Lunar mansion 7 of 28
Winnowing Basket箕
One of the seven mansions of the Azure Loong of the East.
- Group
- Azure Loong of the East
- Weekday planet
- Mercury
- Animal
- Leopard
- Branch
- 寅
- Building
- Good
箕四星，亦後宮妃后之府。亦曰天津，一曰天雞，主八風。
Jin Shu, Treatise on Astronomy
What it is
The winnowing basket, which rules the eight winds.
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.