Mazu Kau Chim
Mazu Kau Chim Sign 91
Sign 91 of 100
The verse
分明一樹牡丹花正欲開時艷若霞忽遇妬花風雨至摧殘頃刻委泥沙
In English
Clearly, one peony tree stands before you.Just as it is about to bloom, bright as rosy clouds,Jealous wind and rain suddenly arrive,And in an instant it is destroyed and falls into mud and sand.
Textual notes
若 is adopted where the source notes a likely error. 妬 is the same as 妒.
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
- Recognition is hard to raise; your name falls outside the list.
- Business
- Business first begins to rise, then meets an adversary.
- Pregnancy and Children
- Pregnancy has formed; beware of miscarriage.
- Health
- A small illness becomes heavy; wrong medicine harms the body.
- Marriage
- A graceful good woman; beware the first marriage retreating.
- Travel
- Think three times before acting; haste is not suitable.
- Household
- Guard against chance-taking; have beginning and end.
- Wealth
- Fortune is contrary; seeking does not obtain.
- Current Fortune
- Repeatedly meeting the wrong people; fortune has not arrived.
- Lost Item
- If already lost, do not search; no need to keep thinking.
- Farming
- Fields are barren like a desert.
- Legal Matters
- You already know inside; why ask again?