Yao Chong and the Locusts
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The poem
Original: 过了忧危事几重 / 从今再立永无空 / 宽心自有宽心计 / 得遇高人立大功
The story
In 716 locusts devastated the eastern provinces. Superstition kept the peasants from killing them; they burned incense at the edge of the fields and watched the crops go. The whole court declared locusts a heavenly punishment that human hands must not touch. The chancellor Yao Chong overruled them all, ordered the swarms caught and buried, and saved the harvest.
What it means
The image is an old well finding its spring: matters are accomplished through others. The layers of danger and worry have been crossed, and what you build from here will not come to nothing. Two things matter. The first is easing the heart, because a mind at ease produces its own solutions, the way a long-dry well suddenly runs. The second is the person of skill, since what you lack is usually not effort but someone experienced to name the problem. With both, a great work gets done and disputes end in your favour.
By area of life
Wealth
Past ventures lost money repeatedly; this time you need a patron's guidance to profit. Obstruction remains, but the direction is now right.
Love
The old failures are finished, and the match that will carry you through life is coming, most likely through an introduction. An easy heart smooths it.
Work
After many fruitless applications you will find the position you settle into. Business steadies once the hard passages are past; take an adviser.
Health
A long illness has not shifted, and you need someone else's experience of treating it. An open, unhurried mind helps a great deal.
Travel
There will be difficulties abroad; meet them with a relaxed attitude and they resolve. A patron makes the venture far more likely to succeed.
Advice
The worst passages are behind you, so ease your mind and find one experienced person to point out what you are missing.