Fortune Sticks
Sixty fortune sticks, one for each pair in the old sixty-year cycle. Light an incense stick, hold your question in mind, shake the cylinder, and ask the moon blocks to confirm. When you’re done, visit the golden furnace below.
Take a breath and think of your question while it burns.
One flat side up and one round side up means yes. Anything else means draw again.
Your fortune stick will appear here.
Still scratching your head?
It was never meant to be easy to read.
The Golden Furnace
Pick your paper, write a wish on it, and offer it to the flames.
Joss paper
Everything here is free and virtual. Nothing is charged, and no real tokens change hands.
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Silver paper
1,000 tokens. About the size of a quick question.
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Gold paper
10,000 tokens. Roughly one careful answer, checked twice.
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Longevity gold
100,000 tokens. Enough for a deep research rabbit hole.
Your wish stays in your browser. We never see it.
Your offering: 0 tokens
The furnace is warm and waiting.
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Some say our name sounds like something else when you say it quickly in Mandarin. We couldn’t possibly comment.
About fortune sticks
Drawing fortune sticks is a long-standing custom in temples across Taiwan and much of East Asia. A worshipper lights an incense stick, brings a question, shakes out a numbered stick, confirms it with the moon blocks, and reads the matching verse. Many people then ask the temple keeper to explain it. Ours are a little different: a bearded uncle who has been right since 1974, and the auntie from the breakfast shop down the road.
The verses and readings on this page are our own writing, made for this site and inspired by the tradition. They are not copied from any temple. Many temples in Taiwan now encourage burning less joss paper to keep the air clean; our furnace makes no smoke at all.
Bearded UncleA stick is advice, not an order. Sick? See a doctor. Lawsuit? See a lawyer. Money? See someone who actually has some.
Breakfast AuntieAnd don’t skip breakfast, sweetie! Nothing in the furnace is for sale.