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ALTAR WISH OFFERING

Dou Ceremony

A spring or autumn Dou ceremony with physical-unit capacity and tiered observance.

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IS THIS FOR YOU?

Some years need the whole of a life straightened, not one corner of it.

  • When it is not one thing that has gone wrong but the run of the whole year, and you want it held for a season rather than for a day
  • When you have asked for one thing at a time already and the ground under it has not moved
  • When a household is going into a season it would rather not go into uncovered
  • When someone in the house is starting over, turning sixty, or coming through a long hard stretch
  • When you would rather have the year written down somewhere than just get through it alone
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One Name, Upright

Personal Dou

$128

Suited to

  • One person, named alone
  • A year that started badly and has not turned
  • A fresh start you would like something standing behind
  • Someone living far from any family altar
  • A first Dou, to see what the rite is

Not covered here

  • More than the one name. The household names you give go onto one Dou under Family Dou.
  • The offering made over again once the term has begun. That starts at Grand Dou, monthly, with a short notice to you after each one.
  • A guaranteed outcome. What you are paying for is the setting, the standing and the keeping of the Dou, not how the year turns out.
  • Everything takes one more step than it should.
  • I have been getting through this year rather than living in it.
  • I am the only one in my family who is not near a temple.
  • I have never done anything formal about a year before, and this one has earned it.

One measure, one lamp, one name, held for the whole term.

A Roof Over Everyone

Family Dou

$288

Suited to

  • A household, however you count it
  • Parents and children on one flag
  • A house that has had a heavy year together
  • A move, a new home, a family starting again
  • Someone who does not want to choose one name

Not covered here

  • A name for someone who has died. The Dou is set for the living; a departed name belongs on the Yin Memorial Tablet.
  • The offering made over again through the term. Grand Dou adds a monthly offering by the master, with a short notice to you after each one.
  • Anything posted to you. The rice, the lamp and the papers stay at the altar, and what reaches you is written.
  • Each of us needs a different thing, and I cannot put in four different requests.
  • The house has felt tense for months and no one can say why.
  • I would feel wrong putting my own name down and leaving theirs off.
  • Half of them would never ask for this themselves, and that is exactly why I am doing it.

One roof, one lamp, and the ones who never asked included.

A Long Carry

Grand Dou

$888

Suited to

  • A stretch of years, not a bad month
  • A household under sustained pressure
  • A worry that comes back every few weeks
  • A term you would rather not set and forget
  • An older parent you live far away from

Not covered here

  • A weekly return. The offering here is made once a month; the weekly one is Supreme Dou.
  • The head position at the altar, which belongs to Principal Dou alone, one household to a term.
  • One prayer at the start of the year has never been enough for me.
  • It is not a bad week. It has been a bad two years.
  • I have paid for quiet things before and never heard another word about them.
  • I am too far away to go and do it myself, and I think about that.

One lamp, and someone comes back to it every month.

Nothing Held Back

Supreme Dou

$1,688

Suited to

  • Something urgent that will run for months
  • A household in the middle of a hard passage
  • A business and a family carried in one term
  • Someone for whom a month of silence is too long
  • A matter that has already outlasted one Dou

Not covered here

  • The head position on the altar and first place on the term's roll. That is Principal Dou, and one household a term holds it.
  • Medical, legal or financial advice. This is an offering, and we will say so plainly if you ask it to be more than that.
  • Anything shipped to you. Nothing crosses a border; the written record is what arrives.
  • A month between visits is too long for what I am carrying.
  • I did the small version last year and I knew the whole time that I had gone cheap on it.
  • I would rather overdo this than sit afterward wondering what I skimped on.
  • I wake at three in the morning and I want to know the lamp is still lit.

Every week of the term, the master comes back.

The Utmost Position

Principal Dou

$2,888

Suited to

  • A household ready to carry the term
  • A family name being set down formally, once
  • A matriarch's or patriarch's milestone year
  • A house closing one era and opening another
  • Someone who wants their name at the front and understands what that means

Not covered here

  • The offering made over again through the term. The monthly return is Grand Dou and the weekly return is Supreme Dou; what this rung carries is the head place, not the frequency.
  • No rung of this rite, this one included, decides how a year turns out. The Dou is set, presented and kept for the whole term; the walking is still yours.
  • No rung of this rite stands in for a doctor, a lawyer or an accountant, and we will say so plainly if you ask us to make it do that.
  • If we are going to do this, we are going to do it at the front.
  • This is the year our family name should be on something.
  • I have carried this house a long time and I want that said once, properly.
  • I do not want to be one of many on this altar.

One household stands at the head. This term, it is yours.

READY WHEN THE INTENTION IS CLEAR

Place the offering with care.

Your final total is confirmed before payment.

WHAT HAPPENS NEXT

How the Dou is set and kept

  1. 01

    Once the order is paid you are asked for your own birth details and for the names that go on the Dou, and each name is brushed by hand onto a strip of yellow paper.

  2. 02

    A wooden measure is filled to the rim with white rice, the name flag is planted upright in it, and the lamp is set at the center and lit from the altar's own flame.

  3. 03

    The Dou is carried in, registered under the Northern Dipper for the spring or autumn term, and the petition is read aloud in front of it, character by character.

  4. 04

    It stands there for the length of the term, and at the close the papers are carried to the furnace and burned through by hand.

THE ALTAR TABLE

What is laid out on the day.

  • A wooden measure filled with white riceThe vessel of the rite itself; grain is a household's living counted out, and the Dipper is asked to keep the measure full.
  • One oil lamp at the center of the riceEverything else on the table is set down; this is the one thing that is lit, kindled from the altar's own flame on the day the Dou is placed.
  • Five fruits, in five colorsThe five directions set out on one table, so the Dou is not left facing an empty side.
  • Three cups of clear teaPoured before the Dou is carried in, because the Dipper is seated as a guest first and asked for nothing until the tea is down.
  • Fresh flowers on both sidesCut the same morning; they open and fade in front of the altar the way a term does.
  • Longevity noodles and red peachesThe Northern Dipper is asked for the term and the Southern Dipper keeps the tally of years; these are the foods set out when years are what is being asked for.
  • A pair of red candlesBurned all the way down on the day the Dou is placed, while the petition is read aloud in front of it.

On the day the Dou is set, a light meal without meat and a few quiet minutes with the names in mind is enough, and it is what most households do. The term runs for a season rather than a day, so some keep the first of each lunar month the same way and some mark only the opening. None of this is required, and nothing at the altar depends on it.

PREPARED FOR THE RITE

The same goods are prepared at every tier.

  • A wooden measure of white rice, filled to the rim by hand; this is the vessel the whole rite is built in
  • A name flag, one strip of yellow paper, with each name brushed on it wet and planted upright in the grain
  • Heaven gold and longevity gold, the top sheet offered as courtesy at the head of the altar and the sheet offered to a deity who governs the living, both folded in the old proportion
  • Natal-fate money, folded against the years written on the flag and against the hours where they are known
  • Fortune-mending money, folded for anyone on the flag who has had a hard run of it
  • The petition, written out by hand and read aloud before the Dipper on the day the term opens
  • Lamp oil and incense, carried in and poured by hand on the day the Dou is set
WHAT YOU RECEIVE

What reaches you through the term

A private completion record describes the Dou as it was set: the names brushed on the flag, the term it was registered for, and the date the lamp was lit; Grand Dou and Supreme Dou add a short notice after each offering the master makes. Nothing is posted to you and nothing crosses a border — the rice, the lamp and the papers stay at the altar until the term closes. No photograph comes back from this rite; where an offering does include one, it says so before you pay.

The completion record reaches you within seven days of the ceremony date. Terms fill in the order they are booked, so a Dou near the back of a term's list may be carried in a few days after the term opens; that is normal, and it is not lost. Please do not sit by the inbox on the day itself — the names are still being brushed and the vessels still being carried in and set.

WHAT WE NEED FROM YOU

A short private-details preview

The actual form stays in the secure order flow. We ask only for the details required for this offering.

  • Your full nameRequired after checkout
  • Your structured birth detailsRequired after checkout
  • Delivery channelRequired after checkout
BEFORE YOU ORDER

Have these ready.

  • Your own full name, spelled the way it should be written down. The order stands in your name whoever the Dou is being set for.
  • Your own birth details: the date, the time if you know it, and the place you were born. A Gregorian date is enough and we convert it; if the hour is unknown, leave it blank, and no Altar Wish offering depends on it.
  • The names for the Dou, if there are others. One box, up to 800 characters, and it can be left empty; an empty box means the Dou is set in your name alone. Whichever form of a name the household actually uses is the right one.
  • Where the written record should reach you, as an email address or a WhatsApp number. One or the other, and it is the only place it goes.
  • Your own date of birth again, because it becomes the password on the encrypted file. Keep it to hand; it is what opens the file when it arrives.
TRUST AND BOUNDARIES

A traditional service, handled with care.

  • Your private order details stay within the secure order and intake flow.
  • The published preparation time begins after the required intake is complete.
  • Review the applicable refund policy before payment; changes may be limited once preparation has begun.
  • This is a traditional religious service, not medical, legal, or financial advice.
  • The rite is a formal expression of prayer and respect; it does not guarantee a specific life result.

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