2 and 9 · Fire feeding earth
The 2 Black and the 9 Purple: fire feeding earth, celebrations and a full house, both stars timely in Period 9.
Meaning
Li and Kun, the south and the south-west, neighbours on the compass: the summer sun over the field it ripens, the middle daughter beside the mother. The classics read it now at its brightest, a household that gathers and grows.
The 9’s fire feeds the 2’s earth. In season (both are timely in Period 9), celebrations, a full house and property that grows; out of season, the classics read the 9 lending its heat to the 2’s heaviness: a sector to keep light and airy.
In practice
- In a home’s chart: a palace whose mountain star and water star are the 2 and the 9, 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 9 as water star: the water star feeds the mountain star, as fire feeds earth: what comes in supports the people of the home.
- The 9 as mountain star, the 2 as water star: the mountain star feeds the water star, as fire feeds earth: the people’s effort goes into what comes in.
- In Period 9 (2024–2043), both stars are in season: read “in season”, whichever is the mountain star.
Correspondences
- The stars: the 2 Black (Ju Men) and the 9 Purple (You Bi)
- Their phases: Earth and Fire
- Their trigrams and homes in the Lo Shu: Kun ☷, in the south-west; Li ☲, in the south
- The 2 with the other stars: 1 and 2, 2 and 2, 2 and 3, 2 and 4, 2 and 5, 2 and 6, 2 and 7, 2 and 8
- The 9 with the other stars: 1 and 9, 3 and 9, 4 and 9, 5 and 9, 6 and 9, 7 and 9, 8 and 9, 9 and 9
Related
- 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.
- 9 Purple starThe ninth of the nine stars, Fire and the trigram Li, at home in the south: celebration, recognition and joy, the star of the present period.
- 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.
- FireThe phase of warmth, light and full expression, of summer and the south: growth at its height, everything most visible.
- 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