Cast & Chart

Lunar mansion

Yì

Wings

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In the classical sources

翼近中宫故為蛇之本象

翼 approaches the center, so the snake is its proper form.

協紀辨方書 卷一

About this entry

翼 lies near the center of the 巳 palace and takes the snake, the branch animal, in 協紀辨方書 卷一, while 軫 takes a relative. 甲子 lands on 翼 at the opening of the fifth 元, two hundred forty days in.

星厯考原 卷五 sets it under fire with 室, 觜 and 尾, and modern practice makes that Tuesday. It lies after 張 and before 軫. Apart from the cutting-clothes list of 卷三十六, which the editors dismiss as foreign custom, these sources say nothing else.

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