manekami · sixty-cycle canon
Lots of Caution
The temple’s canon holds sixty fixed lots; 12 of them carry the grade “Caution”. Open any lot to read its verse and keep its blessing slip. A ritual, not a guarantee.
Every caution lot comes with a small way to settle the mind — what settles is the mood, never a promised outcome.
- Omen No. 6・己巳Full tides must turn and ebb away once spent,
- Omen No. 10・癸酉Dig your well until it strikes the spring,
- Omen No. 16・己卯Jade in deep hills is slow to show its face;
- Omen No. 20・癸未The silkworm gnaws ten thousand leaves with single mind,
- Omen No. 26・己丑A mirror that shines from dawn to dusk shows nothing of its own;
- Omen No. 30・癸巳Dig a hundred shallow wells and none will fill;
- Omen No. 36・己亥The roaring tide floods every shore at noon,
- Omen No. 40・癸卯Dig not ten shallow wells across the plain
- Omen No. 46・己酉Deep in the hills the jade stays half-concealed,
- Omen No. 50・癸丑The silkworm thrives on one chosen leaf alone
- Omen No. 56・己未A mirror gleaming all the livelong day will tire,
- Omen No. 60・癸亥A hundred channels split the flow, and all run shallow,