Cast & Chart

Lunar mansion

Wěi

Tail

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

尾近中宫故為虎之本象

尾 lies by the center, hence the tiger is its true image.

協紀辨方書 卷一

About this entry

Two mansions sit in the 寅 palace, and 尾, the Tail, lies nearer the center. That is why 協紀辨方書 卷一 gives it the tiger, the animal of 寅 itself, with 箕 taking the leopard.

Fire is its group in 星厯考原 卷五, shared with 室, 觜 and 翼, and the modern correspondence makes it Tuesday. 心 comes before and 箕 after. Neither book says more about this mansion as a day.

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