Guan Yin lot 76 of 100
Leaping the Yu Gate
Favourable (中吉). Grade from the related Goodfate edition. Grades differ between temples, and many Taiwanese temples print none.
魚龍混雜意和同
耐守寒潭未濟中
不覺一朝頭角聳
禹門一跳到天宮
Fish and dragons mixed together, of one mind,
Waiting patiently in a cold pool, the crossing not yet done.
Before you know it, one morning, horns stand tall.
One leap at the Yu Gate, and up to the heavens.
What this lot says
Fish and dragons share the same cold pool, and from the surface you cannot tell which is which. Old stories say a carp that leaps the Yu Gate becomes a dragon. The verse gives its first two lines to the waiting.
It asks for patience among ordinary company, and for no show of rank while the crossing is unfinished.
If you are in a junior role or a slow market, keep working and keep your manners toward the people beside you. Recognition can arrive suddenly, and it tends to go to those who were ready for it. The verse cannot tell you when.
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
Zhu Yuanzhang, the Hongwu Emperor, tends cattle (朱元璋洪武看牛)
Zhu Yuanzhang, born to a peasant family in 1328, herded a landlord's cattle as a boy, was orphaned by plague, and spent years as a novice monk before founding the Ming dynasty as the Hongwu Emperor. The low start and sudden rise match this lot's fish in the cold pool.
Source: Wikipedia, Hongwu Emperor
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)
魚龍混雜意和同 / 耐守寒潭未濟中 / 不覺一朝頭角聳 / 禹門一跳到天宮
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Jiěqiān Gé (解籤閣)
魚龍混雜意和同 / 耐守寒潭未濟中 / 不覺一朝頭角聳 / 禹門一跳到天宮
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Goodfate (今日運勢), a related edition
魚龍混雜意和同 / 耐守寒潭未濟中 / 不覺一朝頭角聳 / 禹門一跳到天宮
Retrieved 2026-11-08
English translation and commentary are by Cast & Chart.