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1 and 4 · The scholar’s pairing

In Chinese: 四一同宮四一同宫 sì yī tóng gōng

Feng ShuiEn français1 et 4 · L’alliance du lettré

The 1 White and the 4 Green in one palace: the classics’ pairing of study and letters, water feeding the wood of the scholar’s star.

Meaning

Of all the pairings this is the one the classics quote most, 四一同宮, and families long looked for it when they placed a student’s desk. Kan and Xun, the middle son and the eldest daughter, water and wind; Ulune reads it as the classics do, a support for study and writing, never a promise.

A classical verse says that when the 4 and the 1 share a palace, success in study and examinations follows: water feeds wood, the star of learning meets the star of letters. In season, studies, writing and the arts prosper, and romance too; out of season, attachments that pull attention away from the work.

In practice

  • In a home’s chart: a palace whose mountain star and water star are the 1 and the 4, 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 4 as water star: the mountain star feeds the water star, as water feeds wood: the people’s effort goes into what comes in.
  • The 4 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 4 is not: read “in season” for what the 1 speaks for and “out of season” for what the 4 speaks for, the people of the home when a star is the mountain’s, what comes in when it is the water’s.

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.
  • 4 Green starThe fourth of the nine stars, Wood and the trigram Xun, the wind, at home in the south-east: letters, study and the arts.
  • 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