8 and 8 · The mountain twice
The 8 White as both mountain and water star: mountain on mountain, property, savings and stillness, a steadiness to keep in Period 9.
Meaning
The mountain doubled is the hexagram Gen, keeping still, stillness upon stillness. It ruled Period 8; just past its time now, the classics read it as a steadiness to keep rather than push.
The 8 White twice, mountain on mountain: the classics read property, savings and stillness. In season (as through Period 8), lasting wealth; just past its time, a steadiness to keep rather than push; long out of season, things that stand still.
In practice
- In a home’s chart: a palace whose mountain star and water star are both the 8 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 8 as both mountain and water star: mountain star and water star share their phase, earth: what holds the people of the home and what flows in pull the same way.
- In Period 9 (2024–2043), the 8 has just passed its time: the face its text gives a star just past its time applies.
Correspondences
Related
- 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.
- 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