Fú Wèi

伏位 (fú wèi) is the position of a person's own palace. The Ming house book 陽宅十書 gives two names for it: 福德, the name for the birth palace itself, and 伏位, which it says earlier masters used to keep the method hidden. We read the book's star 輔弼, which it says is also called 伏唫, as this same seat. That star has the element wood.

The eight 大遊年 verses name only the seven other palaces and leave a palace's own seat out. That makes this the one name in the scheme that does not pair two different palaces. The nine-star list has two stars, 左輔 and 右弼, at numbers eight and nine. We take the house book's 輔弼 to be those two given a single seat, a link the book does not spell out.

The book is not consistent about where it belongs. Its printed list of five unfavorable stars includes 輔弼, yet a verse on the nine stars puts 伏位 beside 天乙 as free of harm. We report both as they stand. The book also pairs the star with years carrying the calendar branches 亥, 卯 and 未, the same set it gives 生氣.