Xuanzang Fetches the Scriptures
Neutral
The poem
Original: 衣冠重整旧家风 / 道是无穹却有功 / 扫却当途荆棘刺 / 三人约议再和同
The story
The monk Xuanzang left home at thirteen and in 629 set out alone for India, crossing deserts and snow passes and reaching it only after four years. He studied at Nalanda, and after seventeen years and fifty thousand miles he returned to Chang'an in 645 carrying six hundred and fifty-seven Buddhist texts.
What it means
The image is setting the robes and cap right again: hard first, easy afterwards. You put your dress in order and restore the old family style, and though it looks like labour without result, the merit is genuinely there; sweep the thorns from the road, and three parties make a new agreement and are of one mind. The key words are reorganise and reunite. You are not being asked to start over somewhere else, but to overhaul what you already have, talk through the old estrangement and clear the obstacles. Once the wills are joined the road is open.
By area of life
Wealth
Gain is good and deals are favourable. Review your holdings, rethink the strategy, and set out again after the overhaul.
Love
To find, deepen or recover a relationship, first remake yourself and then meet the other person with a genuinely new attitude rather than repeating the old approach.
Work
Applications turn on your resolve, and presentation matters. Set your ambitions, rebuild the front, regroup and go again, and business succeeds.
Health
Review the illness thoroughly, investigate what caused it, and treat the whole rather than the part. Make an offering for peace.
Travel
Discuss the venture with the others involved, clear the obstacles together, and the prospect is brilliant. Travellers arrive safely, and joined intentions carry the whole plan.
Advice
You do not need a new venture, just an overhaul of this one and an honest conversation with the people in it.