Ding (丁, dīng) is a heavenly stem of the south (S), spanning 187.5°–202.5°, in the fire phase.
One of the twenty-four mountains of the luopan compass, each 15 degrees wide on the 360-degree ring. The ring interleaves the twelve earthly branches, the eight non-earthly heavenly stems and the four corner trigrams; the earth stems Wu and Ji are not on the ring. Degrees are measured clockwise from north (0°).
Correspondences
- Number
- 15
- Direction
- South
Sacred timing
- Phase
- Fire
Practice
- Magical Uses
- Feng shuiSite selectionCompass work
Nature and meaning
- Chinese
- 丁
- Pinyin
- Dīng
- Kind
- Heavenly stem
Details
- Start Degree
- 187.5
- End Degree
- 202.5
- Compass
- S
- Keywords
- Feng shuiMountainHeavenly stemFire
- Stem
- Ding
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- Wu Wu (午, wǔ) is an earthly branch of the south (S), spanning 172.5°–187.5°, in the fire phase.
- Wei Wei (未, wèi) is an earthly branch of the southwest (SSW), spanning 202.5°–217.5°, in the earth phase.
- Bing Bing (丙, bǐng) is a heavenly stem of the south (S), spanning 157.5°–172.5°, in the fire phase.
- Kun Kun (坤, kūn) is a trigram of the southwest (SSW), spanning 217.5°–232.5°, in the earth phase.
- Si Si (巳, sì) is an earthly branch of the southeast (SE), spanning 142.5°–157.5°, in the fire phase.
- Shen Shen (申, shēn) is an earthly branch of the southwest (SSW), spanning 232.5°–247.5°, in the metal phase.
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