Jiesha (劫煞)

Symbolic stars · Tendency: Inauspicious

From the classics

三合墓前为劫煞，灾煞天煞次第加。

——《大六壬指南·神煞》及《六壬神煞赋》

What it means

Jiesha (劫煞, the Robbery spirit) sits at the Five Elements' point of extinction, plundered from without, governing seizure and loss. The old verse calls its disaster unbearable—guard against the wasting of the ancestral estate and instability for wife and children. Yet meeting prosperity or noble office it can mark command of troops and the holding of penal authority, the makings of a general—so judge it with the whole chart.

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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