4 and 4 · Wind twice
The 4 Green as both mountain and water star: wind on wind, study, writing, the arts and romance, attention to gather out of season.
Meaning
Wind doubled is the hexagram Xun, the gentle, entering little by little: the star of letters twice. The classics read study and creative work; in Period 9 the 4 is dormant, so they read it now as attention to gather rather than scatter.
The 4 Green twice, wind on wind: the classics read study, writing, the arts and romance. In season, success in studies and creative work; out of season, attention that drifts, and attachments that scatter.
In practice
- In a home’s chart: a palace whose mountain star and water star are both the 4 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 4 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 4 is out of its time: read “out of season”, for the people of the home and for what comes in.
Correspondences
Related
- 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