Liu'e (六厄)

Symbolic stars · Tendency: Inauspicious

From the classics

厄者，遭乎难者也，常居马前一辰，劫后二辰，死而不生谓之厄。申子辰水局，水死在卯；寅午戌火局，火死在酉；亥卯未木局，木死在午；巳酉丑金局，金死在子，所以为厄。若虽有救护扶持，究竟一生蹇滞。

——《三命通会》

What it means

Liu'e (六厄, the Six Adversities) is the spirit that strips office, lying at the Five Elements' point of death—one branch ahead of the Horse, two behind the Robbery. It governs a life of hardship and stagnation, a career full of obstacles; even with rescue and support, hardship can scarcely be avoided. The ancients likened it to 'Li Guang never enfeoffed,' marking elusive fame and unrealized rank—greatly to be feared at the Office/Lu position.

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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