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3 and 9 · Wood and fire, bright minds

In Chinese: 木火通明 mù huǒ tōng míng

Feng ShuiEn français3 et 9 · Bois et feu, esprits vifs

The 3 Jade and the 9 Purple: wood feeding fire, bright and clear, intelligence and a name that spreads, with the 9 timely now.

Meaning

Zhen and Li, the eldest son and the middle daughter, the east and the south: the classical phrase 木火通明 is also BaZi’s praise for a Wood day master warmed by Fire, a mind made bright. In Period 9 the 9 is timely and the 3 is not, so the light leads and haste is what to watch.

The 3’s wood feeds the 9’s fire, which the classics call “wood and fire, bright and clear”: intelligence, quick success and a name that spreads. In season, talent seen and rewarded; out of season, hot tempers and haste.

In practice

  • In a home’s chart: a palace whose mountain star and water star are the 3 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 3 as mountain star, the 9 as water star: the mountain star feeds the water star, as wood feeds fire: the people’s effort goes into what comes in.
  • The 9 as mountain star, the 3 as water star: the water star feeds the mountain star, as wood feeds fire: what comes in supports the people of the home.
  • In Period 9 (2024–2043), the 9 is in season and the 3 is not: read “in season” for what the 9 speaks for and “out of season” for what the 3 speaks for, the people of the home when a star is the mountain’s, what comes in when it is the water’s.

Correspondences

  • 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.
  • 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.
  • WoodThe phase of growth and beginnings, of spring and the east: what pushes upwards and outwards towards the light.
  • 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