Cast & Chart

Lunar mansion

Mǎo

Hairy Head

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In the classical sources

昴星居中故為雞之本象

昴 sits in the middle, and so it has the rooster as its own figure.

協紀辨方書 卷一

About this entry

The rooster belongs to 昴, the central mansion of the 酉 palace in 協紀辨方書 卷一. As a member of the sun group with 虛, 星 and 房, it is also among the four 密 mansions in 卷三十六.

星厯考原 卷五 names those four 太陽, and the site's weekday alignment places them on Sundays, a modern practice. 胃 and 畢 are its neighbors. The editors say the foreign customs attached to these days have no standing here, yet the appendix at 協紀辨方書 卷三十五 keeps an older rule that 房, 虛, 昴 and 星 days are favorable in summer and winter for making and consecrating images of deities.

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