Hanlu Temple · eighty lots
Dragon King Hall — Lot 7
This tube asks about timing. The thing you want to start and have not — say it once, inside.
Dragon King Hall · Lot 7Poor
亢旱之年莫硬耕强求雨水雨不生且收犁耙归仓廪养力以待来年春
What it means: The season is against you. Hold, do not advance.
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
This is not a year for forcing the plough; the harder you push the more you damage. Put the tools away, rest the ground and the people and your strength, and wait for next spring.
The Dragon King's lots are about water: when it arrives, the channel is already made.
How to read this grade
Poor describes the present, not your fate. Its use is to tell you to pull back a little, stop adding to the position, and move again when the conditions have changed.
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.