The verse

The moon waxes and wanes, yet walks each night the same,seeking no single evening to fill the whole black sky.Tend your small lamp through frost and summer's flame,and it will light one inch of courtyard by and by.

Reading

This sign counsels daily accumulation over a single night's fullness. Like the moon's nightly round, keep your lamp through every season; ask only for constancy, not for fortune.

The temple keeper adds

The middle path. No drama from the god today — only a road you can still walk.

[ Draw another at the temple ][ Keep a traffic omamori ]