Named for this lot in the Wikisource transcription.
Where this text comes from
This verse is a traditional temple text with no known author. We read it from two named web transcriptions, Chinese Wikisource (the base text) and manekineko.com.tw. Neither is a scan of a printing, the edition behind them is mixed, and we could not establish whether the two are independent of each other.
Wikisource (關聖帝君靈籤) (the text shown above)
巍巍獨步向雲間 / 玉殿千官第一班 / 富貴榮華天付汝 / 福如東海壽如山
Retrieved 2026-11-09. Transcription licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.
manekineko.com.tw (富貴轉運站)
巍巍獨步向雲間 / 玉殿千官第一班 / 富貴榮華天付汝 / 福如東海壽如山
Retrieved 2026-11-09
Where the sources differ
- Line 2: Wikisource's commentary says 千官 is also written 仙官.
- Wikisource prints 學土 in the story line, which we read as 學士 (scholars).
English translation, meaning and story summaries are by Cast & Chart.