Wong Tai Sin lot 68 of 100
Jiang Taigong achieves his ambition
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.
久抱凌雲志未舒
荷竿渭水釣遊魚
文王千里求賢士
滅紂興周任意如
He long held an ambition to rise above the clouds and could not carry it out.
Shouldering a fishing rod by the Wei River, he fished.
King Wen sought a worthy man from a thousand miles away,
and bringing down King Zhou and raising the new dynasty went as he wished.
What this lot says
Years of waiting, then recognition by someone who was looking for him. The verse is about a long-held ambition finally finding its chance.
It is graded good. Read it as a lot of patience being matched by an opportunity, though the verse gives no timing.
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
Jiang Taigong achieves his ambition (姜太公得志)
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)
久抱凌雲志未舒 / 荷竿渭水釣遊魚 / 文王千里求賢士 / 滅紂興周任意如
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Luckeyes (算命眼, luckeyes.com)
久抱凌雲志未舒 / 荷竿渭水釣游魚 / 文王千里求賢士 / 滅紂興周任意如
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Andy.hk (加賀風水)
久抱凌雲志未舒 / 荷竿渭水釣遊魚 / 文王千里求賢士 / 滅紂興周任意如
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Where the sources differ
- Line 2, character 6: fortunesticks.org and andy.hk read 遊; luckeyes.com reads 游. This is the same character in a different written form.
English translation and commentary are by Cast & Chart.