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Guan Yin lot 16 of 100

Jade in the mud

Favourable (中吉). Grade from the related Goodfate edition. Grades differ between temples, and many Taiwanese temples print none.

攢眉思慮暫時開

咫尺雲開見日來

宛似汙泥中片玉

良工一舉出塵埃

Knitted brows and worries ease for a while.

A short way off the clouds part and the sun comes through.

You are like a piece of jade in dirty mud,

And one lift from a skilled hand takes it from the dust.

What this lot says

Worry lines ease, and the clouds close by begin to part. A piece of jade lies in the mud, and a skilled hand lifts it out.

The jade stays the same throughout the verse. It needs someone who can see it, and that person has the skill to act.

If you feel overlooked at work or your project has gone unnoticed, show it to someone who knows the field well. Ask a mentor to read your work or an expert to review it. Choose people for their judgment, and clean off what you can before they look.

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

Ye Mengxiong attends the emperor (葉夢熊朝帝)

Ye Mengxiong was a Ming official who was demoted after opposing a title for a Mongol leader, then rose again as a governor and military commander and helped put down the Ningxia rebellion in 1592. A setback followed by renewed use fits the jade lifted from the mud.

Source: Wikipedia (zh), 葉夢熊

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)

攢眉思慮暫時開 / 咫尺雲開見日來 / 宛似汙泥中片玉 / 良工一舉出塵埃

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Jiěqiān Gé (解籤閣)

攢眉思慮暫時開 / 咫尺雲開見日來 / 宛如汙泥中片玉 / 良工一舉出塵埃

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Goodfate (今日運勢), a related edition

攢眉思慮暫時開 / 咫尺雲開見日來 / 宛如污泥中片玉 / 良工一舉出塵埃

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Where the sources differ

  • Line 3 reads 宛似汙泥中片玉 in Míguāng and 宛如汙泥中片玉 in Jiěqiān Gé.
  • Line 3 reads 宛如污泥中片玉 in the related Goodfate edition.

English translation and commentary are by Cast & Chart.