Dou (斗, dǒu) is one of the twenty-eight Chinese lunar mansions, “the Dipper”, in the Black Tortoise of the North, whose animal is the xiezhi.
One of the twenty-eight xiu (lodgings) of Chinese astronomy, grouped in four seven-mansion quadrants named for the Four Symbols. The ruler follows the seven luminaries in the repeating sequence Jupiter, Venus, Saturn, Sun, Moon, Mars, Mercury; the animal correspondences are the traditional ones and vary between sources, so the star associations are deliberately not given here rather than guessed.
Correspondences
- Number
- 8
- Direction
- North
Sacred timing
- Phase
- Wood
Practice
- Magical Uses
- Chinese astrologyTimingElectionLunar work
Nature and meaning
- Chinese
- 斗
- Pinyin
- Dǒu
- Translation
the Dipper
Details
- Animal
- Xiezhi
- Animal Chinese
- 獬豸
- Quadrant
- Black tortoise
- Quadrant Name
- Black Tortoise of the North
- Ruler
- Jupiter
- Keywords
- Lunar mansionXiuBlack tortoiseWood
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