7 and 9 · Seven and nine crossing
In Chinese: 七九穿途
The 7 Red and the 9 Purple: seven and nine crossing, fire on metal, two daughters of the home, quick wit and a little care with flames.
Meaning
Li and Dui, the south and the west, fire and the lake: the classical verse 七九穿途 pictures their meeting as two roads crossing. With the 9 timely in Period 9, quick wit and warm company lead, and the classics’ counsel is ordinary care with heat and flames.
A classical verse speaks of the 7 and the 9 crossing paths: the 9’s fire on the 7’s metal, the middle and the youngest daughters. The classics read heat and haste, and of all pairings they ask the most care with flames and heat here. In season, quick wit and warm company; out of season, quarrels and hurry.
In practice
- In a home’s chart: a palace whose mountain star and water star are the 7 and the 9, 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 7 as mountain star, the 9 as water star: the water star checks the mountain star, as fire checks metal: what comes in presses on the people of the home.
- The 9 as mountain star, the 7 as water star: the mountain star checks the water star, as fire checks metal: the people hold back what flows in, a restraint that can steady or slow.
- In Period 9 (2024–2043), the 9 is in season and the 7 is not: read “in season” for what the 9 speaks for and “out of season” for what the 7 speaks for, the people of the home when a star is the mountain’s, what comes in when it is the water’s.
Correspondences
- The stars: the 7 Red (Po Jun) and the 9 Purple (You Bi)
- Their phases: Metal and Fire
- Their trigrams and homes in the Lo Shu: Dui ☱, in the west; Li ☲, in the south
- The 7 with the other stars: 1 and 7, 2 and 7, 3 and 7, 4 and 7, 5 and 7, 6 and 7, 7 and 7, 7 and 8
- The 9 with the other stars: 1 and 9, 2 and 9, 3 and 9, 4 and 9, 5 and 9, 6 and 9, 8 and 9, 9 and 9
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.
- 9 Purple starThe ninth of the nine stars, Fire and the trigram Li, at home in the south: celebration, recognition and joy, the star of the present period.
- 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.
- FireThe phase of warmth, light and full expression, of summer and the south: growth at its height, everything most visible.
- 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