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Guan Di lot 79 of 100

Look at the lie of the land

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

乾亥來龍仔細看

坎居午向自當安

若移丑艮陰陽逆

門戶凋零家道難

Look carefully at the dragon vein coming from the northwest.

With the north seat and the south facing, it is naturally settled.

If you move it to the north-east, yin and yang run against each other,

and the household declines and the family's way is hard.

What this lot says

This verse uses the language of feng shui about where a site faces. It says a layout that suits the lie of the land is steady, and one that goes against it makes trouble for the household.

We cannot say how to apply the directions today. Read it as a lot about the importance of a settled home and of checking your arrangements with care.

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

Emperor Shenzong mistakenly climbs Niutou Mountain (宋神宗誤圩牛頭山)

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)

乾亥來龍仔細看 / 坎居午向自當安 / 若移丑艮陰陽逆 / 門戶凋零家道難

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

manekineko.com.tw (富貴轉運站)

乾亥來龍仔細看 / 坎居午向自當安 / 若移丑艮陰陽逆 / 門戶凋零家道難

Retrieved 2026-11-09

Where the sources differ

  • Line 2: a note in Wikisource's transcription gives 相 for 當, apparently a variant reading.
  • The verse uses directional terms from feng shui. We translate them literally and do not explain how to apply them.
  • A note on Wikisource suggests 神宗 in the story title may be a slip for 高宗 (Emperor Gaozong). We keep the title as printed.

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