Goujiao (勾绞)

Symbolic stars · Tendency: Inauspicious

What it means

Goujiao (勾绞) are two mutually clashing spirits: for a yang-male or yin-female, three branches ahead is Gou and three behind is Jiao; for a yin-male or yang-female, reversed. They govern entanglement and bondage, legal trouble and strife. When the self overcomes the spirit, one holds penal and executioner's authority; when the spirit overcomes the self, violent death. With both positions present the disaster is heavy; joined with the Metal Spirit or White Tiger, ill.

The Chinese source texts are in the public domain. The English readings on this page were written for this library, not machine-translated from the Chinese commentary.

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