Gèn

Number 8 in the count is Gen (艮), the northeast. 說卦傳 closes its sequence with Gen, as the place where an ending turns into a start. 協紀辨方書, the imperial almanac, lists 丑, 艮 and 寅 under it, and 星厯考原 groups it with 坤 as an earth trigram.

Gen is where a woman's 5 is placed. The center of the number square holds no trigram, and the Ming house book 陽宅十書 sends a woman who lands there to Gen and a man to 坤. A woman born in 1984, 1990 or 1993 therefore falls at Gen, 1990 by way of the 5, and a man in 1992, 2001 or 2010.

Gen is a West Four palace. Its verse, 六絕禍生延，天五, as we read it around the ring of palaces, hands out 生氣 to 坤, 延年 to 兌 and 天乙 to 乾, all in the same group. 絕命, 禍害, 六煞 and 五鬼 are placed at 巽, 離, 震 and 坎, the eastern group.