Guanyin fortune stick

85

Middle stick

Guanyin fortune stick 85: Flowers Bloom Again After Spring

Deep clouds and fog cover the road below the mountain.
Spring fades, the flowers fall, and then they bloom again.
If poems and books can wake you from a heavy dream,
a helpful guide will lead you up to Heaven's Terrace.

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The verdict

For the old who ask, spring comes again; those seeking name and gain meet unexpected wealth, but late.

What it says to you

The road ahead is under fog, and you cannot see far. The poem does not pretend otherwise. What it offers instead is the second blooming: flowers that fell with the spring and came back anyway. Things change for you later, and the stick ties the change to waking up, to reading, learning, getting your head clear. It also says the way through comes from someone who has walked it. So find that person. Ask an older colleague, a teacher, anyone with experience, and listen properly. For older readers especially, this is a stick about a second spring. Wealth arrives, but late.

The story behind the stick

Han Yu Meets the Snow is the story every edition attaches here. Han Yu, the great Tang essayist, protested in 819 when the emperor welcomed a relic of the Buddha into the palace, and was exiled to Chaozhou on the far southern coast. On the road through the Qinling mountains a snowstorm buried the way at Lan Pass, his horse could go no farther, and there was no one in sight. Then his nephew Han Xiangzi, later counted among the Eight Immortals, came through the snow to meet him. Years earlier Xiangzi had shown him a couplet he could not understand: clouds across the Qinling, snow blocking Lan Pass. Now he did. It suits a middle stick of fog on the road and a guide who appears: the worst moment was also the turning one.

Line by line

1. Clouds and fog over the mountain road mean the way ahead cannot be seen. Temple readers take it as uncertainty that is real, with no promise it lifts soon.

2. Spring ending, flowers falling, then blooming again is a second season after the first has passed. Readers treat it as change that comes late, which is why the stick favors older askers.

3. Waking from a heavy dream through poems and books means study or clear thinking breaks the spell. The usual reading takes it as advice to learn, read, or get proper information before deciding.

4. Heaven's Terrace may mean the heavenly court or Mount Tiantai, a mountain of hermits and immortals. Readers take being led there as rising with the help of someone who already knows the road.

The original verse

云深雾罩山前路
春残花尽又再开
若得诗书沉梦醒
贵人指引步天台

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

Sources for the story: zhouyi.cc Guanyin lot 85: https://www.zhouyi.cc/lingqian/guanyin/5468.html; buyiju.com Guanyin lot 85: https://www.buyiju.com/guanyin/85.html; ttlingqian.com Guanyin lot 85: https://www.ttlingqian.com/guanyin/85.html; masterseanchan.com Guanyin oracle lot 85.

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 85

Is Guanyin stick 85 good or bad?

Stick 85, "Flowers Bloom Again After Spring", is a middle stick, a mixed stick, good with conditions. For the old who ask, spring comes again; those seeking name and gain meet unexpected wealth, but late.

What does Guanyin stick 85 say about love?

Some twists and turns.

What does Guanyin stick 85 say about money?

Gain takes effort; trade is steady. Think twice.

What does Guanyin stick 85 say about work?

Take advice from someone with experience.

Draw another stick , or for a straight yes or no, throw the moon blocks

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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.