Lunar mansion 24 of 28
Willow柳
One of the seven mansions of the Vermilion Bird of the South.
- Group
- Vermilion Bird of the South
- Weekday planet
- Saturn
- Animal
- Roe deer
- Branch
- 午
- Building
- Bad
柳八星，天之廚宰也，主尚食，和滋味，又主雷雨。
Jin Shu, Treatise on Astronomy
What it is
The cook of heaven, and also thunder and rain.
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.