Lunar mansion 8 of 28
Dipper斗
One of the seven mansions of the Dark Warrior of the North.
- Group
- Dark Warrior of the North
- Weekday planet
- Jupiter
- Animal
- Xiezhi
- Branch
- 丑
- Building
- Good
南斗六星，天廟也，丞相太宰之位，主褒賢進士，稟授爵祿。
Jin Shu, Treatise on Astronomy
What it is
The temple of heaven, the seat of ministers who promote the worthy.
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.