Cast & Chart

Lunar mansion

Shēn

Three Stars

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

參居其旁則取猿為猴之類以配之

參 lies alongside, and so it takes the ape, a kind of monkey, as its match.

協紀辨方書 卷一

About this entry

參 receives the ape, as kin to the monkey of the 申 palace, in 協紀辨方書 卷一. The memorials at the front of 協紀 show that the order of 參 and 觜 was disputed in 1741, and this site keeps the older order, with 參 after 觜. 卷七 ties it to the White Tiger, a reference the editors use for the twelve spirits.

星厯考原 卷五 counts it as water along with 壁, 軫 and 箕, and modern almanacs tie water to Wednesday. On its near side stands 觜 and on its far side 井. The books say nothing about what a 參 day favors.

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