Spinning Top陀羅 · Tuo Luo
A harsh star. Tradition links it with delay and tangled trouble.
- Element
- metal
- Group
- Northern Dipper
陀羅屬金，北斗助星化忌。
Tuo Luo belongs to metal. A helper star of the Northern Dipper, it transforms into Hindrance.
Zi Wei Dou Shu Quan Shu, vol. 2
性剛威猛，作事進退。
Firm and fierce, it moves forward and back in what it does.
Zi Wei Dou Shu Quan Shu, vol. 1
In plain words
Tuo Luo is the partner of Qing Yang. Where Qing Yang strikes, Tuo Luo drags: things are made suddenly and lost suddenly, and the person drifts. In its strong palaces the book still reads wealth and office.
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.