Stick #2: The Fortune Star Shines Bright (Supreme Fortune)
福如东海寿如山，君尔何须问中间。荣华富贵天注定，子孙昌盛满堂欢。
Plain reading
This lot says your blessing runs as deep as the eastern sea and your years may stand as high as the mountains — there is no need to ask what lies between. Wealth, honor, and long life are already written in your fate, and the joy of a full house of descendants is near at hand. Receive the blessing calmly and do good while you may.
Interpretation
"The Fortune Star Shines Bright" is a stick of supreme fortune. Blessing is as deep as the eastern sea, life as lofty as the mountains — there is no need to dwell on twists along the way. The poem shows that wealth and honor are already ordained, and the delight of descendants filling the hall is before your eyes.
Advice
Accept the blessing in peace. Do good deeds to store hidden merit so that fortune may pass to later generations.
Drawn from folk tales of the Fortune Star and from the Book of Songs — "may your years be without bound" — symbolizing heaven-given longevity and a flourishing household.