Lunar mansion 11 of 28
Emptiness虛
One of the seven mansions of the Dark Warrior of the North.
- Group
- Dark Warrior of the North
- Weekday planet
- Sun
- Animal
- Rat
- Branch
- 子
- Building
- Bad
虛二星，塚宰之官也，主北方邑居廟堂祭祀祝禱事，又主死喪哭泣。
Jin Shu, Treatise on Astronomy
What it is
Shrines and prayers of the north, and also mourning.
In the almanac
The almanac gives each day one mansion in a fixed cycle. Xie Ji Bian Fang Shu traces the day-by-day count to an old Western Regions text on the seven planets. The Building row is from the Yu Xia Ji, which rates each mansion for building work.
Sources Jin Shu, Treatise on Astronomy; Xie Ji Bian Fang Shu, vol. 1; Yu Xia Ji.