Mazu Kau Chim
Mazu Kau Chim Sign 80
Sign 80 of 100
The verse
前生逋欠我深知此日償還數適宜莫便生嗔兼悔恨塞翁失馬未為寄
In English
I deeply know the debts owed from a former life.Today repayment comes in the proper measure.Do not immediately become angry or regretful.The old man losing his horse was not necessarily misfortune.
The twelve aspects
A temple slip does not give one answer. The same four lines are read differently depending on what you came to ask about, and these are the twelve readings traditionally set down for this sign.
- Career and Recognition
- A life of busyness becomes only a painted cake.
- Business
- Business does not succeed; small gains are outweighed by many losses.
- Pregnancy and Children
- Old enmities embrace each other; quickly repent.
- Health
- Fate meets old resentment; quickly create blessing.
- Marriage
- A lonely phoenix and widowed match; a broken mirror is hard to mend.
- Travel
- The road is exhausted as the sun moves west; anxious and unsettled.
- Household
- The gate declines and the household is cold; the scene is bleak.
- Wealth
- After exhausting every scheme, seeking still does not obtain.
- Current Fortune
- Fruitless labor; fortune has not arrived.
- Lost Item
- Searching in ten thousand places still cannot find it.
- Farming
- Fields are barren and all comes to nothing.
- Legal Matters
- If it can stop but does not, beware of losing over small profit.