Guan Di lot 2 of 100
Fullness and emptiness follow the season
Good (上吉, 甲乙). Grades differ between editions, and many Taiwanese temples print none. Shown as Wikisource gives it, with the stem pair 甲乙.
盈虛消息總天時
自此君當百事宜
若問前程歸縮地
更須方寸好修為
Fullness and emptiness, growth and decline all belong to the season.
From here on, you will find things going well.
If you ask about the road ahead, it is a short step to the place you want.
You must still make your own heart right.
What this lot says
The first line is about timing. Good and lean periods take turns, and the verse says this is one of the better turns.
The last line is the condition: the inner work still has to be done. This is a lot for someone who has waited and is nearly there, and it asks you to check your motives.
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
Zhang Liang visits Red Pine; Prince Han rides a donkey by West Lake (張子房遊赤松；韓蘄王西湖騎驢)
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)
盈虛消息總天時 / 自此君當百事宜 / 若問前程歸縮地 / 更須方寸好修為
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manekineko.com.tw (富貴轉運站)
盈虛消息總天時 / 自此君當百事宜 / 若問前程歸縮地 / 須憑方寸好修為
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Where the sources differ
- Line 4 reads 更須方寸好修為 in Wikisource and 須憑方寸好修為 on manekineko.com.tw. We show the Wikisource reading.
English translation, meaning and story summaries are by Cast & Chart.