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6 and 8 · Standing and wealth

Feng ShuiEn français6 et 8 · Le rang et la richesse

The 6 White and the 8 White: earth feeding metal, two white stars, standing and wealth together, one of the pairings the classics praise most.

Meaning

Two of the three white stars the verses welcome, Qian’s 6 and Gen’s 8, heaven and the mountain: heaven within the mountain is the hexagram Da Xu, the great taming, strength kept in store. In Period 9 its gains slow, the classics say, but rarely turn.

The 8’s earth feeds the 6’s metal: the classics read wealth and standing together, one of the pairings they praise most. In season, prosperity, promotion and gains that last; out of season, gains that slow but rarely turn.

In practice

  • In a home’s chart: a palace whose mountain star and water star are the 6 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 6 as mountain star, the 8 as water star: the water star feeds the mountain star, as earth feeds metal: what comes in supports the people of the home.
  • The 8 as mountain star, the 6 as water star: the mountain star feeds the water star, as earth feeds metal: the people’s effort goes into what comes in.
  • 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

  • 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.
  • 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.
  • MetalThe phase of gathering in and giving form, of autumn and the west: the harvest, the clear line, the edge that decides.
  • 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