The Sun太陽 · Tai Yang
A star of giving and public life. Tradition links it with generosity and reputation.
- Element
- fire
- Group
- Both Dippers
太陽屬火，南北斗化貴，為官祿主。
Tai Yang belongs to fire. Across both Dippers it transforms into Honour, master of the Career palace.
Zi Wei Dou Shu Quan Shu, vol. 2
守人身命，主人忠鯁，不較是非。
In the Life palace it makes a person loyal and blunt, who does not dwell on right and wrong.
Zi Wei Dou Shu Quan Shu, vol. 1
In plain words
Tai Yang is the sun: rank, public life, and in the old reading the father for men and the husband for women. Its strength follows the day. It is bright in the morning and noon palaces, and it has lost its light in the night palaces, where the reading turns to hard work.
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.