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2 and 6 · Earth and heaven

Feng ShuiEn français2 et 6 · La terre et le ciel

The 2 Black and the 6 White: earth feeding metal, Kun and Qian, the mother and the father, a solid household and its provision.

Meaning

Set one above the other, earth and heaven make the hexagram Tai, peace, when earth is above, and Pi, standstill, when heaven is: the same two parents read as harmony or as distance. The classics read in the pair a household well provided for, stubborn only out of season.

The 2’s earth feeds the 6’s metal: Kun and Qian, the mother and the father, earth and heaven. The classics read a solid household and wealth from property and position. In season, provision and stability; out of season, a home run by habit, stubborn on both sides.

In practice

  • In a home’s chart: a palace whose mountain star and water star are the 2 and the 6, 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 6 as water star: the mountain star feeds the water star, as earth feeds metal: the people’s effort goes into what comes in.
  • The 6 as mountain star, the 2 as water star: the water star feeds the mountain star, as earth feeds metal: what comes in supports the people of the home.
  • In Period 9 (2024–2043), the 2 is in season and the 6 is not: read “in season” for what the 2 speaks for and “out of season” for what the 6 speaks for, the people of the home when a star is the mountain’s, what comes in when it is the water’s.

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.
  • 6 White starThe sixth of the nine stars, Metal and the trigram Qian, heaven, the father, at home in the north-west: authority, leadership and support from above.
  • 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.
  • 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