Hanlu Temple · eighty lots
Mazu Hall — Lot 4
This tube asks about safety. Think of the person travelling, and the road they are on.
Mazu Hall · Lot 4Fair
风浪未平且泊船急行恐遇打头澜缓得三朝风色定扬帆正好下长川
What it means: Wait a few days. It is safer and no slower.
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 water has not settled, so moor the boat. Rushing now runs into the current; three to five days later the wind is right and you make better time.
Mazu's lots usually land on the road: slower, steadier.
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 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.