Cast & Chart

Lunar mansion

Jiǎo

Horn

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In the classical sources

角居其旁則取蛟為龍之類以配之

角 lies alongside, and so it takes the flood dragon, a kind of dragon, as its match.

協紀辨方書 卷一

About this entry

角, the Horn, shares the 辰 palace with 亢. 協紀辨方書 卷一, quoting 星厯考原, says 亢 sits nearer the palace's middle and takes the dragon itself, which leaves 角 a related creature, the flood dragon. The same passage calls the whole scheme of mansion animals a recent one, likely built by analogy with the twelve branch animals.

This site's table starts at 角, with 亢 next and 軫 last before the count comes back here. 星厯考原 卷五 groups it under wood with 奎, 井 and 斗, and a modern bridge equates wood with Thursday. Apart from the cutting-clothes list of 卷三十六, which the editors dismiss as foreign custom, 協紀 prints no favorable or unfavorable reading for this mansion.

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