Guan Di lot 13 of 100
A fisherman waiting by the river
Middling (中平, 乙丙). Grades differ between editions, and many Taiwanese temples print none. Shown as Wikisource gives it. Wikisource prints no stem pair for this lot, so 乙丙 is from manekineko.com.tw.
君今庚甲未亨通
且向江頭作釣翁
玉兔重生應發跡
萬人頭上逞英雄
Your fortunes have not yet opened up.
For now, stay by the river and fish.
When the jade hare is born again, you will make your name,
and stand above ten thousand people.
What this lot says
This is a lot about patient waiting. The verse puts you by the river with a fishing line and says your moment comes with a return of the moon, which is to say a turn of time.
It rewards someone who is quiet and ready. If your question is about when to act, it advises holding back until the moment is clear.
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
Jiang Taigong fishes (姜太公釣魚)
According to the account on Wikisource, Jiang Shang fished at the Pan stream with a straight hook, because he was fishing for a ruler and not for fish. King Wen heard of his ability, made him an adviser, and he later helped the Zhou overthrow the Shang.
Source: Wikisource, 關聖帝君靈籤/13, 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)
君今庚甲未亨通 / 且向江頭作釣翁 / 玉兔重生應發跡 / 萬人頭上逞英雄
Retrieved 2026-11-09. Transcription licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.
manekineko.com.tw (富貴轉運站)
君今庚甲未亨通 / 且向江頭作釣翁 / 玉兔重生應發跡 / 萬人頭上作英雄
Retrieved 2026-11-09
Where the sources differ
- Line 4 reads 萬人頭上逞英雄 in Wikisource and 萬人頭上作英雄 on manekineko.com.tw. We show the Wikisource reading.
English translation, meaning and story summaries are by Cast & Chart.