Hanlu Temple · eighty lots
Mazu Hall — Lot 1
This tube asks about safety. Think of the person travelling, and the road they are on.
Mazu Hall · Lot 1Excellent
海上明灯照夜航风平浪静好还乡出门自有慈航护一路平安到远方
What it means: Good to travel. You will arrive and return.
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 trip goes with you and the weather is behind you. Bring what you need, keep a little care about you, and you arrive safe and come back safe.
Mazu's lots usually land on the road: slower, steadier.
How to read this grade
Excellent is the highest of the four bands, and the rarest. It means the timing, the people around you and your own frame of mind all line up. It does not guarantee an outcome — it says this road has little resistance and is worth walking to the end.
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 Mazu 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.