Cast & Chart

Lunar mansion

Guǐ

Ghost

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

鬼近中宫故為羊之本象

Because 鬼 nears the center it is the sheep's own image.

協紀辨方書 卷一

About this entry

鬼, the Ghost, is a star name, and 協紀辨方書 卷一 assigns it the sheep as the animal of its 未 palace. 甲子 falls here at the start of the fourth 元, after 180 days. 卷三十六 mentions it among the four metal 暗金 mansions, which the editors set aside.

星厯考原 卷五 writes metal as 婁, 鬼, 亢 and 牛, and Friday is the modern bridge for that group. 井 leads to it and 柳 follows it. The name is a label in a list of stars, and, apart from the cutting-clothes list of 卷三十六, which the editors dismiss as foreign custom, the books attach no verdict to the day.

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