Nine stars
Èr Hēi
Two Black
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In the classical sources
死門為二黑
The Death gate is Two Black.
星厯考原 卷二
About this entry
Two Black (二黑, èr hēi) lives in 坤, the southwest palace of earth. In the Dunjia Classic quoted by 星厯考原 its gate is 死, and the character names one of the eight gates of that method. The star name that goes with it is 巨門, the Giant Gate.
The Eight Mansions book 陽宅十書 uses 巨門 as the star of the 天乙 position, the third of its three favorable stars. That is a different scheme from the nine-number square, which uses the star name as well.
Two Black sits in the northwest palace, 乾, in the example 星厯考原 works out for the year 1684. The imperial almanac does not list it among the 紫白 favorable stars, and the texts we collected hold no further statement about its character.
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