Guan Di lot 5 of 100
Three things out of your hands
Middling (中平, 甲戊). Grades differ between editions, and many Taiwanese temples print none. Shown as Wikisource gives it, with the stem pair 甲戊.
子有三般不自由
門庭蕭索冷如秋
若逢牛鼠交承日
萬事回春不用憂
There are three matters in which you are not free.
The gate and courtyard are bare and cold as autumn.
When the day of the ox and the rat meet,
everything will turn back to spring, and there will be nothing to fear.
What this lot says
This is a lot for a lean time. The verse describes an empty household and a feeling of being stuck, and it says plainly that some things are beyond your control.
The turn comes in the third line, which names a change of days or years as the moment things lift. Take it as encouragement to wait and keep going rather than as a date to count on.
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
Lü Mengzheng endures hardship (呂蒙正守困)
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)
子有三般不自由 / 門庭蕭索冷如秋 / 若逢牛鼠交承日 / 萬事回春不用憂
Retrieved 2026-11-09. Transcription licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.
manekineko.com.tw (富貴轉運站)
子有三般不自由 / 門庭蕭索冷如秋 / 若逢牛鼠交承日 / 萬事回春不用憂
Retrieved 2026-11-09
English translation, meaning and story summaries are by Cast & Chart.