Stick #98: All Hope Abandoned (Very Unfavorable)
万念俱灰心欲冷,且寻亲友暖寒衾。一念放下千般事,重整旗鼓再启程。
Plain reading
When every thought turns to ash, seek kin and friends to warm the cold blanket. Release one fixation and a thousand burdens fall; regroup and set out again.
Interpretation
This is a very unfavorable lot titled "All Hope Abandoned." Heart grows cold — seek kin to warm the blanket. "Release one thought, a thousand matters fall; regroup and depart" shows warmth revives; letting go begins anew.
Advice
Contact one person who can warm you — they need not solve all, only be present. Write a list of "what can be released" — release and depart.
From Dream of the Red Chamber, the "Song of Completion" — when all hope is ash, release — one release lifts a thousand burdens.