Cast & Chart

Nine stars

Liù Bái

Six White

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

六白屬金秋月旺

Six White is metal and strong in the autumn months.

協紀辨方書 卷三十四

About this entry

Six White (六白, liù bái) is at home in 乾, the northwest palace, a metal trigram. The Dunjia Classic assigns it 開, the Open gate, and 星厯考原 names its star 武曲, the Martial Song. The Eight Mansions house book 陽宅十書 uses 武曲 for the 延年 position.

協紀辨方書 counts it in the 紫白 set, the four stars it calls favorable, with One White, Eight White and Nine Purple. A verse it quotes says the seasons matter: Six White is metal and strong in autumn, Nine Purple is fire and strong in spring and summer, and One and Eight are water and earth, strong in winter. The editors also report 桑道茂 and the monk 一行 as saying that these stars cannot suppress the 大月建 or the 天罡四旺煞.

The example chart for 1684, a 甲子 year, has Six White at 坎, the north palace.

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