Lián Zhēn

廉貞 is the last star of the backward group. It sits eight palaces behind 紫微, past a gap of two, and three more empty palaces then lead back to where the count began, exactly as the placing verse puts it. The table marks it temple only at 寅 and 申, fallen only at 巳 and 亥, and middling everywhere else.

The calculator's English label, Upright Virtue, translates the two characters of the name. The book's own labels are different and much rougher: its transformed energy is 囚, prisoner, and for the Life or Body palace it adds 次桃花, a second peach blossom, a term for romantic attraction. The fifth star of the Northern Dipper belongs to fire here, and the first answer in 卷一 opens with a fierce description of temperament before immediately listing the companions that change it.

A star with this many labels depends heavily on its neighbors. 天相 may stand with it at 子 or 午, 七殺 at 丑 or 未, 破軍 at 卯 or 酉, 天府 at 辰 or 戌, 貪狼 at 巳 or 亥. 卷二 says it is most pleased to have 天相 in the same palace, because that star can transform what is harsh in it, and a parallel line in the 天相 answer says the same thing from the other side. The stem 甲 gives it 化祿 and 丙 gives it 化忌.