Lunar mansion 17 of 28
Stomach胃
One of the seven mansions of the White Tiger of the West.
- Group
- White Tiger of the West
- Weekday planet
- Saturn
- Animal
- Pheasant
- Branch
- 酉
- Building
- Good
胃三星，天之廚藏，主食廩，五穀府也，明則和平。
Jin Shu, Treatise on Astronomy
What it is
The kitchen stores of heaven and the granary of the five grains.
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.