Wong Tai Sin lot 38 of 100
Tao Yuanming resigns his post
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.
歸去來兮仕官閒
室堪容膝亦為安
南窗寄傲談詩酒
倚杖徘徊飽看山
Let me go home: official life counts for little.
A room big enough to fold one's knees in is peace enough.
At the south window I rest my pride, and talk of poetry and wine.
Leaning on a staff I wander, and look at the hills to my heart's content.
What this lot says
A person leaves public life for a small house and quiet pleasures. The verse says a small room is enough.
It reads as a good lot about contentment and choosing a simple life, if that is what you want.
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
Tao Yuanming resigns his post (陶淵明辭官)
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)
歸去來兮仕官閒 / 室堪容膝亦為安 / 南窗寄傲談詩酒 / 倚杖徘徊飽看山
Retrieved 2026-11-09
Luckeyes (算命眼, luckeyes.com)
歸去來兮仕官閉 / 室堪容膝亦為安 / 南窗寄傲談詩酒 / 倚杖徘徊飽看山
Retrieved 2026-11-09
Andy.hk (加賀風水)
歸去來兮仕官閒 / 室堪容膝亦為安 / 南窗寄傲談詩酒 / 倚杖徘徊飽看山
Retrieved 2026-11-09
Where the sources differ
- Line 1, character 7: fortunesticks.org and andy.hk read 閒; luckeyes.com reads 閉. This is a different character.
English translation and commentary are by Cast & Chart.