Lunar mansion 9 of 28
Ox牛
One of the seven mansions of the Dark Warrior of the North.
- Group
- Dark Warrior of the North
- Weekday planet
- Venus
- Animal
- Ox
- Branch
- 丑
- Building
- Bad
牽牛六星，天之關梁，主犧牲事。
Jin Shu, Treatise on Astronomy
What it is
The passes and bridges of heaven, and the animals for sacrifice.
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.