Lunar mansion
Dī
Root
An almanac describes traditional day-types. It cannot decide health, money, law, marriage or children. Burial, marriage and medical items on these pages are what a book states, never advice.
In the classical sources
氐為貉
氐 is the raccoon dog.
協紀辨方書 卷一
About this entry
The raccoon dog is the animal assigned to 氐, which with 房 and 心 fills the 卯 palace. 協紀辨方書 卷一 explains the pairing by likeness to the palace's central animal. The passage adds that such attributions belong to later times.
星厯考原 卷五 places it in the earth group alongside 胃, 柳 and 女; in modern usage earth is Saturday. In the seven-part cycle of 420 days, 甲子 falls on 氐 at the start of the sixth 元. It follows 亢 and goes before 房, and the 史記律書 passage quoted in 卷一 glosses 氐 as the place where all things arrive.
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