Hanlu Temple · eighty lots
Kitchen God Hall — Lot 7
This tube asks about daily bread. Run the year ahead through your mind.
Kitchen God Hall · Lot 7Poor
仓廪渐空要早谋莫待无米愁白头今日起头勤打算冬来方能有剩留
What it means: The store is thinning. Plan now.
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 grain is running low, so start planning early. Do not wait until there is nothing to cook. Begin trimming the spending this month.
The Kitchen God's lots are the most practical — firewood, rice, oil, salt.
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 Kitchen God 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.