Guan Di lot 88 of 100
After the toil, a new spring
Good (上吉, 壬辛). Grades differ between editions, and many Taiwanese temples print none. Shown as Wikisource gives it. Wikisource prints no stem pair for this lot, so 壬辛 is from manekineko.com.tw.
從前作事總徒勞
纔見新春時漸遭
百計營求都得意
更須守己莫心高
Everything you did before came to nothing.
Only now, with the new spring, does the time begin to turn.
A hundred plans and efforts will all go as you intend.
Still, you must keep to your place and not let your heart get high.
What this lot says
This is a lot about a turn after wasted effort. The verse says earlier work did not pay off but that the new season does.
The last line asks you not to get above yourself. If things are about to improve, it advises humility.
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
Gao Wending endures hardship (高文定守困)
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)
從前作事總徒勞 / 纔見新春時漸遭 / 百計營求都得意 / 更須守己莫心高
Retrieved 2026-11-09. Transcription licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.
manekineko.com.tw (富貴轉運站)
從前作事總徒勞 / 纔見新春時漸遭 / 百計營求都得意 / 更須守己莫心高
Retrieved 2026-11-09
Where the sources differ
- Grade: the manekineko.com.tw page title gives 上吉 but its sub-heading gives 上上.
- Line 2: a note in Wikisource's transcription gives 喜氣 for 時漸, apparently a variant reading.
English translation, meaning and story summaries are by Cast & Chart.