Cast & Chart

Nine stars

Qī Chì

Seven Red

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

驚門為七赤

The Fright gate is Seven Red.

星厯考原 卷二

About this entry

Seven Red (七赤, qī chì) lives in 兌, the west palace of metal. Its gate in the Dunjia Classic is 驚, the Fright gate, and its star name is 破軍, the Army-Breaker. The Eight Mansions house book 陽宅十書 gives that star name to the 絕命 position.

Seven Red has a part in the cycle's structure. 星厯考原 says the 甲子 that opens the 下元 places it in the center, and that span runs from 1984 to 2043 under the 1684 anchor. The text does not break the span into smaller parts.

星厯考原 prints a sample layout for 1684, and it has this star in 坤, the southwest palace. The imperial almanac does not include it among the 紫白 favorable stars, and we found no further statement on it.

Where this text comes from

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The English here is our own plain wording.