6 and 7 · Crossed swords
In Chinese: 交劍煞交剑煞
The 6 White and the 7 Red: crossed swords, two metals, authority and speech, sharp skill in season and rivalry eased by distance out of it.
Meaning
Qian and Dui, the north-west and the west, stand side by side on the compass, two Metal trigrams; when their stars share a palace the classics see two blades meeting, 交劍煞. Both are dormant in Period 9, and the counsel is distance and calm rather than confrontation.
The classics call it crossed swords: two metals, the father and the youngest daughter, authority and speech. In season, competitive drive and sharp skill; out of season, rivalry and disputes, eased by distance and calm rather than confrontation.
In practice
- In a home’s chart: a palace whose mountain star and water star are the 6 and the 7, 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 6 as mountain star, the 7 as 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.
- The 7 as mountain star, the 6 as 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), neither star is in season: read “out of season”, whichever is the mountain star.
Correspondences
- The stars: the 6 White (Wu Qu) and the 7 Red (Po Jun)
- Their phase: Metal, the same for both
- Their trigrams and homes in the Lo Shu: Qian ☰, in the north-west; Dui ☱, in the west
- The 6 with the other stars: 1 and 6, 2 and 6, 3 and 6, 4 and 6, 5 and 6, 6 and 6, 6 and 8, 6 and 9
- The 7 with the other stars: 1 and 7, 2 and 7, 3 and 7, 4 and 7, 5 and 7, 7 and 7, 7 and 8, 7 and 9
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.
- 7 Red starThe seventh of the nine stars, Metal and the trigram Dui, the lake, at home in the west: speech, charm and pleasure, read with care out of season.
- 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