3 and 4 · Thunder and wind
In Chinese: 雷風恆雷风恒
The 3 Jade and the 4 Green: thunder and wind, the hexagram Heng, constancy, two woods side by side, ideas and drive together.
Meaning
The Book of Changes reads Heng, 雷風恆, as the marriage that lasts, thunder and wind that always go together; on the compass Zhen and Xun stand side by side, the east and the south-east, two Wood trigrams. Both stars are dormant in Period 9, so the classics ask that plans not change too often.
Thunder and wind, the eldest son and the eldest daughter, the hexagram Heng, “constancy”: two woods side by side. The classics read ideas and drive together. In season, work that lasts and partnerships that hold; out of season, restlessness of mind, and plans that change too often.
In practice
- In a home’s chart: a palace whose mountain star and water star are the 3 and the 4, 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 3 as mountain star, the 4 as 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.
- The 4 as mountain star, the 3 as 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), neither star is in season: read “out of season”, whichever is the mountain star.
Correspondences
- The stars: the 3 Jade (Lu Cun) and the 4 Green (Wen Qu)
- Their phase: Wood, the same for both
- Their trigrams and homes in the Lo Shu: Zhen ☳, in the east; Xun ☴, in the south-east
- The 3 with the other stars: 1 and 3, 2 and 3, 3 and 3, 3 and 5, 3 and 6, 3 and 7, 3 and 8, 3 and 9
- The 4 with the other stars: 1 and 4, 2 and 4, 4 and 4, 4 and 5, 4 and 6, 4 and 7, 4 and 8, 4 and 9
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.
- 4 Green starThe fourth of the nine stars, Wood and the trigram Xun, the wind, at home in the south-east: letters, study and the arts.
- 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