Guan Di lot 93 of 100
Wet spring, dry summer
Middling (中平, 癸丙). Grades differ between editions, and many Taiwanese temples print none. Shown as Wikisource gives it. Wikisource prints no stem pair for this lot, so 癸丙 is from manekineko.com.tw.
春來雨水太連綿
入夏晴乾雨又愆
節氣直交三伏始
喜逢滂沛足田園
Spring rain has been too continuous.
In summer it clears, and then the rain is missing again.
When the seasonal markers reach the three hot periods,
you will happily meet a downpour that fills the fields.
What this lot says
This is a lot about weather that does not behave. The verse says rain came at the wrong times and that the right rain arrives at the hottest part of summer.
It suits a question about a supply, a resource or a plan that has been out of rhythm. It says it comes right in time.
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
Shao Kangjie fixes yin and yang (邵康節定陰陽)
According to the account on Wikisource, Shao Yong of the Song dynasty was a scholar of the Book of Changes and number divination, wrote works on cosmic cycles, and repeatedly declined official posts. He died at sixty-seven and was later given the posthumous name Kangjie.
Source: Wikisource, 關聖帝君靈籤/93, 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)
春來雨水太連綿 / 入夏晴乾雨又愆 / 節氣直交三伏始 / 喜逢滂沛足田園
Retrieved 2026-11-09. Transcription licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.
manekineko.com.tw (富貴轉運站)
春來雨水太連綿 / 入夏晴乾雨又愆 / 節氣直交三伏始 / 喜逢滂沛足田園
Retrieved 2026-11-09
Where the sources differ
- Line 1: a note in Wikisource's transcription gives 大 for 太, apparently a variant reading.
English translation, meaning and story summaries are by Cast & Chart.