Guanyin fortune stick

81

Upper stick

Guanyin fortune stick 81: The Parasol Tree Drops Its Leaves

Parasol tree leaves are falling, and autumn is nearly over.
The traveler heads home, swift as a drifting cloud.
Give thanks to Heaven for pushing hard on your behalf.
A boat with a fair wind carries treasure home.

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The verdict

What your heart seeks, Heaven will grant; for plans and ventures, go ahead and do all you intend.

What it says to you

Falling leaves usually mean an ending, and the traditional image here admits it: things start rough before they turn good. But read the poem to the end. The season closes, the traveler turns for home, and the wind fills the sail behind a boat full of treasure. Whatever you have been laboring over is in its homeward stretch. The hard part was the leaving and the long season away; the return goes fast. Act on the plan you already hold, and act now while the wind is with you. When it lands, say thank you out loud, to Heaven or to the people who helped push.

The story behind the stick

This stick carries the legend of the wind that sent Wang Bo to the Tengwang Pavilion. Wang Bo, a Tang poet famous as a prodigy, was traveling by river when he learned that the governor of Hongzhou, today's Nanchang, was holding a great autumn banquet at the pavilion the next day, hoping his son-in-law would shine by writing its preface. The city lay some seven hundred miles away by the old reckoning. At Mount Madang a white-haired old man, the god of the local waters, promised him a wind, and his boat flew there overnight. Wang Bo arrived in time and wrote the Preface to the Tengwang Pavilion, still one of the most quoted pieces in Chinese. It matches an upper stick about a fair wind home: heaven pushes, and the reward comes fast.

Line by line

1. The parasol tree is said to be the first to drop a leaf in autumn, signaling the season's turn. Readers take falling leaves as a hard or closing stretch that comes before the good part.

2. The traveler heading home swift as a cloud means the return leg moves quickly once it starts. Most readings take it as a good sign for trips, homecomings and long projects nearing completion.

3. Thanking Heaven for pushing hard credits the success to help beyond your own effort. Temple readers often take it as a cue to give thanks, in prayer or to the people who helped.

4. A boat on a fair wind loaded with treasure is the poem's payoff. Readers understand it as gain arriving with ease, especially for trade, travel and money owed that comes back.

The original verse

梧桐叶落秋将暮
行客归程似云飞
谢得天公高着力
顺风船载珍宝归

Seven characters a line, as printed in the BW Monastery edition.

Sources for the story: zhouyi.cc Guanyin lot 81: https://www.zhouyi.cc/lingqian/guanyin/5464.html; buyiju.com Guanyin lot 81: https://www.buyiju.com/guanyin/81.html; ttlingqian.com Guanyin lot 81: https://www.ttlingqian.com/guanyin/81.html; masterseanchan.com Guanyin oracle lot 81; Wikisource, Preface to the Tengwang Pavilion: https://zh.wikisource.org/wiki/滕王閣序.

Optional: the temple way

At a temple the stick is not yours until two moon blocks agree: one flat side up and one round side up, a holy cup.

Confirm with the moon blocks

About stick 81

Is Guanyin stick 81 good or bad?

Stick 81, "The Parasol Tree Drops Its Leaves", is a upper stick, a favorable stick. What your heart seeks, Heaven will grant; for plans and ventures, go ahead and do all you intend.

What does Guanyin stick 81 say about love?

The two of you are in harmony.

What does Guanyin stick 81 say about money?

Investments go as hoped; trade succeeds.

What does Guanyin stick 81 say about work?

Your talent is noticed; effort in study pays off.

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The verse follows the BW Monastery edition of the Guanyin set; the English rendering and reading are Jade Almanac's own. A drawn stick is a tradition and a prompt for reflection, not advice about health, money or the law.