Stick #3: Dragons Soar and Phoenixes Dance (Supreme Fortune)
龙腾凤舞瑞气腾，万象更新庆升平。青云有路平步上，前程锦绣乐盈盈。
Plain reading
This lot is greatly auspicious. Like dragons and phoenixes rising together, auspicious air ascends and the world renews in peace. A path to the blue clouds lies before you — you may climb steadily upward, and a brocade-like future fills with joy.
Interpretation
"Dragons Soar and Phoenixes Dance" is a stick of supreme fortune. Auspicious energy rises and all things renew in celebration of peace. "A path to the blue clouds" shows an open road in public life; "a brocade-like future" means great designs may succeed.
Advice
Seize this season of peace and prosperity. Show your talent and build merit, yet guard against pride so the blessing may last.
Drawn from the Book of Han — "the omen of dragon and phoenix" — when Liu Bang cut the white serpent and the realm answered, symbolizing bright fortune and a great enterprise within reach.