Guan Yin lot 73 of 100
Spring thunder wakes the insects
Highest (上上). Grade from the related Goodfate edition. Grades differ between temples, and many Taiwanese temples print none.
春雷震起蟄中蟲
脫卻塵凡出舊墉
忽遇風雲交際處
自然變化得成龍
Spring thunder shakes the creatures in their winter sleep.
They shed the dust of the world and leave the old wall.
Suddenly they meet where wind and cloud come together,
And of itself the change comes, and they become dragons.
What this lot says
Spring thunder wakes what has been lying still. In the verse a small buried creature leaves its old wall, meets the wind and clouds and changes into a dragon. It is about a long wait meeting the right moment.
The advice is to be ready to move when the weather shifts, and to leave the old shelter when it no longer fits.
If you have been preparing quietly for a new role or venture and an opening appears, take it seriously and act. Timing helps, and the years of preparation are what let you use it.
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 mutiny at Chenqiao (陳橋兵變)
In 960 the troops of Zhao Kuangyin declared him emperor at Chenqiao, and the Song dynasty was founded with little bloodshed. A general whose station changed in a single morning fits a lot about sudden transformation.
Source: Wikipedia, Chenqiao Mutiny
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)
春雷震起蟄中蟲 / 脫卻塵凡出舊墉 / 忽遇風雲交際處 / 自然變化得成龍
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Jiěqiān Gé (解籤閣)
春雷震起蟄中蟲 / 脫卻塵凡出舊墉 / 忽遇風雲交際處 / 自然變化得成龍
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Goodfate (今日運勢), a related edition
春雷震起蟄中蟲 / 脫卻凡塵出舊墉 / 忽遇風雲交際處 / 自然變化得成龍
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Where the sources differ
- Line 2 reads 脫卻凡塵出舊墉 in the related Goodfate edition.
English translation and commentary are by Cast & Chart.