Hanlu Temple · eighty lots
Dragon King Hall — Lot 4
This tube asks about timing. The thing you want to start and have not — say it once, inside.
Dragon King Hall · Lot 4Fair
云聚云散未有期求雨还须自筑堤先把沟渠修好整雨来方能灌满池
What it means: Not yet. Dig the channel first.
The verse is kept in Chinese. It is a four-line regulated poem — rhyme and metre are part of the thing itself, and they do not survive translation. The reading below is written in English.
The reading
The clouds gather and disperse; the moment is a little short. Build the channel and finish the preparation, so that when the rain comes you can hold it.
The Dragon King's lots are about water: when it arrives, the channel is already made.
How to read this grade
Fair is not a bad lot. It means even — no great tailwind, no wall. This band most often lands on doing the thing in front of you well and not changing roads yet.
All eighty lots are lines written for Hanlu Temple. They are here to help you put a question into words — no promise, and no medical, financial or legal advice.
Draw this lot in the hall
Walk to the Dragon King Hall, sit down on a cushion and put your palms together. The tube of lots stands by the altar. A lot you drew in the same hall on the same day is remembered, so you can come back and read it again.