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Four palaces back from 紫微, this star comes directly after 太陽 with no gap between them, and 天同 follows it just as closely. The brightness table the calculator uses never marks it fallen. It is prosperous at 子 and 午, temple at 丑, 辰, 未 and 戌, gaining at 寅 and 申, benefiting at 卯 and 酉, and neutral at 巳 and 亥.

The sixth star of the Northern Dipper in the book's account, 武曲 belongs to metal and is lord of the Wealth palace. The temperament the text gives it is hard and decisive, capable of joy and anger alike, and the same line says it can go toward blessing or toward trouble. A saying quoted in 卷一 holds that when it meets 貪狼 prosperity does not arrive in youth.

Its companions change the reading sharply in the book. With 天府, which it joins at 子 and 午, the text speaks of long life, and of 破軍 in a wealth position it says money reaches the hand and turns to nothing. 破軍 is found with it at 巳 or 亥 and 貪狼 at 丑 or 未, 天相 belongs to 寅 or 申, 七殺 to 卯 or 酉, and 辰 or 戌 leave it alone. Like 天機 and 太陰, it can carry any of the four marks: 己 gives 化祿, 庚 化權, 甲 化科, 壬 化忌.