Guan Yin lot 24 of 100
Foam and falling petals
Lowest (下下). Grade from the related Goodfate edition. Grades differ between temples, and many Taiwanese temples print none.
不成鄰里不成家
水泡痴人似落花
若問君恩難得力
到頭畢竟事如蔴
No neighbors gathered and no home built.
A foolish man, foam on water, like falling petals.
If you ask for a lord's favor, it gives you little help.
In the end, matters are a tangle of hemp.
What this lot says
Without neighbors or a settled home, a person drifts like foam on water or a petal that has fallen. Help from above does little, and matters end up tangled like hemp.
This is a hard lot, and its advice is practical. Stop waiting for someone powerful to sort things out, and start with what is close at hand.
If your plans depend on a boss's favor or a relative's rescue, try building smaller ties of your own. Get to know the people nearby. Untie one knot at a time, beginning with the one you can reach today.
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
The fool who lost his virtue (癡人喪德)
Named for this lot in the related Goodfate edition.
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)
不成鄰里不成家 / 水泡痴人似落花 / 若問君恩難得力 / 到頭畢竟事如蔴
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Jiěqiān Gé (解籤閣)
不成鄰里不成家 / 水泡痴人似落花 / 若問君恩難得力 / 到頭畢竟事如蔴
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Goodfate (今日運勢), a related edition
不成鄰裡不成家 / 水泡癡人似落花 / 若問君恩難得力 / 到頭畢竟事如麻
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Where the sources differ
- Line 1 reads 不成鄰裡不成家 in the related Goodfate edition.
- Line 2 reads 水泡癡人似落花 in the related Goodfate edition.
- Line 4 reads 到頭畢竟事如麻 in the related Goodfate edition.
English translation and commentary are by Cast & Chart.