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Heart心
One of the seven mansions of the Azure Loong of the East.
- Group
- Azure Loong of the East
- Weekday planet
- Moon
- Animal
- Fox
- Branch
- 卯
- Building
- Bad
心三星，天王正位也。中星曰明堂，天子位，為大辰，主天下之賞罰。
Jin Shu, Treatise on Astronomy
What it is
The ruler’s own seat, in charge of reward and punishment.
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.