The verse

The lone moon lights the cold sands night by night,Its wax and wane move always by one law;Covet not the single dusk that blazed like noon—Year after year this same pale face attends the plum.

Reading

This sign bids you be like the moon: present each night, not in one full blaze. What is laid down daily finds its own measure. Ask not what fortune brings, but whether you return each day as at first.

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 ]