Kongwang (空亡)

Symbolic stars · Tendency: Neutral

From the classics

支旬两煞出逢凶，兼主遗失并逃走。旬亡六甲在于辛，庚向亲丁癸闭口。

——《大六壬指南·神煞》及《六壬神煞赋》

What it means

Kongwang (空亡, the Void) is where the ten stems are exhausted—branch without stem, salary without position. Thriving, it actually brings broad-mindedness and unsought blessing; lifeless, success and failure and a drifting life. Joined with the Guanfu it brings flattery, with the Robbery spirit cunning daring, and with Nobleman, Canopy or the Marvels great cleverness—so it cannot be judged ill across the board.

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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