Lunar mansion 20 of 28
Turtle Beak觜
One of the seven mansions of the White Tiger of the West.
- Group
- White Tiger of the West
- Weekday planet
- Mars
- Animal
- Monkey
- Branch
- 申
- Building
- Bad
觜觿三星，為三軍之候，行軍之藏府，主葆旅，收斂萬物。
Jin Shu, Treatise on Astronomy
What it is
The scouts and stores of an army on the march.
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.