6 and 6 · Heaven twice
The 6 White as both mountain and water star: heaven on heaven, authority and support from above, steady in season, aloof out of it.
Meaning
Heaven doubled is the hexagram Qian, the creative, strength upon strength: the father’s star twice. The classics read leadership and support from above; dormant in Period 9, the 6 asks now for warmth and company to soften its authority.
The 6 White twice, heaven on heaven: the classics read authority, leadership and support from above. In season, promotion and recognition; out of season, stubbornness, and authority that stands alone.
In practice
- In a home’s chart: a palace whose mountain star and water star are both the 6 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 6 as both mountain and water star: mountain star and water star share their phase, metal: what holds the people of the home and what flows in pull the same way.
- In Period 9 (2024–2043), the 6 is out of its time: read “out of season”, for the people of the home and for what comes in.
Correspondences
Related
- 6 White starThe sixth of the nine stars, Metal and the trigram Qian, heaven, the father, at home in the north-west: authority, leadership and support from above.
- 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.
- MetalThe phase of gathering in and giving form, of autumn and the west: the harvest, the clear line, the edge that decides.
- 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