Jù Mén

Great Gate is the plain translation, and the star sits three palaces forward of 天府, in every chart without exception. The table has 寅, 卯, 申 and 酉 as temple and 辰 and 戌 as fallen.

暗 is the book's technical term here. It means obscurity, things said behind a back and things not seen plainly. The star is the second of the Northern Dipper and belongs to water, or to water and metal in 卷一, and the text says that in the reckoning it holds the handling of disputes. A long entry goes through the palaces and attaches arguments or friction to each, the book's way of drawing out one image in unqualified terms.

The book also gives it counterweights: 紫微 restrains its force and 祿存 dissolves its difficulty. A named pattern, 石中隐玉格, jade hidden in a stone, applies to the star at 子 and 午. 太陽 joins it at 寅 and 申, 天同 at 丑 and 未, 天機 at 卯 and 酉. The stem 辛 gives it 化祿, 癸 化權 and 丁 化忌, and modern writers often take it as a star of speech and skepticism.