9 and 9 · Fire twice
The 9 Purple as both mountain and water star: fire on fire, fame and recognition, the brightest pairing of Period 9.
Meaning
Fire doubled is the hexagram Li, the clinging, light upon light. In Period 9 it is the brightest pairing of the period, the one that every main chart of the period brings to its facing or to its sitting.
The 9 Purple twice, fire on fire: the classics read fame, celebration and recognition. In season (as through Period 9), the brightest pairing of the period; out of season, overheating: tempers and haste.
In practice
- In a home’s chart: a palace whose mountain star and water star are both the 9 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 9 as both mountain and water star: mountain star and water star share their phase, fire: what holds the people of the home and what flows in pull the same way.
- In Period 9 (2024–2043), the 9 is in season: read “in season”, for the people of the home and for what comes in.
Correspondences
Related
- 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.
- 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