Waning Moon Without Its Light

A moon past full has not got its brightness back. Careless talk over drinks causes injury. The third line names trouble affecting someone at home, and the fourth calls for prayer and for protecting the green of spring.

Real concerns sit alongside Kichi, Good fortune, which is the grade the book prints. The moon and the household are both shown in a weakened state, and the good lies in what can still be kept, the spring that the last line wants protected.

Thought of in present-day terms, this is a season when one careless remark and a worry close to home land at once. Such a season raises the question of what deserves protecting first, and of which words have already done their damage.