Kàng

Of the two mansions in the 辰 palace 亢 lies closer in, so 協紀辨方書 卷一 assigns it the dragon as its own animal and 角 gets a lesser relative. 卷三十六 also mentions it among four metal mansions called 暗金, part of an hour-selection method. The editors call that method fabricated and note it had fallen out of use.

Metal is its group in 星厯考原 卷五, with 婁, 鬼 and 牛. The modern weekday link makes metal Friday, and the sequence runs 角 before it and 氐 after. 卷三十六 also lists it among thirteen mansions once called good for cutting clothes, which the editors dismiss as foreign custom; beyond that, no reading of 亢 as good or bad is attached in these books.