The Yang Blade (阳刃)

Symbolic stars · Tendency: Inauspicious

From the classics

阳刃号天上之凶星、人间之恶杀，禄前一位是也，如甲禄在寅卯为阳刃。甲丙戊庚壬五阳有刃，乙丁己辛癸五阴无刃。杀无刃不显，刃无杀不威，刃杀俱全，常人无有。

——《渊海子平》

What it means

The Yang Blade (阳刃) is called a celestial malign star and an earthly fierce killer, one position ahead of the Lu; the five yang stems Jia, Bing, Wu, Geng and Ren have blades, the five yin stems do not. Without the Killer the Blade shows no force, without the Blade the Killer has no awe; in principle it matches the Blade (羊刃), governing fierce violence and injury.

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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