Jiesha (劫煞)

Symbolic stars · Tendency: Inauspicious

From the classics

劫者，夺也，自外夺之之谓夺；…劫在五行绝处…水绝在巳，申子辰以巳为劫煞，巳中戊土，劫水也。火绝在亥，寅午戌以亥为劫煞，亥中壬水，劫火也。金绝在寅，巳酉丑以寅为劫煞，寅中丙火，劫金也。木绝在申，亥卯未以申为劫煞，申中庚金，劫木也。古歌云：「劫煞为灾不可当，徒然奔走名利场；须防祖业消亡尽，妻子如何得久长。」

——《三命通会》

What it means

Jiesha (劫煞, the Robbery spirit) sits at the Five Elements' point of extinction, plundered from without, governing seizure and loss. The old verse calls its disaster unbearable—guard against the wasting of the ancestral estate and instability for wife and children. Yet meeting prosperity or noble office it can mark command of troops and the holding of penal authority, the makings of a general—so judge it with the whole chart.

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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