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Guan Di lot 12 of 100

Spring plans, autumn change

Middling (中平, 乙乙). Grades differ between editions, and many Taiwanese temples print none. Shown as Wikisource gives it. Wikisource prints no stem pair for this lot, so 乙乙 is from manekineko.com.tw.

營為期望在春前

誰料秋來又不然

直遇清江貴公子

一生活計始安全

Your plans and hopes were laid before the spring.

Who expected that autumn would bring something different?

Then you meet a noble young man by the clear river,

and your livelihood is made safe at last.

What this lot says

This is a lot about plans that are interrupted and then rescued. The verse says the first plan will not go as expected, but that help arrives in the form of a person of standing.

If your question is about work or money, it is a reminder to keep your connections warm. The help in the verse comes from meeting someone, not from forcing the first plan.

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

Su Wu herds sheep (蘇武牧羊)

According to the account on Wikisource, Su Wu was sent as an envoy to the Xiongnu in the Han dynasty and was held there. He survived on snow and felt, herded sheep by the sea for nineteen years while holding his envoy's staff, and was finally allowed home.

Source: Wikisource, 關聖帝君靈籤/12, the 故事及記載 section

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)

營為期望在春前 / 誰料秋來又不然 / 直遇清江貴公子 / 一生活計始安全

Retrieved 2026-11-09. Transcription licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

manekineko.com.tw (富貴轉運站)

營為期望在春前 / 誰料秋來又不然 / 直遇清江貴公子 / 一生活計始安全

Retrieved 2026-11-09

Where the sources differ

  • Grade: the manekineko.com.tw page title gives 上上 but its sub-heading gives 中平.

English translation, meaning and story summaries are by Cast & Chart.