Lunar mansion 28 of 28
Chariot軫
One of the seven mansions of the Vermilion Bird of the South.
- Group
- Vermilion Bird of the South
- Weekday planet
- Mercury
- Animal
- Earthworm
- Branch
- 巳
- Building
- Good
軫四星，主冥宰，輔臣也；主車騎，主載任。
Jin Shu, Treatise on Astronomy
What it is
Carriages and transport, and also the wind.
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.