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4 and 8 · Learning and property

Feng ShuiEn français4 et 8 · Le savoir et les biens

The 4 Green and the 8 White: wood pressing on earth, the eldest daughter and the youngest son, learning turned into property.

Meaning

Xun and Gen, wind and the mountain: wind over the mountain is the hexagram Jian, development, the tree that grows slowly on a height. With the 8 just past its time and the 4 dormant, the classics suggest keeping plans in proportion.

The 4’s wood presses on the 8’s earth: the eldest daughter and the youngest son. The classics read learning turned into property, or property spent on learning. In season, studies that pay; out of season, savings that slip away on plans.

In practice

  • In a home’s chart: a palace whose mountain star and water star are the 4 and the 8, 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 4 as mountain star, the 8 as water star: the mountain star checks the water star, as wood checks earth: the people hold back what flows in, a restraint that can steady or slow.
  • The 8 as mountain star, the 4 as water star: the water star checks the mountain star, as wood checks earth: what comes in presses on the people of the home.
  • In Period 9 (2024–2043), neither star is in season, though the 8 has only just passed its time: read “out of season”, more gently for what the 8 speaks for.

Correspondences

  • 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.
  • 8 White starThe eighth of the nine stars, Earth and the trigram Gen, the mountain, at home in the north-east: steadiness and lasting gains, waning in Period 9.
  • 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.
  • EarthThe phase of the centre and of every turning point: the ground that steadies, nourishes and gathers the other four together.
  • 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