1 and 7 · Metal and water
The 1 White and the 7 Red: metal feeding water, charm and eloquence, an ease with words, and talk to keep within bounds.
Meaning
Dui’s lake gives to Kan’s stream, the youngest daughter and the middle son: in the trigrams’ family, a sister and a brother who talk easily. In Period 9 the 1 is timely and the 7 is not, so the classics keep the charm and ask a little care with what is said.
The 7’s metal feeds the 1’s water: the classics read charm, eloquence and romance. In season, ease with words, popularity and gains from talk; out of season, flirtation, and talk that goes further than it should.
In practice
- In a home’s chart: a palace whose mountain star and water star are the 1 and the 7, 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 7 as water star: the water star feeds the mountain star, as metal feeds water: what comes in supports the people of the home.
- The 7 as mountain star, the 1 as water star: the mountain star feeds the water star, as metal feeds water: the people’s effort goes into what comes in.
- In Period 9 (2024–2043), the 1 is in season and the 7 is not: read “in season” for what the 1 speaks for and “out of season” for what the 7 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 7 Red (Po Jun)
- Their phases: Water and Metal
- Their trigrams and homes in the Lo Shu: Kan ☵, in the north; Dui ☱, in the west
- The 1 with the other stars: 1 and 1, 1 and 2, 1 and 3, 1 and 4, 1 and 5, 1 and 6, 1 and 8, 1 and 9
- The 7 with the other stars: 2 and 7, 3 and 7, 4 and 7, 5 and 7, 6 and 7, 7 and 7, 7 and 8, 7 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.
- 7 Red starThe seventh of the nine stars, Metal and the trigram Dui, the lake, at home in the west: speech, charm and pleasure, read with care 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.
- MetalThe phase of gathering in and giving form, of autumn and the west: the harvest, the clear line, the edge that decides.
- 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