Cast & Chart

Lunar mansion

Dǒu

Dipper

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

斗居其旁則取獬為牛之類以配之

斗 is at its side and is given the 獬, of the ox family, to match.

協紀辨方書 卷一

About this entry

The 丑 palace holds 斗 and 牛. 協紀辨方書 卷一 gives 牛 the ox and 斗 a creature called 獬, a beast counted as kin to the ox. 卷三十六 lists it among thirteen mansions once called good for cutting clothes, a rule the 1741 editors treat as foreign folk custom.

As a wood mansion in 星厯考原 卷五 it keeps company with 角, 奎 and 井, and modern almanac practice sets wood on Thursday. Eighth on this site's list, it falls between 箕 and 牛. The books hold no entry on whether a 斗 day is good or bad.

Where this text comes from

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The English here is our own plain wording. Lists keep the items of the source.