Ulune

1 and 2 · Earth holding water

Feng ShuiEn français1 et 2 · La terre qui retient l’eau

The 1 White and the 2 Black: the earth that holds back water, the mother and the middle son, a patient pairing that asks for plain talk.

Meaning

A field holds a stream in its bed: Kun’s earth gives the 1’s water its banks. Both stars are timely in Period 9, so the classics read the pairing at its kindest now, a slow and patient building rather than a standstill.

The 2’s earth holds back the 1’s water, the mother over the middle son. The classics read a strain between the people of the home, each holding the other back. In season, a patient pairing that builds slowly; out of season, misunderstandings that settle in, eased by plain talk and a calm, uncluttered room.

In practice

  • In a home’s chart: a palace whose mountain star and water star are the 1 and the 2, in either order, holds this pairing; the palace’s reading names it and gives the text above, then how the two phases meet and which face applies.
  • The 1 as mountain star, the 2 as water star: the water star checks the mountain star, as earth checks water: what comes in presses on the people of the home.
  • The 2 as mountain star, the 1 as water star: the mountain star checks the water star, as earth checks water: the people hold back what flows in, a restraint that can steady or slow.
  • In Period 9 (2024–2043), both stars are in season: read “in season”, whichever is the mountain star.

Correspondences

  • 1 White starThe first of the nine stars, Water and the trigram Kan, at home in the north: study, careers and journeys, and timely again in Period 9.
  • 2 Black starThe second of the nine stars, Earth and the trigram Kun, the mother, at home in the south-west: land, care and patience, timely in Period 9.
  • Pairs of starsThe 45 meetings of a mountain star and a water star in one palace of a Flying Star chart, each with the reading the classics give it, in season and out.
  • WaterThe phase of depth, rest and stored strength, of winter and the north: still on the surface, moving underneath, preparing the next spring.
  • EarthThe phase of the centre and of every turning point: the ground that steadies, nourishes and gathers the other four together.
  • Flying Star chartA home’s chart in the Flying Stars: nine palaces, each with a mountain star, a water star and a period star, cast from the home’s period and facing.

Sources

  • Zi Bai Jue (Verse of the Purple and White), Xuan Kong school
  • Xuan Kong Mi Zhi (Secret Meaning of the Profound Void), Xuan Kong school
  • Fei Xing Fu (Rhapsody of the Flying Stars), Xuan Kong school
  • Shen Zhureng, Shen shi Xuankong xue, published after 1906