Shōu

To gather in or receive is what 收 means, and as the tenth officer it sits on the 亥 day of the 寅 month. 協紀辨方書 卷四 observes that ten steps from 建 exhaust the count of ten, and completion passes into collecting. Like 平 it carries the borrowed names 河魁 and 天罡, which change with the month.

Few things suit it, and all of them concern taking in: household members, goods, livestock, trapped animals, and game and fish in season. Storehouse repair is allowed only when 月恩, 四相 or 時德 joins. The avoid list resembles that of 平, as the editors say, and leaves out the very items the day is good for. They locate the end of the month's yang here in 卷十, though a passage in 卷四 ends yin at this point, and the book does not reconcile the two.

The verdicts conflict. 星厯考原 places 收 on its unfavorable side and its rhyme colors it black, while 協紀 lists receiving goods as this day's proper use; 選擇宗鏡 gives it 福德 as a small good and 八座 as a small bad. 考原 doubts the 福德 pairing. The calculator counts to position ten and stops there. Where this list names illness, money or contracts, it reports the 1741 book and is no guidance; ask a doctor or another qualified person about real decisions.