Taohua (桃花)

Symbolic stars · Tendency: Inauspicious

From the classics

五行沐浴之地，名咸池，一名败神，一名桃花煞。亥卯未在子，巳酉丑在午，寅午戌在卯，申子辰在酉，为桃花煞。

——《三命通会》

What it means

Taohua (桃花, Peach Blossom) is the Bathing position of the Five Elements; the San Ming Tong Hui also calls it the Defeat spirit or Peach Blossom spirit: Hai-Mao-Wei at Zi, Si-You-Chou at Wu, Yin-Wu-Xu at Mao, Shen-Zi-Chen at You. It governs lewdness, wine and women, and dissipation—especially ill with a Water-fate day or hour; later practice also generalizes Zi-Wu-Mao-You as Taohua.

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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