Lunar mansion
Xīng
Star
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In the classical sources
星居中故為馬之本象
Being in the middle, 星 is the horse's own image.
協紀辨方書 卷一
About this entry
星 holds the middle of the 午 palace and so takes the horse, its branch animal, in 協紀辨方書 卷一. Its name simply means star. It forms the sun group with 虛, 昴 and 房, the four 密 mansions of 卷三十六.
On the modern bridge this makes a Sunday. 柳 stands before it and 張 after. The 1741 editors set the 密 day rules aside, but 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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- 星厯考原 卷五
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- 協紀辨方書 卷三十五
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