Wong Tai Sin lot 36 of 100
Pinggui returns
Good (中吉). 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.
此事真如到岸船
何憂風水不相全
舉頭便見前村落
屋角斜陽爨已煙
This matter is truly like a boat that has reached the shore.
Why worry that wind and water will not both be right?
Lift your head and you see the village ahead.
At the roof corner in the slanting sun, cooking smoke has begun to rise.
What this lot says
The journey is nearly done: the village is in sight and smoke rises from the kitchen. The worry about wind and water is waved away.
It reads as favourable, a lot of arrival and of anxieties settling as the end comes into view.
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
Pinggui returns (平貴回)
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)
此事真如到岸船 / 何憂風水不相全 / 舉頭便見前村落 / 屋角斜陽爨已煙
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Luckeyes (算命眼, luckeyes.com)
此事真如到岸船 / 何憂風水不相全 / 舉頭便見前村落 / 屋角斜陽渺已煙
Retrieved 2026-11-09
Andy.hk (加賀風水)
此事真如到岸船 / 何憂風水不相全 / 舉頭便見前村落 / 屋角斜陽爨已煙
Retrieved 2026-11-09
Where the sources differ
- Line 4, character 5: fortunesticks.org and andy.hk read 爨; luckeyes.com reads 渺. This is a different character.
- The allusion in the lot title: fortunesticks.org names it 平貴回; luckeyes.com and andy.hk name it 薛平貴歸家.
- The allusion in the lot title: the temple's website (Sik Sik Yuen, taonet.siksikyuen.org.hk) names it 陶淵明歸家.
English translation and commentary are by Cast & Chart.