2 and 5 · The two earth stars

Meaning

Kun’s 2 and the centre’s 5 are the two Earth stars of the square the classics watch most closely, and their meeting has its own name, 二五交加. Their counsel is quiet, and Ulune keeps its tone: a note about how to use a sector, which passes with the periods and the years.

The 2 and the 5 joined: the heaviest pairing in the classics, two earth stars that weigh on the people of the home when they are out of their time. Practitioners leave such a sector quiet: no works, no clutter, not the room for long stays. It calls for care, not worry, and passes with the periods and the years.

In practice

• In a home’s chart: a palace whose mountain star and water star are the 2 and the 5, 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 2 as mountain star, the 5 as 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.
• The 5 as mountain star, the 2 as 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 every period: the text of the 2 and the 5 gives its counsel alone, with no face to choose.

Correspondences

• The stars: the 2 Black (Ju Men) and the 5 Yellow (Lian Zhen)
• Their phase: Earth, the same for both
• Their trigrams and homes in the Lo Shu: Kun ☷, in the south-west; the centre, with no trigram
• The 2 with the other stars: 1 and 2, 2 and 2, 2 and 3, 2 and 4, 2 and 6, 2 and 7, 2 and 8, 2 and 9
• The 5 with the other stars: 1 and 5, 3 and 5, 4 and 5, 5 and 5, 5 and 6, 5 and 7, 5 and 8, 5 and 9