1 and 3 · Water feeding wood
The 1 White and the 3 Jade: water that feeds wood, growth and a name made through effort, with patience while the 3 is out of season.
Meaning
Kan and Zhen, the north and the east, the middle son and the eldest: spring rain on new wood. In Period 9 the 1 is timely and the 3 is not, so the classics read its drive gladly and its quarrels gently.
The 1’s water feeds the 3’s wood: the classics read growth, drive and a name made through effort. In season, advancement and recognition; out of season, the 3’s quarrelsome side: lively disputes that ask for patience.
In practice
- In a home’s chart: a palace whose mountain star and water star are the 1 and the 3, 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 3 as water star: the mountain star feeds the water star, as water feeds wood: the people’s effort goes into what comes in.
- The 3 as mountain star, the 1 as water star: the water star feeds the mountain star, as water feeds wood: what comes in supports the people of the home.
- In Period 9 (2024–2043), the 1 is in season and the 3 is not: read “in season” for what the 1 speaks for and “out of season” for what the 3 speaks for, the people of the home when a star is the mountain’s, what comes in when it is the water’s.
Correspondences
- The stars: the 1 White (Tan Lang) and the 3 Jade (Lu Cun)
- Their phases: Water and Wood
- Their trigrams and homes in the Lo Shu: Kan ☵, in the north; Zhen ☳, in the east
- The 1 with the other stars: 1 and 1, 1 and 2, 1 and 4, 1 and 5, 1 and 6, 1 and 7, 1 and 8, 1 and 9
- The 3 with the other stars: 2 and 3, 3 and 3, 3 and 4, 3 and 5, 3 and 6, 3 and 7, 3 and 8, 3 and 9
Related
- 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.
- 3 Jade starThe third of the nine stars, Wood and the trigram Zhen, thunder, at home in the east: drive and initiative, read with patience out of season.
- 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.
- WoodThe phase of growth and beginnings, of spring and the east: what pushes upwards and outwards towards the light.
- 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