7 and 7 · The lake twice
The 7 Red as both mountain and water star: lake on lake, speech, charm and pleasure, good company in season and care with words out of it.
Meaning
The lake doubled is the hexagram Dui, the joyous, joy that is shared. Dormant in Period 9, it is read now for care with words and belongings, in a sector kept calm and well tended.
The 7 Red twice, lake on lake: the classics read speech, charm and pleasure. In season, eloquence, good company and income from talk; out of season, gossip and sharp words, and care with belongings.
In practice
- In a home’s chart: a palace whose mountain star and water star are both the 7 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 7 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 7 is out of its time: read “out of season”, for the people of the home and for what comes in.
Correspondences
Related
- 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