The Hongyan spirit (红艳)

Symbolic stars · Tendency: Inauspicious

From the classics

甲乙逢午、丙寅、丁未、戊子、己辰、庚戌、辛酉、壬巳、癸申，为红艳煞，女命最忌之

——《三命通会》

What it means

The Hongyan spirit (红艳, Red Allure) is taken by the branch the day stem meets; it marks beauty and charm, but is most feared in a woman's chart—indicating emotional turbulence, an unsmooth marriage and trouble brought on by romance. A man who has it also tends to strong attraction to the opposite sex and should guard against the burden of lust; auspicious stars can lessen the harm, but joined with Solitude, Widowhood or Xianchi the licentiousness grows worse.

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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