Guan Yin lot 14 of 100
The crane leaves its cage
Favourable (中吉). Grade from the related Goodfate edition. Grades differ between temples, and many Taiwanese temples print none.
宛如仙鶴出樊籠
脫却羈縻處處通
南北東西無障碍
任君直上九霄中
Like a crane of the immortals freed from its cage,
You shed the tether and every way is open.
North, south, east and west, nothing blocks you.
Go as you please, straight up to the highest sky.
What this lot says
A crane of the immortals leaves its cage and finds every direction open. The verse has no warnings in it and no conditions.
Its advice is simply to use the freedom once you have it. A bird that has been caged for a long time may sit by the open door.
If you have finished a contract, left a job or come out of a limiting relationship, this lot encourages you to move. Choose a direction and go. Tell people what you are doing next, and try the thing you could not try before.
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
Ziya leaves office, from Investiture of the Gods (《封神榜》子牙棄官)
In the Ming novel Investiture of the Gods, a work of legend, Jiang Ziya escapes a trap set at the Shang court, leaves his post and takes up fishing on the Wei River. Walking away from a dangerous office matches the crane leaving its cage.
Source: Wikipedia, Investiture of the Gods
Where this text comes from
This verse is a traditional temple text with no known author. No single original edition is known and wording differs between temples, so we compare named witnesses and record where they differ.
Míguāng (覓光) (the text shown above)
宛如仙鶴出樊籠 / 脫却羈縻處處通 / 南北東西無障碍 / 任君直上九霄中
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Jiěqiān Gé (解籤閣)
宛如仙鶴出樊籠 / 脫却羈縻處處通 / 南北東西無障碍 / 任君直上九霄中
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Goodfate (今日運勢), a related edition
宛如仙鶴出凡籠 / 脫得凡籠路路通 / 南北東西無阻隔 / 任君直上九霄宮
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Where the sources differ
- Line 1 reads 宛如仙鶴出凡籠 in the related Goodfate edition.
- Line 2 reads 脫得凡籠路路通 in the related Goodfate edition.
- Line 3 reads 南北東西無阻隔 in the related Goodfate edition.
- Line 4 reads 任君直上九霄宮 in the related Goodfate edition.
English translation and commentary are by Cast & Chart.