Stored Wealth祿存 · Lu Cun
A star of fortune. Tradition links it with savings and steady income.
- Element
- earth
- Group
- Northern Dipper
祿存屬土，北斗司爵貴壽星。
Lu Cun belongs to earth. In the Northern Dipper it governs rank and long life.
Zi Wei Dou Shu Quan Shu, vol. 2
祿存北斗第三星，真人之宿，主人貴爵，掌人壽基。
Lu Cun is the third star of the Northern Dipper, lodge of the Perfected. It brings rank and holds the base of long life.
Zi Wei Dou Shu Quan Shu, vol. 1
In plain words
Lu Cun is the star of salary and rank. It matters most in the Life, Property and Wealth palaces, and it brightens the stars around it. Alone, with no good transformation, the book calls the person a guardian of money, who keeps wealth but does little with it.
Sources Zi Wei Dou Shu Quan Shu, vols. 1 and 2, from an online transcription, not yet checked against a printed edition. The plain text is ours, and it leaves out the book’s harshest lines about death and about women.