Day spirit
Yuán Wǔ
Dark Warrior
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
亥為天門故以為北帝之坐也
亥 is the Gate of Heaven, and so it is made the seat of the Northern Emperor.
協紀辨方書 卷七
About this entry
The tenth spirit is printed 元武 in 協紀辨方書 卷七 and 星厯考原 卷五, and a modern spelling is 玄武. Its first-month seat is 酉, and the black-path group claims it. In both books it is a named place on the ring and comes round once in twelve days.
曹震圭 gave it the name 隂私 and read it as the slanderous minister who appears when upright men are raised. The 1741 editors dismiss his trigram system as groundless. They seat 元武 at 亥, the Gate of Heaven, and cite 春秋文耀鈎 on the northern sky.
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