Guan Di lot 10 of 100
Illness and a turning year
Slightly good (下吉, 甲癸). Grades differ between editions, and many Taiwanese temples print none. Shown as Wikisource gives it, with the stem pair 甲癸.
病患時時命蹇衰
何須打瓦共鑽龜
宜教重見一陽復
始可求神仗佛持
Sickness keeps coming, and your fortune is low and halting.
Why bother breaking tiles or boring into tortoise shells?
Let the one yang return again,
and only then may you ask the gods and rely on the Buddha.
What this lot says
This is a lot for a hard patch of health or luck. The verse says that more divination will not help, and it holds prayer back until the return of the yang, the turn of the year after midwinter.
Read it as patience and not as medical advice. If you or someone close is unwell, see a qualified professional. The verse says nothing about how any illness will go.
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
Ran Boniu falls ill; Meng Jiao passes the exam at fifty (冉伯牛染病；孟郊五十登第)
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)
病患時時命蹇衰 / 何須打瓦共鑽龜 / 宜教重見一陽復 / 始可求神仗佛持
Retrieved 2026-11-09. Transcription licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.
manekineko.com.tw (富貴轉運站)
病患時時命蹇衰 / 何須打瓦共鑽龜 / 直教重見一陽復 / 始可求神仗佛持
Retrieved 2026-11-09
Where the sources differ
- Line 3 reads 宜教重見一陽復 in Wikisource and 直教重見一陽復 on manekineko.com.tw. We show the Wikisource reading.
- Grade: Wikisource gives 下吉 and manekineko.com.tw gives 下下. We show the Wikisource grade.
English translation, meaning and story summaries are by Cast & Chart.