Xianchi (咸池)

Symbolic stars · Tendency: Inauspicious

From the classics

《淮南子》曰：「日出扶桑，入于咸池。」故五行沐浴之地，名咸池。是取日人之义，万物暗昧之时。…其神之奸邪淫鄙，如生旺则美容仪，耽酒色，疏财好欢，破散家业，唯务贪淫；如死绝，落魄不检，言行狡诈，游荡赌博，忘恩失信，私滥奸淫，靡所不为…此人入命，有破无成，非为吉兆，妇人尤忌之。咸池非吉煞，日时与水命遇之尤凶。

——《三命通会》

What it means

Xianchi (咸池) is the Bathing position of the Five Elements, taking the sense of the sun sinking into obscurity, so it governs lewdness and hidden vice. Thriving, it brings indulgence in wine and women and the ruin of the family estate; lifeless, cunning, dissipation and broken faith. Meeting a Water-fate day or hour it is especially ill; women most dread it, for it marks ruin without accomplishment.

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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