Wong Tai Sin lot 12 of 100
Li Bai tries to catch the moon
Lowest (下下). Grade as given on the named web transcriptions. We have not seen it on a temple printing, and we do not know that the temple prints one.
蜃樓海市幻無邊
萬丈擎空接上天
或被狂風忽吹散
有時仍聚結青煙
A mirage over the sea stretches on without end.
It rises ten thousand fathoms high and seems to prop up the sky.
A wild wind may suddenly blow it apart.
Then at times it gathers again into blue smoke.
What this lot says
A grand vision that is made of air. It looks huge and solid, then the wind breaks it up, then it half re-forms.
The lot is graded as the lowest and the message is caution: what is impressive to look at may have no substance to build on.
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
Li Bai tries to catch the moon (太白撈月)
A traditional allusion named with this lot. We have not traced the story to a source we could read, so we do not retell it here.
Where this text comes from
This verse is a traditional temple text with no known author, here read from named web transcriptions. We compared the sites character by character and show every difference. We could not establish whether the sites are independent of one another, and we have not read a temple printing.
Fortune Sticks (fortunesticks.org) (the text shown above)
蜃樓海市幻無邊 / 萬丈擎空接上天 / 或被狂風忽吹散 / 有時仍聚結青煙
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Luckeyes (算命眼, luckeyes.com)
蜃樓海市幻無邊 / 萬丈擎空接上天 / 或被狂風忽吹散 / 有時仍聚結青煙
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Andy.hk (加賀風水)
蜃樓海市幻無邊 / 萬丈擎空接上天 / 或被狂風忽吹散 / 有時仍聚結青煙
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Where the sources differ
- The allusion in the lot title: the temple's website (Sik Sik Yuen, taonet.siksikyuen.org.hk) names it 蜃樓海市.
English translation and commentary are by Cast & Chart.