道藏本紫微斗数

經名：紫微斗數。撰人不詳。三卷。底本出處：《萬曆續道藏》。

Title of the scripture: Ziwei Doushu. Author unknown. Three fascicles. Source of the base text: the Supplementary Daoist Canon of the Wanli era.

論次序

On the Order of Procedure

一定時刻，二起八字，三立格局，

First, fix the hour; second, set up the Eight Characters; third, establish the chart pattern;

四排星辰，五立坐命，六起大運，

fourth, arrange the stars; fifth, establish the Life Palace; sixth, set up the Major Cycles;

七起大限，八書化曜，九書喜忌，

seventh, set up the Great Limits; eighth, record the Transforming Luminaries; ninth, record what is welcome and what is to be avoided;

十排吉凶。

tenth, arrange the auspicious and the inauspicious.

一看八字強弱。

First, examine the strength and weakness of the Eight Characters.

日主生旺，刑沖破害，三合六合，開殺氣化，輕重淺深，進退發神，墓庫空亡。

The Day Master's birth, prosperity, punishment, clash, destruction and harm, the three combinations and six combinations, opening up killing qi and its transformation, lightness and heaviness, shallowness and depth, advance and retreat, the spirits that issue forth, the tombs and treasuries, and void and extinction.

二看立格用神。

Second, examine the establishment of the pattern and the useful spirit.

財官印食，傷制偏正，比劫梟敗，日主所生，天德月德，歲德德秀，貴祿刃殺，祿馬向背，金神魁罡，拱格總論，井欄倒沖，飛天雜氣。朝陽龍背，遙已趨乾，從棄去留。

Wealth, officer, seal and food; injury and restraint, indirect and direct; peer, rob-wealth, owl and defeat; what the Day Master generates; Heavenly Virtue, Monthly Virtue, Yearly Virtue and Virtue Excellence; noble, salary, blade and killing; salary and horse, facing and turning away; Golden Spirit and Kuigang; the general discussion of the Converging patterns; the Well-Balustrade and Inverted Clash; Flying Heaven and miscellaneous qi; Facing the Sun and Dragon's Back; Distant Si Draws Toward Qian; following, abandoning, leaving and remaining.

三看命宮空貴。

Third, examine whether the Life Palace is empty or noble.

守命宮星，三方四正，運限生克。十二宮身事，十二宮長生，十二宮馬前。殺□□□□坐墓坐祿，加盤通關。

The stars guarding the Life Palace, the three directions and four correct positions, and the generation and restraint of the cycles and limits. The affairs of the Body in the twelve palaces, the twelve palaces of Growth and Birth, and the twelve palaces of the Horse in Front. Killing □□□□ seated in the tomb or seated in the salary; add the chart and pass through the barrier.

四看六親多寡。

Fourth, examine how many or few the six kin are.

優劣強弱，死絕成敗。陰錯陽差，情性相貌。

Their excellence or inferiority, strength or weakness, death or extinction, success or failure. Yin error and Yang discrepancy; temperament, disposition, and appearance.

五看行運興衰。

Fifth, examine the rise and decline of the cycles of fortune.

生扶剝削，合克向背，墓庫啟壓。

Generation and support, stripping and pruning; combination and restraint, facing and turning away; the opening and the pressing down of tombs and treasuries.

六看守限星照。

Sixth, examine the stars that guard the limits and shine upon them.

鬼敗沖犯，反吟伏吟。天羅地網，殺墓照正。起倒災福。

Ghosts and defeat, clash and offense; Reversed Chanting and Hidden Chanting; Heavenly Net and Earthly Snare; killing and tomb shining on the correct position. The rise and fall, the misfortune and fortune.

七看流年星宮。

Seventh, examine the stars and palaces of the flowing years.

日歲徵犯，吉凶星宿。太歲並殺，刑合日主。命運生傷。

The day and year in conflict and offense, the auspicious and inauspicious constellations; the Grand Year together with killing, punishing and combining with the Day Master; the cycle of fortune generating and injuring.

八看倒限神殺。

Eighth, examine the toppling of the limit and the spirits and killings.

有無救助，椽盡馬倒。直難星主，化曜吉凶。運限倒例。

Whether there is rescue and aid, whether the rafter is exhausted and the horse has fallen. The master of the difficult stars, the auspicious and inauspicious of the Transforming Luminaries, and the rules for a toppled cycle and limit.

九看落枕安慰。

Ninth, examine how one lays down the pillow and is laid to rest.

遭虎遇蛇，吊脛自割。溺水犯湯火，牢獄斬絞。屈死於路，有無棺木。

Meeting a tiger or encountering a snake, hanging oneself by the neck or cutting oneself; drowning, scalding, or fire; prison, beheading or strangling; dying wronged on the road, with or without a coffin.

十斷死命運限，期年月日時刻之應。

Tenth, judge the cycles and limits of death and fate, and the response in year, month, day, hour and quarter-hour.

推論生歲掌法

On the Palm Method for Reckoning the Year of Birth

十歲起於甲戌年，二十甲子逆流旋。

The tenth year begins at the year Jiaxu; the twenty sexagenary years flow backward and revolve.

三十甲寅居其位，甲辰四十起期行。

The thirtieth year rests at its place of Jiayin; at Jiachen the fortieth year begins its course.

更逢五十立甲午，六十花甲在申先。

Again, meeting the fiftieth year, one establishes Jiawu; the sixtieth, the sexagenary cycle, lies ahead at Shen.

輪至所生年分上，始知幾歲可推言。

When it reaches the branch of the year of one's birth, only then do you know how many years of age can be inferred.

右法，看所生在何辰甲子，即以其甲子天十，順類至甲，看在何辰，就以此甲逆流至此生之辰，即見若干歲也。

The method on the right: look at which branch and sexagenary pair the birth falls in; then take the ten stems of that sexagenary pair and count forward in order to Jia, and see at which branch it lies; then take this Jia and flow backward to the branch of the birth, and you will see how many years of age it is.

論小兒時刻應例

On the Application of the Hour and Quarter-hour for Children

子午卯酉向父生，人物小巧頂中平。

Zi, Wu, Mao and You face the father at birth; the person is small and delicate, with a middling crown of the head.

寅申巳亥雙頂定，半偏向父體中停。

Yin, Shen, Si and Hai fix a double crown; half-turned toward the father, the body is moderate.

辰戌丑未還偏頂，背生於父系肥人。

Chen, Xu, Chou and Wei are still of a slanted crown; born with the back to the father, they belong to the stout.

定時刻例

Rules for Fixing the Hour and Quarter-hour

半夜子刻雞嗚丑，平旦寅時日出卯。

Midnight is the Zi quarter, the cock crows at Chou; first light is the Yin hour, sunrise is Mao.

食時辰兮屬中己，午日中未日側眇。

The meal hour, Chen, belongs to the middle of Ji; noon is Wu, and the sun slanting is Wei.

黃昏戌兮睡屬亥，晡時申兮日入酉。

Dusk is Xu, and sleep belongs to Hai; the late afternoon is Shen, and sunset is You.

命星時刻度數總論

General Discussion of the Hours, Quarter-hours and Degrees of the Life Stars

天庫宮

Palace of the Heavenly Treasury

子時上四刻，先刻母。自成計，作事進退，有成有敗，難為六親，衣祿不足，兄弟無情。

In the first four quarter-hours of the Zi hour, one first harms the mother. One makes one's own plans; in undertakings there is advance and retreat, with success and failure; it is hard to be on good terms with the six kin, food and clothing are insufficient, and brothers are without affection.

天貫

Heavenly Thread

子時中四刻，無克破。作事起倒，末年稱意。命招六畜、田財，兄弟無情，少靠之命。子時下四刻，先克父。兄弟不得力，子息遲招，一生勞碌，作事有頭無尾，只宜出祖過房，六親難為，無倚之命。

In the middle four quarter-hours of the Zi hour, there is no harm or destruction. Undertakings rise and fall, but in the later years one is satisfied. The fate summons domestic animals and fields and wealth; brothers are without affection, and it is a fate with little to rely on. In the last four quarter-hours of the Zi hour, one first harms the father. Brothers are of no help, children come late, one toils all one's life, and undertakings have a head but no tail; it is fitting only to leave the ancestral home or be adopted out. The six kin are hard to get along with; it is a fate with nothing to lean on.

紅鸞宮

Palace of the Red Phoenix

丑時上四刻，無克破。衣祿足，祖業招，文武皆能，近貴人，於息有災殃，少六親和兄弟，須有無情疏之命。

In the first four quarter-hours of the Chou hour, there is no harm or destruction. Food and clothing are sufficient, the ancestral estate is obtained, one is capable in both civil and military matters and draws near to nobles; there is calamity regarding children, few of the six kin and brothers, and it is a fate of estrangement and coldness.

丑時中四刻，先刻父。衣食不足，祖業難招，發達遲，為人無力，多愁怨，好惹是非，心慈口直，事不藏機，兄弟六親冰炭，自卓自立，晚年吉也。子息難為，須有宜遲。丑時下四刻，先刻母。六親不得力，兄弟亦無情，心慈性直，衣祿近貴，藝術立心身，子息稀招之命。

In the middle four quarter-hours of the Chou hour, one first harms the father. Food and clothing are insufficient, the ancestral estate is hard to obtain, and success comes late; the person has no strength, is often anxious and resentful, and is fond of stirring up quarrels. Kind-hearted and blunt of speech, one hides no scheme in affairs; with brothers and the six kin, it is like ice and coals. One establishes oneself on one's own, and the later years are auspicious. Children are hard to manage and are bound to come late. In the last four quarter-hours of the Chou hour, one first harms the mother. The six kin are of no help, and brothers too are without affection. Kind-hearted and of a straightforward nature, with food and clothing close to the noble; one sets one's mind on arts and skills to establish oneself, and children are few: such is the fate.

天空星

Star of Heavenly Emptiness

寅時上四刻，先克父。六親少靠，少年勞碌，自卓立，衣食不足，多憂慮。晚年發福，祖業稀招之命。

In the first four quarter-hours of the Yin hour, one first harms the father. There is little to rely on among the six kin, one toils in youth and establishes oneself on one's own, food and clothing are insufficient, and there is much worry. Fortune comes in the later years, and the ancestral estate is rarely obtained: such is the fate.

寅時中四刻，無克破。為人有成有敗有權柄，衣祿足、富貴，性急輕怏忠直，六親少倚，兄弟須有情，疏子息，桃花夾竹之命。

In the middle four quarter-hours of the Yin hour, there is no harm or destruction. The person has success and failure and holds authority; food and clothing are sufficient, with wealth and rank; hasty, light and cheerful, loyal and upright. There is little to rely on among the six kin, brothers are likely to be affectionate but children are estranged; it is a fate of peach blossoms flanking the bamboo.

寅時下四刻，先克母。六親不得力，僧道之命。勞碌身，若出祖成家，心常不足，兄弟少倚，子息遲招，中末興家之命。

In the last four quarter-hours of the Yin hour, one first harms the mother. The six kin are of no help; it is the fate of a Buddhist monk or Daoist priest. A body of toil; if one leaves the ancestral home and founds a family, the heart is always unsatisfied, there is little to rely on in brothers, and children come late: a fate in which the family rises in the middle and later years.

天壽宮

Palace of Heavenly Longevity

卯時上四刻，先克父。兄弟須有無情，六親淡薄，初年奔彼進退祖業興衰，作事起倒，子息初虛後實。

In the first four quarter-hours of the Mao hour, one first harms the father. Brothers are likely to be without affection, the six kin are thin and cold; in early years one rushes about hither and thither, and the ancestral estate rises and declines. Undertakings rise and fall, and children are empty at first and real later.

卯時中四刻，無克破。命招橫財，近貴，藝術立身。兄弟少倚，六親無情、中末富足，子息有，平穩之命。

In the middle four quarter-hours of the Mao hour, there is no harm or destruction. The fate summons windfall wealth and draws near to nobles; one establishes oneself by arts and skills. There is little to rely on in brothers, the six kin are without affection, wealth is sufficient in the middle and later years, and there are children: a fate of calm and steadiness.

卯時末四刻，先克母。十成九敗多進退，六親無靠，兄弟少倚，初年妻室添婚姻，謀由遂意，祖業稀招之命。

In the last four quarter-hours of the Mao hour, one first harms the mother. Of ten successes nine are failures, with much advance and retreat; the six kin offer no support, and there is little to rely on in brothers. In early years a wife is added and marriage is arranged, schemes follow one's wishes, and the ancestral estate is rarely obtained: such is the fate.

天印官

Palace of the Heavenly Seal

辰時上四刻，無克破，一生近貴，衣祿足，和氣春風，心行公道，逢危不險，兄弟睦，子息不孤之命。

In the first four quarter-hours of the Chen hour, there is no harm or destruction. One draws near to nobles all one's life, food and clothing are sufficient; harmonious like a spring breeze, one acts with fairness, and meeting danger is not endangered. Brothers are harmonious, and the fate is that children are not alone.

辰時中四刻，先克父。衣祿辛苦，祖業希疏，進退多端，腳忙手亂，子息不孤，先敗後成家之命。

In the middle four quarter-hours of the Chen hour, one first harms the father. Food and clothing come with hardship, the ancestral estate is rare and distant; there is much advance and retreat in many ways, hands and feet in a flurry; children are not alone, and one fails first and then founds a family.

辰時末，先刻母。兄弟無，六親少靠，幼年奔走，進退顛倒，祖業難靠，子息先虛後實，妻宮和諧之命。

In the last four quarter-hours of the Chen hour, one first harms the mother. There are no brothers, the six kin offer little support, one runs about in childhood, with advance and retreat turned upside down; the ancestral estate is hard to rely on, children are empty at first and real later, and the Spouse Palace is harmonious: such is the fate.

巳時初四刻，兄弟三四，有文有武，大事化小，逢險不怕，遇難無危，到處春風，妻招美質，子息二三，初運平平，晚運亨通。祖業頗招之命。

In the first four quarter-hours of the Si hour, there are three or four brothers, one is both civil and martial, turns great matters into small, fears nothing in meeting danger, and is not imperiled in meeting hardship; spring breeze everywhere, one's wife is of fine quality, children number two or three; the first cycle is ordinary, the later cycle prosperous. The ancestral estate is considerably obtained: such is the fate.

巳時中刻，先克母。為人多計巧，言詞過人，有施為，兄弟森杖，祖業興家，中末則吉，子息不孤之命。

In the middle quarter-hours of the Si hour, one first harms the mother. The person is full of clever schemes and surpasses others in speech, has the ability to act; brothers are as stout as staves, the ancestral estate builds up the family, the middle and later years are auspicious, and children are not alone: such is the fate.

巳時末四刻，六親不得力，兄弟無情，妻室早偕子息，桃花夾竹，一喜一憂，末後成家之命。

In the last four quarter-hours of the Si hour, the six kin offer no help and brothers are without affection; the wife is wed early along with children, peach blossoms flank the bamboo, one joy and one sorrow, and the family is founded in the end: such is the fate.

天印宮

Palace of the Heavenly Seal

午時上四刻，無克破。近貴人，衣祿足，祖業自文武皆能，或藝術立身，兄弟有無情，六親冰炭，子息不孤之命。

In the first four quarter-hours of the Wu hour, there is no harm or destruction. One draws near to nobles, food and clothing are sufficient, the ancestral estate comes of itself; one is capable in both civil and martial matters, or establishes oneself by arts and skills; brothers may or may not be affectionate, the six kin are like ice and coals, and children are not alone: such is the fate.

午時中四刻，先克父。衣祿辛苦，祖業稀疏，多成多敗，腳手常忙，先難後易，兄弟不得力，六親難為，子息初虛後實。

In the middle four quarter-hours of the Wu hour, one first harms the father. Food and clothing come with hardship, the ancestral estate is sparse; much success and much failure, hands and feet are always busy, first difficult and then easy; brothers are of no help, the six kin are hard to get along with, and children are empty at first and real later.

午時末刻，先克毋。六親兄弟俱無，靠十成九，敗進退多端，衣祿不足，自卓自立，祖業難招，子息不孤，自興家之命。

In the last quarter-hours of the Wu hour, one first harms the mother. Neither the six kin nor brothers are present, one relies on ten and ninety fail, with advance and retreat in many ways; food and clothing are insufficient, one establishes oneself on one's own, the ancestral estate is hard to obtain, children are not alone, and one builds the family oneself: such is the fate.

紫微殿駕

Throne of Ziwei

未時上四刻，無克破。兄弟有四，外和氣到處春風，心行平直，恩中招怨，出祖成家，六親稀招，和子息不孤，祖業頗招之命。

In the first four quarter-hours of the Wei hour, there is no harm or destruction. There are four brothers; outwardly harmonious, a spring breeze everywhere, the heart is upright and level, but resentment is drawn in the midst of kindness; one leaves the ancestral home and founds a family, the six kin are rarely obtained, with harmony and children not alone, and the ancestral estate is considerably obtained: such is the fate.

天虛

Heavenly Void

未時中刻，先克父。衣祿足，自然和氣春風，心行公道，恩中招怨，出祖成家，六親少倚，兄弟情疏，祖業興衰之命。

In the middle quarter-hours of the Wei hour, one first harms the father. Food and clothing are sufficient, naturally harmonious like a spring breeze, the heart acts with fairness, but resentment is drawn in the midst of kindness; one leaves the ancestral home and founds a family, there is little to rely on in the six kin, brothers are distant in feeling, and the ancestral estate rises and declines: such is the fate.

未時下刻，先克母。兄弟二三，衣祿足，心慈性直，為人有功，一喜一憂，也沉也浮，把虎頭捉虎尾，逢凶不怕，遇險無危，一生平穩之命。

In the last quarter-hours of the Wei hour, one first harms the mother. There are two or three brothers, food and clothing are sufficient, kind-hearted and of a straightforward nature, the person has merit; one joy and one sorrow, now sinking and now floating, seizing the tiger's head and the tiger's tail; one does not fear meeting misfortune, nor is one imperiled meeting danger, and the whole life is calm and steady: such is the fate.

天祿分宮

Branch Palace of Heavenly Salary

申時上四刻，無克破。為人近貴，性巧聰明，逢危不險，大事化小，一生安穩，衣祿無虧，六親和，兄弟睦，子息不孤之命。

In the first four quarter-hours of the Shen hour, there is no harm or destruction. The person draws near to nobles, is ingenious and clever, meets danger without peril, turns great matters into small, and is secure and steady all one's life; food and clothing are without shortfall, the six kin are harmonious, brothers are amicable, and children are not alone: such is the fate.

申時中，先克父。六親不得力，兄弟難為，自卓自立，近官出入聰明，祖業稀招，終成家業，妻宜兩硬，子必先虛。

In the middle of the Shen hour, one first harms the father. The six kin are of no help, brothers are hard to deal with, one establishes oneself on one's own, moves in and out near officials and is clever; the ancestral estate is rarely obtained, but in the end a household estate is built. The wife should be hard on both sides, and children are bound to be empty at first.

申時末刻，先克母。六親兄弟俱無靠，妻室早諧子，桃花夾竹，為人多巧多能，一生平穩，成家春風之命。

In the last quarter-hours of the Shen hour, one first harms the mother. Neither the six kin nor brothers can be relied upon, the wife is wed early along with children, peach blossoms flank the bamboo; the person is full of skill and ability, the whole life is calm and steady, and the family is founded like a spring breeze: such is the fate.

天福分宮

Branch Palace of Heavenly Fortune

酉時上四刻，無克破。衣祿足，招祖業，性巧聰明、作事勇猛，如龍似虎，文武皆通，或富或貴，成家之命。

In the first four quarter-hours of the You hour, there is no harm or destruction. Food and clothing are sufficient, the ancestral estate is obtained; ingenious and clever by nature, bold and fierce in undertakings, like a dragon or a tiger, versed in both civil and martial matters, either wealthy or noble: the fate of founding a family.

酉時中刻，先克父。兄弟少靠，近貴人，心行正道，衣祿自然，作事有頭無尾，出祖成家，六親少和，子息不孤之命。

In the middle quarter-hours of the You hour, one first harms the father. There is little to rely on in brothers, one draws near to nobles, the heart walks the right way, food and clothing come naturally; undertakings have a head but no tail, one leaves the ancestral home and founds a family, the six kin are rarely in harmony, and children are not alone: such is the fate.

酉時末刻，先克母。六親不得力，兄弟亦無情，一生多成多敗，招怨，自成家計，子息遲招，作事回進退之命。

In the last quarter-hours of the You hour, one first harms the mother. The six kin are of no help, brothers too are without affection; the whole life has much success and much failure, draws resentment, and builds a family on one's own; children come late, and undertakings turn back through advance and retreat: such is the fate.

文昌分宮

Branch Palace of Wenchang

戌時上四刻，先刻父。兄弟不得力，六親亦稀，子息實又虛，衣祿足，心直良善，有橫財，出祖成家，少孝順，自成家之命，損妻換績。

In the first four quarter-hours of the Xu hour, one first harms the father. Brothers are of no help, the six kin are also sparse, children are real and yet empty; food and clothing are sufficient, the heart is upright and kind, there is windfall wealth; one leaves the ancestral home and founds a family, with little filial piety; the fate of building a family on one's own, harming the wife and exchanging achievements.

戌時中刻，先克母。為人多計較，性巧聰明，好生怏樂，忠良出類，言詞過人，有施為，六親稀和，兄弟須有，無祖業興家，中末則吉，子息不孤之命。

In the middle quarter-hours of the Xu hour, one first harms the mother. The person is full of calculation, ingenious and clever by nature, fond of cheerful pleasure, loyal and good beyond the common run, surpassing others in speech, with the ability to act; the six kin are rarely in harmony, brothers are likely to be present, there is no ancestral estate to raise the family, the middle and later years are auspicious, and children are not alone: such is the fate.

戌時末刻，無克破。為人不得力，計較聰明，文武皆能，出家有權，能主富貴，六親稀，兄弟有無情，祖業稀，招子息，先虛後實也。

In the last quarter-hours of the Xu hour, there is no harm or destruction. The person is of little help, calculating and clever, capable in both civil and martial matters; leaving home one holds authority and can govern wealth and rank; the six kin are sparse, brothers may or may not be affectionate, the ancestral estate is sparse, and children are empty at first and real later.

天貫分宮

Branch Palace of Heavenly Thread

亥時上四刻，先克母。作事略為能，六親少靠，兄弟無情，中未則吉，自成家之命。

In the first four quarter-hours of the Hai hour, one first harms the mother. One can do a little in undertakings, there is little to rely on in the six kin, brothers are without affection, the middle and later years are auspicious: the fate of building a family on one's own.

又天貫分宮

Another version of the Branch Palace of Heavenly Thread

亥時上四刻，先克母。作事略能為，六親無靠，兄弟不招，出祖成家，子息遲招，末年得吉之命。

In the first four quarter-hours of the Hai hour, one first harms the mother. One can do a little in undertakings, there is nothing to rely on in the six kin, brothers are not obtained, one leaves the ancestral home and founds a family, children come late, and the final years obtain auspiciousness: such is the fate.

亥時中刻，無克破。三十年前父母在，作事起倒，自有權柄，逢凶不怕，膽志性剛，無險無危，六親稀和，兄弟須有情，疏祖業有之命。亥時末刻，先克父。衣祿不足，性格和柔，難為頭夫妻，六親少靠，兄弟無情，初年一成一敗，末年方立，成家之命。

In the middle quarter-hours of the Hai hour, there is no harm or destruction. Before thirty the parents are alive, undertakings rise and fall, one has authority of one's own, fears nothing in meeting misfortune, is bold in will and firm in nature, without danger or peril; the six kin are rarely in harmony, brothers are likely to be affectionate, and the ancestral estate is distant yet present: such is the fate. In the last quarter-hours of the Hai hour, one first harms the father. Food and clothing are insufficient, the nature is gentle and soft, the head-spouse is hard to manage, there is little to rely on in the six kin, brothers are without affection; in early years one success and one failure, and only in the final years is one established: the fate of founding a family.

術天機

Arts of Heavenly Mechanism

照膽經四言十八飛星直指序

Preface to the Four-Word, Eighteen Flying Stars Direct Pointer of the Mirror Illuminating the Gall

十二宮分

Division of the Twelve Palaces

紫微，天虛，天貴，天印，天壽恤天，紅鸞，天庫，天貫，文昌，天福，天

Ziwei, Tianxu, Tiangui, Tianyin, Tianshou, Tianxu, Hongluan, Tiankui, Tianguan, Wenchang, Tianfu, Tian

四星分宮

Division of the Palaces by the Four Stars

天杖，天異，毛頭，天刃，天姚在丑順行，天刑在酉順行，天哭合太歲。

Tianzhang, Tianyi, Maotou, Tianren, Tianyao go forward from Chou, Tianxing goes forward from You, and Tianku joins the Grand Year.

順排流年例

Example of Arranging the Flowing Years Forward

太歲逼凶而入局，夢入南柯，流年會殺於當年歌異蓬露。

The Grand Year presses on misfortune and enters the chart, a dream entering the Southern Branch; the flowing year meets killing in that very year. Song of the Different Dew.

一太歲，二太陽，三喪門，四太陰，五官符，六死符，七歲破，八龍德，九白虎，十福星，十一吊客，十二病符。

First Grand Year, second Sun, third Mourning Gate, fourth Moon, fifth Official Talisman, sixth Death Talisman, seventh Year Destruction, eighth Dragon Virtue, ninth White Tiger, tenth Fortune Star, eleventh Guest of Condolence, twelfth Sickness Talisman.

凶十八星於十二宮歌

Song of the Eighteen Inauspicious Stars in the Twelve Palaces

子行起正逆向行，數至生月便安杖。

Begin at Zi, correct direction, then move counter to it; count to the month of birth and settle the Staff.

異毛刃逆杖後隨，生年合處哭星傍。．

Yi, Mao and Ren follow the Staff in reverse; where the birth year joins, the Weeping Star is beside it.

杖星宮裹起生時，順數卯處安命之。

Within the Staff Star's palace begin the birth hour; count forward and settle Life at Mao.

單從杖上起初一，不問陰陽男女逆。

Begin only from the Staff with the first; regardless of Yin or Yang, male or female, go in reverse.

兩日之半行一宮，數至生日身宮住。

Two days and a half move through one palace; count to the day of birth and the Body Palace stops there.

又從未上順數子，遇著生年便布紫。

Again, from Wei count forward to Zi; meeting the birth year, spread out Zi.

虛貴印壽逆相逐，空鸞庫貫文福祿。

Void, Noble, Seal and Longevity follow one another in reverse; Emptiness, Phoenix, Treasury, Thread, Wen and Fortune and Salary.

刑酉姚丑皆順行，數至生月是其星。

Xing in You and Yao in Chou all go forward; counting to the month of birth is that star.

群星依此各排定，禍福從頭論重輕。

The multitude of stars are all fixed according to this; fortune and misfortune are discussed in heaviness and lightness from the start.

起紫微例

Example for Setting Up Ziwei

凡起紫微、虛、實、印、壽、空、鸞、庫、貫、文、福、祿，並從未上起子，順數至本人生年，安紫逆數，一宮安一星假。如人命寅年生，從未一起子，順數至酉，起紫逆布虛，貴、印仿此。

In setting up Ziwei, Void, Real, Seal, Longevity, Emptiness, Phoenix, Treasury, Thread, Wen, Fortune and Salary, all begin Zi from Wei, count forward to the person's birth year, place Zi and count in reverse, one palace for one star, provisionally. If a person is born in a Yin year, begin Zi from Wei, count forward to You, set up Zi, and spread Void, Noble and Seal in reverse; the Seal and so on follow this.

起天杖例

Example for Setting Up the Heavenly Staff

凡起天杖、異、毛、刃，並從子上起正月，逆數至本人生月安杖，逆布異、毛、刃。

In setting up the Heavenly Staff, Yi, Mao and Ren, all begin the first month at Zi and count in reverse to the person's birth month to place the Staff; spread Yi, Mao and Ren in reverse.

假如正月生人，在子上安杖，亥上安異，戌上安毛，酉上安刃。仿此。

For example, for a person born in the first month, set the Staff at Zi, Yi at Hai, Mao at Xu, and Ren at You. Follow this.

起天刑例

Example for Setting Up the Heavenly Punishment

凡起天刑，從酉上起，正月順數，至本人生月安天刑。

In setting up the Heavenly Punishment, begin from You with the first month and count forward to the person's birth month to place the Heavenly Punishment.

起天哭例

Example for Setting Up the Heavenly Weeping

凡起天哭，與本人生年相合，安哭。子與丑合，如子年生人，丑上安哭。

In setting up the Heavenly Weeping, set Weeping in combination with the person's birth year. Zi combines with Chou; for a person born in a Zi year, set Weeping at Chou.

安命例

Example for Settling Life

凡從仗星順數，本人生時是印時，則從子上起申，順數至未逢卯，便是命官。

In every case count forward from the Staff Star; if the person's birth hour is the Seal hour, then begin Shen from Zi and count forward, and where one reaches Wei and meets Mao is the Life Palace.

安身例

Example for Settling the Body

從杖上逆數，一宮兩日半，五日二宮，數至本人生日安身，不分男女皆逆。如遇初三、十三、二十三、初八、十八、二十八，此六日午時，不過宮未時過宮。

Count in reverse from the Staff, two days and a half to a palace, five days for two palaces, counting to the person's birth day to settle the Body; regardless of male or female, all go in reverse. If the day is the third, thirteenth, twenty-third, eighth, eighteenth, or twenty-eighth, on these six days the Wu hour does not cross to the next palace, while the Wei hour does.

起大限例

Example for Setting Up the Great Limits

陽男陰女，從命宮順數，十年行一宮；陰男陽女，從申宮逆數，十年行一宮。

For Yang males and Yin females, count forward from the Life Palace, moving one palace every ten years; for Yin males and Yang females, count in reverse from the Shen palace, moving one palace every ten years.

起小運例

Example for Setting Up the Minor Cycle

陽男陰女，從申宮逆數，一年一宮，陰男陽女，從命宮身，數，一年一宮。

For Yang males and Yin females, count in reverse from the Shen palace, one palace per year; for Yin males and Yang females, count from the Life and Body palace, one palace per year.

十干所屬陰陽

Yin and Yang Belonging to the Ten Stems

甲丙戊庚王屬陰，乙丁己辛癸屬陽。

Jia, Bing, Wu, Geng and Ren belong to Yin; Yi, Ding, Ji, Xin and Gui belong to Yang.

論大小限

On the Great and Minor Limits

限行限陷要為火，惡曜加臨禍並來。

When the limit travels and the limit sinks, it must be Fire; when evil luminaries are added and arrive, disaster comes together with them.

更把流年推月分，病如不死也傷才。

Moreover, push the flowing year into the months; even if the sick do not die, they will suffer harm to their talents.

順排流年例

Example for Arranging the Flowing Years Forward

一太歲，二太陽，三喪門，四大陰，五官符，六死符，七歲破，八龍德，九白虎，十福星，十一吊客，十二病符。

First Grand Year, second Sun, third Mourning Gate, fourth Moon, fifth Official Talisman, sixth Death Talisman, seventh Year Destruction, eighth Dragon Virtue, ninth White Tiger, tenth Fortune Star, eleventh Guest of Condolence, twelfth Sickness Talisman.

定死生訣

Formula for Determining Death and Life

夫星之分野，可察災祥，推人之死生，最難測。論大人若論死生者，先看天哭，次看天虛在何宮照，身命何宮者。

The allotted fields of the stars allow one to observe calamity and good omen, but to infer a person's death and life is hardest to fathom. In discussing the great, whoever discusses death and life must first look at the Heavenly Weeping, and next at which palace the Heavenly Void shines upon, and at which palace the Body and Life are in.

若天哭正臨身命，更與天虛同位，善星又且無力，其人生下，不出三五而死，亦有二日而死。如二星見命不見身，見身不見命，亦不過數歲而死。身命如得善星救助，則其限盡而死。更看被刑刃對照，同主則主惡死，無善終也。限行亦此斷之，不差矣。假如獅子為命，其行限到之宮，天哭在寶瓶，對照交限之年未，便可言死。須及後運到子宮，方可言死。天哭在人馬寅宮，限亦至人馬寅宮，限亦至人馬寅宮，＃１亦可言死，或當生。聚會命宮行年，又得吉曜扶持，亦善矣。如有稱意之事，只斷哭星，限到天虛，則可言死矣。佗放此。虛主孝服，若得善星可解過矣。天哭則吉曜亦難兔所謂遇善星同宮，亦在限盡而死。與惡星同居，才交限便死。獨有天壽見之，可以延年。惟有隱德之助，縱有延年之力，亦不過九陽之數而已矣。一說夫惡限，有天刃星不同，廟旺之宮遇限行到，必有親人下淚。天虛到限，亦如此

If the Heavenly Weeping falls directly on the Body and Life, and moreover shares a position with the Heavenly Void, and the good stars are also without strength, the person will die within three or five years after birth, and some die within two days. If the two stars are seen in the Life but not the Body, or in the Body but not the Life, the person still will not live beyond a few years. If the Body and Life obtain the rescue and aid of good stars, then the person dies when the limit is exhausted. Further, look at being punished by the Blade shining opposite; if they share the same rule, the death is evil and there is no good end. The travelling limit is judged in this way too, without error. Suppose Leo is the Life; in the palace that the travelling limit arrives at, the Heavenly Weeping is in Aquarius, and in the year the limit crosses into the opposite shining, Wei, one may speak of death. One must wait until the later cycle reaches the Zi palace before one may speak of death. If the Heavenly Weeping is in Sagittarius, the Yin palace, and the limit also reaches the Sagittarius Yin palace, one may also speak of death, or of birth. Where the stars gather in the Life Palace and the travelling year, and auspicious luminaries again lend support, it is also good. If there are matters that go as one wishes, judge only by the Weeping Star; when the limit reaches the Heavenly Void, then one may speak of death. Others follow this. The Void governs mourning dress; if good stars are obtained, it can be resolved. With the Heavenly Weeping, even auspicious luminaries can hardly avoid it; as is said, meeting a good star in the same palace, one also dies when the limit ends; dwelling with an evil star, one dies as soon as the limit begins. Only the Heavenly Longevity, when seen, can extend the years. Only with the aid of hidden virtue, and even with the strength of extended years, it will not go beyond the number of the nine Yang. One saying holds that evil limits differ from the Heavenly Blade Star: when the limit travels to a palace of temple prosperity, there are bound to be relatives shedding tears. When the Heavenly Void arrives at the limit, it is likewise

。天杖不論廟輝，亦有孝服。若擎天遊奕哭星，亦可斷死焉。

The Heavenly Staff, regardless of temple radiance, also brings mourning dress. As for the Qingtian wandering Weeping Star, death may likewise be judged.

古云客至罷琴書，子亦希之繪此圖。聲勢相忘為義重，金蘭契誼結交歟。桂花香裡揮士勤，寶樹堂前駐客車。且得關劉今復見，名芳千載播鄉問。

An old saying: the guest arrives, and the zither and books are put aside; the son too rarely paints this picture. Voice and bearing are forgotten in the weight of righteousness; is it a bond of golden orchid friendship? In the fragrance of cassia blossoms the scholar toils; before the Jewel Tree Hall the guest's carriage halts. Once more Guan and Liu are seen; the fame of fragrant renown spreads in the village for a thousand years.

而癱疽既潰，而大命從之，覆轍相逢，迷而不悟。

When the boil has burst, the great fate follows it; meeting the overturned wheel-track, one is lost and does not awake.

九腸星，分禍福輕重。

The Nine Yang Stars, which divide the weight of misfortune and fortune.

紫木、文木、福土、祿木、印土、壽土、杖木、庫土、姚木。

Ziwei Wood, Wen Wood, Fu Earth, Lu Wood, Yin Earth, Shou Earth, Zhang Wood, Ku Earth, Yao Wood.

在陽宮，則福重而災輕；在陰宮，則福輕而災重。

In a Yang palace, fortune is heavy and calamity light; in a Yin palace, fortune is light and calamity heavy.

九陰星，分災福輕重。

The Nine Yin Stars, which divide the lightness and weight of calamity and fortune.

貴土、紅金、異土、毛水、虛水、貫土、刑火、刃金、哭金。

Gui Earth, Hong Metal, Yi Earth, Mao Water, Xu Water, Guan Earth, Xing Fire, Ren Metal, Ku Metal.

在陰宮，劉福重而災輕，在陽宮，則災重而福輕也。其可不仔細推乎？若在廟堂樂旺者，不必拘陰陽也。

In a Yin palace, fortune is heavy and calamity light; in a Yang palace, calamity is heavy and fortune light. Can one afford not to infer this carefully? If they are in the hall of the temple and in joyful prosperity, there is no need to be bound by Yin and Yang.

三台入座

The Three Terraces Take Their Seats

右此二星，乃紫神之炁，主北斗之權，掌天機清貴之宿，專世文章仕進吉慶之利。身值孤數，為左輔右弼之神號，曰三合八座。妻宮主生離克破，天宮亦照此。二星照人命身，或命限，逢之吉利，大貴亨一通之兆。

The two stars on the right are the qi of the Purple Spirit, hold the authority of the Northern Dipper, and govern the lodgings of heavenly mechanism, clarity and nobility, specializing in the benefits of literary composition, official advancement and auspicious celebration of the age. When the body falls on a solitary number, they are named the spirits of the Left Assistant and Right Aide, called the Three Combinations and Eight Seats. In the Spouse Palace they govern parting in life, harm and destruction; the Heavenly Palace shines the same way. When the two stars shine on a person's Body and Life, or on the Life limit, meeting them is auspicious, a sign of great nobility and smooth passage.

三台星，凡男女，肩戌上起，正月順數，至本人生月止；起初一數至本人生日是也。

The Three Terraces Star: for all males and females, begin from Xu for the first month and count forward until the person's birth month; then begin from the first and count to the person's birth day.

八座星，凡男女，自辰上起，正月順數，至本人生月止；起恤一數至本人生日是也。

The Eight Seats Star: for all males and females, begin from Chen for the first month and count forward until the person's birth month; then begin from the first and count to the person's birth day.

龍池鳳閣

Dragon Pool and Phoenix Pavilion

右此二星，乃天上德管文明之宿，金星之餘、主文章科甲得地。凡在人身命中，為人清秀伶俐，雅重溫良。男女逢之，主攀龍一附鳳，功名顯達，財祿豐厚。女，人逢之，相貌過人，心能多能，淫慾不足以動其心。若弱宮，為徊輕；在強宮，為福甚重。

The two stars on the right are the lodgings of heavenly virtue governing civil brilliance, the surplus of the Metal star, governing literary composition and examination success in a fitting ground. In a person's Body and Life, the person is clear, handsome and clever, elegant, dignified, gentle and good. Meeting them, males and females attach themselves to the dragon and cling to the phoenix; fame and rank are prominent, and wealth and salary abundant. A woman meeting them is of surpassing appearance, with a heart capable of much, and lust is not enough to move her heart. In a weak palace, the effect is slight; in a strong palace, the fortune is very heavy.

龍池，凡男女生於辰上，起子時順數，至本人生時是也。

Dragon Pool: for all males and females, set Chen as the birth position, begin from the Zi hour and count forward until the person's birth hour.

鳳閣，凡男女又於戌上，起子時逆數，至本人生時是也。

Phoenix Pavilion: for all males and females, again from Xu, begin from the Zi hour and count in reverse until the person's birth hour.

夫此十八星名有論格，外有大格，今選如左。

These eighteen stars have named patterns for discussion; besides them there are great patterns, which are now selected as follows.

凡人身命二宮在亥子上，星不入廟名身溺江湖格。男女居戌亥辰巳上名子頭羅網格。身官在巳上，名身入貧民格，主身妻憂亡。命坐刃上，名磨燭為命格，多成多敗。天刃天虛居卯上，為命坐富門格。凡為凶不凶者，皆有吉事以役之也。凡人一遇卯時卯宮坐命者，為蛇入龍宮，不問甚時，但在卯宮坐命者，皆好也。

When a person's Body and Life palaces are both at Hai or Zi, and the stars do not enter the temple, it is called the pattern of Body Drowned in Rivers and Lakes. Males and females dwelling at Xu, Hai, Chen or Si are called the pattern of Head Caught in the Net. When the Body palace is at Si, it is called the pattern of Body Entering the Poor Folk, governing the worry and death of the Body and wife. Life seated on the Blade is called the pattern of Grinding Candle as Life, with much success and much failure. The Heavenly Blade and Heavenly Void dwelling at Mao make the pattern of Life Seated at the Wealthy Gate. All who are ill-fated yet not ill-fated have auspicious matters that serve them. For any person whose Life sits in the Mao palace at the Mao hour, it is a snake entering the dragon's palace; regardless of the hour, whoever has Life seated in the Mao palace is entirely good.

七強宮

The Seven Strong Palaces

凡吉躍加臨，為福命宮，田宅妻妾官祿四宮系高強，男女福德為次強，才帛為近強也。

Whenever auspicious stars leap and are added, it is the fortune of the Life Palace. The four palaces of Fields and Residence, Wife and Concubines, and Official Salary are tied to high strength; the Virtue and Fortune of males and females is next in strength; Wealth and Silk is near strength.

五強宮

The Five Strong Palaces

是相貌奴僕為惡弱，又陷之地兄弟為半陷宮，又為閒極官，疾厄遷移為次，惡殺居廟為奇。

Appearance and Servants are evil and weak; the sunken ground of the Brothers is a half-sunken palace and is also an idle extreme palace; Illness and Migration come next; evil killings in the temple are extraordinary.

九吉星入廟例

Rules for the Nine Auspicious Stars Entering the Temple

紫、文、紅、貴、福、綠、印、壽、庫但得三五位，與照強宮，則主榮貴。文昌、天貴，主科名文章之顯，博學經典。天刑樂天庫，廟守命照身，及四宮強，必真才實德之學，起群出眾之人也。

Ziwei, Wen, Hong, Gui, Fu, Lu, Yin, Shou, Ku: if only three or five positions are obtained and they shine on a strong palace, it governs honor and nobility. Wenchang and Tiangui govern the prominence of fame and literary composition and broad learning of the classics. When the Heavenly Punishment delights in the Heavenly Treasury, guards the temple, shines on the Body, and the four palaces are strong, there must be true talent and virtuous learning, a person who rises above the crowd.

九凶星入廟例

Rules for the Nine Inauspicious Stars Entering the Temple

刑、異、刃、杖、虛、哭、毛、姚＃２

Xing, Yi, Ren, Zhang, Xu, Ku, Mao, Yao ＃２

凶星居廟，樂旺照身命，主為福。不居廟旺，為禍。天刑居廟，化為文藻之星，主才學。天刃入廟，主積才谷，及主貪文虛耗才帛。運限不宜逢之刑刃。虛哭臨身命二宮，男女妻妾主克害。入廟旺，士終先行。毛頭、虛耗忌照才帛妻妾宮，主傷克妻破才大盤。凶星為禍，又看凶多吉少，斟酌。

When inauspicious stars dwell in the temple, joyful and prosperous, shining on the Body and Life, they govern fortune. Not dwelling in temple prosperity, they are misfortune. The Heavenly Punishment dwelling in the temple transforms into a star of literary grace, governing talent and learning. The Heavenly Blade entering the temple governs the accumulation of grain and talent, and also governs greed for letters and wasteful expense of wealth. Cycles and limits should not meet Punishment and Blade. Void and Weeping facing the two palaces of Body and Life bring harm and restraint to the wife and concubines of men and women. Entering the temple prosperity, the scholar goes first in the end. Maotou and the Void's waste should avoid shining on the Wealth, Wife and Concubines palaces, which governs harm to the wife and the great ruin of wealth. When inauspicious stars make misfortune, also consider whether the inauspicious are many and the auspicious few, and weigh it.

精粹限歌斷

Song of the Refined Judgment of Limits

皇天垂象地成形，人事浮沉孰可明。

August Heaven hangs down images, and earth completes the forms; who can make clear the rise and sink of human affairs?

運限先看有通塞，星辰須看有枯榮。

For cycles and limits, first see whether they pass or are blocked; for the stars, one must see whether they wither or flourish.

命宮官祿最為強，男女遷合三合方。

The Life Palace and Official Salary are strongest; the Migration of males and females joins the three-combination directions.

父母須高夾妻妾，近強財帛疾病祥。

Parents must be high, flanking wife and concubines; Wealth and Silk is near strong, and Illness is auspicious.

彖日

The Judgment says:

三宮兄弟稱閒極，惡弱還須奴僕當。

The three palaces of Brothers are called idle extremes; evil and weak ones should be taken as Servants.

相貌惡弱須記取，諸餘不用苦思量。

The evil and weak Appearance must be remembered; for the rest there is no need to think hard.

限數斷歌

Song of Judging by Limit Numbers

限數行年有消息，限若通時身自吉。

In the limit number and travelling year there is news; if the limit passes, the person is naturally auspicious.

假使行年到惡星，些小災患何所恤。

Suppose the travelling year arrives at an evil star; what is there to be concerned about in a little minor illness?

彖日

The Judgment says:

合刑刃星必遭刑機會虛哭殘露歌興。

Joined with Punishment and Blade stars, one is bound to meet punishment; the occasion of Void and Weeping brings a song of sorrow rising.

果然大限將欲盡，虛哭本宮見刑刃。

Indeed, when the great limit is about to end, Void and Weeping see Punishment and Blade in their own palace.

縱有吉曜照行年，十死一生凡是信。

Even if auspicious luminaries shine on the travelling year, with ten deaths to one life, believe it in all cases.

－命宮

- Life Palace

所宜福祿之星，復得其老年，老年食祿安康無疾。又得吉星之助，管主一曰富，二曰壽，三曰貴之人也。是以身命值之，皆為權印相從也。

Where the stars of fortune and salary are fitting, and one obtains them again in old age, in old age one eats one's salary in peace and health, without illness. Aided further by auspicious stars, one governs the person who is first wealthy, second long-lived, and third noble. Therefore when the Body and Life meet them, authority and seal all follow.

若身命二宮，所陷刑異哭刃姚星，肢體定主殤破。根刃則損己，刑則傷身，不然則破足、折臂、患耳鼻上有宿疾，亦主眼目昏昧。

If the two palaces of Body and Life are sunk in the stars of Punishment, Yi, Weeping, Blade and Yao, the limbs are bound to be injured or broken. The Root Blade harms oneself, Punishment injures the body; otherwise, a crippled foot, a broken arm, a chronic ailment of the ears and nose, and it also governs dimness and dullness of the eyes.

若身命值之天空，又日天中，主家道貧窘，業如銷雪，必主抱膫忍飢而已矣。

If the Body and Life meet the Heavenly Emptiness, and moreover it is called the Heavenly Centre, it governs a poor and straitened family way, an enterprise like melting snow, and one must hold one's belly and endure hunger, and that is all.

經云：身命四空，非道即僧。再有惡星拱照，斷為獨立終身。

The scripture says: when the Body and Life are the four empties, one is either a Daoist or a monk. If evil stars also converge and shine, it is judged that one stands alone for life.

文星在命主聰明

The Wen star in the Life governs intelligence

經云：文星樂旺而賢輔，當朝黑頭宰相。命逢文館之星。

The scripture says: when the Wen star is joyful and prosperous and a worthy assistant, one is a black-haired prime minister at court. The Life meets the star of the Wen Hall.

福祿臨宮主富榮

Fortune and Salary arriving at the palace govern wealth and glory

經云：福祿順垣，功名蓋世。君子見之印，名成於一舉。小人見之，發跡非常。

The scripture says: when Fortune and Salary follow the wall, fame covers the age. A noble person who sees the Seal makes his name in a single stroke. A petty person who sees it rises in an extraordinary way.

貴壽助之終富貴

Noble and Longevity aid it, and in the end there is wealth and rank

貴者主筆下成名，壽者因壽得祿。

The Noble governs making a name under the brush; Longevity gains salary because of long life.

紫紅印杖總平平

Ziwei, Hong, Seal and Staff are all merely ordinary

紫微百福皆從者，權印相從紅睹，富貴若浮云，杖進退無定。

Ziwei, from whom the hundred blessings follow: authority and seal follow one another, Hong sees it, wealth and rank are like floating clouds, and the Staff advances and retreats without fixity.

天姚昭一命多淫慾

The Heavenly Yao shines on a life of much lust

丈夫早年貪色慾，蓋因命內犯天姚。

A husband in his early years is greedy for lust, simply because the Heavenly Yao offends within his Life.

女人夜半出淫奔，皆因天姚居命位。

A woman elopes in the middle of the night, all because the Heavenly Yao dwells in the Life position.

刑異加臨祖業傾

Punishment and Yi added: the ancestral estate topples

刑異並行，必有興衰之嘆，無情福祿官魁。

Punishment and Yi travel together, and there must be sighs over rise and decline; there is no feeling in fortune, salary, officer and champion.

天庫照時多富貴

When the Heavenly Treasury shines, there is much wealth and rank

經云：身命臨於庫，無數錢財庫曜單行命必豐。

The scripture says: when the Body and Life face the Treasury, there is countless money and wealth; if the Treasury luminary travels alone, the Life is surely abundant.

天虛作事必無成

The Heavenly Void: undertakings surely come to nothing

經云：必主虛花人也。作事如逆艇上溪，多遇僧道。

The scripture says: it surely governs a person of empty flowers. Undertakings are like a boat going against the stream up a gorge, and one often meets monks and Daoists.

毛頭血刃貫星惡

Maotou and the Blood Blade and Thread Stars are evil

身命值毛頭，終不超。

If the Body and Life meet Maotou, one will never rise above it.

哭星臨哭親庭

The Weeping Star facing the Weeping of the parents' court

青衫才到手，官鬼更身隨。

A blue gown has only just come to hand, and officer-ghosts follow the body still more.

吉星救助方能免，對照沖臨禍福明。

Only when an auspicious star comes to the rescue can one be spared; opposite shining and clashing arrivals make fortune and misfortune clear.

二財帛宮

Two. The Wealth and Silk Palace

宜天庫星

Fitting is the Heavenly Treasury star

庫守田財作富翁，庫曜卑行命必豐。

The Treasury guarding fields and wealth makes a rich man; the Treasury luminary travelling low, the Life is surely abundant.

天貫

Heavenly Thread

運限身命臨此，必獲橫財。

If the cycle, limit, Body and Life meet this, one is bound to obtain windfall wealth.

紫微、紅鸞、天壽、入廟旺臨財帛，俱富。

Ziwei, Hongluan and Tianshou, entering the temple prosperity and facing Wealth and Silk, all are wealthy.

天貴遇貫星，鉅富。一生富貴足。印星拱貫，成名。

The Heavenly Noble meeting the Thread star is enormously wealthy. All one's life, wealth and rank are sufficient. The Seal star converging on the Thread brings fame.

天庫　　富忌無曜沖破。財主歸窠罥不休。貫星常獲橫財。

Heavenly Treasury: wealth; avoid having no luminary to clash and break it. The wealth owner returns to his nest, the snare never ends. The Thread star constantly obtains windfall wealth.

天福　　財帛充足，主有粟陳之富也。

Heavenly Fortune: wealth and silk are plentiful, governing the riches of stored grain.

文昌　　財帛會輔，而富集全家。

Wenchang: wealth and silk meet an assistant, and wealth gathers for the whole family.

天貴　　官主富榮，更彰名譽。

Heavenly Noble: officer governs wealth and glory, and fame is further displayed.

天虛　　守財帛進退。

Heavenly Void: guards wealth and silk with advance and retreat.

天哭　　破耗入。

Heavenly Weeping: ruin and waste enter.

夫杖星守

If the Staff star guards

縱然家積千金，未免中途破耗。

Even if the family has accumulated a thousand in gold, it cannot avoid ruin and waste midway.

天異星守

If the Heavenly Yi star guards

不益險假無情，取財不義。

No benefit, danger, falsity and lack of feeling; wealth is taken unrighteously.

○天哭星守

○ If the Heavenly Weeping star guards

破財多。巧裡得來空裡去，水中浮泡眼前花。

Much wealth is ruined. What is got by cleverness goes in emptiness, like a bubble floating on water, a flower before the eyes.

○天刃星守

○ If the Heavenly Blade star guards

財星佩刃，富若浮雲。

The wealth star wears the blade, and riches are like floating clouds.

○毛頭星守終虛，頻遭盜賊。

○ If the Maotou star guards: empty in the end, and frequently meets with thieves and robbers.

○天刑星守。

○ If the Heavenly Punishment star guards.

財有虛，以公營私。

Wealth is empty, using the public to run private interests.

○天姚星守

○ If the Heavenly Yao star guards

多因花酒賭博成，財過多滯，滯毛終虛，刑才有虧，貧窮有盜賊，官事之刑耗。

Mostly it comes about through flowers and wine and gambling; wealth passes too much and stagnates, stagnates into Mao and is empty in the end, punishment brings wealth to a loss, poverty and thieves, the waste of punishment from official matters.

○天刃財有益

○ The Heavenly Blade: wealth has benefit

庫貫之星得橫財，限若相逢必秘埋。

The stars of Treasury and Thread obtain windfall wealth; if the limit meets them, it will surely be buried in secret.

餘若凶星居此地，終能發積也成乖。

If an inauspicious star dwells in this ground, in the end it can accumulate but also turns perverse.

財帛宮中善星在，貫庫臨時福尤大。

When good stars are present in the Wealth and Silk Palace, if Thread and Treasury arrive, the fortune is greater still.

不然姚異照其間、一生干事多成敗。

Otherwise, with Yao and Yi shining in between, all one's life affairs bring much success and failure.

財帛宮中天庫過，更加貫索無災禍。

When the Heavenly Treasury passes through the Wealth and Silk Palace, adding the Thread Cord, there is no calamity.

若逢刑異照其宮，一生命限多成敗。

If one meets Punishment and Yi shining on its palace, all one's life the Life and limits bring much success and failure.

財帛紫福壽為祥，貫星臨之大吉昌。

In the Wealth and Silk Palace, Ziwei, Fortune and Longevity are auspicious; if the Thread star arrives, it is greatly auspicious and prosperous.

貴印祿星財富足、紅文異杖亦常常。

With the Noble, Seal and Salary stars, wealth is sufficient; Hong, Wen, Yi and Staff are also frequent.

三兄弟宮

Three. The Brothers Palace

宜樂旺星照之，招財兄弟，切不宜陷溺。

It is fitting that joyful, prosperous stars shine on it, bringing wealth and brothers; it is by no means fitting that it be sunk or drowned.

○紫三人。虛主爭宜不宜刑。貴成行。昂貴顯。紅可招。紫三人睦。

○ Ziwei: three people. Void governs quarrels; it is fitting or not fitting to be punished. Noble forms a line. Expensive and prominent. Hong can summon. Ziwei: the three are harmonious.

○天虛　　主喧爭多見刑。

○ Heavenly Void: governs noisy quarrels, and punishment is often seen.

○天貴　　兄弟成行。

○ Heavenly Noble: brothers form a line.

○天印　　兄弟貴顯。

○ Heavenly Seal: brothers are noble and prominent.

○天壽　　荊萼聯芳得壽。

○ Heavenly Longevity: thorn and calyx join in fragrance, and gain long life.

○天空　　手足難為宜子力。

○ Heavenly Emptiness: it is hard to be hand and foot; it is fitting to rely on the strength of children.

○紅鸞　　有情可招。

○ Hongluan: affectionate, can be summoned.

○天庫　　得力。

○ Heavenly Treasury: gives strength.

○天貫　　不成行。

○ Heavenly Thread: does not form a line.

○文昌　　近貴相親。

○ Wenchang: draws near to nobles and is close.

○天福　　有情義讓。

○ Heavenly Fortune: affectionate and yielding.

○天祿　　俱有名祿。

○ Heavenly Salary: all have name and salary.

○天杖　　實分情薄。

○ Heavenly Staff: in reality divided and thin in feeling.

○天異　　不同契則可。

○ Heavenly Yi: acceptable if their agreements differ.

○毛頭　　無有則主喧爭。

○ Maotou: if absent, it governs noisy quarrels.

○天刃　　傷克重宜子力。

○ Heavenly Blade: injury and restraint are heavy; it is fitting to rely on the strength of children.

壽相侵亦不凶星相剋。庫得力。貫雁字不成行。文近貴相親。福成富有情義讓。祿名祿。杖實分。異不同契。毛主爭喧無。刑不和，爭喧，刑。姚刃哭主傷，克分高，子力。

Longevity encroaching is also not inauspicious, and the stars restrain one another. Treasury gives strength. Thread: the wild geese do not form a line. Wen: draws near to nobles and is close. Fortune: wealthy and affectionate and yielding. Salary: name and salary. Staff: in reality divided. Yi: agreements differ. Mao governs quarrels and noise, or is absent. Punishment: disharmony, quarrels, punishment. Yao, Blade and Weeping govern injury, restraint and division; high, with the strength of children.

歌曰

A song says

兄弟宮中分貴賤，虛異刑姚不喜見。

In the Brothers Palace nobility and lowliness are divided; Void, Yi, Punishment and Yao are not pleasant to see.

若逢天貴與紅鸞，雁字成行人可羨。

If one meets the Heavenly Noble and Hongluan, the wild geese form a line and people can admire it.

天異若臨兄弟位，須招兄弟異居住。

If the Heavenly Yi approaches the Brothers position, brothers must be summoned who live apart.

假饒同祖合屋居，棄別終須兩分路。

Even if they were once of the same ancestor and shared a house, in the end they abandon one another and part ways.

天異臨兄弟，須教是異生。

When the Heavenly Yi approaches the Brothers, they are bound to be born of a different mother.

縱然合屋住，常有鬧喧爭。

Even if they live in the same house, there is constant noise and quarreling.

虛哭姚刑主不聽，時生詫異在星辰。

Void, Weeping, Yao and Punishment govern not listening, and strange events arise in the stars.

若得紅鸞與天貴，成行鴉墜自相親。

If one obtains Hongluan with the Heavenly Noble, the line of crows falls and they are naturally close.

兄弟須逢印壽昌，若逢姚異女親多。

Brothers must meet Seal and Longevity to prosper; if they meet Yao and Yi, there are many women among the kin.

紅文異杖總先當，哭刃毛刑奈若何。

Hong, Wen, Yi and Staff are all first to take it on; Weeping, Blade, Mao and Punishment, what can be done?

四田宅宮

Four. The Fields and Residence Palace

宜貫庫喜星在廟旺，不宜天異，主凶父母早喪。如庫星與天意同照，主先破後成，自立之命。

It is fitting that the Thread and Treasury, joyful stars, are in temple prosperity, and the Heavenly Yi is unfit, governing evil and the early death of parents. If the Treasury star shines together with the Heavenly Yi, it governs a fate of ruin first and success later, establishing oneself.

紫貴印祖果盛。福庫福才已上奮發多惡克父。貫得福才，忌沖破。壽平。紅田宅盛旺文祿主多谷粟。虛杖刃主先享福。異破祖。毛多破，多成。姚破祖。刑自破，自成。哭共加庫貫二星先破後成入廟旺增產勝祖田宅。空自成，自立。

Ziwei, Noble and Seal: the ancestral fruit is flourishing. Fortune and Treasury: fortune and wealth are already above, with much vigor but evil, restraining the father. Thread obtains fortune and wealth; avoid clash and break. Longevity is ordinary. Hong: Fields and Residence flourish and prosper. Wen and Salary govern much grain and millet. Void, Staff and Blade govern enjoying fortune first. Yi ruins the ancestral estate. Mao: much ruin, much success. Yao ruins the ancestral estate. Punishment: self-ruin, self-success. Weeping, together with the Treasury and Thread stars added: ruin first and success later; entering the temple prosperity, property increases and surpasses the ancestral fields and residence. Emptiness: self-made, self-established.

田宅見毛虛與異，袒業宗才如掃地。

If the Fields and Residence see Mao, Void and Yi, the ancestral estate and clan wealth are swept away as if by a broom.

若逢庫貫照其身，先破後成還自置。

If one meets the Treasury and Thread shining on the body, ruin comes first and success after, and one acquires it again by oneself.

福祿印壽多田宅，姚毛刑異父母重。

Fortune, Salary, Seal and Longevity bring many fields and residences; Yao, Mao, Punishment and Yi make the parents heavy.

先破後成印破吉，天虛田宅到頭空。

Ruin first and success later; Seal ruined is auspicious; the Heavenly Void in the Fields and Residence comes to nothing in the end.

五男女宮

Five. The Sons and Daughters Palace

詩曰五位逢生，兒孫滿眼。

A poem says: when the five positions meet birth, sons and grandsons fill the eyes.

不宜男女照臨，主男女有凶惡，有哭虛亦夭折多不成。三日官在高強善生主福祿。

It is not fitting for sons and daughters to be shone upon; it governs evil and fierceness in sons and daughters; with Weeping and Void there is also early death, and many do not come to maturity. On the third day, the Official in a high and strong position is good at giving birth, governing fortune and salary.

身躔次度兩同胎，月在凶躔雙共乳。

The body travels through the same degree of mansions, both from one womb; the moon in a fierce stage, twins sharing the breast.

紫招一二子，先女後男，入廟旺，子孫貴顯旺地子孫四五成行。貴二三子，榮後代。虛老來無子不成天，不然飄蕩他鄉。惟喜過房之子。若不子有疾。庫壽印貫子息榮家。紅多招女，子少成。福文三五子，主富貴，忌沖破。祿主光榮，改換門聞之子。杖子孫不成，帶成。哭主克害，一二中得送終。異隔煦子孫難招偏旁凜出有一也，不然過房之子。毛男女主祖暴凶死，得地，招子推福。刃子孫帶疾，破家業，免克害除，是過房。姚男女不得力飄蕩，男不良，女不潔。刑招男女有若無，主不孝。得吉星同宮。三子有一子送終，如三合又逢惡星不招，男女亦是過房。女人有產厄之害。貫二三子成。

Ziwei summons one or two children, daughters first and sons after; entering the temple prosperity, sons and grandsons are noble and prominent, and in a prosperous ground sons and grandsons number four or five in a line. Noble: two or three children, glorifying the descendants. Void: in old age no children, not coming to maturity, or else drifting in another land; only a child adopted out is welcome. If not, the child is sick. Treasury, Longevity, Seal and Thread: children bring glory to the family. Hong mostly summons daughters, and the children are few and succeed. Fortune and Wen: three or five children, governing wealth and rank; avoid clash and break. Salary governs glory, and the children are of a changed family name. Staff: sons and grandsons do not succeed, or succeed with difficulty. Weeping governs harm and restraint; of one or two, one sees the funeral through. Yi: sons and grandsons by another mother are hard to summon, with a one-sided side branch; otherwise an adopted child. Mao: sons and daughters govern an ancestral violent and fierce death; if it obtains a good ground, it summons children and promotes fortune. Blade: sons and grandsons carry illness and ruin the family estate; to avoid harm and restraint, adopt a child. Yao: sons and daughters are not strong and drift; the son is not good and the daughter not chaste. Punishment: sons and daughters are summoned as if absent, governing unfilial conduct. If one obtains an auspicious star in the same palace, of three children one sees the funeral through; if the three combinations again meet an evil star and do not summon, sons and daughters are also adopted. A woman suffers the harm of childbirth difficulty. Thread: two or three children succeed.

詩曰

A poem says

毛頭不可居男女，子媳生來如暴虎。

Maotou must not dwell in the Sons and Daughters; sons and daughters-in-law born are like fierce tigers.

若逢天貴與紅鸞，子嗣榮登自然與。

If one meets the Heavenly Noble and Hongluan, descendants naturally rise to glory.

毛頭刑刃如凶暴，倘若虛哭為凶天。

Maotou, Punishment and Blade are like fierceness; if Void and Weeping, it is early death by heaven.

若得二宮皆吉星，僮僕子孫歡豫得。

If both palaces obtain auspicious stars, servants and descendants find joy and ease.

四煞刑膚胎內須當破相

The four killings and Punishment on the skin: in the womb the features must be broken

天異之星主異胎，若臨子息亦相乖。

The Heavenly Yi star governs a different womb, and if it approaches the offspring it is also perverse.

膈胞庶出猶閒事，亦主妻兄帶得來。

A rival wife's child, a concubine's child, is still a minor matter; it also governs bringing along the wife's brother.

三刑剋命產前必定傷身

The three punishments restraining the Life: before birth the body is surely injured

文昌多子紫紅疏，長子難招杖貫虛。

Wenchang: many children; Ziwei and Hong: sparse; the eldest is hard to summon with Staff, Thread and Void.

印壽之星招二子，福星男女亦堪居。

The stars Seal and Longevity summon two children; the Fortune star can also hold sons and daughters.

六奴僕宮

Six. The Servants Palace

不宜見文昌，其人智不如奴。天刃、天杖，主有力奴。哭虛見之，劫自不妨。

It is not fitting to see Wenchang; the person's wisdom is no better than the servant's. The Heavenly Blade and Heavenly Staff govern strong servants. If Weeping and Void are seen, robbery of oneself is no matter.

紫難為。杖刃壽福祿哭貫紅祿主如僕畏懼。文虛智不辨奴。貴印不宜私進走。毛刑主凶惡意是然也。姚異須婢得力。

Ziwei: difficult. Staff, Blade, Longevity, Fortune, Salary, Weeping, Thread, Hong: Salary governs a servant who fears and dreads. Wen and Void: wisdom cannot discern the servant. Noble and Seal: not fitting for private advancing and running. Mao and Punishment govern fierce and evil intent, and so it is. Yao and Yi: a maidservant must be strong.

主起奴宮不足隨娘嫁娶時須換父成持

What arises in the Servants Palace is insufficient; when following the mother in marriage, the father must be exchanged and held up.

紫文不宜居奴僕，虛星文不如奴智。

Ziwei and Wen are not fit to dwell in the Servants; the Void star, Wen, is not as wise as a servant.

若逢杖刃須得力，天刑毛頭奴僕無。

If one meets Staff and Blade, one must obtain strength; Heavenly Punishment and Maotou: there are no servants.

姚異得力須還婢，庫祿多招有力奴。

Yao and Yi obtain strength, but a maidservant must be returned; Treasury and Salary summon many strong servants.

七妻妾宮

Seven. The Wife and Concubines Palace

宜紅鸞天貴照臨，主有美貴之妻及奴婢。不宜見天異，必主別離，或防克而再娶。

It is fitting that Hongluan and the Heavenly Noble shine on it, governing a beautiful and noble wife and maidservants. It is not fitting to see the Heavenly Yi, which surely governs parting, or guarding against restraint and remarrying.

紫入垣招貴貌之妻。失地招淫蕩之婦。女人招夫平穩，多是要道衛修行善果之人。男女皆有果斷。虛主克害，宜遲免損。亦主無妻，僧道多遇。貴主招美潔天妻。印因妻致富，加杖不老。壽宜夫妻年老。空木吉。紅招美貌之妻。庫得妻妾不宜老。祿得妻貴，忌惡星沖。文招聰明伶俐之妻，吊三方有惡星克。貫主男婚不正之妻，女嫁不良之夫。巳午甲亥上不悲，亦主妻才。福主招美良之婦，犯異刑不宜。杖孤克帶疾之夫妻。毛傷克剛之妻。異主傷二三，亦不和睦。不然，主高別。仍見重婚男女皆不宜。刃主男因酒色傷身，女有產厄之危。亦主狼狽不事多見傷克。刑主傷克，遲可免。天杖夫妻災疾多憂防寵妾。姚犯重婚，亦主和。又加杖異惡星，主生離死別。如入廟若並限逢之添壽，協壽稱意事美。哭多見刑剋殃。

Ziwei entering the wall summons a wife of noble appearance. Out of its ground, it summons a lewd and dissolute woman. A woman summoning a husband is calm and steady, mostly people who defend the Way and cultivate good fruit. Men and women alike are decisive. Void governs harm and restraint; it is fitting to delay to avoid loss. It also governs having no wife; monks and Daoists often meet it. Noble governs summoning a beautiful and clean heavenly wife. Seal: wealth comes through the wife; adding Staff, she does not age. Longevity: the couple are fitted for old age. Emptiness Wood: auspicious. Hong summons a wife of beautiful appearance. Treasury: obtains wife and concubines, not fit to grow old. Salary: obtains a noble wife; avoid the clash of evil stars. Wen summons an intelligent, clever wife; hanging in the three directions, an evil star restrains it. Thread governs a man marrying an improper wife, a woman marrying a bad husband. On Si, Wu, Jia and Hai it is not sorrowful, and also governs the wife's talent. Fortune governs summoning a beautiful and good woman; offending Yi and Punishment is not fitting. Staff: solitary, restraint, a sick couple. Mao: harm and restraint, a stubborn wife. Yi governs harm two or three times, and also disharmony. Otherwise it governs high parting. Still, seeing a second marriage is not fitting for men or women. Blade governs a man harming his body through wine and lust, a woman in danger of childbirth difficulty. It also governs a wretched state with no business, with frequent harm and restraint. Punishment governs harm and restraint; delay may avoid it. Heavenly Staff: the couple have much calamity and worry; guard against a favored concubine. Yao offends a second marriage, but also governs harmony. Further adding Staff, Yi and evil stars governs parting in life and separation in death. If it enters the temple, and the limit also meets it, longevity is added, and cooperation in longevity pleases and fine things happen. Weeping: often sees the calamity of punishment and restraint.

詩曰

A poem says

七宮無殺　　琴瑟和嗚

If the seventh palace has no killing, the zither and lute sing in harmony.

夫妻離異見分高，若得紅鸞及貴推。

A couple parts and is divided in height; if Hongluan and Noble are obtained, they can be inferred.

賢妻貴子皆安定，哭星至此卻成悲。

A worthy wife and noble son are both settled and stable; when the Weeping star arrives here, it turns to sorrow.

夫妻貴印壽為良，虛刃毛刑主損傷。

For the couple, Noble, Seal and Longevity are good; Void, Blade, Mao and Punishment govern injury.

若是三方逢惡曜，也須重媾兩三場。

If the three directions meet evil luminaries, one must remarry two or three times.

刑虛毛刃主重妻，惟有紅鸞貌最奇。

Punishment, Void, Mao and Blade govern a second wife; only Hongluan has the most extraordinary appearance.

貴姚庫祿妻才厚，天異相逢主別高。

Noble, Yao, Treasury and Salary: the wife's talent is thick; Heavenly Yi meeting them governs high parting.

八疾厄宮

Eight. The Illness and Misfortune Palace

不宜見姚異星，主有駝腰屈背，並掘惡疾腳。

It is not fitting to see the Yao and Yi stars, which govern a hunched waist and bent back, and a crippled foot with evil illness.

○紫虛貴壽姚毛空

○ Ziwei, Void, Noble, Longevity, Yao, Mao, Emptiness

異疾纏身，目手足之災，肺經喘滿，哭常啾唧。

Yi: illness entangles the body; calamity of the eyes, hands and feet; the lung channel pants and is full, with constant whimpering.

○印紅庫貫文刃之福祿

○ Seal, Hong, Treasury, Thread, Wen, Blade: the fortune and salary

○姚哭

○ Yao, Weeping

髒不寧，主背曲跛足之患。

The viscera are restless, governing the ailment of a bent back and lame foot.

生時疾厄臨人馬，又與鬼門同分野。

At birth Illness and Misfortune approaches Sagittarius, and shares the field of the Ghost Gate.

生陷或逢刃異刑，所傷若翼並暗啞。

Born in a sunken place, or meeting Blade, Yi and Punishment, what is harmed may be as wings, and also mute.

刃刑疾厄怕相逢，五臟乖張療不通。

Blade and Punishment in Illness and Misfortune are feared to meet; the five viscera are perverse and cannot be treated.

跛足駝腰並曲背，年年哭病必相逢。

A lame foot, hunched waist and bent back; year after year Weeping and illness are bound to meet.

身星落陷處何方，更出相逢最不祥。

Where does the Body star fall into a sunken place? To come out and meet another is most inauspicious.

八煞惡星如拱照，便知精月實堪傷。

If the eight killings and evil stars converge and shine, one knows that the essence and moon are truly harmed.

疾厄不可見天姚，異星同喜甚蹊饒。

Illness and Misfortune must not see the Heavenly Yao; the Yi star joined with joy is greatly curious and abundant.

刑刃見之多疾病，天貴文昌可解饒。

Punishment and Blade seeing it bring much sickness; the Heavenly Noble and Wenchang can resolve and relieve it.

姚異毛刑須帶疾，仗微福壽總無災。

Yao, Yi, Mao and Punishment bring illness; the staff of slight fortune and longevity are all without calamity.

吉星混雜須詳察，惡曜如臨禍患來。

Mixed auspicious stars must be examined carefully; if evil luminaries arrive, misfortune and trouble come.

九遷移宮

Nine. The Migration Palace

不宜見毛頭刑刃照臨，出外多出盜賊險橫之事，重則至死，看其有無善星救助。

It is not fitting that Maotou, Punishment and Blade shine on it; going out, there are often matters of thieves and robbers, danger and violence, serious ones to the point of death; look at whether there are good stars to rescue and aid.

紫出入住外方近貴。虛出祖外才益。印出外方才祿。貴出入得貴人力。壽出入外方吉利。庫貫得外方才吉利。紅有外才喜慶，會三合才吉利，是儒述九流之十。文出入近貴吉利。福主遷移之得，三合逢吉，出入聽其所欲。祿多遇高貴。杖不利出入。毛出外路逢盜賊損害非橫之事，又主水厄。異不得寧靜。姚主出入得人和氣。刃主遠行招賊。刑主遠行不利，若天哭逢盜賊橫惡之事也。哭遠行出入，多招口舌是非。空萬事到頭。

Ziwei: going out and in, living in outer regions, near the noble. Void: leaving the ancestral home, wealth benefits abroad. Seal: wealth and salary in outer regions. Noble: going out and in, one obtains the help of noble people. Longevity: going out and in the outer regions is auspicious. Treasury and Thread: obtain wealth in outer regions, auspicious. Hong: wealth abroad and joyful celebration; meeting the three combinations, wealth is auspicious, it is the ten of the nine schools of the learned. Wen: going out and in, draws near to nobles, auspicious. Fortune governs gain in migration; the three combinations meet the auspicious, and going out and in follows one's desire. Salary: often meets the high and noble. Staff: going out and in is not beneficial. Mao: going out on the road, meets thieves and robbers, harm and calamity not of the usual kind, and also governs the misfortune of water. Yi: not obtaining quiet. Yao governs going out and in obtaining the harmony of people. Blade governs travelling far and summoning thieves. Punishment governs travelling far being unfavorable; if the Heavenly Weeping meets thieves and robbers, evil and violent things. Weeping: travelling far and going out and in, often summons gossip and disputes. Emptiness: ten thousand matters come to the end.

歌曰

A song says

遷移刑刃見毛頭，出入須逢盜賊偷。

If Migration sees Punishment, Blade and Maotou, going out and in one must meet thieves and robbers.

橫死無遇吉星救，若無惡曜不須憂。

If violent death meets no auspicious star to rescue, and there are no evil luminaries, there is no need to worry.

天貴遊行遇貴頻，印薇福祿可相親。

The Heavenly Noble travels about and meets the noble often; Seal, Wei, Fortune and Salary can be close.

毛頭刑刃虛防盜，也作他鄉客鬼人。

Maotou, Punishment and Blade, with Void: guard against thieves, and one may also become a ghost person in another land.

十官祿宮

Ten. The Official Salary Palace

宜見印綬文昌，中科名，若廟旺，主權職高遷。不宜虛星，一生無祿。

It is fitting to see the Seal ribbon and Wenchang, which pass the examinations for fame; if in temple prosperity, they govern promotion to high office. The Void star is not fitting; all one's life there is no salary.

紫名覆金甌入廟者名達宸聰一生不息不惹是非如會鸞少年登科沖破者不貴。虛主虛名奇人勢自無決斷之事。貴主遇事不懼無惡者平生不善安康也。印主能齊家更得地又拱合兄天貴主拜將封侯

Ziwei: renowned, again a golden bowl; one who enters the temple has a name that reaches the imperial ear, never resting all one's life, not stirring up disputes; if it meets Phoenix, one passes the examinations in youth; one who is clashed and broken is not noble. Void governs empty fame, and an extraordinary person's power naturally lacks decisive affairs. Noble governs fearlessness in matters; one without evil is not good in life, but safe and healthy. Seal governs the ability to put the family in order, and if it obtains its ground and also converges with Heavenly Noble, it governs bowing as a general and being enfeoffed as a marquis.

大貴之命少年登科早擁旌旗若庶人不得地者亦平息。壽入廟者少年科甲慈憫群細見事遠。祿同上。紅有仁義主得慶主得慶好禮夾狂妄。庫善規才能計等入廟者名播華夷。貫一生平善決破者不利。毛不怕事被次不畏。哭去文。文入廟者少年科名旌節君子職位清類僧道潔庶人近貴。姚惡事易戒言事多事多亦口。

A fate of great nobility, passing the examination in youth and early holding the banners; for a commoner who does not obtain the ground, it is also calm and settled. Longevity entering the temple: passes the examination in youth, kind and compassionate to the crowd, seeing matters far off. Salary is as above. Hong has benevolence and righteousness, governs obtaining celebration, fond of ritual, with a touch of recklessness. Treasury: good at planning, wealth and calculation; one who enters the temple has his name spread through China and the barbarian lands. Thread: ordinary and good all one's life; one who is decisive and breaking is not favorable. Mao is not afraid of affairs, and does not fear being next. Weeping removes Wen. Wen entering the temple: fame in the examinations in youth, a gentleman's post with insignia and staff, clean position, like monks and Daoists in purity; a commoner draws near to nobles. Yao: evil matters easily; caution in speech, many affairs and also much talk.

詩曰

A poem says

天祿宮中刑杖照，央配徒流未足道。

In the Heavenly Salary Palace, Punishment and Staff shine; one is assigned to exile and banishment, which is not enough to speak of.

必然天哭更臨沖，徒死傷亡凶自吊。

If the Heavenly Weeping surely approaches and clashes as well, death and injury and loss, a misfortune that hangs oneself.

官祿刑刃不可言，獄訟纏綿禍患連。

Official Salary with Punishment and Blade cannot be spoken of; lawsuits drag on and misfortune and trouble are linked.

天印文昌居此地，少年反地得高遷。

The Heavenly Seal and Wenchang dwelling in this ground, in youth one returns to the ground and gains a high promotion.

官祿須逢印貴星，杖微紅壽總平平。

Official Salary must meet the Seal and Noble stars; Staff is slight, and Hong and Longevity are altogether ordinary.

天虛刑刃無成實，若遇文昌播大名。

Heavenly Void, Punishment and Blade have no real achievement; if one meets Wenchang, one spreads a great name.

十一福德宮

Eleven. The Virtue and Fortune Palace

宜見福壽印吉星，更宜廟旺。如凡虛星照破，一生無福，或在陷溺。及見刑刃臨之，必是耳目聾瞽瘤癖之疾。

It is fitting to see the auspicious stars Fortune, Longevity and Seal, and still more fitting if they are in temple prosperity. If the Void star shines and breaks it, there is no fortune all one's life, or one is in a sunken or drowned place. And if Punishment and Blade are seen to approach it, there must be the illness of deaf ears, blind eyes, tumors and obstinate ailments.

紫壽紅一生衣食安康。貴文衣祿清厚。印播名。庫財祿。貫橫才。福堅固。祿祿位。杖異勞碌進退。毛姚刃哭主福薄不利。虛一生無財，身在陷地，更加刑刃照之，必主耳目口鼻臂足之疾。刑主勞心一怨，有災難徒配。加虛哭二星次傷亡，遇吉臧半。姚身亂心忙。

Ziwei, Longevity, Hong: clothing and food are safe and healthy all one's life. Noble and Wen: clothing and salary are clear and thick. Seal: spreads fame. Treasury: wealth and salary. Thread: windfall wealth. Fortune: firm. Salary: salary position. Staff and Yi: toil, advance and retreat. Mao, Yao, Blade and Weeping govern thin fortune and unfavorable. Void: no wealth all one's life; if the body is in a sunken place, and Punishment and Blade shine upon it as well, it must govern the ailments of ears, eyes, mouth, nose, arm and foot. Punishment governs a toiling heart and resentment, with calamity and difficulty, exile and assignment. Adding Void and Weeping, the two stars bring injury and death next; meeting the auspicious, half is concealed. Yao: the body is disordered and the heart busy.

歌曰

A song says

福德不可見天虛，有福之人只此無。

Virtue and Fortune must not see the Heavenly Void; a person with fortune is only without this.

刑異照限自然惡，縱然無疾也驚危。

Punishment and Yi shining on the limit are naturally evil; even if there is no illness, there is fright and peril.

身宮清吉休愁命，福德堅高不論宮。

If the Body Palace is clear and auspicious, do not worry about the Life; if Virtue and Fortune are firm and high, the palace need not be discussed.

福德之宮要吉星，少年享用必安榮。

The Virtue and Fortune palace needs auspicious stars; enjoyment in youth is surely safe and glorious.

若逢惡曜印無福，早克妻奴與弟兄。

If it meets evil luminaries and Seal without fortune, one early restrains wife, servants, and brothers.

十二相貌宮

Twelve. The Appearance Palace

宜見虛哭，一生少災。不宜身命見之，毛頭天哭同宮，主有破相，見貴大吉。

It is fitting to see Void and Weeping; one has little calamity all one's life. It is not fitting for the Body and Life to see them; Maotou and the Heavenly Weeping in the same palace govern broken features, but seeing the Noble is greatly auspicious.

紫孤氣。貴紅文美貌。印威權。壽古貌。庫發才。貫暴發。虛災疾忌沖。福祿在高強宮，白手榮華富貴。杖後帶疾厄。姚美貌清秀。毛面貌丑惡。哭面貌災疾。異刃刑面貌殘破帶疾厄。

Ziwei: solitary qi. Noble, Hong, Wen: beautiful appearance. Seal: awesome authority. Longevity: ancient appearance. Treasury: gains wealth. Thread: sudden prosperity. Void: calamity and illness; avoid clash. Fortune and Salary in a high and strong palace: empty-handed glory, wealth and rank. Staff: later carries illness and misfortune. Yao: beautiful and clear. Mao: ugly and evil face. Weeping: face with calamity and illness. Yi, Blade, Punishment: face broken and maimed, carrying illness and misfortune.

彖曰

The Judgment says:

相貌不宜見哭悲，破傷容貌跛肩餘。

The Appearance is not fit to see Weeping and sorrow; features are broken and injured, and the shoulder is lame.

此宮若還逢此曜，定生惡疾再元疑。

If this palace again meets these luminaries, it surely brings an evil illness, with no more doubt.

彖曰

The Judgment says:

相貌不宜見異星，又嫌刑刃到其中。

The Appearance is not fit to see the Yi star, and it dislikes Punishment and Blade arriving within it.

身命二宮逢此曜，定生暗疾異災攻。

If the Body and Life palaces meet these luminaries, there are surely hidden illnesses and calamity attacking.

彖曰

The Judgment says:

貌宮文昌未為良，福壽加臨壽考長。

In the Appearance Palace, Wenchang is not yet good; Fortune and Longevity added bring a long life.

若遇凶星多破祖，紅鸞天哭細推詳。

If it meets inauspicious stars, there is much ruin of the ancestors; Hongluan and Heavenly Weeping should be inferred carefully.

子申巳酉亥紫氣高強，師巫有分高強

Zi, Shen, Si, You, Hai: the Purple Qi is high and strong; a master or shaman has a share in the high and strong

○星名紫微，子上安居。男子學堂、學館，女子識錦、刺繡。毛頭不加，男子而冠重祿。刃星不至，女人貴室名珍。若在巳官，並酉亥運行，福祿有餘名。

○ The star named Ziwei dwells peacefully at Zi. Males study at the school hall or academy; females know brocade and embroidery. If Maotou is not added, a male wears the cap and has heavy salary. If the Blade star does not arrive, a woman is noble in the household and her name is precious. If it is in the Si palace, together with the cycle moving through You and Hai, fortune and salary are in surplus, and the name too.

紫氣之星，獨曰孤為僧為迦為泛後。

The star of Purple Qi, alone it is called Solitary, a monk, a Kasyapa, floating about afterwards.

彖曰此星落陷一世老儒

The Judgment says: when this star falls into a sunken place, one is an old Confucian all one's life

人若子上見紫微，富貴功名天下知。

If a person sees Ziwei at Zi, wealth, rank, achievement and fame are known under heaven.

刑異不來兔破蕩，夫妻保守頗相宜。

If Punishment and Yi do not come, avoiding ruin and dissipation, husband and wife keep and guard, and it is quite fitting.

彖曰紫氣歸垣管，主文章冠世

The Judgment says: Purple Qi returning to the wall governs; it governs literary composition that tops the age

紫加亥酉子巳宮，富壽才名碩德翁。

Ziwei added to Hai, You, Zi, Si palaces: wealth, longevity, talent, fame, a venerable man of great virtue.

衣紫腰金人莫比，何愁官爵不榮尊。

Wearing purple and a golden belt, no one can compare; why worry that office and rank will not be glorious and honored?

彖曰

The Judgment says:

紫氣逢之紫氣宸，吉星同照倍精神。

Purple Qi meeting Purple Qi, the imperial hall; auspicious stars shining together double the spirit.

孤宿天沖閒極位，主為僧道九流人。

The solitary lodging Heavenly Clash in an idle-extreme position governs a monk, a Daoist, one of the nine schools.

身命逢之必壽長，紫氣旺樂妙為良。

If the Body and Life meet it, longevity is surely long; Purple Qi in prosperous joy is wondrous and good.

貴顯相逢居翰苑，更兼天刃作員郎。

Meeting the Noble, prominent, one resides in the Hanlin Academy, and with the Heavenly Blade serves as a court gentleman.

彖曰

The Judgment says:

紫氣清閒藝術人，鬼畢兼帶局尤清。

Purple Qi: a person of leisure and the arts, with Ghost and Bi added, the situation is especially clear.

能文能武多謀略，空裡榮華事事新。

Able in letters and arms, with much strategy; glory in emptiness, every matter new.

紫微最喜妙中逢，財帛豐盈福祿豐。

Ziwei most delights in meeting in the wondrous middle; wealth and silk abound, fortune and salary abound.

子息命宮官祿位，遇之多雅達亨通。

Children, Life Palace, Official Salary position: meeting it, one is often elegant, successful and smooth.

天虛屬冰　陰象五午

Heavenly Void, belonging to Ice; Yin image, five, Wu

○星名天虛，身命逢渠。寅申巳亥四宮，有財少實多。虛丑午，榮華富貴。若陷官祿，破蕩無餘。

○ The star named Heavenly Void: the Body and Life meet it. In the four palaces Yin, Shen, Si and Hai, there is wealth, little real and much empty. Void at Chou and Wu: glory, wealth and rank. If it sinks into Official Salary, ruin and dissipation without remainder.

不如收拾閒風月，紙帳梅花獨自眠。

It is better to gather up the idle wind and moon, and sleep alone under a paper curtain among plum blossoms.

彖曰

The Judgment says:

天餘丑午真富貴，巳亥寅申實多虛。

The Heavenly Void at Chou and Wu is true wealth and rank; at Si, Hai, Yin and Shen, much real is empty.

忽遇毛頭相照應，田園方項破無餘。

If suddenly Maotou shines in reply, the fields and gardens are ruined without remainder.

彖曰

The Judgment says:

天虛丑午位宜來，廟旺相逢不生災。

The Heavenly Void is fitting to arrive at the Chou and Wu positions; meeting in temple prosperity brings no calamity.

辭言誑心不須聽，臾能謀達富多財。

Do not listen to deceitful words that beguile the heart; one can plan to succeed, wealthy with much wealth.

彖曰

The Judgment says:

桃李無言三月春，戮翠嫋中誰與共。

Peach and plum say nothing in the spring of the third month; the kingfisher flutters in the mist, who shares it with me?

天虛天上銷爍熔，犯著財官半世窮。

The Heavenly Void in heaven melts and burns; offending wealth and officer, half a life of poverty.

若得好星來救解，也須半吉半為凶。

If auspicious stars come to rescue and resolve, still it must be half auspicious and half inauspicious.

彖曰

The Judgment says:

進一步與仸齊眉，退一步俗緣未斷。

One step forward is level with the Buddha; one step back and worldly ties are not yet cut.

天虛入廟命身臨，得地陰陽喜駐停。

The Heavenly Void entering the temple, the Life and Body approach; obtaining its ground, Yin and Yang are glad to stay.

假使惡星同拱照，縱然亨達額邊塵。

Even if evil stars converge together, though one is successful, there is dust at the brow.

天貴屬土　象陰寅辰

Heavenly Noble, belonging to Earth; Yin image, Yin, Chen

○星命天貴，功名自譽。寅辰二宮，得地主財足，榮華富貴，呼奴婢，世少凶災，所謀順遂，萬倍生涯。

○ The star named Heavenly Noble: reputation for achievement and fame comes of itself. At the two palaces Yin and Chen, obtaining the ground, wealth is sufficient, with glory, wealth and rank; one calls servants and maids, there is little calamity in life, schemes proceed smoothly, and the livelihood grows ten thousandfold.

彖曰

The Judgment says:

天貴寅辰最好佳，毛頭拱照不繁華。

The Heavenly Noble at Yin and Chen is best; if Maotou converges and shines, it is not flourishing.

杖星加臨貧且賤，一似宣州花木瓜。

If the Staff star is added, one is poor and lowly, like the flowering quince of Xuanzhou.

彖曰

The Judgment says:

天貴星名廟旺中，申子辰及亥寅宮。

The Heavenly Noble star is named in temple prosperity, at Shen, Zi, Chen and the Hai, Yin palaces.

少年臨雅翡聲譽，金榜標名福慶隆。

In youth one comes near to elegant jade and reputation; names are listed on the golden board, and fortune and celebration are great.

彖曰

The Judgment says:

天貴從祿福德探，若臨身命作宮人。

The Heavenly Noble follows Salary and explores Virtue and Fortune; if it approaches the Body and Life, one becomes a court attendant.

更兼文印傍偏照，管取居官轉紫宸。

If Wen and Seal also shine from the side, one holds office and is transferred to the Purple Hall.

貴星入廟在身命，運限逢之福祿隆。

The Noble star entering the temple in the Body and Life: when the limit meets it, fortune and salary are great.

億萬資財似高嶽，為官品列在三公。

Hundreds of millions in wealth like a high mountain; as an official one is ranked among the Three Dukes.

天印　陽象屬土子卯辰亥

Heavenly Seal: Yang image, belonging to Earth; Zi, Mao, Chen, Hai

○星命天印，照身命，女子至心靈，男子有名譽。惡星不至，早有權柄。異星若來，不天則病，一生少吉，半世多凶。倘逢天杖，借權仕階，偏有庶予，正室無胎。

○ The star named Heavenly Seal shines on the Body and Life; a woman is of supreme mind and spirit, a man has name and reputation. If evil stars do not arrive, one early has authority. If the Yi star comes, one either dies young or falls ill, with little auspiciousness all one's life and much inauspiciousness for half a life. If one meets the Heavenly Staff, one borrows authority for an official rank; there are concubines' children, but the principal wife has no womb.

彖曰

The Judgment says:

天印元來是吉星，毛頭一宿不堪親。

The Heavenly Seal is originally an auspicious star; Maotou, one lodging, is unbearable to be near.

喜遊子卯二宮裡，掌握兵權作師臣。

It delights to roam within the two palaces Zi and Mao, holding military authority as a tutor-minister.

彖曰

The Judgment says:

天印元來是吉星，子卯辰巳達光榮。

The Heavenly Seal is originally an auspicious star; at Zi, Mao, Chen and Si it reaches glory.

官高權重人欽羨，赫赫聲名振帝京。

Office is high, authority heavy, and people admire it; a brilliant reputation shakes the imperial capital.

彖曰

The Judgment says:

天印臨身有勢權，三方有力照身元。

The Heavenly Seal approaching the body brings power and authority; the three directions have strength shining on the original body.

若無虛哭並毛異，富貴雙全亨百年。

If there are no Void, Weeping, Mao or Yi, wealth and rank are complete and prosperous for a hundred years.

印星入廟最為奇，禍則消除福則隨。

The Seal star entering the temple is the most extraordinary; misfortune is dispelled and fortune follows.

要緊命中逢吉曜，少年平步上天梯。

What matters is to meet auspicious luminaries in the Life; in youth one walks level up the ladder of heaven.

天壽　象陽屬土亥酉戌

Heavenly Longevity: Yang image, belonging to Earth; Hai, You, Xu

壽星獨立，有子不孤。官符平生不作，凶災一世全無。若不陷溺，福厚業餘。本宮若無惡宿，壽與彭祖同途。

The Longevity star standing alone: having children, one is not alone. Official talismans are not made in life, and calamity is entirely absent for a lifetime. If it is not sunk or drowned, fortune is thick and the enterprise surplus. If the palace has no evil lodgings, longevity travels the same road as Pengzu.

位

Position

彖曰

The Judgment says:

巳亥午宮行天庫，積玉堆金無記數。

Si, Hai and Wu palaces, the Heavenly Treasury travels; jade is piled and gold heaped, countless in number.

毛哭若來生賤疾，稚年記了百年事。

If Mao and Weeping come, one is born with lowly illness; the affairs of a hundred years are recorded in childhood.

彖曰

The Judgment says:

天庫星臨獅子宮，倘臨巳亥亦和同。

The Heavenly Treasury star approaching the Leo palace, and if it approaches Si and Hai it is also harmonious.

三方若也無凶曜，積玉堆金作富翁。

If the three directions also have no inauspicious luminaries, jade is piled and gold heaped, making a rich man.

彖曰

The Judgment says:

庫貫入廟名天助，智足多謀巧心路。

Treasury and Thread entering the temple are named Heavenly Aid; wisdom is full, with many strategies and a clever heart's road.

不用金銀祿有餘，若不成名也須富。

Without gold and silver, salary is in surplus; if one does not make a name, one must be rich.

文昌　象陽屬木寅午戌

Wenchang: Yang image, belonging to Wood; Yin, Wu, Xu

○星名文倡，照身命宮，男人必吐珠璣，女子巧繡鴛央。少年不學自揚名，官祿須見文章顯。寅午戌宮最為奇，文星貴宿足天盈，少年及第冠群英。天杖加臨貧且賤，百歲虛為百歲名。

○ The star named Wenchang shines on the Body and Life Palace; a man surely spits pearls and jewels, a woman skillfully embroiders mandarin ducks. In youth, without study, one makes a name; Official Salary must see literary composition prominent. The Yin, Wu, Xu palaces are most extraordinary; Wen is a noble lodging, fully heaven's overflow, passing the examination in youth, topping the heroes. If the Heavenly Staff is added, poor and lowly; a hundred years of empty living, a hundred years of name.

彖曰

The Judgment says:

文昌戌上同寅午，此處榮華衣金紫。

Wenchang at Xu, together with Yin and Wu, in these places glory, wearing purple and gold.

翰苑輩聲名烜赫，文章出眾功名士。

The Hanlin generation, reputation blazing, literary composition outstanding, a scholar of achievement and fame.

彖曰

The Judgment says:

文昌廟旺必聰明，定有文章冠世榮。

Wenchang in temple prosperity is surely intelligent, surely having literary composition that tops the age in glory.

失位亦逢高貴倚，公私須達俐知名。

Even out of position it relies on the high and noble; public or private, one is clever, successful and known.

彖曰

The Judgment says:

文昌吉曜臨身命，主擢巍科邁等倫。

The auspicious luminary Wenchang approaching the Body and Life governs promotion to a lofty examination rank and surpassing one's peers.

紅鸞才質十分奇，美貌光亨事事宜。

The talent of Hongluan is utterly extraordinary; beautiful appearance, bright and successful, every matter fitting.

福德若臨身命上，定膺福祿兩相隨。

If Virtue and Fortune approach the Body and Life, one is sure to receive fortune and salary, both following.

彖曰

The Judgment says:

入廟紅鸞身命臨，俊然容貌似觀音。

Hongluan entering the temple and approaching the Body and Life: a handsome countenance like Guanyin.

其人情性溫良相，出眾超群眾所欽。

The person's disposition is gentle and good in appearance, outstanding above the crowd, admired by all.

貫索　象陰屬土卯巳午未亥

Thread Cord: Yin image, belonging to Earth; Mao, Si, Wu, Wei, Hai

○星名貫索，照身命宮，人有多成多敗，一生半吉半凶。毛頭加臨，若顏子之早喪。杖星同照，壽如彭祖之長生。巳亥二宮為入廟，晚年財祿自豐隆。

○ The star named Thread Cord shines on the Body and Life Palace; a person has much success and much failure, half auspicious and half inauspicious all life. If Maotou is added, one dies young like Yan Zi. If the Staff star shines together, longevity is as long as Pengzu's immortality. The two palaces Si and Hai are entering the temple; in later years wealth and salary are naturally abundant.

彖曰

The Judgment says:

貫星巳亥作高強，家門昌盛置田注。

The Thread star at Si and Hai makes the high and strong; the family gate prospers and fields and estates are set up.

天杖傍照多子息，草毛一子也難當。

With the Heavenly Staff shining from the side, there are many children; but with grass and Mao, even one child is hard to bear.

彖曰

The Judgment says:

貫索之星號洞玄，未申巳亥正相纏。

The Thread Cord star is called Dongxuan; Wei, Shen, Si and Hai are just entangled with it.

滿堂金玉堆如土，財祿豐盈萬項田。

A hall full of gold and jade heaped like earth; wealth and salary abundant, ten thousand fields.

彖曰

The Judgment says:

貫索之星號洞微，命中值此好根基。

The Thread Cord star is called Dongwei; to meet this in the Life is a good foundation.

若無天異毛頭照，依舊平安得便宜。

If the Heavenly Yi and Maotou do not shine on it, as before it is peaceful and obtains advantage.

天庫　象陽屬土卯巳亥午

Heavenly Treasury: Yang image, belonging to Earth; Mao, Si, Hai, Wu

○星名天庫，人多富貴，女子多置田注，男子顯爵位。巳亥午上更聚財，臨危不驚險不畏。此星之主三子成，刑刃相同留一。

○ The star named Heavenly Treasury: people have much wealth and rank; women mostly set up fields and estates, men are prominent in rank. At Si, Hai and Wu it gathers more wealth; meeting danger one is not alarmed, and one does not fear peril. The master of this star completes three children; Punishment and Blade together leave only one.

彖曰

The Judgment says:

天壽限臨人命長，亥酉二宮最為良。

The Heavenly Longevity limit arriving, the person's life is long; the two palaces Hai and You are the best.

刃哭若還加臨上，將來必定待侯王。

If Blade and Weeping are added, in the future one will surely await the rank of marquis or king.

彖曰

The Judgment says:

天壽之星號吉祥，喜居酉亥壽延長。

The Heavenly Longevity star is called auspicious; it delights to dwell at You and Hai, and life is extended.

若得吉曜來相照，壽算彌堅福祿昌。

If auspicious luminaries come to shine on it, the count of longevity is all the firmer, and fortune and salary prosper.

彖曰

The Judgment says:

天壽之生號老人，得居身命美人倫。

The Heavenly Longevity is born called the elder; to dwell in the Body and Life is fine human relations.

尊崇福德人瞻仰，名祿之中是富榮。

Revering Virtue and Fortune, people look up to it; among name and salary there is wealth and glory.

彖曰

The Judgment says:

吉星天壽福當權，廟旺逢之福自然。

The auspicious star Heavenly Longevity and Fortune hold power; in temple prosperity, meeting it, fortune comes naturally.

出則將兮入則相，人皆道是傳巖賢。

Going out one is a general, coming in a minister; people all say he is a worthy like Fu Yan.

紅鸞　象陰屬金辰丑寅

Hongluan: Yin image, belonging to Metal; Chen, Chou, Yin

星名紅鸞，人身長大，男人早婚早姻，婦人無克害便喜。辰丑聰明富貴。若無災星與同途，白首光華八十餘。紅鸞吉相為美。

The star named Hongluan: the person's body is tall and large; a man marries early and weds early, and a woman, without harm or restraint, is glad. Chen and Chou: intelligent, wealthy and noble. If there are no calamity stars on the same road, white-haired and radiant to past eighty. Hongluan is an auspicious sign of beauty.

彖曰

The Judgment says:

紅鸞吉躍喜如何，凶星毛頭不可過。

Hongluan leaping auspiciously, how joyful it is; inauspicious Maotou must not pass.

萬一刑刃加臨上，猶如霜折半池荷。

If by any chance Punishment and Blade are added upon it, it is like frost snapping half a pond of lotus.

彖曰

The Judgment says:

紅鸞一宿從來吉，已亥寅宮丑上游。

Hongluan, a lodging always auspicious, at the Si, Hai, Yin palaces roams upon Chou.

享福半生多稱意，貴膺帝勸位王侯。

Enjoying fortune for half a life, much to one's satisfaction; honored, one is entrusted by the emperor's encouragement with the rank of marquis or king.

彖曰

The Judgment says:

運限方沖方相顯，腰金衣紫輔明君。

When the cycle and limit clash and mutually appear, wearing a golden belt and purple robe, one assists a bright lord.

天福　象陽屬土申卯

Heavenly Fortune: Yang image, belonging to Earth; Shen, Mao

○福星加臨，此命最好，女人美貌端嚴，男子婚早子早。惡星不臨，多財多寶。申卯最加，元災元禍，父母兄弟雙全：夫婦百年偕老。

○ When the Fortune star is added, this fate is best: a woman is beautiful and dignified, a man marries early and has children early. If evil stars do not approach, there is much wealth and many treasures. Shen and Mao are the most added; no calamity, no misfortune, parents and brothers complete, and husband and wife grow old together for a hundred years.

彖曰

The Judgment says:

天福申卯作才郎，腰橫金帶好文章。

Heavenly Fortune at Shen and Mao makes a talented gentleman, a golden belt across the waist, with fine literary composition.

哭虛二星加臨上，不貧則夭實堪傷。

If the two stars Weeping and Void are added, either poverty or early death, truly lamentable.

彖曰

The Judgment says:

天福加臨身與命，為人大度有精神。

The Heavenly Fortune added to the Body and Life: the person is magnanimous and full of spirit.

更兼祿貫三方照，定作榮華富貴人。

Moreover, with Salary and Thread shining from the three directions, one will surely be a person of glory, wealth and rank.

彖曰

The Judgment says:

天福吉星來入廟，最宜身命更加臨。

The auspicious star Heavenly Fortune entering the temple is most fitting for the Body and Life when added.

福祿興隆生貴子，三方不破祿多增。

Fortune and salary flourish and give birth to noble sons; if the three directions are not broken, salary increases greatly.

天祿　象陽屬木巳申

Heavenly Salary: Yang image, belonging to Wood; Si, Shen

○祿星加臨，惡星不至，人有智惠聰明，求謀萬事稱意。居在巳申，身命得地。吉星三子，且留二毛頭。若不共同行，功業成兮田自置。

○ When the Salary star is added and evil stars do not arrive, the person has wisdom and intelligence, and seeking and planning all go as wished. Dwelling in Si and Shen, the Body and Life obtain their ground. Auspicious stars: three children, and of Maotou two are kept. If they do not travel together, achievements are completed and the fields acquired by oneself.

彖曰

The Judgment says:

太極天祿已得位，所遇吉星皆得地。

The Great Ultimate Heavenly Salary has obtained its position; all the auspicious stars it meets obtain their ground.

毛頭星若不同宮，事業功名由我致。

If Maotou is not in the same palace, undertakings, achievements and fame come about through me.

彖曰

The Judgment says:

祿元星宿主科名，衣錦腰金甚貴榮。

The Salary star lodging governs examination fame; wearing brocade and a golden belt, it is very noble and glorious.

輔佐君王成大業，金枝玉葉是皇親。

Assisting a ruler to complete great enterprises; golden branches and jade leaves are imperial kin.

彖曰

The Judgment says:

綠居申已號三台，福掃元求亦自來。

Salary dwelling at Shen and Si is called the Three Terraces; fortune is swept in without seeking, and comes of itself.

財谷一生多富積，文章合會作高魁。

Wealth and grain, much riches accumulated all life; literary composition meets and gathers to make a high champion.

彖曰

The Judgment says:

天祿加臨慶有餘，為人權柄播當途。

The Heavenly Salary added, celebration is in surplus; the person's authority spreads along the road ahead.

更宜福氣文昌挾，豪傑英雄樂裕如。

Moreover, it is fitting that the qi of fortune and Wenchang flank it; heroes and champions are joyful and at ease.

天杖　象陽屬木未亥子申

Heavenly Staff: Yang image, belonging to Wood; Wei, Hai, Zi, Shen

星名天杖，偏生妾，男子婚姻不得子息，難乳不貧則夭。

The star named Heavenly Staff is born of concubines; a man's marriage does not get children, nursing is difficult, and either poverty or early death.

杖渥落廟，而榮貴元災。

The Staff dropping out of the temple brings glory and nobility without calamity.

身躍入宮，而清慈獲福。一

The Body leaping into the palace brings clear kindness and obtains fortune.

彖曰

The Judgment says:

若不披毛並帶角，也作驢前馬後人。

If not clad in fur and wearing horns, one is also a person before the donkey and behind the horse.

獨喜官星居亥子，縱然富貴主孤身。

Uniquely delighting in the officer star dwelling at Hai and Zi, even if wealthy and noble one governs a solitary body.

彖曰

The Judgment says:

天杖最宜亥子游，同與申酉並來求。

The Heavenly Staff is most fit to roam at Hai and Zi, and to seek together with Shen and You.

凡事稱心少違背，更加一壽免災憂。

All things please the heart with little contrary; add one Longevity to avoid calamity and worry.

彖曰惟容貌而且秀，取人事而最足

The Judgment says: only appearance and moreover handsome; in taking up human affairs, the most sufficient

天杖之星入命中、吉星救助善星逢。

The Heavenly Staff star entering the Life, with auspicious stars to rescue and aid and good stars met.

或遇跟中逢此曜，為官為吏任從容。

Or meeting this luminary in the middle of the heel, one serves as an official or clerk and may be at ease.

彖曰杖居月位凶，何有身到天門棧自無

The Judgment says: Staff dwelling in the month position is inauspicious; how can the body arrive at the heavenly gate, where the inn naturally has none

天杖入廟號天威，掌握兵權定四夷。

The Heavenly Staff entering the temple is called Heavenly Awe; holding military authority, one settles the four barbarians.

此是權星凶變吉，英聲無處不揚輝。

This is the authority star, inauspicious turning auspicious; a heroic reputation shines everywhere.

天異　象陰屬土辰丑未

Heavenly Yi: Yin image, belonging to Earth; Chen, Chou, Wei

○星名天異，虛星同宮，兩惡相宗，少年不夭。除去少吉多凶，父母見克。兄弟無，子無綜，祖業不留，皆破盡，一生萍跡走東西。未與丑辰宮，最樂吉星同照祿重上。

○ The star named Heavenly Yi, in the same palace as the Void star: two evils are of the same lineage; one does not die young in youth. Remove the little auspicious and much inauspicious: parents are restrained. No brothers, children without succession, the ancestral estate does not remain, all is ruined, and all one's life one wanders east and west like duckweed. Wei, Chou and Chen palaces, most delight in auspicious stars shining together over heavy Salary.

彖曰

The Judgment says:

身命貫異虛當頭，路途湖口也無愁。

The Body and Life passing through Yi, with Void at the head; the road and lake mouth too, there is no worry.

若教刑宿來沖破，只是風中爨僅流。

If Punishment lodgings come to clash and break it, it is only like cooking in the wind, merely drifting.

彖曰

The Judgment says:

天異之星太不祥，喜逢丑未及辰鄉。

The Heavenly Yi star is exceedingly inauspicious; it delights in meeting Chou, Wei and the Chen quarter.

辰巳無災多喜悅，經營庶事總蕃昌。

At Chen and Si there is no calamity and much joy; managing all affairs, everything flourishes.

彖曰

The Judgment says:

離別之躍最關情，天使眉頭空惱人。

The leaping of parting is most bound up with feeling; the Heavenly Envoy's brow is vainly troubling people.

寡婦三夫猶未足，孤男五婦未成親。

A widow with three husbands is still not enough; a lone man with five wives has not yet wed.

彖曰

The Judgment says:

異星入廟正臨宮，多積資財谷甚登。

The Yi star entering the temple and facing the palace piles up much wealth and grain greatly ripens.

田宅之中加旺相，更觀身命吉星隆。

In Fields and Residence, prosperous and mutually supportive is added; still more, see the Body and Life with flourishing auspicious stars.

毛頭　象陰屬水子卯未寅戌

Maotou: Yin image, belonging to Water; Zi, Mao, Wei, Yin, Xu

星名毛頭，只喜樂旺，若單行，婦人剋夫，害子男子，重媾婚姻，祖宅空虛，生涯自立，須然衣食無虧，半世勤勞，未免耗粹欺財，不是守成之輩。

The star named Maotou delights only in prosperous joy. If it travels alone, a woman restrains her husband and harms her sons; a man remarries; the ancestral home is empty, and a livelihood is self-established. Though clothing and food are without lack, half a life of diligent toil, one cannot avoid wasting pure wealth and being cheated of wealth; not one to guard what is achieved.

彖曰

The Judgment says:

毛與子卯寅戌地，性靜情逸更聰明。

Mao with the Zi, Mao, Yin and Xu ground: the nature is quiet, the feelings free, and more intelligent.

男子不富則必貴，女子不貴則心靈。

A man, if not wealthy, must be noble; a woman, if not noble, is of a spirited heart.

彖曰

The Judgment says:

毛頭哭刃不可當，徒流奔走利名場。

Maotou, Weeping and Blade cannot be withstood; exile and running about in the arena of profit and fame.

縱然祖業消磨盡，子息何如得久長。

Even if the ancestral estate is worn away entirely, how can descendants last long?

彖曰

The Judgment says:

毛頭子卯寅戌地，福惠須輕亦有禎。

Maotou on the Zi, Mao, Yin and Xu ground: blessing and favor must be light, yet there are still auspicious omens.

吉曜加臨摧族節，出膺天命鎮邊城。

With auspicious luminaries added, the clan's insignia is broken; going out, one receives the Mandate of Heaven and guards a border city.

彖曰

The Judgment says:

毛頭惡宿吉為凶，犯此之人一世窮。

Maotou is an evil lodging and auspicious becomes inauspicious; a person who offends it is poor all his life.

若得好星來救助，也教官事見重重。

Even if good stars come to rescue and aid, they also bring official matters again and again.

彖曰

The Judgment says:

毛頭入廟臨身命，遇者應須帶武人。

Maotou entering the temple and facing the Body and Life: whoever meets it must be one who bears arms.

名譽揚揚遍天下，藩垣鎮便四夷賓。

Fame is spread across the world; a fence and wall guard, and the four barbarians come as guests.

天刃　象陰屬金申巳午寅酉同

Heavenly Blade: Yin image, belonging to Metal; Shen, Si, Wu, Yin, You alike

○單刃貫宮，財祿合格，女人害夫克子，男見婚姻不得，煢煢孑孑立身，卻少災厄，父母兄弟不留，妻奴豈得長久。

○ A single Blade threading the palace: wealth and salary meet the standard. A woman harms her husband and restrains her children, a man's marriage is not obtained; one stands alone and forlorn, but there is little calamity. Parents and brothers do not remain, and how can wife and servants last long?

天刃自刃重迭來，兩般逢此便為災。

The Heavenly Blade and the self-blade come in layers; meeting two kinds of this, it becomes calamity.

殺曜四強同水火，少年遇惡死為灰。

The killing luminaries, four strong ones, are alike as water and fire; in youth meeting evil, one dies and turns to ashes.

彖曰

The Judgment says:

血光犯命必傷殘，刑刃加臨找厄佳。

Blood light offending the Life must bring injury and maiming; Punishment and Blade added, look for a good calamity.

六尺之軀亡虎咬，亦然須是溺波澗。

A body of six feet dies by a tiger's bite, and likewise one must be drowned in a wave or ravine.

彖曰

The Judgment says:

刃宿同刑損父母，男子必須好過房。

The Blade lodging with Punishment harms parents; a man should be adopted out well.

若是女子同宮照，數定刃度作新娘。

If it is a woman shining in the same palace, the count is fixed for the Blade degree to become a bride.

彖曰無福傷身破相，有救必傷六親。

The Judgment says: without fortune, harm to the body and broken features; with rescue, the six kin must still be harmed.

天刃流血逆星凶，限到還逢厄難重。

The Heavenly Blade, bloodshed, reversed stars are inauspicious; when the limit arrives, one meets again heavy calamity and difficulty.

廟旺須然文武貴，也防輕敵卻成空。

In temple prosperity, one must be noble in civil and military matters; yet guard also against underestimating the enemy, which comes to nothing.

彖曰

The Judgment says:

玉臨八殺光灼灼，斤在財宮福不全。

Jade facing the eight killings shines brilliantly; a hatchet in the Wealth Palace, fortune is not complete.

若是刑星不入廟，災憂蛇腹定當年。

If the Punishment star does not enter the temple, calamity and worry, a snake's belly, fall in that very year.

彖曰

The Judgment says:

天刃居己並午申，更逢寅位主光榮。

The Heavenly Blade dwelling at Ji together with Wu and Shen, and meeting the Yin position, governs glory.

必因武勇成大業，名顯專權統萬兵。

One surely becomes great through martial valor; fame is prominent, monopolizing authority and commanding ten thousand troops.

彖曰

The Judgment says:

天刃凶星到白羊，照曜乾坤定四方。

The inauspicious star Heavenly Blade arriving at Aries shines upon heaven and earth and settles the four quarters.

掌握威權施妙手，得財顯達必為祥。

Holding awesome authority and displaying wondrous hands, obtaining wealth and being prominent is surely auspicious.

天刑　象陰屬火寅午酉戌

Heavenly Punishment: Yin image, belonging to Fire; Yin, Wu, You, Xu

○刑星單行，為三不了。為僧，為道，不成家，卻又無分曉，孤哉，孤哉，不孤則無兄弟，父母不雙全，妻奴分上不長久。

○ The Punishment star travelling alone is the Three Unfinished. One becomes a monk or a Daoist, does not found a family, and yet there is no clarity; solitary, solitary; if not solitary then no brothers, parents not both complete, and wife and servants not long-lasting.

三宮傷身於猖亡自縊之災

The three palaces harm the body with the calamity of frenzied death and hanging oneself

彖曰

The Judgment says:

霹靂命中怎不怕，見刑身陷何須下。

Thunderclap in the Life, how can one not fear? Seeing Punishment, the body falls; why need one go down?

命被壽促惡星臨，其人死在雷霆下。

The Life, shortened by Longevity, meets evil stars; the person dies under the thunder.

彖曰

The Judgment says:

三不了星為天刑，為僧為道號孤身。

The Three Unfinished star is the Heavenly Punishment; a monk or Daoist is called a solitary body.

刃哭二星加臨上，不兔須臾帶疾人。

If the two stars Blade and Weeping are added, one cannot avoid being, in a moment, a person with illness.

彖曰

The Judgment says:

天姚居戌卯辰遊，更向雙魚一併求。

The Heavenly Yao dwelling at Xu, roaming at Mao and Chen, still seeks together with Pisces.

福厚也須耽酒欲，無災無厄度春秋。

Even with thick fortune one must indulge in wine and desire; without calamity or misfortune, one passes spring and autumn.

彖曰天姚，即咸池也。

The Judgment says: the Heavenly Yao is the Pool of Salt.

咸池一殺找兼真，逢水妖燒主亂淫。

A single killing of the Salt Pool is truly combined; meeting water, a demon burns, governing disorder and lewdness.

沐浴進神徒見貴，心教傾國與傾城。

Bathing and the advancing spirit merely see nobility; the heart makes one overturn a state and overturn a city.

彖曰

The Judgment says:

夫姚星與敗星同，號日人問掃篇凶。

When the Yao star is the same as the Defeat star, it is called a person asking, sweeping the chapter of misfortune.

辛苦平生更一世，不曾安逸在家中。

Bitter toil in a lifetime and another lifetime; never at ease at home.

彖曰

The Judgment says:

天姚入廟併為祥，運限相逢定吉昌。

The Heavenly Yao entering the temple is also auspicious; when the cycle and limit meet it, they are surely auspicious and prosperous.

更遇賢妻添福祿，冰長得地甚高強。

Meeting a worthy wife adds fortune and salary; ice grows and obtains its ground, very high and strong.

十八星所屬

What the Eighteen Stars Belong To

哭刃彎金火是刑，紫文杖祿木成林。

Weeping and Blade belong to curved Metal, Fire is Punishment; Ziwei, Wen, Staff and Salary Wood form a forest.

毛姚虛水貴福土，印壽庫貫異土同。

Mao, Yao and Void are Water; Noble and Fortune are Earth; Seal, Longevity, Treasury, Thread and Yi are Earth alike.

○諸星入身命二宮，凡看所屬五行，詳其時照三方四正，和合之宮何星，論其生剋制化，斷其福祿吉凶也。

○ When the various stars enter the Body and Life palaces, always look at the Five Phases they belong to, examine the three directions and four correct positions shone upon at the time, and the stars of the harmonious palace, discuss their generation, restraint, control and transformation, and judge their fortune, salary, auspiciousness and inauspiciousness.

入骨仙經四言總斷撮要法

Four-Word General Judgment Essential Method of the Immortal Scripture Entering the Bones

歌曰

A song says

一氣混元，五行未見。

One qi, the primordial chaos; the Five Phases not yet seen.

三才肇分，陰陽始變。

The Three Powers begin to divide; Yin and Yang begin to change.

○同生異刑

○ Born together but different in punishment

有吉有凶，有男有女。

There is auspicious and inauspicious, male and female.

同生異刑，均此一理。

Born together but different in punishment: all are of this one principle.

○壽鸞庫昌福祿

○ Longevity, Phoenix, Treasury, Chang, Fortune, Salary

紫微貴印，天壽紅鸞。

Ziwei, Noble, Seal, Heavenly Longevity, Hongluan.

○紫貴印曰

○ Ziwei, Noble and Seal said

庫貫文昌，福祿周旋。

Treasury, Thread, Wenchang, Fortune and Salary revolve in turn.

○吉曜左行

○ Auspicious luminaries go left

是曰吉星，隨年左行。

These are called auspicious stars, going left with the year.

照臨身命，富貴非輕。

Shining on the Body and Life, wealth and rank are not slight.

○杖異毛刃姚哭刑

○ Staff, Yi, Mao, Blade, Yao, Weeping, Punishment

杖異毛刃，姚與哭邢。

Staff, Yi, Mao, Blade, Yao and Punishment of Weeping.

○皆日凶星

○ All called inauspicious stars

是命凶宿，遇之者傾。

These are inauspicious lodgings of the Life; whoever meets them is overturned.

各有廟旺，循環不窮。

Each has its temple prosperity, circulating without end.

○紫微喜申子已酉亥，主榮。紫居申子，巳酉亥榮。

○ Ziwei delights in Shen, Zi, Si, You, Hai, and governs glory. Ziwei at Shen and Zi, with Si, You and Hai, is glorious.

○天虛喜五午未酉亥，主榮。辰宮丑午，玉堂為宜。

○ Heavenly Void delights in the five, Wu, Wei, You, Hai, and governs glory. In the Chen palace, Chou and Wu, the Jade Hall is fitting.

○天貴喜寅辰亥卯未。貴在寅辰，亥卯堪居。

○ Heavenly Noble delights in Yin, Chen, Hai, Mao, Wei. Noble in Yin and Chen, Hai, Mao and Wei are fit to dwell.

○天印喜子卯辰，吉主權貴。卯授宜何，身命逢之。子卯辰位，不求自貴。

○ Heavenly Seal delights in Zi, Mao and Chen; auspicious, it governs authority and nobility. Mao confers, what is fitting? The Body and Life meet it. In the Zi, Mao and Chen positions, one is noble without seeking.

○凡天壽星喜亥酉，寅入廟旺。天壽老人，三方四正。亥酉寅宮，沖合亨通。

○ Of all the Heavenly Longevity stars, delighting in Hai and You, entering the temple prosperity at Yin. Heavenly Longevity, the elder: three directions and four correct positions. In the Hai, You and Yin palaces, clash and combination are successful.

○此紅鸞喜辰丑寅卯亥。紅鸞辰丑，寅卯亥佳。

○ This Hongluan delights in Chen, Chou, Yin, Mao, Hai. Hongluan in Chen and Chou, Yin, Mao and Hai are fine.

○庫貴卯巳午未，庫喜亥位。庫貫之星，位不可差。

○ Treasury and Noble at Mao, Si, Wu, Wei; Treasury delights in the Hai position. The stars of Treasury and Thread: the position must not err.

○此文昌喜寅午戌，妙主擢科甲，位居卿相所。卯巳午未，亥土堪誇。

○ This Wenchang delights in Yin, Wu, Xu, wondrously governing promotion in the examinations, with a position among ministers and chancellors. Mao, Si, Wu, Wei: Hai Earth deserves praise.

○文昌　　文昌之宿，寅午戌佳。

○ Wenchang: the lodging of Wenchang is fine in Yin, Wu and Xu.

○此福祿星　　喜寅卯巳午，申居卿相。

○ These Fortune and Salary stars delight in Yin, Mao, Si, Wu; at Shen, a minister or chancellor dwells.

○福祿　　登科甲第，位居卿相，福祿寅卯，巳午甲居。

○ Fortune and Salary: passing the examination to the Jia rank, with a position among ministers and chancellors; Fortune and Salary at Yin and Mao, dwelling in Si, Wu and Jia.

○此杖星　　喜子申亥，旺凍合拱照，富貴無疑。

○ This Staff star delights in Zi, Shen, Hai; prosperous and frozen, joined and converging, wealth and rank are beyond doubt.

○天杖　　杖在子申，亥未廟旺。

○ Heavenly Staff: Staff at Zi and Shen, with Hai and Wei in temple prosperity.

○此兩星　　喜子卯未，敢作敢為，財雄財旺。

○ These two stars delight in Zi, Mao, Wei; daring to act and daring to do, wealth is mighty and wealth is prosperous.

○毛星　　毛在子卯，未寅戌中。

○ Mao star: Mao in Zi and Mao, and in Wei, Yin and Xu.

○此異星喜丑寅辰位，寅戌多財富。膽略雄大，掣電英雄。

○ This Yi star delights in the Chou, Yin, Chen positions; Yin and Xu bring much wealth. Bold in strategy and grand, a hero like lightning.

○天異　　異居丑寅，辰未博學。

○ Heavenly Yi: Yi dwelling at Chou and Yin, Chen and Wei, broad learning.

○天刃　　喜申巳午寅，刃在申巳，午寅著腳。

○ Heavenly Blade: delights in Shen, Si, Wu, Yin; Blade at Shen and Si, planting its feet at Wu and Yin.

○天姚　　喜卯辰，戌亥入垣。天姚淫娼，卯辰戌亥。

○ Heavenly Yao: delights in Mao and Chen; Xu and Hai enter the wall. The Heavenly Yao is lewd, at Mao, Chen, Xu and Hai.

○此星　　喜寅酉戌，入局吉。名曰入垣，風流之輩。

○ This star delights in Yin, You, Xu; entering the chart is auspicious. Called entering the wall, they are the romantic type.

○天刑　　天刑寅酉，戌上無迎。

○ Heavenly Punishment: Heavenly Punishment at Yin and You; at Xu there is no welcome.

○天哭星　　天哭所居，丑申卯午。

○ Heavenly Weeping star: where the Heavenly Weeping dwells is Chou, Shen, Mao, Wu.

凶化為吉，名曰得所。

The inauspicious turns auspicious, called obtaining its place.

○吉星失陷　　吉星失陷，禍福相停。

○ Auspicious stars lost or sunk: auspicious stars lost or sunk, misfortune and fortune stop one another.

多藝多財，四海名傳。

Much skill and much wealth; the name is passed through the four seas.

○刑刃不保終若逢失陷，更會惡星。

○ Punishment and Blade do not preserve to the end; if one meets them lost or sunk, and moreover meets evil stars.

○天刃天刑　　逢刃不吉，刑不保終。

○ Heavenly Blade and Heavenly Punishment: meeting Blade is not auspicious, Punishment does not preserve to the end.

○天刃　居廟旺則吉，一切惡曜不可相侵。

○ Heavenly Blade: dwelling in temple prosperity is auspicious; all evil luminaries cannot encroach.

曜居廟垣，方保安心。

A luminary dwelling in the temple wall alone preserves peace of heart.

○天印　權柄富貴，大陷印星得地，權柄多福。

○ Heavenly Seal: authority, wealth and rank; if greatly sunk, the Seal star obtains its ground, authority and much fortune.

身命遇之，金珠千斛。

When the Body and Life meet it, there are a thousand hu of gold and pearls.

亦主人苦，如會惡星，其福臧半。

It also governs the person's hardship; if it meets evil stars, its fortune is half concealed.

倘若失陷，孤刑直判。

If it is lost or sunk, it is judged solitary and punished outright.

天壽　　主慈善福高，天壽得地，慈善福高。

Heavenly Longevity: governs kindness, goodness and lofty fortune; Heavenly Longevity obtaining its ground has kindness, goodness and lofty fortune.

縱會凶星，出入滔滔。

Even if it meets inauspicious stars, going out and in is vast and flowing.

○會哭　　即夭無疑，如若得地，又會哭星，夭折分明。

○ Meeting Weeping: early death is beyond doubt; if it obtains its ground and again meets the Weeping star, early death is clear.

○天庫　　主橫財喜事，天庫得地，名曰橫財。身命逢吉，財自天來。

○ Heavenly Treasury: governs windfall wealth and joyful events; the Heavenly Treasury obtaining its ground is called windfall wealth. When the Body and Life meet the auspicious, wealth comes of itself from heaven.

○刑杖加異　　刑杖有權，加異偏駁。

○ Punishment and Staff added to Yi: Punishment and Staff have authority; with Yi added they are partial and mixed.

○會毛加姚　　會毛破祖，惡姚淫惡。

○ Meeting Mao and adding Yao: meeting Mao ruins the ancestors, and evil Yao is lewd and evil.

○天貫　　豐產業，貫索之星，一名寶藏，財利豐肥，家業興隆。

○ Heavenly Thread: abundant property; the Thread Cord star, one name Treasure Store, brings plentiful profit and wealth, and the family enterprise prospers.

○俱失陷主爭訟破家事若還失陷又會凶星。

○ All lost or sunk: governs quarrels, lawsuits, and ruin of the family; if lost or sunk again, it meets inauspicious stars.

是非爭訟，門戶必傾。

Disputes and lawsuits, the gate and household must topple.

○文昌陷生非文昌得地，是謂天魁。

○ Wenchang sunk: trouble arises; Wenchang obtaining its ground is called Heavenly Champion.

詞章才學，文興福齊。

Ability in verse and learning; literary prosperity and fortune are even.

○空腔失陷不吉，會惡生非。

○ Emptiness lost or sunk is not auspicious; meeting evil, trouble arises.

○紅鸞好花酒　紅鸞得地，威儀濟楚。

○ Hongluan loves flowers and wine; Hongluan obtaining its ground has awesome bearing and refinement.

好酒貪花，無所不可。

Fond of wine and greedy for flowers, nothing is not permitted.

○空腔　　會吉則吉，會凶則凶。

○ Emptiness: meeting the auspicious it is auspicious, meeting the inauspicious it is inauspicious.

男女皆然，可賤可榮。

Men and women alike; it can be lowly or glorious.

○天福火　　天福得地，福厚如山。

○ Heavenly Fortune Fire: Heavenly Fortune obtaining its ground, fortune is thick as a mountain.

○會吉非凡　　更會吉星，富貴非凡。

○ Meeting the auspicious is extraordinary: adding auspicious stars, wealth and rank are extraordinary.

○陷禍耗　　失陷逢惡，反吉為禍。

○ Sunk, misfortune and waste: lost or sunk and meeting evil, auspicious turns instead to misfortune.

命限逢之，消息難過。

When the Life and limit meet it, news is hard to pass.

○天祿　　天祿得位，一生榮貴。

○ Heavenly Salary: Heavenly Salary obtaining its position brings glory and nobility all life.

○姚增妾　　不會凶星，會長福聚。

○ Yao adds concubines: if it does not meet inauspicious stars, meeting length gathers fortune.

○異孤毛　　文武才。逢姚增寵，異遇孤立。

○ Yi, solitary, Mao: civil and military talent. Meeting Yao adds favor; Yi meeting it stands alone.

○會刃疾　　毛主文武，刃生疾病。

○ Meeting Blade, illness: Mao governs civil and military, Blade gives rise to illness.

○天杖　刑禁，杖星得地，亦主權顯。

○ Heavenly Staff: punishment and prohibition; the Staff star obtaining its ground also governs prominent authority.

失陷剛強，刑禁羅網。

Lost or sunk, it is stiff and strong, with punishment, prohibition and nets.

○天異　宜更變換祖姓，異姓得地，意外之吉。

○ Heavenly Yi: it is fitting to change the ancestral surname; Yi obtaining its ground brings unexpected auspiciousness under another surname.

失陷破敗，他鄉之客。

Lost or sunk, ruin and failure, a guest of another land.

○毛頭　主兵權，陷暴橫。毛頭得地，天地未判。

○ Maotou: governs military authority; sunk, violent and unruly. Maotou obtaining its ground, heaven and earth have not yet divided.

失陷橫暴，天理必然。

Lost or sunk, violent and unruly; the principle of heaven is bound to be so.

○天刃　陷哭禍刑誅。刃星得地，轉禍為祥。

○ Heavenly Blade: sunk, Weeping, misfortune, punishment and execution. The Blade star obtaining its ground turns misfortune into good omen.

失陷災非，羊刃血光。

Lost or sunk, calamity and trouble, the sheep's blade and blood light.

○天姚　風流陷淫辱。姚星得地，風流富貴。

○ Heavenly Yao: romantic; sunk, lewdness and disgrace. The Yao star obtaining its ground is romantic, with wealth and rank.

失陷淫辱，內亂多婢。

Lost or sunk, lewdness and disgrace, disorder within and many maidservants.

○天刑　　陷刑罹家口已禍。天刑得地，亦不為災，失陷刑罹，家口難諧。

○ Heavenly Punishment: sunk, punishment befalls the household members, misfortune already. The Heavenly Punishment obtaining its ground is also not calamity; lost or sunk, punishment befalls, and household members are hard to harmonize.

○天哭　　陷刑孝已不足。天哭得地，當哭不哭。

○ Heavenly Weeping: sunk, punishment and filial mourning are already insufficient. The Heavenly Weeping obtaining its ground, one ought to weep but does not.

失陷刑孝，自身不足。

Lost or sunk, punishment and filial mourning; oneself is insufficient.

十八星轉，在人變通。

The eighteen stars turn, and it lies in the person to adapt.

不可執一，依身會斷。

One must not cling to one; judge according to the Body and its meetings.

運限同推，流年並看。

Cycles and limits are inferred together; the flowing years are looked at as well.

○運限定論

○ Definitive Discussion of Cycles and Limits

自小限對沖起之，一宮安一曜，陽男陰女順行，陰男陽女逆行，本生本命宮起小限。

Begin from the clash opposite the minor limit, setting one luminary per palace; Yang males and Yin females go forward, Yin males and Yang females go in reverse, and the minor limit starts from the palace of the native Life.

用布紫微、鸞、文、貴、虛、印、壽、福、祿、庫、貫起外踱諸星，並月大小哭星，倒流年太歲前一宮，逆紫虛前，伺杖異寅申毛巳刃亥，俱從午逆，逢刑酉姚丑亦逆，順太歲合者，小哭位申前一宮，為輔甫，身後一宮，三日住身命，俱有兩沒宮三命，兩沒未宮，逢正雞、二蛇、三馬、四羊、五虎、六兔、七龍、八堵、九犬、十羊、十一猴、十二鼠，禍福詳推仔細求。

Use the spread of Ziwei, Phoenix, Wen, Noble, Void, Seal, Longevity, Fortune, Salary, Treasury, and Thread to set up the outer-crossing stars, together with the month's great and small and the Weeping star; the toppled flowing year is the palace before the Grand Year; in reverse before Ziwei and Void, Staff, Yi on Yin and Shen, Mao on Si, Blade on Hai, all in reverse from Wu; meeting Punishment at You and Yao at Chou also in reverse; those that combine forward with the Grand Year, the palace before the Weeping Star position of Shen is the assistant, the palace behind the body is where the three days stay in the Body and Life, with two sunk palaces and three Lifes, two sunk Wei palaces; meeting the correct Rooster, second Snake, third Horse, fourth Sheep, fifth Tiger, sixth Rabbit, seventh Dragon, eighth Wall, ninth Dog, tenth Sheep, eleventh Monkey, twelfth Rat, misfortune and fortune should be inferred and sought carefully.

凡人三日有吉星，主出入遇貴人引

Whenever a person has an auspicious star in the three days, it governs going out and in meeting a noble person who leads

進獲財，須在遷移宮方最妙。

to gain wealth; it must be in the Migration Palace to be most wondrous.

＃１此處有兩句『限亦至人馬寅官』，疑其中一句為衍文。

Note 1: This passage contains two instances of the line 'the limit also reaches the Ren-Ma-Yin palace'; one of the two is suspected to be a redundant interpolation.

＃２刑、異、刃、杖、虛、哭、毛、姚：前文言『九凶星入廟例』,但此處僅列八星，當少一貫星。

Note 2: Xing, Yi, Ren, Zhang, Xu, Ku, Mao, Yao: the earlier text speaks of the 'rules for the nine malign stars entering their temple positions', yet only eight stars are listed here, so one star, Guan, seems to be missing.

太乙金井局陰陽玄妙論

On the Mysterious Subtleties of Yin and Yang in the Taiyi Golden Well Configuration

夫人者，稟天地之氣，受陰陽之精，生其身命，上屬五星，下屬五行。若其時正，則身命高超，前程顯達。其時不正，命賤身卑，沉淪飄沒。大抵人生須星辰得地，運用並勝可遂。更喜樂旺無刑，而吉星在高強宮，皆為福厚之人也。此乃前定，星辰之所主也。

A person receives the qi of heaven and earth and the essence of yin and yang, and from these the body and fate are formed; above, they are bound to the five planets, and below, to the five phases. If the hour of birth is correct, the body and fate will be lofty and the future illustrious; if the hour is not correct, the fate will be lowly, the body humble, and one will sink into drift and obscurity. Broadly speaking, a person's life requires that the stars occupy well-placed positions, so that their operation and their strength together can bring success. It is better still if the stars are in prosperity and free of punishment, and if the auspicious stars stand in strong palaces; such people are all of abundant fortune. This is predetermined, and is governed by the stars.

凡看命，先定身宮，並身者上系太乙之神。若好星與祿旺相見得地，頗成天氣，則是清貴之命。然後，卻推命宮及時候，淺深不安則無力，縱有力星辰，為福六輕。須得地時正，方得榮顯福德田宅官祿。六宮好惡，斷其存亡；貴賤，定其禍福，方有應驗。

In reading a fate, first fix the Body Palace; the Body is bound above to the deity of Taiyi. If good stars meet the Lu star in a prosperous and well-placed position, the celestial energy is largely achieved, and this is a fate of purity and nobility. Next one calculates the Fate Palace and the hour: if the depth or shallowness of the hour is unsettled, the fate lacks strength, and even if the stars are powerful, the fortune they confer is slight. Only when the position is well placed and the hour correct can one attain glory and eminence, and the fortune of the Virtue, Fields-and-Dwellings, and Official-Rank palaces. The good and bad of the six palaces determine survival and death; nobility and lowliness determine calamity and fortune, and only then do the predictions come true.

凡諸星在廟堂之宮，樂旺之所，又拘陰陽宮分論之。經云：陽星好善，陰星好殺。

When the various stars stand in the palaces of the temple hall or in places of joy and prosperity, they must further be discussed according to the division of yin and yang palaces. The Classic says: yang stars love goodness, and yin stars love killing.

凡在星命二宮，時刻分派，遇陽多而陰少，產初一、二、三、四刻時分者，則福厚而壽長，雙親有慶，瘍字聯行，妻賢子秀。更在廟旺之宮安身命者，上等之命。男子生而陽星，為貴產。於上四刻者，主剛強福無。女子生而遇陰星，為榮出。於下四刻至八刻者，主婦道攸宜，外親有力，妯娌和諧，夫妻舉案齊眉，子嗣雙雙俊彥也。必算其時，然後準其禍福，定其骨肉，有無刑剋，辨其富貴賢愚。陽星主文，在其廟旺之鄉。占六陽之宮，則文藻清華之士。陰星主武，在樂旺之宮。又占六陰之域，則就武勇毅之人。

In the two palaces of Star and Fate, the hour and the quarter-hour are allocated. If yang is plentiful and yin scanty, and the birth falls in the first, second, third, or fourth quarter-hour, then fortune is abundant and life long, the parents are blessed, the siblings form a united line, the wife is virtuous and the sons are outstanding. If, moreover, the Body and Fate are placed in palaces of temple prosperity, this is a fate of the highest grade. A male born under a yang star is of noble birth; one born in the upper four quarter-hours will be strong and firm, with little to lack in fortune. A female born under a yin star is of glorious birth; one born in the lower four quarter-hours, up to the eighth, will be fitting in the way of a wife, will have capable maternal relatives, harmony among her sisters-in-law, a marriage in which husband and wife treat each other with respect, and sons and daughters who are both gifted. One must calculate the hour, and only then can fortune and calamity be fixed, the bonds of kin determined, the presence or absence of punishment and clash settled, and wealth, nobility, worth, and foolishness distinguished. Yang stars govern literary matters, and when they are in places of temple prosperity and occupy the six yang palaces, one becomes a scholar of refined and brilliant literary talent. Yin stars govern martial matters, and when they are in palaces of joy and prosperity and occupy the six yin regions, one becomes a person of martial courage and resolve.

凡諸星在陽居陽，在陰居陰，各從其類，是為得地也。相反者，陰陽錯雜，是謂不得地。受氣濁者，矣一日之間，自卯至申六時為陽為晝，自酉至寅六時為陰為夜。

When the various stars are in a yang position and are yang, or in a yin position and are yin, each following its own kind, this is called being well placed. Where the opposite holds, yin and yang are mixed and confused, and this is called not being well placed. Those who receive turbid qi are affected in this way. Within one day, the six double-hours from Mao to Shen are yang and constitute the day; the six double-hours from You to Yin are yin and constitute the night.

凡人生寓陰宮，可忌晝生；生寓陽宮，可忌夜生；二位一時。又憎晝夜相半，時有上下不同，皆須臧福臧算。倘若陰陽混雜，刻數不均，對合為凶，此又非廟旺，則必福薄命短之人也。更看行限所遇善星、惡星，入於身命時刻，端確禍福，無不驗耳。

A person born into a yin palace should avoid a daytime birth; one born into a yang palace should avoid a night birth; the two positions share the same hour. One also dislikes a birth that is half day and half night, where the hour has differing upper and lower parts; in all such cases the fortune must be carefully calculated. If yin and yang are mixed and the quarter-hours are uneven, and the opposition and combination are inauspicious, and the position is also not one of temple prosperity, then the person is certainly of thin fortune and short life. Further, observe whether the good or malign stars met in the Limit enter the hour of the Body and Fate; when one examines fortune and calamity accurately in this way, none fails to be verified.

骨肉三局賦

Rhapsody of the Three Configurations of Kin

古者，玄理名為紫微，獨據一家之妙。遂為三局之奇，究星辰善惡之源，熟求閫奧，定宮外尊卑之位，細察存亡，夫太極肇分，三才已備，貧而夭者，曷知其本。富而魚者，曷知其義。命有興衰，情有粹駁，災祥交至。蓋窮上古之文，福祿並照，共在紫微之位。所有諸星條款，時辰刻數，鬧時於後。卯傳屬陽

In ancient times, the mysterious principle was named Zi Wei, which alone held a wondrous art of its own. It then became the marvel of the three configurations, probing the source of the good and evil of the stars and thoroughly seeking out its inner recesses; it fixes the ranks of honor and lowliness among the palaces, and closely examines survival and death. When the Supreme Ultimate first divided, the three powers were already complete. Who knows the root of those who are poor and die young? Who knows the meaning of those who are rich and long-lived? Fate has its rise and decline, and temperament has its purity and impurity; calamities and blessings come together. It is because I have studied the texts of high antiquity that I can say: when fortune and Lu shine together, they are all in the position of Zi Wei. All the items concerning the various stars and the hours and quarter-hours are set out further below. Mao is the transmission of yang.

紫木文木福土祿木印土壽土杖木庫土姚水貴土紅金異土毛水虛水貴土刑火刃金哭金

Zi (Wood), Wen (Wood), Fu (Earth), Lu (Wood), Yin (Earth), Shou (Earth), Zhang (Wood), Ku (Earth), Yao (Water), Gui (Earth), Hong (Metal), Yi (Earth), Mao (Water), Xu (Water), Gui (Earth), Xing (Fire), Ren (Metal), Ku (Metal).

辰時陽

Chen hour, yang

文　福　祥　印　壽　杖　庫

Wen, Fu, Xiang, Yin, Shou, Zhang, Ku

姚　紫　紅　異　毛　虛　貫

Yao, Zi, Hong, Yi, Mao, Xu, Guan

刑　刃　哭　貴

Xing, Ren, Ku, Gui

巳時陽

Si hour, yang

文　福　祿　印　壽　杖　庫

Wen, Fu, Lu, Yin, Shou, Zhang, Ku

姚　紫　異　毛　虛　貫　刑

Yao, Zi, Yi, Mao, Xu, Guan, Xing

刃　哭　貴　紅

Ren, Ku, Gui, Hong

午時陽

Wu hour, yang

祿　印　壽　杖　庫　姚　紫

Lu, Yin, Shou, Zhang, Ku, Yao, Zi

文　福　毛　虛　貫　刑　刃

Wen, Fu, Mao, Xu, Guan, Xing, Ren

哭　貴　紅　異

Ku, Gui, Hong, Yi

未時陽

Wei hour, yang

印　壽　杖　庫　紅　紫　文

Yin, Shou, Zhang, Ku, Hong, Zi, Wen

福　綠　虛　貫　刑　刃　哭

Fu, Lu, Xu, Guan, Xing, Ren, Ku

貴　紅　異　毛

Gui, Hong, Yi, Mao

申時陽

Shen hour, yang

壽　杖　庫　姚　紫　文　福

Shou, Zhang, Ku, Yao, Zi, Wen, Fu

祿　印　貫　刑　刃　哭　貴

Lu, Yin, Guan, Xing, Ren, Ku, Gui

紅　異　毛　虛

Hong, Yi, Mao, Xu

酉時屬陰

You hour, belonging to yin

杖　庫　姚　紫　文　得　祿

Zhang, Ku, Yao, Zi, Wen, De, Lu

印　壽　刑　刃　哭　貴　紅

Yin, Shou, Xing, Ren, Ku, Gui, Hong

異　毛　虛　貫

Yi, Mao, Xu, Guan

戌時陰

Xu hour, yin

庫　姚　紫　文　福　祿　印

Ku, Yao, Zi, Wen, Fu, Lu, Yin

壽　杖　刃　哭　貴　紅　異

Shou, Zhang, Ren, Ku, Gui, Hong, Yi

毛　虛　貫　刑

Mao, Xu, Guan, Xing

亥時陰

Hai hour, yin

姚　紫　文　福　祿　印　壽

Yao, Zi, Wen, Fu, Lu, Yin, Shou

杖　庫　哭　貴　紅　異　毛

Zhang, Ku, Ku, Gui, Hong, Yi, Mao

虛　貫　刑　刃

Xu, Guan, Xing, Ren

子時陰

Zi hour, yin

紫　文　猩　祿　印　壽　杖

Zi, Wen, Xing, Lu, Yin, Shou, Zhang

庫　姚　貴　纖　異　毛　虛

Ku, Yao, Gui, Xian, Yi, Mao, Xu

貫　刑　刃　哭

Guan, Xing, Ren, Ku

丑時陰

Chou hour, yin

文　福　祿　印　壽　杖　庫

Wen, Fu, Lu, Yin, Shou, Zhang, Ku

姚　紫　紅　異　毛　虛　貫

Yao, Zi, Hong, Yi, Mao, Xu, Guan

刑　刃　哭　貴

Xing, Ren, Ku, Gui

寅時陰

Yin hour, yin

福　祿　印　壽　杖　庫　姚

Fu, Lu, Yin, Shou, Zhang, Ku, Yao

紫　文　異　毛　虛　貫　刑

Zi, Wen, Yi, Mao, Xu, Guan, Xing

刃　哭　貴　紅

Ren, Ku, Gui, Hong

○ 分貧雷貴貧棧。

○ Distinguishing the poor and the noble, the poor and the lowly.

文昌主貴。天虛主貧。天姚主賤。天福主富。天刃主刑。天祿主祿。天貴主祿。天哭主刑。毛頭主耗。天杖刑父。天壽主壽。天刑主刑。

Wen Chang governs nobility. Tian Xu governs poverty. Tian Yao governs lowliness. Tian Fu governs wealth. Tian Ren governs punishment. Tian Lu governs emolument. Tian Gui governs emolument. Tian Ku governs punishment. Mao Tou governs loss. Tian Zhang punishes the father. Tian Shou governs longevity. Tian Xing governs punishment.

○ 上局貴命，身命三日後，輔四宮，皆吉。老人星合對，主父母高年，位及人臣。身命二宮逢儀鳳，吉祥。帝符老人合對，主母有壽，及人臣台輔。照命鸞微印壽諸星，但遇本日生時合刻者，又遇善星入廟，三分善星，一分廟旺，上局上貴之命也。十二時中分為百刻，精研星象纏度後，可究其吉凶，方有應驗耳。

○ The fate of the upper-grade nobility: in the Body and Fate, after the third day, the four auxiliary palaces are all auspicious. If the Old Man Star combines or opposes, the parents will live to a great age, and one will attain the rank of a minister. If the Body and Fate palaces meet Yi Feng, it is auspicious. If Di Fu and the Old Man Star combine or oppose, the mother will have longevity, and one will reach the rank of a high minister. Of the stars illuminating the Fate, namely Luan, Wei, Yin, Shou and the others, if one is born on the day of the native sign at a matching quarter-hour, and meets good stars entering their temple positions, with three parts good stars and one part temple prosperity, this is a fate of the highest nobility in the upper grade. The twelve double-hours are divided into one hundred quarter-hours; only after minutely studying the stars and the degrees of their course can one investigate fortune and misfortune, and only then are the predictions verified.

○ 陰昇陽降，凶星對杖者，損父；吉星相尚者，皆壽。

○ When yin rises and yang descends, if malign stars face Zhang, the father is harmed; if auspicious stars support one another, all will have longevity.

酉屬陰

You, belonging to yin

紫　文　福　祿　印　壽　杖

Zi, Wen, Fu, Lu, Yin, Shou, Zhang

庫　姚　貴　紅　異　毛　虛

Ku, Yao, Gui, Hong, Yi, Mao, Xu

貫　刑　刃　哭

Guan, Xing, Ren, Ku

戌陰

Xu, yin

文　福　祿　印　壽　杖　庫

Wen, Fu, Lu, Yin, Shou, Zhang, Ku

姚　紫　紅　異　毛　虛　貫

Yao, Zi, Hong, Yi, Mao, Xu, Guan

刑　刃　哭　貴

Xing, Ren, Ku, Gui

亥陰

Hai, yin

福　祿　印　壽　杖　庫　紅

Fu, Lu, Yin, Shou, Zhang, Ku, Hong

紫　文　異　毛　虛　貫　刑

Zi, Wen, Yi, Mao, Xu, Guan, Xing

刃　哭　貴　紅

Ren, Ku, Gui, Hong

子陰

Zi, yin

祿　印　壽　杖　庫　姚　紫

Lu, Yin, Shou, Zhang, Ku, Yao, Zi

文　福　毛　虛　貫　刑　刃

Wen, Fu, Mao, Xu, Guan, Xing, Ren

哭　貴　紅　異

Ku, Gui, Hong, Yi

丑陰

Chou, yin

印　壽　杖　庫　姚　紫　文

Yin, Shou, Zhang, Ku, Yao, Zi, Wen

福　祿　虛　貫　刑　刃　哭

Fu, Lu, Xu, Guan, Xing, Ren, Ku

貴

Gui

寅陰

Yin, yin

壽　杖　庫　姚　紫　文　福

Shou, Zhang, Ku, Yao, Zi, Wen, Fu

祿　印　貫　刑　刃　哭　貴

Lu, Yin, Guan, Xing, Ren, Ku, Gui

紅　異　毛　虛

Hong, Yi, Mao, Xu

卯陽

Mao, yang

杖　庫　姚　紫　文　福　祿

Zhang, Ku, Yao, Zi, Wen, Fu, Lu

印　壽　刑　刃　哭　貴　紅

Yin, Shou, Xing, Ren, Ku, Gui, Hong

毛　虛　貫　刑

Mao, Xu, Guan, Xing

辰陽

Chen, yang

庫　姚　紫　文　福　祿　印

Ku, Yao, Zi, Wen, Fu, Lu, Yin

壽　杖　刃　哭　貴　紅　異

Shou, Zhang, Ren, Ku, Gui, Hong, Yi

毛　虛　貫　刑

Mao, Xu, Guan, Xing

巳陽

Si, yang

姚　紫　文　福　祿　印　壽

Yao, Zi, Wen, Fu, Lu, Yin, Shou

杖　庫　哭　貴　紅　異　毛

Zhang, Ku, Ku, Gui, Hong, Yi, Mao

虛　貫　刑　刃

Xu, Guan, Xing, Ren

午陽

Wu, yang

紫　文　福　祿　印　壽　杖

Zi, Wen, Fu, Lu, Yin, Shou, Zhang

庫　姚　貴　紅　異　毛　虛

Ku, Yao, Gui, Hong, Yi, Mao, Xu

貫　刑　刃　哭

Guan, Xing, Ren, Ku

未陽

Wei, yang

文　福　祿　印　壽　杖　庫

Wen, Fu, Lu, Yin, Shou, Zhang, Ku

姚　紫　紅　異　毛　虛　貫

Yao, Zi, Hong, Yi, Mao, Xu, Guan

刑　刃　哭　貴

Xing, Ren, Ku, Gui

申陽

Shen, yang

福　祿　印　壽　杖　庫　姚

Fu, Lu, Yin, Shou, Zhang, Ku, Yao

紫　文　異　毛　虛　貫刑

Zi, Wen, Yi, Mao, Xu, Guan, Xing

刃　刑　貴　紅

Ren, Xing, Gui, Hong

中局貴命。善星高，惡星低，身命吉曜，文昌拱照，輔印星四方，或三合福曜，正守廟旺之宮，輔印正時分八刻，星分九曜，又在高強之位，福星廟旺對合宮，獨輔星高身命，但得一星廟旺，昭一高強之位。或在三日宮八刻內，占其六陰之域，身鸞星不對天杖，母受長年，兼廟旺，中局中貴，殷富之命也。

The fate of middle-grade nobility. Good stars are high and malign stars low; the Body and Fate have auspicious luminaries, and Wen Chang shines upon them in a supporting way; the Fu and Yin stars support from the four directions, or fortune luminaries form a triple harmony, properly guarding palaces of temple prosperity. When the Fu and Yin stars fall in the proper hour, divided into eight quarter-hours, with the stars divided into nine luminaries, and also stand in high and strong positions, with fortune stars in temple prosperity in the opposing and combining palaces, and the auxiliary star alone stands high over the Body and Fate, then so long as a single star is in temple prosperity and shines on a high and strong position; or if, within the eight quarter-hours of the palace of the third day, it occupies the region of the six yin; and if the Body and Luan stars do not face Tian Zhang, the mother receives a long life, and together with temple prosperity, this is a middle-grade fate of middle nobility, a fate of great wealth.

下局貴命。台輔星獨高身命，及三日宮俱得善星三合，又得善星，下局上貴之命也。福星樂旺高強，善星陷弱，下貴之命。此乃陰陽相伴，時刻得中。

The fate of lower-grade nobility. The Tai Fu star stands alone high over the Body and Fate, and the palaces of the third day all obtain good stars in a triple harmony, and further obtain good stars; this is a fate of upper nobility within the lower grade. If fortune stars are joyful, prosperous, high and strong, while good stars are sunken and weak, it is a fate of lower nobility. This is a case of yin and yang accompanying each other, with the hour and quarter-hour in the middle.

不入局常人之命。善惡星相伴照命宮，台輔不得位，富人命。台輔陷弱，橫財正照，虛廟不照破，紅鸞對合，此為鉅富之人也。

The fate of ordinary people who do not enter any grade. Good and malign stars accompany each other in illuminating the Fate Palace, and the Tai Fu stars do not obtain their positions: this is the fate of a wealthy person. If the Tai Fu stars are sunken and weak, windfall wealth shines directly, Xu is in its temple and is not shone upon or broken, and Hong Luan faces and combines, this is a person of great wealth.

貧賤之命。福星陷天姚，照守身命二宮，虛星對照，此至貧至賤之命，父母早年見克，兄弟縱有、若無，刑妻損子。、或遇吉限善星，財亦不積聚。蓋為根基淺薄，須有文學官祿，不為入局之命也。

The fate of poverty and lowliness. When a fortune star is sunken and Tian Yao illuminates and guards the two palaces of Body and Fate, with Xu star facing and shining, this is a fate of utmost poverty and lowliness: the parents are afflicted early, brothers, even if there are some, are as though there were none, the wife is punished and sons are harmed. Or if one meets an auspicious Limit and good stars, wealth still does not accumulate. For the foundation is shallow and thin, and one must have literary learning and official rank, otherwise it is not a fate that enters any grade.

愚人之命，文昌不可陷弱宮，六是吉星，高強宮是凶星，又不入廟其凶乎。大抵星辰入局，不看官祿。其修學者，須看文昌。而常人，但看天祿天杖，壽便可以次定其有無厚薄也。

The fate of a foolish person: Wen Chang must not fall in a weak palace; if the six are auspicious stars, a high and strong palace is a malign star, and moreover if it does not enter its temple, how malign it is. Broadly, when stars enter a grade, one does not look at the Official-Rank palace. For those who pursue learning, one must look at Wen Chang. For ordinary people, one need only look at Tian Lu and Tian Zhang, and Shou, and then one can in turn determine the presence or absence, thickness or thinness of their fortune.

定諸宮分合

Determining the Division and Combination of the Palaces

觀夫福壽齊臨紅鸞，何如其聰明。虛異同拱毛頭，何如其昏昧。或在天印，則主遷移之位，有權。或在文昌，則無福祿，之行。或在田宅，則谷粟盈倉。或在財帛，則金玉滿籯。貴祿臨男女之宮，光榮後代。庫貫臨身命之官，前程永固，總有榮華。姚異纏身，斷無壽考，刃哭臨命。天虛天刃兮，皆主其禍。天刑天杖兮，孰為其慶。遇妻妾，則孤寡多吉。入官祿，則穹窘多病。運逢此曜，即是凶危之臨。限過其星，必有災殃之咎，是知命有窮達，無有長短。達士則居高強之位，窮人則守寂寞之鄉。榮華壽考，乃吉曜之相臨。橫逆夭亡，實凶星之並照。非星辰無以考其詳，非運何以知其要。銳意精思，推則斯文之奧。談今博古，方識此書之良。生死貧富，若非前定。貴賤榮枯，乃知不偶。推算之術，有精有微。考於經典，則三復而可曉。觀此妙術，非一日之所能。則四主三元之說一真金不換。五星六曜之論，美

Observe when Fu and Shou arrive together with Hong Luan: how intelligent such a person is! When Xu and Yi together support Mao Tou: how dull and muddled! If Tian Yin falls in the Migration palace, one has authority. If it falls in Wen Chang, there is no course of fortune and emolument. If in the Fields-and-Dwellings palace, the granaries will be full of grain. If in the Wealth palace, baskets will be full of gold and jade. When Gui and Lu arrive at the palaces of sons and daughters, descendants will have glory. When Ku and Guan arrive at the Body or Fate palace, the future is permanently secure, and there will be splendor throughout. When Yao and Yi entwine the body, there is certainly no long life; when Ren and Ku arrive at the Fate, Tian Xu and Tian Ren both govern calamity. Tian Xing and Tian Zhang: who would call them a blessing? Meeting the wife-and-concubine palace, loneliness and widowhood bring much auspiciousness. Entering the Official-Rank palace, there is destitution and frequent illness. If the Fortune meets these luminaries, danger and misfortune have arrived; if the Limit passes these stars, there will surely be the guilt of calamity. From this one knows that fate has poverty and attainment, but not length and shortness. The attained man occupies a high and strong position, while the poor man guards a lonely and desolate land. Glory and longevity come from auspicious luminaries arriving together; sudden misfortune and early death truly come from malign stars shining together. Without the stars there is no way to examine the details, and without the Fortune how could one know the essentials? Concentrate the mind and ponder deeply, and one will deduce the profundity of this text. Discussing the present and drawing on the past, one then recognizes the excellence of this book. Life and death, poverty and wealth, are as if predetermined; nobility and lowliness, glory and withering, show that nothing is by chance. The art of calculation has both the coarse and the fine. Consulted in the classics, it can be understood by repeated reading. To view this marvelous art is not something that can be done in a single day. The doctrine of the Four Governors and Three Origins is true gold that cannot be exchanged. The theory of the Five Stars and Six Luminaries is a beautiful

玉難當。十八星默察其理，十二官盡得其要。貧賤富貴，實難逃找，福星辰無不照。

jade that cannot be matched. Silently observe the principle of the eighteen stars, and all the essentials of the twelve palaces are obtained. Poverty, lowliness, wealth, and nobility truly cannot be escaped, and there is no fortune star that does not shine.

夫人受天地之氣，之為三才。天地人全者、謂之成人，則運限值之，則財高無永。天地人不全者，謂之不成人，則運限臨之，則財傾無逝。

A person receives the qi of heaven and earth, and together they are called the three powers. One in whom heaven, earth, and humanity are complete is called a complete person; when the Fortune and Limit meet such a person, wealth is high and unending. One in whom heaven, earth, and humanity are incomplete is called an incomplete person; when the Fortune and Limit arrive, wealth collapses and cannot last.

凡虛哭刑刃不照者，為全；照破者，為之不全；限入陽宮遇陽星者，陰宮遇陰星者，各秉天時，受中和之氣也。避忌之年遇哭星，立見應也。

When Xu, Ku, Xing, and Ren do not shine, the person is complete; when they shine and break, the person is incomplete. If the Limit enters a yang palace and meets a yang star, or a yin palace and meets a yin star, each receives the season of heaven and obtains the qi of balance and harmony. In years to be avoided, meeting the Ku star brings an immediate response.

凡人當生，紫紅貴星在身命官，初限榮貴，發祿變大。若文昌諸星對照，及在廟旺宮，亦有吉慶喜事。天虛入限，主財帛耗散。凡照處皆不吉，並見乖異之事。

Whenever a person is born with the noble stars Zi and Hong in the Body or Fate palace, the first Limit brings glory and nobility, and emolument grows great. If Wen Chang and the other stars face it, or if they stand in palaces of temple prosperity, there will also be auspicious celebrations and happy events. When Tian Xu enters the Limit, wealth is dissipated. Wherever it shines, nothing is auspicious, and strange and perverse events appear.

天印入運限；更在高強宮，入廟財有重權之喜。雖不入局，主有吉慶之事。限遇紅鸞，主聘美色婦人，女配俊傑之夫。

When Tian Yin enters the Fortune or Limit, and moreover stands in a high and strong palace, entering its temple, there is the joy of wealth and heavy authority. Even if it does not enter any grade, it governs auspicious and celebratory events. If the Limit meets Hong Luan, one will marry a beautiful woman, or a woman will be matched with an outstanding husband.

虛星照限命者，主虛驚之事。姚刃主水厄，毛異主火災，邊配徒流，變姓異祻。限命如值庫貫，主有橫財，貧則暴富。其餘，凶星隨文昌星之椎，詳察星辰得宮分，為準不失毫釐。或有限初交而死者，或臨限而亡者，須憑生死星辰詳斷。若限內天哭星正照身命，曰黃泉星。若正照，限與於對照者，名曰浪濤限。主亡死，孝眼重重。陽官多悲，陰宮多喜。若廟照處乃為福星，亦不免外喪乃親孝服也。夫浪濤限，一說乃杖貫哭，此三星是也。

When the Xu star shines on the Limit or Fate, it governs events of false alarm. Yao and Ren govern the calamity of water; Mao and Yi govern the calamity of fire, and bring exile and penal servitude, a changed surname and strange misfortune. If the Limit or Fate meets Ku and Guan, there will be windfall wealth, and the poor will suddenly become rich. As for the remaining malign stars, one follows the lead of Wen Chang and examines in detail the palaces the stars have obtained; taking this as the standard, one will not miss by a hair. Some die just as the Limit begins, and some die as the Limit arrives; one must judge in detail by the stars of life and death. If within the Limit the Tian Ku star shines directly on the Body or Fate, it is called the Yellow Springs star. If it shines directly and the Limit is in opposition to it, this is called the Surging Waves Limit. It governs death, and layers upon layers of mourning. In a yang palace there is much grief, in a yin palace much joy. If it shines in a temple position, it is then a fortune star, yet one still cannot avoid a death outside the home or mourning for kin. As for the Surging Waves Limit, one theory holds that it is the three stars Zhang, Guan, and Ku.

斷曰

Judgment:

得失窮通未易窮，由來盡屬身命宮。

Gain and loss, poverty and attainment, are not easily exhausted; from of old they all belong to the Body and Fate palaces.

吉星臨此皆膺福，惡曜加臨圭惡終。

Where auspicious stars arrive, all receive blessing; where malign luminaries are added, the end is evil.

彖曰

Verdict:

姚異雙星俱照命，此是凶神必易殃。

When the twin stars Yao and Yi both shine on the Fate, these are malign spirits, and misfortune comes easily.

破祖離鄉貪酒色，男為淫客女為娼。

One breaks with the ancestors and leaves the homeland, greedy for wine and women; the man becomes a libertine and the woman a courtesan.

彖曰

Verdict:

天哭凶星最不祥，若臨大限見危亡。

The malign star Tian Ku is the most inauspicious; if it meets a Major Limit, one sees danger and death.

休言祖業消磨盡，更怕光陰不久長。

Do not say only that the ancestral estate will be worn away; one further fears that the span of days will not be long.

彖曰

Verdict:

虛刃之星身命臨，只宜林下可安身。

When the stars Xu and Ren arrive at the Body or Fate, it is only fit to find repose beneath the forest.

俗人犯者行千里，重重管取見災迍。

A common person who offends thus travels a thousand li; layer upon layer of calamity and hardship will surely be seen.

彖曰

Verdict:

疾病之中惡曜加，五臟失調不可誇。

When illness is present and malign luminaries are added, the five viscera fall out of harmony and one cannot boast.

腳肢腰駝並曲背，縱然壽永福無佳。

Crippled legs, a hunched waist, and a bent back; even if life is long, fortune is not good.

彖曰

Verdict:

四正宮中最要強，善星臨照喜非常。

Among the palaces of the four cardinal positions, strength is most essential; good stars shining there are extraordinarily joyful.

哭刃二星當頭立，骨肉刑傷裯未央。

If the two stars Ku and Ren stand at the head, kin are punished and harmed, and the sorrow is without end.

田宅見之惟破祖，妻妾見之必損傷。

Seen in the Fields-and-Dwellings palace, they only break the ancestral estate; seen in the wife-and-concubine palace, they surely bring harm.

官祿遇時無事至，命宮逢者必乖張。

When they meet in the Official-Rank palace, nothing happens; whoever meets them in the Fate Palace will certainly be perverse.

始終禍福皆前定，從頭歷過細推詳。

From beginning to end, calamity and blessing are all predetermined; go through them from the beginning and calculate in detail.

彖曰

Verdict:

天哭之星最不祥，若然見者必為殃。

The star Tian Ku is the most inauspicious; whoever sees it will surely meet with misfortune.

縱然祖業消磨盡，急急光陰不久長。

Even if the ancestral estate is worn away, how urgently the days press, and life will not be long.

彖曰

Verdict:

凶星主哭最為災，宮事重重入戶來。

The malign star governs weeping and is the greatest calamity; palace affairs come into the door layer upon layer.

歲限若然逢此殺，門庭主見哭衰辰。

If the yearly Limit meets this killing star, the household will see the hour of weeping and decline.

彖曰

Verdict:

刑哭相逢事不輕，行年若遇主虛驚。

When Xing and Ku meet, the matter is not light; if the year of travel meets them, it governs false alarms.

福祿旺時防產厄，人離財散不安寧。

When fortune and emolument flourish, guard against the calamity of childbirth; people part and wealth scatters, with no peace.

彖曰

Verdict:

天刃之星是七傷，並沖歲限定傷亡。

The star Tian Ren is the Seven Injuries; clashing together with the yearly Limit, it surely brings injury or death.

若非是托陰功力，定招災禍及重喪。

Unless one relies on the power of hidden merit, one will surely invite calamity and the double mourning.

洞微十八星斷

Judgments on the Eighteen Stars of Dong Wei

紫微星，一名紫氣，太陽玉堂少微，近待貴人。晉志云：此星居帝垣之中，至尊至貴，吉能制此星。照臨慧慈，主無長命富貴。論格局，獨立玄上天門，謂之拱北辰，主貴。獨臨卯位，謂之出辰格，主貴大命。照身，又會吉星入侍，謂之清光格，廟樂旺官，己酉廟是入廟格，申亥樂子旺是交宮格，身命值之，主好道多才識，衣紫腰金，為人尊尚，小人難近。其慈善學道，則有神仙之分。照身宮，主有祿，清職端正，能文多智。居是官，主一生慈善，而有福祿。不入廟旺，為孤神好僧道，守齋戒。同例刃，則為山林泉石之士。會暗曜，主好色性剛無親，婦人妨夫損子。如會吉神，卻夫榮子，貴有封號。若失地則衰弱，臨危亦有救，為九流之人。諸宮分官祿官，見之主爵位高崇好善種德不損助守常禮義。運限見之，主面見人君。此星守命，主人物古貌豐肥，身瘦長腰背穹窿，氣色昏沈紫彤色。或黃白色，小兒清

The Zi Wei star, also called Purple Qi, is the Sun, Jade Hall, and Shao Wei, and attends close to the noble. The Jin Zhi says: this star dwells at the center of the imperial enclosure, supremely honored and supremely noble; its auspiciousness can restrain this star. Its shining and arrival bring wisdom and kindness, and it governs an absence of long life, wealth, and nobility. In discussing patterns: standing alone above Xuan, at the Heavenly Gate, it is called 'paying homage to the Polar Star' and governs nobility. Standing alone in the Mao position, it is called the 'Rising Chen pattern' and governs a fate of great nobility. Shining on the Body and also meeting auspicious stars as attendants, it is called the 'Pure Light pattern'. In the temple-prosperity palaces, You is the temple, and entering it is the 'Entering the Temple pattern'; Shen and Hai are joy, and Zi is prosperity, which is the 'Exchanging Palaces pattern'. When the Body or Fate meets it, the person loves the Way and has much talent and knowledge, wears purple and a gold belt, is honored and esteemed by others, and petty people find it hard to approach him. If kind and fond of studying the Way, he has a share in the immortals. Shining on the Body palace, it governs emolument, a pure post, uprightness, literary ability, and much wisdom. Dwelling in this palace, it governs a life of kindness with fortune and emolument. If it does not enter its temple prosperity, it is a solitary spirit, fond of monks and Daoists and keeping fasts and precepts. If it joins with Ren, one becomes a man of the mountain forests, springs and rocks. If it meets dark luminaries, it governs lust, a stiff temperament, and no kin; a woman hinders her husband and harms her sons. If it meets auspicious spirits, the husband prospers and the sons are noble, and she has an enfeoffed title. If it loses its position it is weak and declining, though in danger there is also rescue, and one belongs to the nine schools of ordinary trades. Among the various palaces, in the Official-Rank palace, seeing it governs high rank, a love of goodness, planting of virtue, no harm, and aid in keeping ordinary propriety and righteousness. If seen in the Fortune or Limit, one will meet the sovereign face to face. When this star guards the Fate, the person has an ancient appearance and is plump, with a thin, tall body, an arched waist and back, a dull and heavy complexion of purple-red or yellow-white; a child is clear and

瘦清黃色。

lean, of a clear yellow color.

彖曰

Verdict:

子　禮貌為人賓，尊賢惡不仁。

Zi: Courteous in appearance, he serves as a guest of honor, honoring the worthy and hating the unkind.

文經武緯事，清貴作朝臣。

Skilled in civil and martial affairs, he becomes a pure and noble minister at court.

彖曰

Verdict:

丑　丑位謙而孤，姻親有若無。

Chou: In the Chou position he is modest yet solitary; kin by marriage are as though they were not.

仁義有設施，康莊是坦途。

Benevolence and righteousness have their application; the broad highway is a level road.

彖曰

Verdict:

寅　寅位號真人，會途不相親。

Yin: The Yin position is called the True Person; meeting on the road, they are not close.

志曾居相外，身亦有親君。

His aims once dwelt outside the ministry, yet he himself has kinship with the sovereign.

彖曰

Verdict:

卯　卯位號樞和，皆因迭化孤。

Mao: The Mao position is called Pivot and Harmony; all because of repeated transformation he is solitary.

先難而後易，晚景是豐途。

Hard first and easy later; his late years are a road of abundance.

彖曰

Verdict:

辰　辰上是天空，名成時又豐。

Chen: Chen is Tian Kong; his name is made and the times are also abundant.

姻親非我分，雙拳獨奮功。

Kin by marriage are not my portion; with two fists alone he strives for merit.

彖曰

Verdict:

巳　巳上恩承世，名成重大都。

Si: In Si, favor is received through the generations; his name is made in the great capital.

日近清光下，殊勳豈能無。

Near the clear light of the sun, how could there be no distinguished service?

彖曰

Verdict:

午　天恩入孤虛，風彼險相遇。

Wu: Heavenly favor enters Gu and Xu; against the wind he meets danger.

有源無早涸，奮力上天衢。

There is a source and it will not dry up early; striving with strength he rises to the heavenly road.

彖曰

Verdict:

未　紫乃入天淵，性善別愚賢。

Wei: Zi enters the Heavenly Abyss; his nature is kind, and he discriminates between the foolish and the worthy.

卓意半途苦，晚景是光亨。

Lofty in intent, he suffers midway; his late years are bright and prosperous.

彖曰

Verdict:

申　秉性特溫良，心高志見長。

Shen: By nature especially gentle and good, his heart is lofty and his aims excel.

文經武緯事，掌握鎮邊疆。

Skilled in civil and martial affairs, he holds command and guards the frontier.

彖曰

Verdict:

酉　酉上紫微星，威儀近至尊。

You: The Zi Wei star in You has an awesome bearing close to the Supreme One.

名在主人上，聲價對乾坤。

His name stands above the master's; his reputation matches heaven and earth.

彖曰

Verdict:

戌　天喜到白羊，月桂噴秋香。

Xu: Tian Xi arrives at the White Sheep; the cassia of the moon spreads its autumn fragrance.

成敗多經歷，晚景定為良。

He passes through many successes and failures; his late years will surely be good.

彖曰

Verdict:

亥　亥紫到天門，孑身浮若云。

Hai: Zi arrives at the Heavenly Gate in Hai; alone, his body drifts like a cloud.

憂不憂已事，識高必近君。

He worries about matters that are not his own; his insight is high, and he will surely be near the sovereign.

天虛星，又名無實。空亡孝服，泉黑道，天終在垣中，為破耗之星。照處，遇吉不吉，遇凶主貧，主狂妄，又主孝服。廟中旺丑身命宮，主性巧福薄。虛誑照是宮，主憂疑，財帛耗散。與惡星同，亦壽夭。若在廟旺有善星吉如得地，官品員外郎；失地，狂妄之人；主夭。會吉星同宮，亦主虛名虛利。會曜杖刃，主法死。加刑主橫死，加刃主夭，加杖主貪酷，加毛破耗，加姚淫奔，加哭主孤，加異主好謀詭。若在身宮，主一身兩姓，早年克父，女人見之不宜。官祿宮，主有虛名。相貌宮，卻災。奴僕宮，智不如奴。運限逢之，尤多事。會刑殺，並限到，則為三丘五墓，一生好事皆空，萬事到頭。如夢身星臨虛刑刃者，損母早。

The Tian Xu star, also called Wushi (Without Substance), is Emptiness-and-Void, mourning dress, the Yellow Springs, the black road; Tian Zhong stands within the enclosure and is a star of breakage and loss. Where it shines, an auspicious thing becomes not auspicious, and an inauspicious thing brings poverty; it governs wildness and arrogance, and also mourning dress. If it is prosperous in the temple, in the Chou Body or Fate palace, it governs cleverness and thin fortune. When the false and deceitful Xu shines on this palace, it governs worry and suspicion, and wealth is dissipated. Together with malign stars it also means short life. If it is in temple prosperity with good stars, it is auspicious if well placed, with the rank of a supernumerary official; if it loses its position, the person is wild and arrogant, and it governs early death. Meeting auspicious stars in the same palace, it still governs empty fame and empty gain. Meeting the luminaries Zhang and Ren, it governs death by law. Joined with Xing it governs violent death; with Ren, early death; with Zhang, greed and cruelty; with Mao, loss and breakage; with Yao, licentious elopement; with Ku, solitude; with Yi, a love of scheming and trickery. If it is in the Body palace, it governs one body with two surnames, and the father is overcome in early years; it is not suitable for a woman to see it. In the Official-Rank palace, it governs empty fame. In the Appearance palace, it wards off calamity. In the Servants palace, one's wisdom is not equal to that of a servant. When Fortune or Limit meets it, there is especially much trouble. Meeting Xing and killing stars together with the arrival of the Limit, it becomes the three mounds and five tombs: the good things of a lifetime are all empty, and all affairs end up as a dream. If the Body star arrives at Xu, Xing, and Ren, the mother is harmed early.

彖曰

Verdict:

悟徹三千與大千，

Awakened through to the three thousand and the great thousand,

平生不為利名牽。

in his whole life he is not drawn by profit or fame.

子　子位號天空，謀為若夢中。

Zi: The Zi position is called Tian Kong (Heavenly Void); his schemes are as if in a dream.

家基須自立，生計是飄蓬。

He must establish his household foundation himself; his livelihood is like a drifting tumbleweed.

彖曰

Verdict:

丑　丑位斗牛宮，豈孤道不窮。

Chou: The Chou position is the Dipper-and-Ox palace; how can solitary be the Way, and not reach its end?

精明分黑白，身在仕途中。

Keen and bright, he distinguishes black from white; his body is in the career of office.

彖曰

Verdict:

寅　虛星若在寅，聰明道非身。

Yin: If the Xu star is in Yin, he is intelligent, yet the Way is not for his person.

欲要光宗祖，顧身不顧人。

He wishes to bring glory to his ancestors, but he looks after himself and not others.

彖曰

Verdict:

卯　天竭居近泉，安居非自然。

Mao: Tian Jie dwells near the springs; his settled dwelling is not natural.

歷練窮冬盡，精神愈更堅。

He is tempered and trained until the depths of winter are exhausted; his spirit grows ever firmer.

彖曰

Verdict:

辰　倉庫入天虛，半生分明孤。

Chen: The granary enters Tian Xu; for half his life he is clearly solitary.

須然不缺祿，未兔役征途。

Though he does not lack emolument, he is not yet freed from toiling on the road of campaigns.

彖曰

Verdict:

巳　太乙名虛耗，迂迴非我傲。

Si: Taiyi is named Xu Hao (Void and Loss); roundabout paths are not my pride.

奔走半生身，中年方運到。

He rushes about for half his life; in middle age his fortune finally arrives.

彖曰

Verdict:

午　虛宿豈奔離，忠言達聖機。

Wu: The Xu lodging, how could it run off and part? Loyal words reach the sage's opportunity.

風波接中首，晚景任施為。

Winds and waves meet him at the middle; in his late years he may act as he wishes.

彖曰

Verdict:

未　玉堂坐天孤，系練豈能無。

Wei: The Jade Hall sits with Tian Gu; how could entanglements be absent?

姻親非我有，基謀自當圖。

Kin by marriage are not mine to have; he must plan his own foundations.

彖曰

Verdict:

申　天虛號孤宿，求道衣祿豐。

Shen: Tian Xu is called the Solitary Lodging; seeking the Way, his clothing and emolument are abundant.

與異倘相伴，一身兩姓當。

If it is accompanied by Yi, then one body with two surnames is appropriate.

彖曰

Verdict:

酉　虛遇莫憚勞，鉅萬也磨消。

You: Meeting Xu, do not shrink from toil; even a vast fortune is worn away.

自立方成器，晚年方見高。

Establishing himself, he becomes a vessel of worth; only in old age does he rise high.

彖曰

Verdict:

戌　吉曜若並行，祖業也須更。

Xu: If auspicious luminaries travel together, the ancestral estate must still be changed.

此身名利事，生涯兩處營。

In matters of fame and gain for this body, he runs his livelihood in two places.

彖曰

Verdict:

亥　亥上成孤子，成敗多歇減。

Hai: In Hai he becomes a solitary son; success and failure are often reduced.

祖業有若無，只好自施設。

The ancestral estate is as though absent; he can only make his own arrangements.

天貴星，又名天乙始泰君棋。隋志云：此星紫微星宮門，乃太乙之神也。主戰斗，知人吉凶，持威福之權，以制善惡之星。主貴文章博學也。廟樂旺宮辰廟寅樂亥旺身命宮，主立非常之功，超群出眾，難事易成，高人見親，小人難近，有聲名。是宮，主智高上，文章滿腹，好道尊榮，有科名顯達之職。又日：少因異夢，而生得地，廟旺有權，三方拱會，一世榮華。有殺見之皆退，須遇厄難，亦傍貴人。會惡曜毛頭印杖有權會姚淫會哭如巫依如刃惡與刑同宮巧計千般。加凶星刑刃，不善終父母，損親無力。婦人見之，有吉星，則貴有封號，金冠紫綬之印。會惡星，不仁不義，妨夫害子，丑惡之人。官綠宮，主出眾，不怕事，無惡意。歲限逢之，有喜慶也。天貴守命。主形端面白，方員氣宇，寬大物長，大肥胖面，方員白爭，四字唇紅齒白，心和性良，清雅便為官。加吉星者，至親有倚，手足情長。

The Tian Gui star, also called Tianyi (Heavenly One), Shi Tai, and the Lord of the Chess. The Sui Zhi says: this star is the gate of the palace of the Zi Wei star, and is the deity of Taiyi. It governs battle, knows the fortune and misfortune of people, holds the authority of awe and blessing, and so restrains the good and evil stars. It governs nobility and wide learning in literature. In temple, joy, and prosperity palaces (Chen is temple, Yin is joy, Hai is prosperity), in the Body or Fate palace, it governs establishing extraordinary merit, standing out above the crowd, making difficult matters easy, being befriended by lofty people while petty people find it hard to approach, and having a reputation. In this palace, it governs superior wisdom, a belly full of literature, a love of the Way, honor and glory, and a post of scholarly rank and distinction. It is also said: one born in youth through a strange dream and who is well placed, in temple prosperity with authority, supported by the three directions, will have glory for a whole lifetime. Where there are killing stars, upon seeing it they all withdraw; even in hardship and difficulty, one still relies on a noble person. Meeting malign luminaries: with Mao Tou, it has seals and authority; meeting Yao, licentiousness; meeting Ku, like a shaman; with Ren, it is malign, and with Xing in the same palace, there are a thousand clever schemes. Adding the malign stars Xing and Ren, one does not die a good death, the parents are harmed, and kin are powerless. A woman who sees it, if there are auspicious stars, is noble and has an enfeoffed title, with a golden crown and the seal of purple ribbon. Meeting malign stars, she is unkind and unrighteous, hinders her husband and harms her sons, and is an ugly and malign person. In the Official-Rank palace, it governs standing out above the crowd, not fearing trouble, and having no ill intent. If the yearly Limit meets it, there will be joy and celebration. When Tian Gui guards the Fate, the form is upright and the face white, square and round in bearing, magnanimous in things, large and plump, the face square and round and white; of the four words, the lips are red and the teeth white, the heart is harmonious and the nature good, refined and elegant, and he becomes an official. Adding auspicious stars, close kin have support and the bonds of brothers are long.

彖曰

Verdict:

子　子上好文星，心絜性尤清。

Zi: In Zi is a fine literary star; his heart is pure and his nature especially clear.

功名不勞力，聲譽播朝廷。

His fame and rank come without laboring; his reputation spreads through the court.

彖曰

Verdict:

丑　天輔至斗牛，清名達四周。

Chou: Tian Fu reaches the Dipper-and-Ox; his pure name reaches all around.

不須承祖業，功利自能儔。

He need not inherit the ancestral estate; merit and gain he can match by himself.

彖曰

Verdict:

寅　寅宮旺貴星，基業壯精神。

Yin: The Yin palace is prosperous for the noble star; his foundation is robust and his spirit vigorous.

雖不登蟾閣，聲名也動人。

Though he does not ascend the Toad Pavilion, his name and reputation move people.

彖曰

Verdict:

卯　殿閣居卯宮，性聰全義類。

Mao: The Hall-and-Pavilion dwells in the Mao palace; by nature intelligent and wholly righteous.

初限未能成，須待晚年貴。

His first Limit cannot succeed; he must wait for nobility in his late years.

彖曰

Verdict:

辰　天貴旺金宮，神清性亦聰。

Chen: Tian Gui is prosperous in the Metal palace; his spirit is clear and his nature also intelligent.

非特一身貴，世代位豐隆。

Not only is he himself noble; for generations his rank is abundant and lofty.

彖曰

Verdict:

巳　巳貴紫微宮，榮華有始終。

Si: Gui in Si is in the Zi Wei palace; glory has a beginning and an end.

一身登要地，兄孫學業通。

He himself ascends to an essential place, and his brothers and grandsons are accomplished in study.

彖曰

Verdict:

午　午貴當坎離，姻親實險違。

Wu: Gui in Wu stands at Kan and Li; kin by marriage are truly perilous and contrary.

中元光祖業，聲名更遠馳。

In the middle phase he brings glory to the ancestral estate, and his name travels still farther.

彖曰

Verdict:

未　科甲入未宮，欲過豈能容。

Wei: Ke-Jia enters the Wei palace; one who wishes to pass, how can he be tolerated?

離坎無荊棘，高人有薦功。

With Li and Kan there are no thorns; a lofty person has the merit of recommendation.

彖曰

Verdict:

申　天貴守陰陽，立志有維綱。

Shen: Tian Gui guards yin and yang; his resolve has a guiding principle.

初年未發達，晚歲見名揚。

In his early years he does not rise; in his late years his name is seen to spread.

彖曰

Verdict:

酉　貴騎金牛上，清奇古怪人。

You: Gui rides atop the Golden Ox; a person pure, singular, and ancient-strange.

何愁衣祿淺，聲譽播朝廷。

Why worry that his clothing and emolument are shallow? His reputation spreads through the court.

彖曰

Verdict:

戌　戌上號天醫，聲名必自宜。

Xu: Xu is called Tian Yi (Heavenly Physician); his name and reputation are surely fitting.

立身思遇貴，漸顯莫猜疑。

Establishing himself, he thinks of meeting a noble; he gradually grows prominent, so have no doubt.

彖曰

Verdict:

亥　天門為旺氣，非來祿非細。

Hai: The Heavenly Gate is a prosperous qi; the emolument that comes is not slight.

定作異人者，仁慈真大貴。

He is certain to become an extraordinary person; benevolent and kind, truly of great nobility.

天印星，又名帝符，此星主統兵鎮軍之象，殺伐之權，廟子旺辰樂卯身命宮，主權貴福多。居是宮，主威名權重。若是有天杖，主掌印。會善星，主有神仙之分，不然位極人臣。會惡星，喜職。加異，偏生庶出，不然早克雙親。加杖毛，有權。加刑慘酷。加姚，淫穢。加刃，孤天。加哭，孤獨。得地，則承祖業。失地，無承。運限逢之，卻有驟遷。女人見之，貌利性良。主限官祿官，人敬服。妻妾官，主妻致富。運限照臨，主遷官顯達之職。歲限逢之，則有聲名，人物清秀聰明，中等身材，面清白。

The Tian Yin star, also called Di Fu (Imperial Tally), governs the image of commanding troops and garrisoning armies, with the authority to attack and kill. In temple (Zi), prosperity (Chen), and joy (Mao), in the Body or Fate palace, it governs authority, nobility, and much fortune. Dwelling in this palace, it governs awesome fame and weighty authority. If there is Tian Zhang, it governs holding the seal of office. Meeting good stars, it governs a share in the immortals, or else a rank at the very top among ministers. Meeting malign stars, there is joy in office. Adding Yi, one is born to a concubine, or else overcomes both parents early. Adding Zhang and Mao, there is authority. Adding Xing, cruelty. Adding Yao, licentiousness and filth. Adding Ren, solitude and early death. Adding Ku, solitude. If well placed, one inherits the ancestral estate; if it loses its position, one does not inherit. If the Fortune or Limit meets it, there may be sudden promotion. A woman who sees it has beauty and a good nature. In the Limit or Official-Rank palace, people respect and submit to the person. In the wife-and-concubine palace, it governs a wife who brings wealth. When Fortune or Limit shines upon it, it governs promotion and an office of eminence. If the yearly Limit meets it, there is reputation; the person is refined, handsome, and intelligent, of middling stature, with a pure white face.

彖曰

Verdict:

子　子廟定威權，慈祥氣象寬。

Zi: The Zi temple fixes awesome authority; his bearing is kind and his air is broad.

行藏終有分，異日遇居看。

His going forth and withdrawing finally have their share; some day he will meet someone to look to.

彖曰

Verdict:

丑　印星臨斗宿，名利恐初難。

Chou: The Yin star arrives at the Dipper lodging; fame and gain I fear are hard at first.

中年須遠慮，至死不能榮。

In middle age he must plan far ahead; until death he cannot flourish.

彖曰

Verdict:

寅　人馬印居垣，逢之氣象寬。

Yin: Ren-Ma and Yin stand in the enclosure; meeting them, the bearing is broad.

根基須靠祖，自有好機關。

His foundation must rely on the ancestors, yet he has good devices of his own.

彖曰

Verdict:

卯　卯臨來卯官，情性善溫良。

Mao: Mao arrives at the Mao palace; his temperament is kind and gentle.

生涯莫依祖，自立始輝光。

In making a living he must not depend on the ancestors; only when he establishes himself does he shine.

彖曰

Verdict:

辰　印落在辰宮，雖危不至凶。

Chen: The Yin falls in the Chen palace; though in danger, it does not reach misfortune.

根基惟獨立，臨老旺門風。

His foundation is that of standing alone; near old age the family's reputation flourishes.

彖曰

Verdict:

巳　絕鄉是此星，家計始孤貧。

Si: Jue-xiang (Cut-Off Homeland) is this star; the household livelihood begins solitary and poor.

不得婚親力，末年方遇春。

He gets no help from marriage kin; only in his last years does he meet spring.

彖曰

Verdict:

午　印宿午偏兮，挺挺多是非。

Wu: The Yin lodging in Wu leans aside; upright and unbending, with many disputes.

行藏須有泰，求事奈遲遲。

His going forth and withdrawing must have peace; in seeking affairs, alas, he is slow.

彖曰

Verdict:

未　印元宜遷移，如非局在棋。

Wei: The Yin origin is suited to the Migration palace; if the position were not on the chessboard,

機成還有敗，晚景始方宜。

success is followed by failure; his late years are at last fitting.

彖曰

Verdict:

申　經諱到陰陽，中年定自強。

Shen: The taboo of the classics arrives at yin and yang; in middle age he is surely strong.

須己利名有，臨老始芬芳。

He himself must have fame and gain; near old age, he at last gives forth fragrance.

彖曰

Verdict:

酉　印入金牛官，得失兩悠悠。

You: The Yin enters the Golden Ox palace; gain and loss are both distant and unhurried.

知命能謹守，窮道始可謀。

If he knows his fate and guards it carefully, then in poverty he can begin to plan the Way.

彖曰

Verdict:

戌　天印入白羊，心地方恢張。

Xu: Tian Yin enters the White Sheep; his heart and ground are just opening wide.

榮身須自立，莫把作尋常。

To glorify himself he must establish himself; he must not treat it as ordinary.

彖曰

Verdict:

亥　亥位見天祥，精明道義揚。

Hai: In Hai he meets Tian Xiang; his keenness and the Way of righteousness are raised high.

破卻月中桂，朝中一棟梁。

He breaks off the cassia in the moon, a pillar of the court.

天壽星，又名老人、尚父。此星居南，為老人星，守垣局中，主長生。廟亥旺酉樂寅身命宮，高福廷壽，好善有陰德，晚年得福。居是宮，主因壽得福，廟旺尤貴。若居酉上，自少無災。加杖有有權，加毛破祖，加刑主刑宮。陷宮早亡，守虛異哭。主星合照，主不出三日而死。壽星見哭虛，謂之陷弱，終無永無。女人見之，主有福。虛異刃哭四星者，主夭折，亦主骨肉損刑，過房入贅。官祿宮，見事長慮慈憫。運限無凶星干，絆，主福貴雙榮，人物長大，身貌從容，性格執古，作事無私，且守且耐。

The Tian Shou star, also called the Old Man, Shang Fu. This star lies in the south and is the Old Man Star; guarding the enclosure it governs long life. In temple (Hai), prosperity (You), and joy (Yin), in the Body or Fate palace, it brings lofty fortune and extended longevity, love of goodness, hidden virtue, and fortune in late years. Dwelling in this palace, it governs gaining fortune through longevity, and in temple prosperity especially noble. If it dwells in You, there is no calamity from youth. Adding Zhang, there is authority; adding Mao, it breaks the ancestors; adding Xing, it governs punishment. In a sunken palace, early death; guarding Xu, Yi, or Ku, and if the main star combines and shines, death follows within three days. When the Shou star sees Ku and Xu, it is called sunken and weak, and in the end there is no lasting good. A woman who sees it will have fortune. The four stars Xu, Yi, Ren, and Ku govern early death, and also harm among kin, and being given out for adoption or entering a wife's family as a son-in-law. In the Official-Rank palace, one sees affairs with a far-sighted and compassionate mind. If the Fortune or Limit has no obstruction from malign stars, fortune and nobility both flourish; the person is tall and large, the bearing leisurely, the character holds to antiquity, he acts without selfishness, and he keeps steady and patient.

彖曰

Verdict:

子　壽入寶瓶宮，青春樂有餘。

Zi: Shou enters the Precious Vase palace; the springtime of youth is joyful and in surplus.

中年多反覆，好景在桑榆。

Middle age brings many reversals; the good prospect lies in the mulberry and elm of old age.

彖曰

Verdict:

丑　斗牛得無星，溫良性亦門。

Chou: The Dipper-and-Ox obtains no star; his nature is gentle and kind, and he is of good family.

冷淡宜初主，終年始有榮。

At first he is cold and indifferent and suited to being a lord; only in his final years does glory come.

彖曰

Verdict:

寅　壽星在樂寅，功就即非親。

Yin: The Shou star is in Yin, a place of joy; his merit is complete, yet not through kin.

縱橫妙用處，終須達貴倫。

At the places where he applies his wondrous skill freely, he will in the end reach the company of the noble.

彖曰

Verdict:

卯　仰位無無虧，凶星不怕危。

Mao: In the upward position there is no deficiency; he does not fear danger from malign stars.

縱他風浪險，謀望有關機。

Though winds and waves are perilous, his hopes and plans have a pivot.

彖曰

Verdict:

辰　天墀化紫衣，僧道豈孤恓。

Chen: The Heavenly Court changes into purple robes; monks and Daoists, how could they be lonely?

受償值榮祿，高貴引丹墀。

Receiving recompense, he meets glory and emolument; high nobility leads him to the vermilion steps.

彖曰

Verdict:

巳　無不喜蛇宮，更張事不通。

Si: Rejoicing in the Serpent palace, yet changes and revisions do not go through.

若因金水地，晚景始成功。

If it is because of the Metal and Water ground, then only in his late years does he succeed.

彖曰

Verdict:

午　麗雅號孤聆，名高無卻低。

Wu: Elegant, called a solitary hearer; his name is high, yet he is then lowered.

若問功名就，看看發白時。

If you ask whether merit and fame will be achieved, look to the time when the hair turns white.

彖曰

Verdict:

未　無入未加鄉，名利慢更張。

Wei: Entering the Wei district, fame and gain are slow to change.

還須歷練到，晚歲始名香。

He must still arrive through training; only in his late years does his name become fragrant.

彖曰

Verdict:

申　老人見坤宮，難成事業功。

Shen: The Old Man sees the Kun palace; it is hard to accomplish a career.

花開復花謝，根在晚年豐。

Flowers bloom and flowers fall; the root flourishes in his late years.

彖曰

Verdict:

酉　壽入酉宮兮，終可達天衢。

You: Shou enters the You palace; in the end he can reach the heavenly road.

功名須獨立，加官不必宜。

Merit and fame he must establish alone; promotion in office is not necessarily suitable.

彖曰

Verdict:

戌　白羊魚星安，身命必加官。

Xu: The White Sheep and the Fish star are settled; the Body and Fate will surely be promoted.

有名還有利，何慮事多難。

With fame there is also gain; why worry that affairs are full of difficulty?

彖曰

Verdict:

亥　朝元廟旺宮，英俊性從容。

Hai: Court-Origin in a palace of temple prosperity; heroic and handsome, with a leisurely nature.

文章冠天下，中年職位隆。

His writing crowns the world; in middle age his post and rank are lofty.

紅鸞星，又名太陰、天驚、儀鳳和嗚。此星喜則紅鸞，怒則計都。在垣局近侍之宿，主有官祿。論格局，臨亥上，為月照天門格，主貴。紅鸞入廟，祿元照身命，為龍門高擢格，主貴。廟樂旺官，丑廟見入廟格，照身命宮，主性柔，威儀清楚，好衣服，貪酒色，喜朋友，多得陰人扶助，又招妻財。居是宮，主性柔，容貌溫恭，美色秀麗，舉動有成，好粹餚。會惡曜加杖，有性狼有權。加毛，淫慾。加刃，狼籍人。加異者，棄祖，女不良為娼。加姚，為妬婦；非拓為厄為婢妾男加刑險處成名，但早年失侍，怙骨肉刑。若諸星得地，則出類才，能為國家鎮撫天下，學問過人，能處事業。失地者，則入空門，亦主辛苦。加姚毛，主酒色。陷地，則無成就女人美麗性躁，陰毒有封號，廟旺樂宮，為人曉事識高低，善處閨門，性快。會吉星則貴，會凶曜不良。入廟，主應異夢而生。官祿宮，主好禮樂仁義，不妄作有權

The Hong Luan star, also called Taiyin, Tian Jing, and Yi Feng and He Ming. This star, when pleased, is Hong Luan; when angry, it is Jidu. In the enclosure it is the lodging of close attendants and governs official emolument. In discussing patterns: arriving at Hai is the 'Moon Illuminating the Heavenly Gate pattern' and governs nobility. Hong Luan entering its temple, with the Lu origin shining on the Body or Fate, is the 'Dragon Gate Lofty Promotion pattern' and governs nobility. In palaces of temple, joy, and prosperity, Chou is temple, and meeting it is the 'Entering the Temple pattern'; shining on the Body or Fate palace, it governs a gentle nature, clear and orderly bearing, love of fine clothes, greed for wine and women, joy in friends, much support from women, and also attracts wealth through the wife. Dwelling in this palace, it governs a gentle nature, a modest and respectful appearance, beauty of face, success in one's undertakings, and love of fine food. Meeting malign luminaries and adding Zhang, one has a wolfish nature and authority. Adding Mao, lust. Adding Ren, a dissolute person. Adding Yi, one abandons the ancestors, and a daughter becomes a courtesan. Adding Yao, a jealous woman, or else a servant or concubine in hardship; a man with Xing makes his name in perilous places, but early on loses support and relies on the punishment of kin. If the various stars are well placed, one is outstanding in talent and able to pacify and govern the realm for the state, surpassing others in learning and able to manage undertakings. If it loses its position, one enters the gate of emptiness (monastic life), and also suffers hardship. Adding Yao and Mao, it governs wine and women. In a sunken position there is no accomplishment; a woman is beautiful but impatient, secretly malicious, and has an enfeoffed title; in a palace of temple prosperity and joy, a person understands affairs, discerns high from low, manages the women's quarters well, and has a quick nature. Meeting auspicious stars, nobility; meeting malign luminaries, not good. Entering the temple, it governs being born in response to a strange dream. In the Official-Rank palace, it governs love of ritual, music, benevolence and righteousness, no reckless action, and holding authority.

柄。兄弟宮見之，塢字成行。運限流年見之，非常有慶。主人物俊秀，性格聰明，灑洛和氣。風流、花酒、賭博，三者必占一也。

In the brothers' palace, seeing it brings siblings in a row. If the Fortune, Limit, or flowing year sees it, there is extraordinary celebration. The person is handsome and refined, intelligent in character, and elegantly harmonious. One of three things, romance, flowers and wine, or gambling, he will surely have.

彖曰

Verdict:

紅鸞守命面方平，眉目分明俊秀郎。

Hong Luan guards the Fate; the face is square and even, the brows and eyes distinct, a handsome young man.

四字唇紅並齒白，一生溫潤有柔剛。

With red lips and white teeth, he is warm and moist all his life, with both softness and firmness.

彖曰

Verdict:

女人最喜太陰星，智識機謀性地明。

A woman most delights in the Taiyin star; her knowledge and schemes and her nature are clear.

喜怒不常難受觸，能招貴子及夫榮。

Her joy and anger are changeable and hard to touch; she can bring noble sons and her husband's glory.

彖曰

Verdict:

子　儀鳳為科名，持權定有聲。

Zi: Yi Feng brings academic fame; holding authority, he surely has a reputation.

平生無險懼，禹浪跳三層。

All his life he has no danger or fear; Yu leaps the waves through three tiers.

彖曰

Verdict:

丑　人丑貴無倫，富貴皆有因。

Chou: Entering Chou, nobility is peerless; wealth and rank all have their cause.

莫憂前途險，平步侍明君。

Do not worry that the road ahead is perilous; with level steps he serves an enlightened sovereign.

彖曰

Verdict:

寅　寅上好威儀，天然性地馳。

Yin: In Yin, a fine and awesome bearing; his nature and ground are naturally free-ranging.

友朋好酒色，風流儒雅施。

His friends love wine and women; he applies romance and refined scholarship.

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Verdict:

卯　卯上喜紅鸞，心明膽志昌。

Mao: In Mao, Hong Luan is welcome; his heart is bright and his courage and will flourish.

文章非若祖，貴至位嚴廓。

His writing is not like his ancestors', yet nobility reaches a stern and spacious rank.

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Verdict:

辰　辰到金棋局，昂然大丈夫。

Chen: Arriving at Chen, the Golden Chessboard; a towering, upright man.

靜時非是靜，閒密喜無拘。

When still he is not truly still; at leisure and in privacy he delights in being unconstrained.

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Verdict:

巳　巳位號天盈，孤圭月主明。

Si: The Si position is called Tian Ying; the solitary jade, the moon is the bright lord.

但看存恩節，桑榆到始榮。

Only look at the preserved grace and constancy; at mulberry and elm age, he begins to flourish.

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Verdict:

午　紅鸞號午位，女人常如意。

Wu: Hong Luan is called the Wu position; a woman is always content.

男子且循常，中年榮且貴。

A man merely follows the ordinary; in middle age he is glorious and noble.

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Verdict:

未　鸞入巨蟹鄉，孤身雙女當。

Wei: Luan enters the Cancer district; alone, he will have two daughters.

門庭兩相隔，至老倍風光。

The household and gate are separated from each other; into old age he has double splendor.

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Verdict:

申　鸞不入申鄉，聲名未顯揚。

Shen: Luan does not enter the Shen district; his name and reputation do not yet spread.

妨妻並克子，姻眷早參商。

He hinders his wife and overcomes his sons; marriage kin are early like Shen and Shang (parted stars).

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Verdict:

酉　酉宮見紅鸞，美事未能全。

You: Seeing Hong Luan in the You palace, the happy affairs cannot be complete.

家道成又破，好事始團圓。

The family way is made and then broken; the good things only then come together.

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Verdict:

戌　鸞入白羊家，貪酒又貪花。

Xu: Luan enters the White Sheep house; greedy for wine and greedy for flowers.

雖然中運福，晚景更堪誇。

Though fortune is moderate in the middle Fortune, his late years are even more worth boasting of.

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Verdict:

亥　亥上稱人意，攀高羽士林。

Hai: In Hai he is called pleasing to others; he climbs high among the feathered men of the forest.

性情無偏比，晚景又駸駸。

His temperament has no bias or partiality; his late years too go forward swiftly.

天庫星，又名天財吉星。書云：右弼之，異名北斗之杓柄，又名天庫之祥。在婁之左角，為兵庫之府。居紫微中，為玉府之神庫。藏之曜珍寶兵償皆賴之。廟午旺亥己樂卯未身命宮，主富貴財帛，田宅豐滿。如身命值之，貴可參大政。是官，主財，卻損人益己。會吉曜杖印，主貴。少權印，主富貴，喜天刑發財。加刑杖，有權；加毛，破祖。會孤星不聚，可謂大德閒人。加異者，庶出改祖，或入贅奇怪之人。加哭刑，害父母，兄弟便是楚秦。加姚，淫慾。加刃者，惡死，有疾壓之方，有殼。不然，溺水波沈。女人見之，端正福厚，善處閨儀。加姚，主淫私。官祿宮，主才能計智。運限照之，主有財，貧則暴富，人物肥厚。女人犯毛異者，主產厄。男女主肺經喘滿，因財致祻。餘皆仿此。

The Tian Ku star, also called the auspicious Tian Cai star. The book says: the Right Assistant has the different name of the handle of the Northern Dipper, and is also called the auspice of the Heavenly Storehouse. In the left corner of the Lou lodging, it is the treasury of arms. Dwelling in the midst of Zi Wei, it is the divine storehouse of the jade treasury. The luminary stores jewels, treasures, and arms and tribute, all depending on it. In temple (Wu), prosperity (Hai), and joy (Mao, Wei), in the Body or Fate palace, it governs wealth and nobility, riches, and abundant fields and dwellings. If the Body or Fate meets it, one may be noble enough to take part in great governance. In this palace, it governs wealth, though it harms others to benefit oneself. Meeting auspicious luminaries, Zhang and Yin, it governs nobility. With little authority or seal, it governs wealth and nobility; it rejoices in Tian Xing for getting rich. Adding Xing and Zhang, there is authority; adding Mao, it breaks the ancestors. Meeting solitary stars, it does not accumulate, and one may be called a person of great virtue at leisure. Adding Yi, one is born of a concubine and changes the ancestral name, or becomes a strange man who enters a wife's family. Adding Ku and Xing, it harms the parents, and brothers are as far apart as Chu and Qin. Adding Yao, lust. Adding Ren, a malign death; there are ailments and ways to suppress them. Otherwise, drowning and sinking in waves. A woman who sees it is upright with abundant fortune, and manages the women's quarters well. Adding Yao, it governs licentiousness and secret affairs. In the Official-Rank palace, it governs talent and planning. If Fortune or Limit shines on it, it governs having wealth, and the poor suddenly become rich; the person is plump and thick. A woman who offends with Mao and Yi suffers calamity in childbirth. Men and women suffer from lung-channel wheezing and fullness, and meet misfortune because of wealth. The remainder follow this.

彖曰

Verdict:

雖然天庫號孤神，吉曜相逢時有名。

Although Tian Ku is called a solitary spirit, when auspicious luminaries meet it, it has a name in its time.

最喜逢危中有救，一生閒樂作閒人。

Best of all, meeting danger one finds rescue within it; all his life, at ease and happy, he is a person of leisure.

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Verdict:

子　天庫對寶瓶，徘徊又虛驚。

Zi: Tian Ku faces the Precious Vase; wavering, and again a false alarm.

貌變當自立，營謀必有成。

His appearance changes, and he should establish himself; his undertakings will surely succeed.

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丑　庫入丑孤暌，須防子與妻。

Chou: Ku enters Chou, solitary and parted; one must guard against sons and wife.

中道自然泰，晚年又得時。

The middle way is naturally peaceful; in late years he again obtains his time.

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Verdict:

寅　天庫號財星，孤害不可聽。

Yin: Tian Ku is called the wealth star; solitary harm must not be heeded.

基業元非善，求營始得榮。

His foundation was originally not good; only by seeking and managing does he attain glory.

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Verdict:

卯　影孤心又虛，橫財富有餘。

Mao: A lonely shadow and an empty heart; windfall wealth is in surplus.

基謀當自置，終歸潭府居。

He should set up his foundation and plans himself, and in the end return to dwell in a deep mansion.

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Verdict:

辰　天庫好居辰，雖榮未顯倫。

Chen: Tian Ku is well placed in Chen; though glorious, he is not yet prominent among peers.

萍梗奔馳地，晚年方福殷。

In a place of drifting duckweed and hurried travel, only in his late years is fortune abundant.

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巳　庫入巳宮強，根基殼必長。

Si: Ku enters the Si palace strong; his foundation will surely grow long.

仁慈無諂曲，姓字自然昶。

Benevolent and kind, without flattery or crookedness; his name and style are naturally bright.

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午　天庫到離宮，形貌正溫恭。

Wu: Tian Ku arrives at the Li palace; his form and appearance are upright, gentle, and respectful.

仁厚無私曲，榮華福位豐。

Benevolent and generous, without selfishness or crookedness; glory and a rank of fortune are abundant.

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未　未上臨身命，仁厚冠群倫。

Wei: Arriving at Wei in the Body or Fate, benevolent and generous, he crowns his peers.

中年方有力，老去必朝君。

In middle age he first has strength; as he grows old he will surely attend the sovereign.

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Verdict:

申　申官天瑩星，羈摩未得亨。

Shen: The Shen palace, the Tian Ying star; held back and bridled, he has not yet prospered.

奔馳滿天下，歸來方老成。

He rushes about all over the world; returning, he is at last mature and seasoned.

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Verdict:

酉　庫星居酉地，沈晦豈無成。

You: The Ku star dwells in the You ground; sunk in obscurity, how could he fail to succeed?

顯處非為祖，成時自立明。

His prominence is not owed to the ancestors; when success comes, he establishes his own brightness.

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Verdict:

戌　天庫人白羊，家業必更張。

Xu: Tian Ku enters the White Sheep; the family estate must be changed.

慈善無貪酷，由來譽盡揚。

Kind and good, not greedy or cruel; from of old his praise is fully spread.

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Verdict:

亥　庫星臨亥位，自立顯家風。

Hai: The Ku star arrives at the Hai position; establishing himself, he displays a distinguished family manner.

名在眾人上，何愁不立功。

His name stands above the crowd; why worry that he will not establish merit?

貫索星，名日寶藏，連索之神，曰：橫財勾絞長繩天赦天赦天羅計都。此星八名，在北斗前，主法津，留強暴。門開則成獄訟，主恩赦，主發驟喜論格局。勾絞星，主索刑。同守身命宮，為連索身刑格，招閒事，惹爭訟。廟未旺己樂亥卯午身命宮，一主財帛豐厚。照身命運限流年遇，主財帛充足，利名索絆，不能心閒。凡宮主與天庫同會，吉曜相遇，禍厚，恩赦橫禍，水釋。會鸞刑，主發財。會凶曜，多獄訟。加刃惡死，姚淫蕩。加哭杖，主天折。加惡星，必主吊刑，懸爾，雷擊，獸傷，身屍流蕩，傷肢毀體，碌碌浮生，無超達，鄙吝之人。入官祿宮，與天庫同，運限流年拱會，主驟發。會惡星，離別 ,爭訟。女人遇此，同之，尤防產死，因色陷身，處家善能。

The Guan Suo star, named Bao Zang (Treasure Store), the deity of linked cords. It is said: windfall wealth, the hooking-and-strangling long rope, Tian She, Tian She, Tian Luo, Ji Du. This star has eight names and lies before the Northern Dipper; it governs the law and statutes, and detains the violent. When its gate opens, it becomes litigation and prison, and it governs amnesty and grace, and governs sudden joy, according to the pattern. The Gou Jiao star governs the cord of punishment. Guarding the Body or Fate palace together, it is the 'Linked-Cord Body-Punishment pattern', inviting idle affairs and provoking disputes and lawsuits. In temple (Wei), prosperity (Ji), and joy (Hai, Mao, Wu), in the Body or Fate palace, it alone governs abundant wealth. When it shines on the Body, Fate, Fortune, Limit, or flowing year, wealth is ample, but fame and gain are bound by cords, and the mind cannot be at ease. When the palace lord meets Tian Ku, and auspicious luminaries meet it, then heavy calamity, amnesty, and sudden misfortune are dissolved like water. Meeting Luan and Xing, it governs getting rich. Meeting malign luminaries, there is much prison and litigation. Adding Ren, a malign death; Yao, licentious dissipation. Adding Ku and Zhang, early death. Adding malign stars, it surely governs hanging and punishment, suspension, lightning strike, injury by beasts, a corpse drifting away, injured limbs and ruined body, a drudging and floating life with no breakthrough, a mean and stingy person. Entering the Official-Rank palace, together with Tian Ku, and supported or combined by the Fortune, Limit, or flowing year, it governs sudden prosperity. Meeting malign stars, separation and litigation. A woman who meets this should be treated the same, and especially guard against death in childbirth, a body sunk by lust, though at home she manages well.

彖曰

Verdict:

雖然天庫號孤神，吉曜相逢時有名。

Although Tian Ku is called a solitary spirit, when auspicious luminaries meet it, it has a name in its time.

最喜逢危中有救，一生幽雅作閒人。

Best of all, meeting danger one finds rescue within it; all his life, quiet and elegant, he is a person of leisure.

子子土多成敗　　黑道主哀怨悲傷毒夫，惟計錙銖之入，收積有餘。

Zi: Zi, Zi, Earth; much success and failure. The black road governs grief, resentment, sorrow, and poisoning of the husband; he reckons only the smallest gains, and accumulates a surplus.

五自立有成　　主孤克悽惶，損六親、雞口，惟貪不念若儻來之物。

Wu (five): Establishing himself, he succeeds. It governs solitude, overcoming, and distress, harm to the six kin, and quarrels; he is only greedy and gives no thought to windfall things.

一嘔　　主暴卒，惡毒咒咀，不仁少親力，見利而忘舊約，悖德而負初合。

Yi (one): Retching. It governs sudden death, malicious curses, unkindness, little help from kin; seeing profit he forgets the old agreement, and defying virtue he betrays the first union.

卯卯上有財人　　主腰跎手足風疾，沒溫良，無禮義，有禽獸亂漬之行，無水木本厚之思。

Mao: In Mao, a person with wealth. It governs a crippled waist and hands and feet, wind ailments, no gentleness or kindness, no ritual or righteousness, behavior of bestial disorder, and no thought of the thickness of the root of water and wood.

辰先破後成　　主喪吊臨門之事，雷虎之驚，看仔細仔細，相交小心，方可強壯，不徵自慶，晚籠之烏。

Chen: Broken first, then successful. It governs matters of mourning and condolence arriving at the door, the alarm of thunder and tigers; look closely and carefully, and be careful in associating; only then can one grow strong, and without being summoned, celebrate; a crow in a late cage.

巳險處成立　　印星之權，印祿之象，太乙宮喜貫，虎來廊廟得安居，君寵臣安權，有節名揚當列中。

Si: Establishing himself in perilous places. The authority of the Yin star, the image of Yin and Lu; the Taiyi palace rejoices in Guan; the tiger comes to the court and corridor, where he lives in peace; the sovereign favors and the minister is secure in authority; with integrity his name spreads among the ranks.

午實星旺午　　財祿無虧，妻子骨肉成虛。惡會得朱，吉照多阻，蠅頭是務，豈知有悖出之虞。

Wu: The solid star is prosperous in Wu. Wealth and emolument lack nothing, but wife, sons, and kin become empty. Malign stars meeting vermilion, auspicious shining is much obstructed; he attends to the head of a fly, how would he know there is the danger of things going awry?

未孤散入集　　主有刑禁之事，孤克六親，無凶星則吉，心迷法綱，身逐利途。

Wei: Solitary and scattered, entering the collection. It governs matters of punishment and prohibition, solitude overcoming the six kin; without malign stars it is auspicious; the mind is lost to the net of law, and the body chases the road of profit.

申與殺相宮　　有陰害謀毒，害不為無福，孤克孽自己，作空汙良善。

Shen: With the killing star in the palace. There is secret harm and poisonous scheming; the harm is not without fortune; solitude overcomes his own misdeeds, and is empty and fouls the good.

酉上能自立　　土宮貫臨，妻妾異心，有母必克，喪吊臨此。吉凶既異，其制而悲。

You: He can establish himself. When the Earth palace meets Guan, wife and concubine are of different hearts; where there is a mother, she is surely overcome, and mourning and condolence arrive; fortune and misfortune differ, and by restraining it one grieves.

戌上多辛苦　　天正星近貴有衣祿，遇惡凶自縊，邇須異於穿窬，情何殊於劫奪。

Xu: Much hardship. The Tian Zheng star is near the noble and has clothing and emolument; meeting malign, he hangs himself; he must differ from tunneling through walls, but in feeling how is it different from robbery?

亥清後主貴　　乃遊治孤虛之福，雙魚之地，身命並臨，金馬玉堂之事。

Hai: Pure, then governs nobility. This is the fortune of wandering to govern Gu and Xu; the place of the Two Fishes, with the Body and Fate arriving together, affairs of the Golden Horse and Jade Hall.

文昌星，名曰台輔，科甲第，秀氣。天魁、三台、鳳閣、天奇、文曲南斗六司之星，主貴，主學，主天祿之事。論格局，文曲廟旺，曰桂魁高攀格。旺樂午戌居身命，主後秀文，高杖名選，出將入相。廟旺尤貴照各宮者，主有辭章，能曜科甲。在廟旺，才智過人，有經緯之文，將相之職。是處事典雅，會善星，主大貴，主科名文美。會惡曜天異，壯年不遂，改祖庶出。加仗刑，剛傲。加刃，陰毒，刑害父母，兄弟不睦，有若無。加毛頭，見破祖。加刑，酷毒狼狼，凶禍殘身。加哭者，克害。加姚異者，淫奔。會曜亦號孤神。居旺地，主清貴無雙，仁義有守，信實不移。失地則傲慢，清高隱逸，孤閒而已。女人見之，主淫慾。加毛姚異鄙陋之人。加刑刃慘酷。官祿宮見之，好禮義，享情福，不理閒事。奴僕宮見之，智不如奴。子息宮見之，逢天貴，主後嗣顯達。運限流年照，並吉。

The Wen Chang star, named Tai Fu, the exam-passing, graceful qi. Tian Kui, the Three Terraces, Feng Ge, Tian Qi, Wen Qu: the stars of the six offices of the Southern Dipper, which govern nobility, learning, and matters of heavenly emolument. In discussing patterns: when Wen Qu is in temple prosperity, it is called the 'Cassia Kui Lofty Climbing pattern'. Prosperity and joy in Wu and Xu, dwelling in the Body or Fate, govern later talent, refined writing, a high rank in the selections, going out as general and entering as chancellor. In temple prosperity especially noble. Shining on the various palaces, it governs writing and eloquence, and the ability to shine in the examinations. In temple prosperity, one's talent and wisdom surpass others, with literature that weaves warp and weft, and the rank of general or chancellor. One handles affairs with elegance. Meeting good stars, it governs great nobility and fine literary reputation. Meeting malign luminaries and Tian Yi, one is unfulfilled in the prime of life, changes the ancestral name, or is born of a concubine. Adding Zhang and Xing, stiff and proud. Adding Ren, secretly malicious, harming the parents, brothers are not harmonious, as though absent. Adding Mao Tou, the ancestors are broken. Adding Xing, cruel and wolfish, malign calamity maims the body. Adding Ku, overcoming and harm. Adding Yao and Yi, licentious elopement. Meeting luminaries it is also called a solitary spirit. Dwelling in a prosperous ground, it governs a purity and nobility without equal, with benevolence and righteousness that hold, and trustworthiness that does not shift. If it loses its position, one is arrogant, aloof, a recluse, merely solitary and idle. A woman who sees it is governed by lust. Adding Mao, Yao, and Yi, a mean and vulgar person. Adding Xing and Ren, cruelty. Seen in the Official-Rank palace, one loves ritual and righteousness, enjoys the fortune of feeling, and does not mind idle affairs. Seen in the Servants palace, one's wisdom is not equal to a servant's. Seen in the Sons palace, meeting Tian Gui, it governs descendants who are eminent. Shining on the Fortune, Limit, or flowing year, all are auspicious.

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Verdict:

子　孤立子孤遲，妻兄定緩期。

Zi: Standing alone, the Zi is solitary and late; the wife's elder brother surely delays.

若教妻早到，長命也分離。

If you made the wife arrive early, then even with long life you would be parted.

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丑　丑惟主英名，不貴亦必富。

Chou: Chou governs heroic fame; if not noble, he is surely rich.

中年之後來，大器方成就。

After middle age it comes; only then is a great vessel accomplished.

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Verdict:

寅　寅上坐文昌，英容誰可當。

Yin: Wen Chang sits in Yin; a heroic appearance, who can match it?

更加吉星會，發福自成章。

If auspicious stars are further added, the fortune he gains forms its own pattern.

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Verdict:

卯　卯上學堂星，虛危未顯名。

Mao: The Academy star in Mao; in Xu and Wei his name is not yet displayed.

成才渾如夢，老來方有情。

His becoming a talent is entirely like a dream; only in old age does he find feeling.

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Verdict:

辰　辰上情豪強，孤高譽顯揚。

Chen: In Chen, his temperament is bold and strong; solitary and lofty, his praise is spread.

四正若相照，貪酷必非常。

If the four cardinal palaces shine on each other, greed and cruelty will be extraordinary.

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Verdict:

巳　儒雅好文星，身孤性格清。

Si: A refined, scholarly, literary star; his body is solitary and his character pure.

若入高人手，姻親水上萍。

If he falls into the hands of a lofty person, kin by marriage are like duckweed on water.

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Verdict:

午　午位到天台，逢人必主財。

Wu: The Wu position arrives at the Heavenly Terrace; meeting people, he surely governs wealth.

姓名香似桂，金印耀三槐。

His name is fragrant as cassia; the golden seal shines over the three pagoda trees.

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未　未上號孤獨，雖高心上逸。

Wei: Wei is called solitary; though lofty, his heart is carefree.

異枝還結子，僧道亦清吉。

A different branch still bears fruit; monks and Daoists too are pure and auspicious.

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Verdict:

申　申上號孤星，心明必顯榮。

Shen: Shen is called the solitary star; his heart is bright and he will surely display glory.

修文能致富，老去亦須昌。

Cultivating literature he can become rich; in old age he must also flourish.

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Verdict:

酉　酉守命心慈，扶揚善吉星。

You: In You, guarding the Fate, the heart is kind; supporting and lifting up the good auspicious stars.

不然僧與道，身掛紫衣榮。

Otherwise, monks and Daoists, whose bodies wear the glory of purple robes.

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Verdict:

戌　白羊偏得局，聲譽遠流傳。

Xu: The White Sheep gains the pattern in a lopsided way; his reputation is far spread.

入相三名位，出將想兵權。

Entering as chancellor in the three named positions, going out as general he thinks of military authority.

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Verdict:

亥　文宿在高強，須凶也不妨。

Hai: The Wen lodging stands in a high and strong place; even if there are malign stars, no harm.

可憐骨格重，基業晚年香。

Pitiable that his bone structure is heavy; the family foundation is fragrant in late years.

天福星，名善祥，帝符賜福吉神。

The Tian Fu star, named Shan Xiang (Good Omen), the auspicious deity bestowing fortune from the Imperial Tally.

此星房西三宿星，星列南北二斗。天福主乘輿公車之政，祭祀之事，尚書侍中此星也主高明福厚，廟卯旺寅申樂身命宮，主壽高福最少疾，作事多成，九百稱心，有陰力扶助。在高強宮，主晚年獲慶，遂心稱意，居能七能，施濟人利物，須與惡星同官，遇險難不危。會毛異，主過房庶出、不然填房入贅，兩姓同居。加姚，有福多淫；加毛，流蕩；加刃者，主疾酷毒之人；加刑，股露之毒，好爭訟；加杖，多責杖；加哭，孤克，雷擊浮波，因財落陷，惡獸殘身，蓋失地無力。女人見福吉，加姚異毛刃，則卑殘不廉之人，因色產懸吊之禍，不可不謹。官祿宮，有政事，不狂妄；遷移官，主出人遂心；限流年值之吉兆，主享通也。

This star is among the three lodgings west of Fang, its stars arrayed in the southern and northern Dippers. Tian Fu governs the affairs of the imperial carriage and public vehicles and matters of sacrifice; the Imperial Secretary and Palace Attendant are this star. It also governs loftiness, brightness, and abundant fortune. In temple (Mao), prosperity, and joy (Yin, Shen), in the Body or Fate palace, it governs high longevity, the least illness among all, most undertakings succeeding, nine in ten satisfying the heart, with hidden help and support. In a high and strong palace, it governs celebration in late years, the heart satisfied and intentions fulfilled, and dwelling at ease; one bestows aid on people and benefits things. It must share a palace with a malign star, so that meeting danger and hardship one is not imperiled. Meeting Mao and Yi, it governs being given to another house, or being born of a concubine, or else taking a second wife or entering a wife's family, two surnames dwelling together. Adding Yao, there is fortune but much lust; adding Mao, dissipation; adding Ren, a person of virulent illness and cruelty; adding Xing, the poison of exposed thighs, and love of lawsuits; adding Zhang, many floggings; adding Ku, solitude and overcoming, lightning strike, waves, falling into a pit because of wealth, injury by malign beasts, all because of losing position and being without strength. A woman who sees Fu with Yao, Yi, Mao, and Ren is a lowly, damaged, and unscrupulous person, who because of lust meets the calamity of hanging; one must be careful. In the Official-Rank palace there are affairs of government, without wildness or arrogance; in the Migration palace, going out and coming in satisfy the heart; when the Limit or flowing year meets it, an auspicious sign, and one enjoys success.

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Verdict:

子　福人寶瓶居，生涯可待時。

Zi: Fu enters the Precious Vase; one's life may wait for its time.

險中還有險，名利可憐虛。

Danger within danger; fame and gain are pitifully empty.

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丑　丑位福星臨，幼年常主災。

Chou: The Chou position, with the Fu star arriving; in childhood there is often calamity.

家門須自立，經史盡安排。

The household gate he must establish himself; classics and histories he arranges completely.

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Verdict:

卯　天福入寅宮，杖刃加臨貴。

Mao: Tian Fu enters the Yin palace; Zhang and Ren added, arriving as noble.

幼年志朱伸，晚節必稱遂。

In youth his aims are not extended; his late integrity will surely be satisfied.

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寅　福又卯倫宜，行藏任便為。

Yin: Fu and again Mao are suitable for company; going forth and withdrawing, he may act as he pleases.

何愁官不顯，老至自應奇。

Why worry that his office will not be prominent? Reaching old age, he is naturally remarkable.

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辰　居辰為雨澤，只怕惡星臨。

Chen: Dwelling in Chen is rain and moisture; he fears only a malign star's arrival.

有名無貪酷，終存道義心。

He has a name without greed or cruelty; in the end he preserves a heart of Way and righteousness.

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巳　福入金瑩垣，聰明性氣寬。

Si: Fu enters the Golden Bright enclosure; intelligent, his temperament is broad.

心慈能愛物，年少鎮朝端。

Kind-hearted and able to love creatures, in youth he guards the head of the court.

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午　老樹晚始榮，初入未揚名。

Wu: An old tree flourishes only late; at first entering he does not yet spread his name.

旺印俱臨位，何愁不稱情。

With prosperity and Yin both in the position, why worry that it will not satisfy his feelings?

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未　福星來未上，超趨何日問。

Wei: The Fu star comes to Wei; what day will he be asked after, rushing forward?

若無惡星臨，白頭方壯旺。

If no malign star arrives, only at white hair is he strong and prosperous.

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申　天福入旺生，何愁祿不成。

Shen: Tian Fu enters a prosperous, generating place; why worry that emolument will not come?

利名非異得，權高見水清。

Gain and fame are not gotten strangely; his authority is high and he sees clear water.

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酉　酉上福星加，渾如澗底花。

You: Fu star added in You, entirely like a flower at the bottom of a ravine.

刑異若來助，磨粉是生涯。

If Xing and Yi come to help, grinding flour is his livelihood.

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戌　白羊宮最優，家富足田牛。

Xu: The White Sheep palace is most excellent; the family is rich and the fields and oxen are ample.

營生大業事，進壽入公侯。

In running great enterprises, his longevity advances and he enters the ranks of dukes and marquises.

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亥　亥上福星燎，空榮平不遭。

Hai: The Fu star blazes in Hai; empty glory, yet he meets no misfortune on level ground.

成家中有分，好事未為高。

He makes a household and has a share within; good things are not yet lofty.

天祿星，曰三台，佐輔天廚、天財、天庫父寶之星。其星東北暫斤鳥曰祿元，主盛鐉之事。在垣局為福為之本，養命之源，主官祿吉祥。論格當刑沖破棣元日連索破祿格旺已廟申業卯申命二宮，主仁義調度。居是宮，主官祿自至，財帛實足。拱會一生宮貴，命中不會凶星，主大貴。若遇惡星照，則為碌碌之人。會善星與文星合，主清雅之職。加毛，文武之才，但財帛耗散；加虛，虛名、虛科；加異，孤立；加刃，殺伐；加姚，好色，性快至毒；入廟招寵妾；加刑，喊福，性直招怨，半失雙手足情疏，妻見見克。女人見之，夫榮子貴，富足優遊。加毛異重媾；加姚，俘；加杖刃，夭折；加哭，吊吊懸自縊，產厄；加福紫鸞，福厚有封贈男女。官祿宮見之，最吉，主財厚業隆。運限流年照臨，主不次之吉。

The Tian Lu star, called the Three Terraces, assisting Tian Chu, Tian Cai, Tian Ku, the father-treasure stars. Its star in the northeast, temporarily a catty-bird, is called the Lu Origin, governing matters of abundant feasts. In the enclosure it is the root of fortune and the source of nourishing life, governing auspicious official emolument. In discussing patterns: when Punishment, Clash, or Breaking, or the Di Yuan day linked to the Cord, breaks the Lu, it is the 'Broken Lu pattern'. Prosperous in Ji, temple in Shen, in Mao and Shen, in the two palaces of Fate, it governs benevolence, righteousness, and good regulation. Dwelling in this palace, it governs official emolument arriving of itself, and wealth being solid and ample. Supported or combined, a life of palace nobility; if the Fate does not meet malign stars, it governs great nobility. If it meets malign stars shining, one is a drudging person. Meeting good stars and joining with Wen stars, it governs a refined and elegant post. Adding Mao, talent in civil and martial affairs, but wealth is dissipated; adding Xu, empty fame and empty examination success; adding Yi, standing alone; adding Ren, killing and attacking; adding Yao, lust, with a quick nature that is extremely venomous; entering the temple, it attracts a favored concubine; adding Xing, fortune is diminished, the nature is blunt and attracts resentment, half loses the bonds of hands and feet (siblings), distant from them, and the wife is overcome when she sees it. A woman who sees it: the husband prospers and the sons are noble, and she is rich and leisurely. Adding Mao and Yi, serious licentious union; adding Yao, captive; adding Zhang and Ren, early death; adding Ku, hanging and self-strangulation, calamity in childbirth; adding Fu, Zi, and Luan, abundant fortune with enfeoffment and conferred titles for men and women. In the Official-Rank palace it is most auspicious, governing thick wealth and flourishing enterprise. When the Fortune, Limit, or flowing year shines upon it, it governs auspiciousness out of the ordinary.

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Verdict:

天祿臨身楓不難，高堂大廈享安閒。

Tian Lu arriving at the Body: the Fate is not hard; one enjoys leisure in high halls and great mansions.

忽然暗曜來沖破，碌碌區區度歲寒。

If suddenly dark luminaries come to clash and break it, one drudges and toils through the cold of the year.

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子　為性善加，儒雅堪誇。

Zi: His nature is good, with additions; refined and scholarly, worth boasting of.

須無大富，晚必榮華。

Though he need not be greatly rich, in late years he will surely have glory.

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丑　祿到金牛，名利懶去。

Chou: Lu arrives at the Golden Ox; he is lazy about fame and gain.

他年之後，辛苦管謀。

In later years, he toils at planning and managing.

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寅　祿居人馬，英雄俊雅。

Yin: Lu dwells in Ren-Ma; heroic and handsome.

福位滔滔，晚年聲價。

The rank of fortune surges on; his reputation in late years.

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卯　為人堪美名，榮華富貴清。

Mao: A person worthy of a fine name; glory, wealth, nobility, and purity.

自然多會遇，何愁不稱情。

Naturally there are many encounters; why worry that it will not satisfy his feelings?

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辰　福來庫辰鄉，成就幾更長。

Chen: Fu comes to the Ku and Chen district; how long will success last?

姻親非我分，男子自當強。

Kin by marriage are not my portion; the man is naturally strong.

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巳　巳位定威儀，榮華在後期。

Si: The Si position fixes a dignified bearing; glory lies in the later period.

平生無阻滯，下釣生魚磯。

All his life without obstruction, he casts a line and catches fish on the angling rock.

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午　祿不出南離，求名且待時。

Wu: Lu does not leave southern Li; in seeking fame, wait for the time.

晚年活計就，多是好根基。

His livelihood is made in late years, and most often he has a good foundation.

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未　祿元來未上，虛譽卻高遷。

Wei: The Lu origin comes to Wei; empty praise, yet he is promoted high.

自來知音遇，時時望跟穿。

He meets those who understand him; from time to time he hopes to be pierced through to his roots.

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申　申位祿堅牢，榮華更富高。

Shen: The Shen position, Lu is firm; glory and wealth are still higher.

中年成業計，禱者壽清高。

In middle age he builds his enterprise; the one who prays has a pure and lofty longevity.

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酉　祿陌祿傾兮，跡趨未可期。

You: Lu on the road, Lu inclined; the traces of his course cannot be foretold.

若會吉星照，須有稱心時。

If auspicious stars meet and shine, there must be a time that satisfies the heart.

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戌　祿入白羊地，心高身孤兮。

Xu: Lu enters the White Sheep ground; his heart is high and his body solitary.

發班方稱意，聊且慰桑榆。

When he issues forth in rank he is content, merely comforting his mulberry-and-elm years.

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亥　祿元居亥位，情性最恬然。

Hai: The Lu origin dwells in the Hai position; his temperament is most tranquil.

姻眷如萍草，雍雍喜晚年。

Kin by marriage are like duckweed; harmonious and joyful in late years.

天杖星，名曰獄訟，某治之星，玄參捧星，主羅網刑禁之事。論格局，天杖獨守官祿宮，名官鄉引杖格，主頻遭責辱，惹禍招非。廟子申亥旺未身命二宮，主多遭羅網刑禁，如有善星救可解。罹戮與惡曜同官，主杖捧惡死，不然亂傷、虎咬、雷擊、波沉、阿狼傷命。居是宮加刃，惡死，為人狂橫不伏，主氣剛強暴。廟旺於貴，亦主酷刑，不得位。會凶星，為血殺害，主嗔怒不常，多杖責。會星天印同宮，主權印，亦貴顯。加紫福，貴壽，主文慈權柄，福星稱高。加庫得地，發財有權。加貴人入廟，有福壽。加鸞，儒雅有性。加文，主孤。會惡曜加刑，刑害父母，刑不全手足。參商，妻嗣有克，六親少力，結契無情，男女亦然。加姚，淫慾；加虛，好詐；加哭，性參；會刃，主法死。女人見之，性剛直，處事能為。會吉曜，則凶；加毛異，主婚重再嫁。男子直之，變祖離鄉自立。會刑，不吉，主教唆詞訟，招

The Tian Zhang star, called Prison and Litigation, a star of governance, the Xuan Shen bearer star, which governs matters of nets, punishment, and prohibition. In discussing patterns: when Tian Zhang alone guards the Official-Rank palace, it is named the 'Official Township Leading the Staff pattern', governing frequent rebuke and humiliation, provoking calamity and inviting wrong. In temple (Zi, Shen, Hai) and prosperity (Wei), in the two Body and Fate palaces, it governs frequent nets, punishment and prohibition, which good stars can rescue and dissolve. Suffering slaughter, sharing a palace with malign luminaries, it governs a malign death by staff and cudgel, or otherwise chaotic injury, tiger bite, lightning strike, sinking in waves, or a wolf taking life. Dwelling in this palace and adding Ren, a malign death; the person is wild, violent, and unsubmitting, with a stiff and fierce qi. Even in temple prosperity and in nobility, it governs cruel punishment, if it does not obtain its position. Meeting malign stars, it brings bloody killing, and governs unusual anger and many floggings. Sharing a palace with the Tian Yin star, it governs authority and seal, and is also noble and prominent. Adding Zi and Fu, noble and long-lived, governing literary kindness and authority, with the Fu star called lofty. Adding Ku, if well placed, one gets rich and has authority. Adding Gui, entering the temple, there is fortune and longevity. Adding Luan, refined and scholarly in character. Adding Wen, solitary. Meeting malign luminaries and adding Xing, it punishes and harms the parents, and the hands and feet (siblings) are not whole. Like Shen and Shang (parted stars), wife and heirs are overcome, the six kin have little strength, and bonds made are without feeling, in men and women alike. Adding Yao, lust; adding Xu, love of deceit; adding Ku, a gloomy nature; meeting Ren, death by law. A woman who sees it is stiff and direct in nature and capable in handling affairs. Meeting auspicious luminaries, then malign; adding Mao and Yi, it governs a serious marriage and remarriage. A man who is direct with it changes the ancestral name and leaves home to establish himself. Meeting Xing, not auspicious; it governs instigating lawsuits and inviting

是非。運限流年值之，得地而有權，失地主獄訟，其驗如神。

disputes. When the Fortune, Limit, or flowing year meets it, if well placed there is authority, if it loses position it governs prison and litigation, and its verification is like a god's.

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子　子為天威，稟性高巍。

Zi: Zi is Heavenly Awe; his endowed nature is lofty and towering.

若無凶照，平步天墀。

If no malign star shines, with level steps he reaches the vermilion court.

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丑　丑為天轟，聲名遠揚。

Chou: Chou is Heavenly Thunder; his name and reputation spread far.

守其謹願，僧道也強。

Guarding his caution and sincerity, even as a monk or Daoist he is strong.

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寅　杖入寅官，心性聰明。

Yin: Zhang enters the Yin palace; his heart and nature are intelligent.

遇吉則吉，勞而成巧。

Meeting the auspicious, it is auspicious; through labor he becomes skillful.

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卯　卯位為人沖，加印大亨通。

Mao: In the Mao position, he clashes with others; with Yin added, great success and passage.

縱橫妙用處，辛苦始成功。

Where he applies his wondrous skill freely, only after hardship does he succeed.

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辰　居辰杖必凶，勞力自成功。

Chen: Zhang dwelling in Chen is surely malign; through the labor of his strength he succeeds on his own.

驛路榮身命，功名事必通。

On the post road he glorifies his Body and Fate; matters of fame and rank will surely get through.

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巳　巳位不堪誇，雖高身未華。

Si: The Si position cannot be boasted of; though lofty, his body is not yet glorious.

幾與成多敗，生涯亂似麻。

Few get through to success, many to failure; his livelihood is tangled like hemp.

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Verdict:

午　天彪入午，索絆辛苦。

Wu: Tian Biao enters Wu; bound by cords, hardship.

基業更張，老耒可補。

The foundation and enterprise are changed; in old age it can be repaired.

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未　太充入未宮，風騷性識通。

Wei: Tai Chong enters the Wei palace; romantic and poetic, his nature and knowledge get through.

初年須狼籍，晚歲始登隆。

In the first years he must be dissolute; only in late years does he ascend to eminence.

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申　申上有過星，印壽祿方亨。

Shen: In Shen there is a passing star; Yin, Shou, and Lu then prosper.

心平盈阻得，廟廊看雍容。

With a level mind, obstacles are overcome; in the court corridors one sees his dignity and ease.

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Verdict:

酉　酉上為殃，會吉方強。

You: In You it is calamity; meeting auspicious stars it becomes strong.

是非成敗，萍復他鄉。

Right and wrong, success and failure; drifting again in another land.

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戌　戌上號愴惶，逢之定擾攘。

Xu: Xu is called anguish and panic; meeting it, there will surely be disturbance.

有成還有破，老至始更張。

Where there is success there is also breaking; reaching old age he first makes changes.

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亥　供星入亥宮，氣彖盡從容。

Hai: The Gong star enters the Hai palace; his bearing is wholly unhurried.

縱橫妙用處，知名獲大功。

Where he applies his wondrous skill freely, he becomes known and gains great merit.

天異星，名曰離異破基司怪天孤異胎地劫鐵鉞司怪之星。主天地日月星辰之變異亂及烏獸草木之妖誕。居南圯之人，多學奇怪之事，得失不常。廟丑未樂辰身命二官，主破祖離鄉。重發照是宮，主別離變姓。與善星伺宮，或在廟旺則吉。若與惡星同宮，又在陷弱宮，主多虛詐，不識人，少尊重。但在廟旺則吉，主庶出之數。會惡星，主大突。會吉曜，有意外之喜。入廟樂，主貴顯。若正照臨，主亦得妻財。會吉宿，主貴加緊，名揚天下。加貴得地、聲名烜赫，多淫邪。加文昌，有聲譽，主壯年失意。加鸞，風流；加福祿，有享用；印壽，有權福詭詐。加庫貫，驟發奔馳；會惡曜加虛，奸詭詐計，及無廉恥。加姚淫濫九刑者，慘酷刑害雙親，兄弟似冤家，夫妻見離，克子，如沙裹陶金，男女亦然。女人見之，主淫奔。官綠宮，主有異財，臨事多變。妻妾宮不宜見之，主離損，害三宮，有若無，疾厄。與姚同守

The Tian Yi star, named Separation-and-Difference, the breaker of foundations, overseer of oddities, Tian Gu Yi Tai, Di Jie, Tie Yue, the star overseeing strangeness. It governs the strange changes and disorders of heaven and earth, sun, moon, and stars, and the monstrous freaks of birds, beasts, grass, and trees. People of the southern region often study strange matters, with gain and loss unsteady. In temple (Chou, Wei) and joy (Chen), in the two Body and Fate palaces, it governs breaking with the ancestors and leaving the homeland. Shining repeatedly on this palace, it governs separation and changing one's surname. Sharing a palace with good stars, or in temple prosperity, it is auspicious. If it shares a palace with malign stars and also falls in a sunken, weak palace, it governs much falsehood and deceit, not knowing people, and little dignity. Only in temple prosperity is it auspicious, and it governs the fate of being born of a concubine. Meeting malign stars, it governs great collisions. Meeting auspicious luminaries, there is unexpected joy. Entering temple and joy positions, it governs nobility and prominence. If it shines directly, it also gets a wife's wealth. Meeting auspicious lodgings, it governs nobility, urgently, with name spreading through the world. Adding Gui, if well placed, one's name and reputation blaze brightly, with much licentious deviance. Adding Wen Chang, there is reputation, but one is frustrated in the prime of life. Adding Luan, romance; adding Fu and Lu, there is enjoyment; with Yin and Shou, authority and fortune with trickery. Adding Ku and Guan, sudden prosperity and hurried travel; meeting malign luminaries and adding Xu, treacherous schemes and deceit, and shamelessness. Adding Yao, licentious excess, and the nine punishments: cruelly punishes and harms both parents, brothers like enemies, husband and wife separated, sons overcome, like gold sifted from sand; the same for men and women. A woman who sees it is governed by licentious elopement. In the Official-Rank palace, it governs unusual wealth, with many changes when facing affairs. It is not fit to be seen in the wife-and-concubine palace; it governs separation and loss, harms the three palaces, as though absent, and illness. Sharing a guard with Yao

，主有異疾。田宅宮，主破祖業。財帛宮，耗散。運限流年見之，主驚怪異福耗財。

it governs strange illnesses. In the Fields-and-Dwellings palace, it governs breaking the ancestral estate. In the Wealth palace, dissipation. When the Fortune, Limit, or flowing year sees it, it governs alarm and strangeness, fortune lost, and wealth consumed.

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Verdict:

杖異加協照命宮，改名換姓喜相同。

When Zhang and Yi add and join in illuminating the Fate Palace, changing one's name and surname is a happy coincidence.

若非異養偏房子、父母還爰見兩重。

If not adopted or born of a side wife, one sees the parents doubled.

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Verdict:

天異加居廟旺方，經營之事盡榮昌。

When Tian Yi is added and dwells in a place of temple prosperity, undertakings and management are all glorious and flourishing.

求謀立事皆如願，定須創造改門牆。

Seeking plans and establishing affairs all go as wished; one must create and change the family wall and gate.

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Verdict:

子棄祖號玉池星，性巧妙聰明，得西北　之祿，惡惡星相遇，災疾。天壽僧道遇之吉，主變祖。

Zi: Abandoning the ancestors, it is called the Jade Pool star; of clever, wondrous intelligence, it obtains the emolument of the northwest; meeting malign stars, calamity and illness. For monks and Daoists, meeting Tian Shou is auspicious; it governs changing the ancestors.

丑出外貴人欽羨，文學有名。惡星沖　照，主災疾克害，男不肖，女不良。

Chou: Going out, noble people admire him; his literary learning has a name. Malign stars clashing and shining govern calamity, illness, and harm; the son is unworthy and the daughter not good.

寅主歌樂妙舞之事。惡星沖照，其辛苦之人，遇吉平安。

Yin: It governs matters of song, music, and wondrous dance. Malign stars clashing and shining make him a person of hardship; meeting the auspicious, peace.

卯偏生性狡猾不成，遇哭刑並，六親骨肉伶仃，貧賤之人。

Mao: Born with a cunning nature that does not succeed; meeting Ku and Xing together, the six kin and flesh and blood are lonely and forlorn, a poor and lowly person.

辰異招貪財谷，招是非，三方無凶星照破，名揚翰苑之人，破祖離宗。

Chen: Yi invites greed for wealth and grain, invites disputes; if the three directions have no malign star to break it, a person whose name spreads in the Hanlin; breaking the ancestors and leaving the lineage.

巳主俊傑，文章巧妙，玉女最為良，刑臨男女，主官祿顯，女子有冠。常遇庫貫紫富，遇吉昌。

Si: It governs the outstanding; writing is clever and wondrous, the jade maiden is most excellent; Xing arriving at sons and daughters, it governs a prominent Official-Rank palace, and the woman has a crown. Often meeting Ku and Guan, Zi, and wealth; meeting the auspicious, flourishing.

午此宮非為貴，男子主聰明，忌天姚，多破成少，孤克壽夭，吉曜也平平。

Wu: This palace is not one of nobility; a man is intelligent; avoid Tian Yao; much breaking, little success, solitary overcoming, short life; auspicious luminaries are also mediocre.

未主人遭壓，巧計美顏，破湯祖業，吉照得業，般遇壽股肱之克，父母貧有福。

Wei: It governs a person being oppressed, clever schemes and a handsome face, breaking the ancestral estate; auspicious shining gains an estate; meeting Shou, the limbs are overcome; parents are poor but have fortune.

申福祿雙全，入紫微星，榮華有孫，子得妻，財旺盛，家計足溫和。

Shen: Fortune and emolument both complete, entering the Zi Wei star; glory, grandsons, and sons obtain a wife; wealth flourishes and the household livelihood is ample and mild.

酉隨女情逐高，主離祖，男重女嫁，因花破敗也。

You: Following a woman's feelings, chasing the lofty; it governs leaving the ancestors; a man's serious marriage is a woman's marriage; ruin because of flowers.

戌克害刑惡夭壽，刑獄不免孤，克六親，其本身主亦平平也。

Xu: Overcoming, harm, punishment, malignity, short life; prison is unavoidable; solitary, overcoming the six kin; the person himself is also mediocre.

亥福祿照宗樞機鎮府庭宮，福德方揚名，遇庫貫鸞紫富貴。

Hai: Fortune and emolument shine on the lineage pivot, guarding the house palace; in the Virtue palace his name spreads; meeting Ku, Guan, Luan, and Zi, wealth and nobility.

毛頭星，又名天彗，攙搶掃帚，妖孽之星。守宮，主兩年災歲饉。凡照處，皆不吉。亦主橫禍死亡。廟子卯旺，未戌樂寅身命宮，主性強暴，刃逆好殺，敢勇有力。凡照是宮，不吉。逢之，其家無四璧。會吉曜，有權。與惡星同宮，則凶。居是宮，須破祖，為事卻快。廟旺，主兵權，定揚旌旄節鉞。會吉星加貴入廟，主官祿榮顯。加福德，破祖成家。加印壽，主榮主壽。加文昌，清孤。加庫，富寔財足。會惡曜加刑刃，主刑父母，兄弟、妻子見損。亦主旺年夭折。加刑，好殺；加虛，貧寒多災；加哭，巫醫九流之輩，主外死。加虛哭，主瘟疫。三星、虛星、惡星在命宮，加毛，凶夭。亦主貪淫好色。遇貫，自成立，長在外，若僧道身死外境。官祿宮，主不怕事，立志有謀，決斷無疑。遷福二宮，不遇險難。運限流年照，無吉星，亦主官災水厄，異禍相凌。女人見之，亦然。主有產厄，肺經虛怯之症。會吉星

The Mao Tou star, also called Tian Hui (Heavenly Comet), Chan Chuang, and Broom; a star of monstrous ill omen. Guarding a palace, it governs two years of calamity and famine. Wherever it shines, nothing is auspicious. It also governs sudden calamity and death. In temple (Zi, Mao), prosperity (Wei, Xu), and joy (Yin), in the Body or Fate palace, it governs a violent nature, rebellious blades and love of killing, daring, courage, and strength. Wherever it shines on this palace, it is not auspicious. Meeting it, the household has no four walls. Meeting auspicious luminaries, there is authority. Sharing a palace with malign stars, it is malign. Dwelling in this palace, one must break the ancestors, and acts quickly in affairs. In temple prosperity, it governs military authority, and one will surely raise the banner and yak-tail standard, the tally and battle-axe. Meeting auspicious stars and adding Gui entering the temple, it governs prominent official emolument. Adding Fu and De, one breaks the ancestors and builds a household. Adding Yin and Shou, it governs glory and longevity. Adding Wen Chang, pure and solitary. Adding Ku, wealth is solid and ample. Meeting malign luminaries and adding Xing and Ren, it punishes the parents, and brothers, wife, and sons are harmed. It also governs early death in a prosperous year. Adding Xing, love of killing; adding Xu, poverty, cold, and much calamity; adding Ku, shamans, physicians, and the nine schools of lowly trades, and death abroad. Adding Xu and Ku, it governs epidemics. The three stars, the Xu star, and malign stars in the Fate palace, adding Mao, malign early death. It also governs greed, lust, and love of women. Meeting Guan, one establishes oneself and is long abroad, as monks and Daoists die in foreign lands. In the Official-Rank palace, it governs not fearing trouble, setting one's will with schemes, and resolving without doubt. In the two palaces of Migration and Fortune, no danger or hardship is met. When the Fortune, Limit, or flowing year shines upon it, if there are no auspicious stars, it also governs official calamity and water disaster, with strange misfortune encroaching. A woman who sees it is the same. It governs calamity in childbirth and lung-channel weakness. Meeting auspicious stars

助，失獲福犯，主淫致禍。加哭刃者，六親冷落。

as help, it loses its gains and gets fortune; offending, it governs licentiousness bringing calamity. Adding Ku and Ren, the six kin are cold and neglected.

歌曰

Song:

子廟有心，膽能主持，夜生吉星，凶妻多婢。妾遇天福，紫微富貴。

Zi: In the temple he has heart, with the courage to take charge; born at night under an auspicious star, a fierce wife and many maids. A concubine meeting Tian Fu, Zi Wei, wealth and nobility.

丑有福德，轉禍如祥。遇變祿，功名富貴，憑筆舌上成來，廟旺上為吉。

Chou: He has fortune and virtue, turning calamity into good omen. Meeting a changing Lu, fame, rank, wealth, and nobility are achieved by brush and tongue; auspicious in a temple prosperity.

寅有權倉箱盈滿，內實外虛。遇吉，多財藝能之人，福倍富貴。

Yin: He has authority, granaries and chests full, solid within and empty without. Meeting the auspicious, a person of much wealth and skill, fortune doubled, wealth and nobility.

卯職重權支翰苑之人。遇吉星，富貴；加惡星沖破者，貧窮。

Mao: A post of weight and authority, a person who supports the Hanlin. Meeting auspicious stars, wealth and nobility; when malign stars clash and break it, poverty.

辰棄祖主克害，招異無刑惡，百事無成。遇凶星，遭刑貧賤。

Chen: Abandoning the ancestors, it governs overcoming and harm; inviting Yi brings no punishment or malignity, but a hundred affairs achieve nothing. Meeting malign stars, he meets punishment and poverty.

巳更變不常，孤苦無定伶仃，思宜進退，六親俱不得力。

Si: Change and variation are unsteady; solitary hardship without fixity, lonely; consider carefully advance and retreat; the six kin all give no help.

午會吉星，得貴提攜，加惡星，多敗少成，其所作為亦不須。

Wu: Meeting auspicious stars, he gets the leadership of a noble; adding malign stars, much failure and little success, and what he does is also unnecessary.

未有多主六親無分，離祖方成。遇天福、貫、庫，主富。惡星沖，不利。

Wei: It governs the six kin having no share, succeeding only after leaving the ancestors. Meeting Tian Fu, Guan, and Ku, it governs wealth. Clashed by malign stars, unfavorable.

申主妖媚、藝毒。遇凶星，一生貧苦，·破祖離鄉。遇吉星，主祿壽。

Shen: It governs bewitching charm and the poison of skills. Meeting malign stars, a life of poverty and hardship, breaking the ancestors and leaving the homeland. Meeting auspicious stars, it governs emolument and longevity.

酉主破祖勞心。遇凶星，夭壽，不得善終。遇吉星，方可兔，吉。

You: It governs breaking the ancestors and toiling of mind. Meeting malign stars, short life and not dying a good death. Meeting auspicious stars, one may escape; auspicious.

戌破祖有凶化吉，晚年財多。遇吉曜，平步雲梯。遇惡星，不吉。

Xu: Breaking the ancestors, malign turning to auspicious, with much wealth in late years. Meeting auspicious luminaries, he climbs the cloud ladder on level ground. Meeting malign stars, not auspicious.

亥主疑惑驚恐之。遇凶星，成敗不常，得失無定。遇善星，則吉。

Hai: It governs doubt, bewilderment, and fright. Meeting malign stars, success and failure are unsteady and gain and loss unfixed. Meeting good stars, it is auspicious.

天刃星，名曰流血懸針。石室秘文曰：此星乃金神，七殺之神異名。在垣局，具陰德之事，亦殺傷。論格局，男女二宮，主刃貫同守，乃子刃紫格，必破家。廟巳申旺午樂寅身命二宮值此，主性毒狼狼，好殺戳，多在兵陣中刃死。．昭一是宮，主殺伐之權。會惡星，傷殘會吉星居是宮，主傷陷人有事不言能善一絡廟與吉星同宮，主兵權，不兔陣前落魄，並主血疾陷地，必遭杖辱徒配。會吉星加紫，凶自臧半。加庫、貫，有財多主自縊，水渰大災，獸傷。加印、壽，有疾方可，不然夭折。加文，有權而孤。加鸞，因色害身。加貴，有權，不善終。加福祿，不正全福。加刑，主惡亡。加毛，夭。加姚，主淫而夭。加虛，無實多詐，加哭，孤克。女人見之，多虛產疾，胎後異疾。官祿宮，主性剛暴，不陷人。遷移宮，不宜見，運限值之，多桔枯橫禍，積善之家可兔。犯姚異，淫夭，別立宗風，主庶出類。男女身命

The Tian Ren star, named Flowing Blood and Hanging Needle. The Secret Text of the Stone Chamber says: this star is the Metal deity, another name for the Seven Killings deity. In the enclosure it holds matters of hidden virtue, and also killing and wounding. In discussing patterns: in the two palaces of men and women, if Ren and Guan guard together, it is the 'Son-Ren-Zi pattern' and will certainly break the family. In temple (Si, Shen), prosperity (Wu), and joy (Yin), if this star is met in the two Body and Fate palaces, it governs a venomous, wolfish nature and love of slaughter, and one often dies by the blade in the battle line. Shining on this palace, it governs the authority of attack and killing. Meeting malign stars, injury and disability; meeting auspicious stars in this palace, it governs injuring and sinking people, not speaking of matters and yet able to; in temple, sharing a palace with auspicious stars, it governs military authority, and one cannot escape setbacks before the battle line, and also blood illness; in a sunken ground, one will surely suffer flogging, humiliation, and penal exile. Meeting auspicious stars and adding Zi, half the malignity is stored away. Adding Ku and Guan, there is wealth, but often self-strangulation, drowning, great calamity, and beast injury. Adding Yin and Shou, one must have illness to be well, otherwise early death. Adding Wen, authority but solitude. Adding Luan, the body is harmed because of lust. Adding Gui, authority, but not a good end. Adding Fu and Lu, not wholly correct fortune. Adding Xing, it governs a malign death. Adding Mao, early death. Adding Yao, it governs licentiousness and early death. Adding Xu, nothing solid and much deceit; adding Ku, solitude and overcoming. A woman who sees it often has weakness, childbirth illness, and strange illness after the birth. In the Official-Rank palace, it governs a stiff and violent nature that does not sink others. The Migration palace should not see it; when Fortune or Limit meets it, there is much withering and sudden calamity, which a family that accumulates good may escape. Offending Yao and Yi, licentious early death, setting up a separate family tradition, of the type born of concubines. The Body and Fate of men and women

，不宜值此。

should not meet this.

歌曰

Song:

子主色事，有美人，遇異呻昤勞碌，奔波到底，亦未甚善。

Zi: It governs matters of lust, there is a beauty; meeting Yi, groaning, toil and bustle, rushing about to the end, and also not very good.

丑妖怪，好師巫，財寶旺，田疇。遇吉星，臧災殃；遇凶星，主妖亡。咒水書符，恬不知恥。

Chou: Monstrous, fond of masters and shamans, wealth and treasure prosperous, fields flourishing. Meeting auspicious stars, calamity is stored away; meeting malign stars, it governs a monstrous death. Charming water and writing talismans, calm and without shame.

寅因色喪身，婦女死於淫。男子性多愚蠢，想是匹夫身。主有禽獸讀亂之行。

Yin: Losing the body because of lust, a woman dies of licentiousness. A man is mostly foolish by nature, apparently a mere commoner. It governs bestial and disordered behavior.

卯克六親，手是瘋疾，刑妻害子。遇惡星，壽夭貧窮。吉星亦常乎。

Mao: Overcoming the six kin, the hands have wind illness, punishing the wife and harming sons. Meeting malign stars, short life and poverty. Auspicious stars are also ordinary.

辰宮天祿足，中限主奔波。

Chen: In the Chen palace Tian Lu is sufficient; in the middle Limit it governs rushing about.

一生虛碌碌，財祿有無多。

All life, empty and drudging; wealth and emolument, whether present or absent, are much.

巳財祿耗散，出外身亡，子孫孤苦。遇吉星可解，逢凶星必克害，其瑞甚微，其禍甚大。

Si: Wealth and emolument are dissipated, dying abroad, descendants solitary and bitter. Meeting auspicious stars it can be dissolved; meeting malign stars it surely overcomes and harms; the good omen is very slight, the calamity very great.

午孤睽午宮，主好色。妻宮，通外人，能廉禮節，傷殘克六親，曰下臨喪，面前可見。

Wu: Solitary and estranged in the Wu palace, it governs love of women. The wife palace communicates with outsiders, able to be modest in ritual, injuring and overcoming the six kin, with mourning coming from below, visible before one's eyes.

未六親克害，作事成敗。遇吉星，入來好。惡曜見之，終不能保守，華而不實者矣。

Wei: The six kin are overcome and harmed; in his actions success and failure. Meeting auspicious stars, coming in is good. Malign luminaries seeing it, in the end he cannot keep or hold, flowery but not solid.

申凶伴不良，有害則可也。吉星當頭，亦不能濟其災也。福星臨，而禍發以表人。

Shen: Malign companions, not good; if there is harm, so be it. With auspicious stars at the head, they also cannot rescue his calamity. A Fu star arriving, yet calamity breaks out to mark the person.

酉百中無正性，作事多番覆。性則無定準，損害見刑酷。

You: Among a hundred, no upright nature; in his actions many reversals. His nature has no fixed standard; he suffers harm and meets cruel punishment.

戌天殃火星多財祿，虛酉畏惡星，限臨惡曜，傷克父母，妻子壽促，主災疾。

Xu: Tian Yang and Huo Xing, much wealth and emolument; Xu and You fear malign stars; when the Limit arrives at malign luminaries, parents are harmed, wife and sons have short lives, and it governs calamity and illness.

亥亥宮須有害，祿位得陰人。貴高得寵位，室璧盡忠清。

Hai: The Hai palace must have harm; emolument and rank are obtained through a woman. Noble and lofty, he gains favored position, and the household walls are wholly loyal and pure.

天刑星，名曰天炮、火星、死符、始始擊、計都、虛空、火德、天狗、天權、天害。此星十名，乃計都星異名，與羅喉星相對，又曰天尾星，士軍旅鈇鈸之事。紫微面南，為車騎將帥之宿，遇之則主豪福權貴，忠義貫於曰且，節操凜於冰霜。主官災論格局，刑刃星兄弟宮，名破雁格，同虛及居卯上，名坐雷門格，廟寅成旺，酉樂午宮身命二宮，主氣象，好折人不平處。照是宮，主橫死，有善星救解，亦主徒流。若同紅貫，廟旺非常，且無獄禁之厄。戌上，百通；失地，主法死必然，必主跛足背，腰腿背異疾。如得地吉，禍輕。會吉星加紫微得地，聲價貴重。失地，亦主疾厄傷殘。加貴，顯達；加文昌，人廟主孤；加庫、貫，因財有名；加印壽，有權；加鸞，有文武之才；加福祿，無十分全；加毛，破相好武；加杖，有權。如虛，貧薄，須有聲名，多虛少實。加異，過房入贅；有刃者，徒配流刑；加毛刃，主

The Tian Xing star, named Heavenly Cannon, Fire Star, Death Tally, Shi Shi Ji, Ji Du, Void, Fire Virtue, Tian Gou, Tian Quan, Tian Hai. This star has ten names and is another name for the Jidu star, facing the Luohou star; it is also called the Tian Wei star, governing matters of the army, axe, and battle-axe. Zi Wei faces south as the lodging of chariot-and-cavalry generals; meeting it, one has heroic fortune, authority, and nobility, loyalty and righteousness running through the sun, integrity severe as ice and frost. It governs official calamity. In discussing patterns: when Xing and Ren stars are in the brothers' palace, it is the 'Broken Wild Goose pattern'; together with Xu and dwelling in Mao, it is the 'Sitting at the Thunder Gate pattern'. In temple (Yin, Xu), prosperity (You), and joy (Wu), in the two Body and Fate palaces, it governs a bearing that loves to break unfairness among people. Shining on this palace, it governs a violent death, though good stars may rescue and dissolve it, and it also governs penal exile. If it shares a palace with Hong and Guan, temple prosperity is extraordinary and there is no calamity of prison. In Xu, a hundred things get through; if it loses position, it surely governs death by law, and it must govern a lame foot, hunched back, and strange illness of waist, legs, and back. If well placed and auspicious, calamity is light. Meeting auspicious stars and adding Zi Wei well placed, reputation and worth are weighty. If it loses its position, it still governs illness, calamity, and disability. Adding Gui, prominence; adding Wen Chang, entering the temple, solitary; adding Ku and Guan, a name because of wealth; adding Yin and Shou, authority; adding Luan, talent in civil and martial arts; adding Fu and Lu, not fully whole; adding Mao, a damaged appearance and love of martial matters; adding Zhang, authority. As with Xu, poor and thin, there must be reputation, much empty and little solid. Adding Yi, given to another house or entering a wife's family; with Ren, penal assignment and exile; adding Mao and Ren, it governs

天。女人見之，防剋夫損子，外家凌替，產厄虛怯之患。加姚，淫奔；加異，重婚再嫁；加鸞，福祿相夫有封贈；加壽，壽高。官祿宮見吉，遷移宮招水火賊盜之危。運限流年值之，主災耗。

early death. A woman who sees it should guard against overcoming her husband and harming her sons, her natal family declining, calamity in childbirth, and weakness. Adding Yao, licentious elopement; adding Yi, serious marriage and remarriage; adding Luan, fortune and emolument assisting the husband with enfeoffment; adding Shou, long life. Seen auspicious in the Official-Rank palace; in the Migration palace it invites the danger of water, fire, bandits, and thieves. When Fortune, Limit, or flowing year meets it, it governs calamity and loss.

子　子宮，主哀傷，遇惡曜刑傷，遭毒妨害，短命六親，主克疾病連鄉。

Zi: The Zi palace governs grief and sorrow; meeting malign luminaries, punishment and injury, meeting poison and obstruction, short life; the six kin, overcoming, illness continuing through the district.

丑　丑宮多克害，貪財並破敗。

Chou: The Chou palace has much overcoming and harm, greed for wealth and ruin.

凶限克雙親，少成多破敗。

A malign Limit overcomes both parents; little success, much breaking and failure.

寅主武寅居號虎威，印祿廟廊居。

Yin: It governs martial matters; Yin dwells in the position called Tiger Awe; Yin and Lu dwell in the temple corridor.

居寵臣安樂，雁塔必中書。

Dwelling as a favored minister, at ease and happy, he will surely become a secretary at the Wild Goose Pagoda.

忌惡星沖，男子傷妻子，女性剛孤寡，三十歲內少兒，少年有濃血之災。

Avoid clashing malign stars: a man harms wife and sons; a woman is stiff, solitary, and widowed; before thirty few children; in youth there is the calamity of thick blood.

卯　腰跎眼目疾，刑害不能安。

Mao: Hunched waist and eye ailments; punishment and harm leave no peace.

僧道須當吉，身孤命又單。

Monks and Daoists should find it auspicious; the body is solitary and the fate single.

辰　辰宮心地險，封公遇貫虎蛇驚。刑吊傷亡事，要兔遇吉星。

Chen: The Chen palace has a perilous heart and ground; enfeoffed as a duke, meeting Guan, the tiger and snake bring alarm. Matters of punishment, mourning, injury, and death; to escape, one must meet auspicious stars.

巳　巳宮損妻子，羅剛克害豈非常。成敗無期準，生來性急剛。

Si: The Si palace harms wife and sons; the net and the hard overcome and harm, how could it be ordinary? Success and failure have no fixed date; by birth he is hasty and stiff.

午　外死，主夭折，惡毒咒咀，不良之人，刑妻害子，損六親。宜重責己，而輕責人。

Wu: Death abroad, it governs early death, malicious curses, a person not good, punishing the wife and harming sons, injuring the six kin. He should take heavy blame on himself and light blame on others.

未　未宮凶吉兩相參，妻兒定主兩三番。

Wei: The Wei palace mixes fortune and misfortune; wife and children will surely come two or three times over.

六親有損須破祖，離饗僧道壽宜長。

The six kin suffer loss and he must break the ancestors; leaving the household as a monk or Daoist, longevity is fitting.

申　申宮陰毒主刑傷，父母初年定克亡。

Shen: The Shen palace, secretly venomous, governs punishment and injury; the parents are surely overcome in the early years.

命限若無吉星助，災危成敗豈尋常。

If the Fate and Limit have no auspicious star to help, how could calamity, danger, success, and failure be ordinary?

酉　酉宮必刑傷，文武妻兒定克亡。幼年傷父母，帶疾夭壽喪。

You: The You palace will surely have punishment and injury; civil and martial, wife and children are surely overcome and die. In youth he harms the parents, and carries illness and early death.

戌　征伐靖邊時色戌宮，祿星屬三方吉曜臨，或名須自到，無謀定有成。

Xu: Campaigning to pacify the border, the Xu palace, in a time of color: the Lu star belongs to the three directions, auspicious luminaries arrive; or the name must come of itself, and without scheming he surely succeeds.

亥　亥宮孤虛祿，文章克世材。驚天須動地，天祿自然來。

Hai: The Hai palace, solitary Xu and Lu; his writing overcomes his age and talent. He startles heaven and moves earth, and Tian Lu naturally comes.

天姚星，名曰天淫玄娼，主樂將桃花，主桃花撞釵，風流妖誕之宿。此星在垣局，專主淫穢之事。論格局，居子位，名花粹寶王格，主淫亂廟卯戌旺辰樂亥身命二宮，主性陰毒，性亂多疑，善顏色福淺之人。若八廟旺，卻富貴多奴婢。居亥上，名登明之宮，有絕世之才。逢吉星，則戀花酒。會惡曜，破家敗業，因色犯刑亡身。六合，少年夭折。若臨命陷，嫁不用謀，把手成親，會吉星加壽，有壽；加庫，財；加紫，剛柔相濟，風流；加貴，多妄多嬪；加鸞，淫；會凶星，凶；加刑刃天，折損父母，並妻兒；兄弟宮，鴉行失序；加杖，好色；近貴，多為隸，隸書寫之人；加異，業祖淫賤獨人；加毛，破祖淫，或於人言不顧行；加哭，酷毒；官祿宮，多虛少實，會陷人；疾厄宮，不宜見，主異疾橫傷，因色酒損身。運限逢之，皆不宜。入廟則吉，人物美質俊秀，性格風流，狡猾多端，機謀百壯，常招是非，及酒

The Tian Yao star, named Heavenly Licentiousness and Dark Courtesan, governing the music-leading Peach Blossom, governing Peach Blossom colliding with hairpins, a lodging of romantic and monstrous extravagance. This star in the enclosure exclusively governs licentious and filthy matters. In discussing patterns: dwelling in the Zi position is named the 'Flower-pure Treasure King pattern', which governs licentious disorder. In temple (Mao, Xu), prosperity (Chen), and joy (Hai), in the two Body and Fate palaces, it governs a secretly venomous nature, chaotic and suspicious, a person of fine looks and thin fortune. If it is in the eight temple prosperity positions, there are wealth, nobility, and many servants and maids. Dwelling in Hai, named the Deng Ming palace, there is peerless talent. Meeting auspicious stars, one is attached to flowers and wine. Meeting malign luminaries, the household is broken and the enterprise ruined, and because of lust one commits crimes and loses one's body. In the Six Harmonies, early death in youth. If it arrives at a sunken Fate, marriage needs no scheming, hand in hand a union is made; meeting auspicious stars and adding Shou, there is longevity; adding Ku, wealth; adding Zi, firm and soft aid one another, romantic; adding Gui, many reckless acts and many concubines; adding Luan, licentious; meeting malign stars, malign; adding Xing, Ren, and Tian, loss and damage to parents and to wife and children; in the brothers' palace, the crows' line loses order; adding Zhang, love of women; near the noble, often a clerk, a person who writes in clerical script; adding Yi, the ancestral work is licentious, lowly, and alone; adding Mao, breaking the ancestors, licentious, or in speech not heeding conduct; adding Ku, cruel and venomous; in the Official-Rank palace, much empty and little solid, meeting and sinking people; in the Illness palace it is not fit to be seen, governing strange illness and sudden injury, harming the body through lust and wine. Meeting it in Fortune or Limit is never suitable. Entering the temple it is auspicious; the person is fine in quality and handsome, romantic in character, cunning and many-sided, with a hundred schemes, often inviting disputes, and wine,

色奢華賭博，必占#1一也，男子值之皆然。女人加哭毛二星，主自縊、產傷。

women, extravagance, and gambling, he will surely have one (#1); the same for any man who meets it. A woman adding the two stars Ku and Mao governs self-strangulation and injury in childbirth.

判曰

Judgment:

子　弔客子宮主狡猾，陰謀說夭孤。

Zi: The Mourning Guest in the Zi palace governs cunning, secret schemes, speaking of early death and solitude.

女作風塵之賤婦，損子及損夫。

A woman becomes a lowly wife of the dust and wind, harming sons and harming her husband.

丑哭臨丑宮威猛更端嚴，文武清貴有剛權。

Chou: Ku arrives at the Chou palace, awesome and fierce yet dignified; civil and martial, pure and noble, with firm authority.

須逢惡曜有高貴，九流醫術是高強。

One must meet malign luminaries to have nobility; among the nine schools, medical arts are lofty and strong.

此星用文武為宰相，列諧侯者，逢惡沖破也，作九流高士之人。

This star uses civil and martial talent to be a chancellor or a lord ranked among the marquises; meeting malign stars clashing and breaking it, he becomes a lofty scholar of the nine schools.

寅　寅宮招罪青，牢獄更官災。

Yin: The Yin palace invites blue-green guilt, prison, and official calamity.

凶星相犯照，孤克不聚財。

Malign stars offend and shine; solitary, overcoming, wealth not gathering.

此星早傷父母，帝疾壽促，身命遭之不吉。若得吉星相助，福祿昌盛。

This star harms the parents early, with illness and shortened life; the Body or Fate meeting it is not auspicious. If auspicious stars help, fortune and emolument flourish.

卯　威猛更色慾，加吉反為福。

Mao: Awesome and fierce, and also lustful; adding auspicious stars, it turns into fortune.

重重財祿旺，又忌惡星觴。

Layer upon layer, wealth and emolument flourish; but again avoid the cup of malign stars.

辰　破軍威猛之壯象，三方遇惡星，

Chen: Po Jun, the strong image of awesome fierceness; if the three directions meet malign stars,

克父母，主奇食庶生倚親之命。

it overcomes the parents; it governs the fate of one born of a concubine, relying on kin for food.

巳　巳宮，犯兵刃，毒藥傷身命。若遇天福、天杖臧一半，女主鰥寡。若遇紅鸞，因色傷身，死於他鄉。

Si: The Si palace offends blades and weapons, poison harms the Body and Fate. If it meets Tian Fu and Tian Zhang, half is stored away; a woman governs widowhood. If it meets Hong Luan, one loses the body because of lust and dies in another land.

午　文章有風聲，際會蔭，豪名帛衣官顯，客凶中化吉，星貫索，巫醫僧道。

Wu: Writing has a reputation, the opportune meeting brings shelter, a heroic name, silk robes, and prominent office; a guest turns malign into auspicious, the Guan Suo star, shamans, physicians, monks, Daoists.

未　主風流、血疾、死亡，身來官祿助，亦夭；遇紅鸞星，可免一半。

Wei: It governs romance, blood illness, and death; the body comes with Official-Rank help, yet also early death; meeting the Hong Luan star, half may be avoided.

申　敗常亂家法，先破後家成。

Shen: Defeating the constant and disordering family rules, broken first, then the household is made.

遇惡帶重疾，身亡文毋華。

Meeting malign stars, bearing serious illness, the body dies, and literature is not glorious.

酉　主人一生名標青史，祿貴高遷。

You: A person's whole life, his name is marked in the green histories, with emolument, nobility, and lofty promotion.

酉宮號矢星，金刃矢害身。

The You palace is called the Arrow star; the golden blade and arrow harm the body.

更加惡曜臨，刑傷損六親。

If malign luminaries are further added, punishment and injury harm the six kin.

主傷亡父母，破敗孤，克家風。

It governs injury and death of the parents, breaking and failure, solitude, and overcoming the family tradition.

戌　因猛中而失職，惡曜沖照，官災橫惡。此宮主孤貧非橫，惡事臨身。

Xu: Losing office because of fierceness; malign luminaries clash and shine, with official calamity and violent malignity. This palace governs solitude and poverty, no sudden fortune, and malign affairs arriving at the body.

亥#2亥宮在陰邪，家富盡消磨。

Hai (#2): The Hai palace is in yin and deviance; the family's wealth is all worn away.

惡曜凶星照，官災產死多。

Malign luminaries and malign stars shine; much official calamity and death in childbirth.

此宮如遇惡星，男遭官災，女主產難之厄。

If this palace meets malign stars, a man meets official calamity, a woman the hardship of difficult childbirth.

星行限，吉凶論。

The Stars Travelling in the Limit: Discussing Fortune and Misfortune

紫微星拱限，主榮遷喜慶之事，庶人

When the Zi Wei star supports the Limit, it governs glorious promotion and matters of joy and celebration; commoners

營業增產，學主名譽，貴人加官進職，僧道有清高之福，婦人必旺夫家。亥卯三方會吉星，主面君之榮，庶人發跡。

gain in their business and produce; scholars gain reputation; the noble gain promotion in office; monks and Daoists have the fortune of purity and loftiness; a woman will surely prosper her husband's house. Where the three directions of Hai and Mao meet auspicious stars, it governs the glory of facing the sovereign, and commoners rise.

天虛

Tian Xu

天虛名無實，星照限，主利名耗虛危，財帛難驟，仍有虛驚空喜，陰人小口，哭泣孝服，破財之事。刑哭姚刃沖並，主染蠱腫之病。虛會刑殺並限者，主招家暗凶事，長吊官制，凡事不吉，主虛癆瘦弱。亦主貧賤孤苦，一生好事成空，萬事到頭。如夢。

Tian Xu, named without substance; when the star shines on the Limit, it governs fame and gain wasted and perilous, wealth difficult to gain suddenly, with false alarms and empty joy, women and children, weeping and mourning dress, and affairs of broken wealth. Xing, Ku, Yao, and Ren clashing together govern infection with gu-swelling illness. When Xu meets Xing and killing stars together with the Limit, it governs inviting secret malign affairs at home, prolonged mourning and official restraint, nothing auspicious; it governs weakness and emaciation. It also governs poverty, lowliness, and solitary hardship, all the good things of a lifetime turning empty, and everything reaching its end like a dream.

天貴

Tian Gui

天貴星拱限，喜氣非常，無災有吉，

When the Tian Gui star supports the Limit, the joy is extraordinary, there is no calamity and there is auspiciousness,

文人及第，官貴升遷，士庶發財，僧道衣缽充實。女人遇此，必主榮夫富資帛，有封號。

scholars pass the examinations, officials are promoted, scholars and commoners get rich, and monks and Daoists have full robes and bowls. A woman who meets this will surely prosper her husband, be rich in goods and silks, and have an enfeoffed title.

彖曰

Verdict:

貴星入限喜非常，縱有災厄亦吉昌。

When the noble star enters the Limit, the joy is extraordinary; even if calamity and hardship come, it is still auspicious and flourishing.

文者遇之須及第，官貴逢此入朝堂。

Scholars who meet it will pass the examinations; officials and nobles who meet it enter the court hall.

天印

Tian Yin

天印星拱限，貴人主驟遷顯達，士庶則創業興隆。貴者主三印之權，生殺之柄。更在廟旺高強之宮，管領軍民，掌握兵權，常人遇貴，僧道清職。不入局者，居陷弱之宮，亦主近貴發財。

When the Tian Yin star supports the Limit, a noble person governs sudden promotion and prominence, and scholars and commoners found enterprises and flourish. The noble have the authority of the three seals and the handle of life and death. If it is also in a palace of temple prosperity, high and strong, one commands troops and people and holds military authority; ordinary people who meet nobility, and monks and Daoists, have a pure post. Those who do not enter any grade, dwelling in a sunken, weak palace, also govern drawing near the noble and getting rich.

彖曰

Verdict:

運限如逢天印星，遷除驟曜得光榮。

If the Fortune and Limit meet the Tian Yin star, promotion and appointment come suddenly and bring glory.

一官連管重重印，職高權重播芳名。

One office after another, managing layer upon layer of seals; a high post and weighty authority spread a fragrant name.

天壽

Tian Shou

天壽星拱限，凡事吉利。更遇吉星，

When the Tian Shou star supports the Limit, everything is auspicious. If it further meets auspicious stars,

主榮華顯達，壽永災消。更須四破無侵，多獲吉慶。

it governs glory, wealth, and prominence, long life and calamity dissolved. Moreover, if the four breakers do not intrude, one gains much auspiciousness and celebration.

紅鸞

Hong Luan

紅鸞星拱限，主財祿吉慶之事，男子必招美婦，女子必配良夫。如會祿貴，則榮華顯達。如不入廟更加天異，主公私破耗，孝服不寧，失脫橫羅之事。

When the Hong Luan star supports the Limit, it governs wealth, emolument, and auspicious celebration; a man will surely gain a beautiful wife, and a woman will surely be matched with a good husband. If it meets Lu and Gui, there is glory and prominence. If it does not enter its temple and further adds Tian Yi, it governs public and private loss, unrest with mourning dress, and affairs of loss and sudden entanglement.

天庫

Tian Ku

天庫星拱限，主發財。更入廟旺方，驟富之家，開張鋪質，常人亦發。如無刑星，舊發世推當代陶朱，財鎮一坊人指當年倚頓。

When the Tian Ku star supports the Limit, it governs getting rich. Moreover, entering a place of temple prosperity, the household becomes suddenly rich, opening shops and pawnbrokers, and ordinary people also prosper. If there is no Xing star, the old prosperity passes down the generations, a Tao Zhu of the age, whose wealth presides over a neighborhood and whom people point to as the Yi Dun of the time.

彖曰

Verdict:

天庫之宮中局中，十年之內足財源。

In the palace of Tian Ku, in the middle grade, within ten years the sources of wealth are ample.

更兼外位相逢好，管取身膺王殿前。

Moreover, when it is met with a good position outside, one will surely hold office in front of the royal hall.

貫索

Guan Suo

貫索星拱限，主進財祿。更在命宮廟旺會地主發天庫會之，主得橫財。紅鸞拱之，主發財亨利，亦遇高賢薦擢。三合會吉星，亦主獲福。三合文刑來拱，主招詞頌凶事。若遇吉星拱合，逢恩赦釋。加惡曜，主生離死別，是非破家耗蕩，盜賊損害，回祿之事，囊四方之利，網羅六地之資。

When the Guan Suo star supports the Limit, it governs advancing in wealth and emolument. Further, when it is in the Fate palace in temple prosperity and meets a well-placed lord, with Tian Ku meeting it, it governs gaining windfall wealth. With Hong Luan supporting it, it governs getting rich and profitable success, and also meeting lofty worthies who recommend and promote. A triple harmony meeting auspicious stars also governs gaining fortune. A triple harmony in which Wen and Xing come to support governs inviting lawsuits and malign affairs. If auspicious stars support and combine, one meets grace and amnesty and is released. Adding malign luminaries, it governs separation in life and parting in death, disputes, the household broken and wasted, injury from bandits and thieves, fire disaster; it bags the profits of the four directions and nets the resources of the six lands.

彖曰

Verdict:

貫索之星只主財，吉星拱會自然來。

The Guan Suo star governs only wealth; when auspicious stars support and meet, it comes of itself.

忽然歲限相逢著，資庫還均數處開。

If suddenly the yearly Limit meets it, the storehouse of resources opens evenly in several places.

又曰

Again:

貫祿之星寶上奇，生來囊豪厚金資。

The Guan Lu star is a marvel above treasures; one is born to bag a thick store of gold and goods.

加之歲限相逢處，財祿盈門喜展眉。

Added to the yearly Limit where they meet, wealth and emolument fill the door and the brow relaxes in joy.

又

Again

文昌為天福星拱限，貴人面君，士者展官，庶人進田宅，門庭光彩，棟宇維新。限到亥卯未宮，亦驟發驟富，僧道清高，常人奮發。女人臨此，夫安子美，於蠹於囊。遇貴祿星，有封贈。

When Wen Chang and Tian Fu stars support the Limit, the noble face the sovereign, scholars advance in office, commoners advance in fields and dwellings, the household gate shines, and the halls are renewed. When the Limit reaches the Hai, Mao, or Wei palace, there is also sudden rise and sudden wealth, monks and Daoists are pure and lofty, and ordinary people exert themselves. A woman arriving at this: her husband is secure and her sons fine, with the treasury and the bag. Meeting the Gui and Lu stars, there is enfeoffment.

彖曰

Verdict:

吉星相照號文昌，士貴逢之姓字揚。

Auspicious stars shining on one another are called Wen Chang; for a noble scholar meeting it, his name and surname rise.

常人遇者增產業，女流僧道值為良。

Ordinary people who meet it add to their estate; women, monks, and Daoists are well placed.

天福

Tian Fu

天福星供限，貴人面君，仕者展官，庶人進田宅，門戶清吉，君子官祿升遷，重納喜慶，財綠豐盈，福祿駢集，樂享高常。王#3貴常人、僧道，亦主發財增福。女人膺此，福壽齊臨，相夫益子。

When the Tian Fu star supports the Limit, the noble face the sovereign, the official advances in rank, commoners advance in fields and dwellings, the household gate is pure and auspicious, gentlemen are promoted in office, they receive repeated joy and celebration, wealth and emolument are abundant, fortune and emolument gather together, and they enjoy loftiness and constancy. The Lord (#3), the noble, ordinary people, monks and Daoists also govern getting rich and increased fortune. A woman receiving this: fortune and longevity arrive together, assisting her husband and benefiting her sons.

彖曰

Verdict:

限逢天福得安康，改換門風家道昌。

When the Limit meets Tian Fu one gains health and peace, changes the family manner, and the household way flourishes.

錢財進益添人口，定須創造置田注。

Money and wealth advance and increase, people are added; one must create and acquire fields and registered land.

天祿

Tian Lu

天祿照限主俄然，舊願新謀事並圓。

When Tian Lu shines on the Limit, it governs sudden events; old wishes and new plans are both fulfilled.

災困徒流須會赦，駁官君子受重宣。

Calamity and hardship, penal exile, will meet amnesty; a rebuked official gentleman receives a weighty proclamation.

商人暗覓生財利，文武須持兩柄權。

A merchant secretly seeks profit from wealth; civil and martial officials must hold two handles of authority.

到此人情皆慶賀，經營遂意勝如前。

Arriving here, human feeling is all celebration; management is as intended, better than before.

彖曰

Verdict:

天祿宮中事稱情，求官得遂祿豐盈。

In the palace of Tian Lu, affairs satisfy the heart; seeking office is fulfilled and emolument abundant.

更兼流歲紅鸞照，十年之內貴無倫。

Moreover, if the flowing year is lit by Hong Luan, within ten years his nobility is peerless.

天杖

Tian Zhang

天仗星拱限，命主風癆、氣喘、腳疾、心疼之患，寒熱嘔逆，及跌蹼之災，官撓之福，凡事少順，不寧之悔。又主孝服、口、舌、拮括。若加刑刃，主遭拘禁伽鎖，無頭之禍。不然，亦主中風寒邪，氣喘千正。若在疾厄宮，主有異疾罹已。凡所照者，有害無益，生災癬膿血之災。

When the Tian Zhang star supports the Limit, the Fate is afflicted by wind-exhaustion, wheezing, foot ailments, and heart pain, cold and fever with retching, and the calamity of falling and tumbling, the fortune of official harassment, few things go smoothly, and regret of unrest. It also governs mourning dress, mouth and tongue, and binding. If Xing and Ren are added, one meets detention, shackles, and the calamity of headlessness. Otherwise, it also governs wind-stroke and cold evil, wheezing and the like. If it is in the Illness palace, it governs strange illness afflicting oneself. Wherever it shines, there is harm and no benefit, and it breeds calamity of ringworm, pus, and blood.

天異

Tian Yi

天異星拱限，主產業分散，孝服相仍，及大刑小，並宅下詫異禍事。若加天姚，主移徙、破耗、公訟、牽繼之事。加惡星，主傷命公治之。如入廟者，主災悔。三方有吉星，不為害。

When the Tian Yi star supports the Limit, it governs the property being scattered, mourning dress following one after another, punishments large and small, and strange calamitous events under the dwelling. If Tian Yao is added, it governs moving, loss, public litigation, and entanglement. Adding malign stars, it governs injury to life, handled by the authorities. If it enters the temple, it governs calamity and regret. If the three directions have auspicious stars, it does no harm.

毛頭

Mao Tou

毛頭照限，主災病官刑，及移徙不寧，水火盜賤之災。如虛哭星釣合，主瘟疫、瘡毒、膿血、湯火之傷，回祿之恐。又忌刑星並沖，不利少吉，多凶破耗，孝服死亡。若限廟旺之地加善星者，主當貴，及有出師鈇鐵兵民之推。不入廟旺者，所以災禍不利之事。三方有吉星拱會，而無害也。

When Mao Tou shines on the Limit, it governs calamity, illness, official punishment, restless moving, and the calamity of water, fire, bandits, and thieves. If the Xu and Ku stars hook and combine, it governs epidemics, sores and poison, pus and blood, injury by hot water or fire, and the fear of fire disaster. Also avoid the Xing star joining and clashing; unfavorable, little auspiciousness, much malignity, loss, mourning dress, and death. If the Limit is in a place of temple prosperity and adds good stars, it governs being noble, and the dispatch of troops with axe and battle-axe, soldiers and people. If it does not enter temple prosperity, then calamity and unfavorable affairs arise. If the three directions have auspicious stars supporting and combining, there is no harm.

彖曰

Verdict:

天彗毛頭不可當，多生災病主瘟黃。

The Tian Hui and Mao Tou cannot be withstood; they breed much calamity and illness and govern epidemics and jaundice.

或然歲歲限皆臨，此急去祈求作保。

If year after year the Limit meets them all, hurry to go and pray for protection.

天刑

Tian Xing

天刑星拱限，主官殃不測之災，及刑獄之福。主破財，並並陷水厄，刑父母，克弟兄。加姚異刃星，主耳目昏疼，並血光之咎。加哭星，主驚恐、災疾，人離財散之禍。加天杖，主官刑不吉之事。會惡曜沖並，主腰駝背曲，手足、耳目異端之患，及五臟不寧，瘋疾氣喘之災。與吉星同宮者，可變惡為祥。如會凶刑刃哭虛星者，主夭亡也。

When the Tian Xing star supports the Limit, it governs official misfortune, unforeseen calamity, and the fortune of prison. It governs broken wealth, falling into water disasters, punishing the parents, and overcoming brothers. Adding the Yao, Yi, and Ren stars, it governs dim and aching ears and eyes and the guilt of bloodshed. Adding the Ku star, it governs fright, calamity, illness, people parting and wealth scattering. Adding Tian Zhang, it governs official punishment and inauspicious affairs. Meeting malign luminaries clashing together, it governs hunched waist and bent back, strange ailments of hands, feet, ears, and eyes, and the five viscera being unquiet, with the calamity of wind illness and wheezing. When it shares a palace with auspicious stars, malignity can be changed to good omen. If it meets the malign Xing, Ren, Ku, and Xu stars, it governs early death.

天刃

Tian Ren

天刃星拱照，主災禍、破財之事，不利父母、妻兒。主災咎刑，並瘡疥、血光、異疾、傷損之悔。女人主產厄之災，惡毒癰疽之證。宜守困，切莫進身謀望。亦主人口災傷。孝服重，則傷亡及損壽。正照並對照，皆主厄難，名利身亡。亦忌刑星中並，招凶禍等事。限內並凶星、太歲三合，並惡星入局者，八口之家亡七口，其驗如神。

When the Tian Ren star supports and shines, it governs calamity and broken wealth, and is unfavorable to the parents, wife, and children. It governs calamitous punishment, scabies, bloodshed, strange illness, and the regret of injury and loss. For a woman, it governs the calamity of childbirth and the signs of malignant carbuncles. One should keep to hardship and by no means advance oneself to seek and hope. It also governs calamity and injury among the household members. With heavy mourning dress, there is injury, death, and loss of longevity. Direct shining and opposing shining both govern hardship; fame and gain, and death of the body. Also avoid the Xing star joining in the middle, inviting malign calamity and the like. If within the Limit it joins malign stars and the Tai Sui triple harmony, and malign stars enter the grade, a household of eight loses seven, and its verification is like a god's.

天姚

Tian Yao

天姚星照限在水厄之災。若加天異，主災胞破財敗壞異端禍事生陰人荼毒勾絆閒非。如入廟者，變凶為吉。若加惡星，定主夭亡。

When the Tian Yao star shines on the Limit, there is the calamity of water disaster. If Tian Yi is added, it governs calamity to the womb, broken wealth, ruin, strange calamitous events, women causing venom and entanglement and idle disputes. If it enters the temple, malignity turns to good. If malign stars are added, it surely governs early death.

彖曰

Verdict:

運遇天姚歲限同，更兼身命會紅鸞。

When Fortune meets Tian Yao and the yearly Limit is the same, and further the Body and Fate meet Hong Luan,

無心自遇陰人喜，情意相投事事歡。

one unintentionally meets a woman's joy; feelings match and every matter is happiness.

天哭

Tian Ku

天哭星照限，又遇流年惡曜，命不可逃。如三方拱照，必主外；孝服見，主死。三方對合，為浪濤之宿；照身官，為黃泉星；三方照限，為浪濤限。

When the Tian Ku star shines on the Limit and again meets malign luminaries in the flowing year, fate cannot flee. If the three directions support and shine, it surely governs death abroad; when mourning dress is seen, it governs death. If the three directions oppose and combine, it is the lodging of Surging Waves; shining on the Body palace, it is the Yellow Springs star; the three directions shining on the Limit make the Surging Waves Limit.

彖曰

Verdict:

波濤浪理十年中，便是王孫莫要逢。正照傍照皆不吉，刑及相逢壽必終。此星正照、傍照，皆主危厄。更逢哭虛相會，主疫非常官事，凶災。刑杖刃沖並不得地者，主夭亡。若哭異相逢，主遷徙流耗，公訟官災，不測之事。若哭異姚相會者，主失脫破財，非橫之事。重者，凶惡惟已。

In the ten years of surging wave principle, even a prince should not meet it. Direct shining and side shining are both inauspicious; when Xing and the others meet, longevity will surely end. This star, whether shining directly or from the side, governs peril and hardship. Further meeting Ku and Xu combined, it governs extraordinary epidemics, official affairs, and malign calamity. If Xing, Zhang, and Ren clash and join, not being well placed, it governs early death. If Ku and Yi meet, it governs moving, loss and wasting, public litigation, official calamity, and unforeseen affairs. If Ku, Yi, and Yao meet, it governs loss, broken wealth, and sudden unjust matters. Severely, malignity is only for oneself.

＃１『占』原誤為『古』，據上下文義改。

Note 1: 'Zhan' (占) was originally mistakenly written as 'Gu' (古); corrected according to the context.

＃２『亥』原缺，據上下文義補。

Note 2: 'Hai' (亥) was originally missing; supplied according to the context.

＃３疑『王』乃『主』之誤。

Note 3: It is suspected that 'Wang' (王) is an error for 'Zhu' (主).