Cast & Chart

Position

Wǔ Guǐ

Five Ghosts

These pages report what named old Chinese books state and what a calculator works out from them. They give no advice about a home, and they cannot decide health, money, law or family matters.

In the classical sources

五者，五鬼星、廉貞星也

Wu is the Wu-gui star, the Upright Chastity star.

古今圖書集成 卷676, 陽宅十書

About this entry

五鬼 (wǔ guǐ) literally means five ghosts, and as a position it is the seat of the star 廉貞, with the element fire. In 陽宅十書 it is the third of the five unfavorable stars. Calling it a seat is accurate: the name tells a reader which palace holds this star for a given birth palace and says no more than that.

Its pairs in the 大遊年 scheme are 乾 with 震, 坎 with 艮, 巽 with 坤 and 離 with 兌, each joining an east palace to a west palace in our reading of the verses. The book sets this position with 寅, 午 and 戌, three of the twelve branches that label calendar years. The same star name 廉貞 is number five in the nine-star list, the one called Five Yellow.

A passage headed 五鬼制爻 says the star brings quarrels and thieves when it reaches wood. That is the book's claim, not a forecast from this site.

Where this text comes from

The Chinese follows the Wikisource typed text, under its CC BY-SA terms. Statements about the calculator describe its own rules, and modern practice is labeled as modern.

The English here is our own plain wording.