3 and 3 · Thunder twice
The 3 Jade as both mountain and water star: thunder on thunder, drive and ambition doubled, read with patience out of season.
Meaning
Thunder doubled is the hexagram Zhen, the arousing, shock upon shock. The classics prize it in season, for initiative and quick advancement; in Period 9 the 3 is dormant, so they read its push gently and ask for patience in talk.
The 3 Jade twice, thunder on thunder: the classics read drive, ambition and the push of growth. In season, initiative and quick advancement; out of season, the 3’s quarrelsome side doubled: competition and disputes that ask for patience.
In practice
- In a home’s chart: a palace whose mountain star and water star are both the 3 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 3 as both mountain and water star: mountain star and water star share their phase, wood: what holds the people of the home and what flows in pull the same way.
- In Period 9 (2024–2043), the 3 is out of its time: read “out of season”, for the people of the home and for what comes in.
Correspondences
Related
- 3 Jade starThe third of the nine stars, Wood and the trigram Zhen, thunder, at home in the east: drive and initiative, read with patience 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.
- WoodThe phase of growth and beginnings, of spring and the east: what pushes upwards and outwards towards the light.
- 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