Lunar mansion 3 of 28
Root氐
One of the seven mansions of the Azure Loong of the East.
- Group
- Azure Loong of the East
- Weekday planet
- Saturn
- Animal
- Raccoon dog
- Branch
- 卯
- Building
- Bad
氐四星，王者之宿宮，后妃之府，休解之房。
Jin Shu, Treatise on Astronomy
What it is
The ruler’s private quarters, a place of rest.
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.