Liù Shà

六煞 (liù shà) is the seat held by the star 文曲 in the Ming house book 陽宅十書. The first character is the number six, and 煞 is the almanac word for a harmful influence. 協紀辨方書 卷二 takes the six to count steps in its chain of trigram changes, where this seat is the sixth. In the book it carries the element water and is the second of the five unfavorable stars.

The scheme pairs it as 乾 with 坎, 艮 with 震, 巽 with 兌 and 離 with 坤. In our reading of the eight verses no pair stays inside a group: one palace is always east and the other west. Three of the twelve calendar branches, 申, 子 and 辰, are attached to the star in the book.

One verse on the nine stars joins 文曲 with the water stems 壬 and 癸 and says it injures the livestock kept at the house. That is the book's claim, not a forecast from this site. The nine-star list uses the same name 文曲 for number four, in a separate chart.