Guan Di lot 30 of 100
Serve with an honest heart
Fairly good (中吉, 丙癸). Grades differ between editions, and many Taiwanese temples print none. Shown as Wikisource gives it. Wikisource prints no stem pair for this lot, so 丙癸 is from manekineko.com.tw.
奉公謹守莫欺心
自有亨通吉利臨
目下營求且休矣
秋期與子定佳音
Serve your duty carefully and do not deceive your own heart.
Then smooth, lucky things will come to you.
For now, stop your pursuit.
Autumn is the date I set with you for good news.
What this lot says
This is a lot about integrity and timing. The verse says honest service will be met with ease, and it tells you to stop pressing for an immediate result.
The date it promises is autumn, which makes it a lot about waiting a season. If you are impatient, it advises you to use the time well.
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
Liu Yi delivers the letter (柳毅傳書)
According to the account on Wikisource, in the Tang dynasty Liu Yi met a woman who was the Dragon King of Dongting's daughter and was being mistreated by her husband. He agreed to carry her letter to her father, who in return gave Liu Yi his daughter in marriage.
Source: Wikisource, 關聖帝君靈籤/30, 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)
奉公謹守莫欺心 / 自有亨通吉利臨 / 目下營求且休矣 / 秋期與子定佳音
Retrieved 2026-11-09. Transcription licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.
manekineko.com.tw (富貴轉運站)
奉公謹守莫欺心 / 自有亨通吉利臨 / 目下營求且休矣 / 秋期與子定佳音
Retrieved 2026-11-09
English translation, meaning and story summaries are by Cast & Chart.