The Lu Spirit (禄神)

Symbolic stars · Tendency: Auspicious

From the classics

禄，爵禄也，当得势而享，乃谓之禄。……所以甲禄寅，乙禄卯，庚禄申，辛禄酉，壬禄亥，癸禄子，丙禄已，丁禄午，戊寄已，已寄午。

——《三命通会》

What it means

The Lu Spirit (禄神, Prosperity) is the branch where each stem reaches its prime and 'returns to its salary': Jia at Yin, Yi at Mao, Bing at Si, Ding at Wu, Wu at Si, Ji at Wu, Geng at Shen, Xin at You, Ren at Hai, Gui at Zi. It marks a life of ample wealth and comfortable enjoyment; an established Lu makes one robust and substantial—auspicious when naturally thriving, but stingy and prone to ruin when weak and lifeless. An auspicious star.

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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