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Ghost鬼
One of the seven mansions of the Vermilion Bird of the South.
- Group
- Vermilion Bird of the South
- Weekday planet
- Venus
- Animal
- Goat
- Branch
- 未
- Building
- Bad
輿鬼五星，天目也，主視，明察奸謀。
Jin Shu, Treatise on Astronomy
What it is
The eye of heaven, watching for plots. Its centre stands for the dead.
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.