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2 and 2 · Earth twice

Feng ShuiEn français2 et 2 · La terre deux fois

The 2 Black as both mountain and water star: earth on earth, land, care and patience doubled, timely in Period 9 and kept light.

Meaning

Earth doubled is the hexagram Kun, the receptive, which the Book of Changes reads as devotion and endurance. Timely in Period 9, the pair is read at its best now, with the counsel the 2 always carries: a bright, uncluttered room.

The 2 Black twice, earth on earth: the classics read land, property and care, and the 2’s heaviness twice over. In season (as in Period 2), gains from property and a well-kept household; out of season, a sector to keep calm, bright and uncluttered, rather than a room for long stays.

In practice

  • In a home’s chart: a palace whose mountain star and water star are both the 2 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 2 as both mountain and water star: mountain star and water star share their phase, earth: what holds the people of the home and what flows in pull the same way.
  • In Period 9 (2024–2043), the 2 is in season: read “in season”, for the people of the home and for what comes in.

Correspondences

  • 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.
  • 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