Gui appears in 2 systems: the same name is used for more than one thing. Both are shown below.
Chinese mansions
Gui (鬼, guǐ) is one of the twenty-eight Chinese lunar mansions, “the Ghost”, in the Vermilion Bird of the South, whose animal is the goat.
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
- 23
- Direction
- South
Sacred timing
- Phase
- Metal
Practice
- Magical Uses
- Chinese astrologyTimingElectionLunar work
Nature and meaning
- Chinese
- 鬼
- Pinyin
- Guǐ
- Translation
the Ghost
Details
- Animal
- Goat
- Animal Chinese
- 羊
- Quadrant
- Vermilion bird
- Quadrant Name
- Vermilion Bird of the South
- Ruler
- Venus
- Keywords
- Lunar mansionXiuVermilion birdMetal
Feng shui mountains
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
- 3
- Direction
- North
Sacred timing
- Phase
- Water
Practice
- Magical Uses
- Feng shuiSite selectionCompass work
Nature and meaning
- Chinese
- 癸
- Pinyin
- Guǐ
- Kind
- Heavenly stem
Details
- Start Degree
- 7.5
- End Degree
- 22.5
- Compass
- N
- Keywords
- Feng shuiMountainHeavenly stemWater
- Stem
- Gui
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More in Chinese mansions
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- Jing Jing (井, jǐng) is one of the twenty-eight Chinese lunar mansions, “the Well”, in the Vermilion Bird of the South, whose animal is the wild dog.
- Liu Liu (柳, liǔ) is one of the twenty-eight Chinese lunar mansions, “the Willow”, in the Vermilion Bird of the South, whose animal is the deer.
- Shen Shen (參, shēn) is one of the twenty-eight Chinese lunar mansions, “the Three Stars”, in the White Tiger of the West, whose animal is the ape.
- Xing Xing (星, xīng) is one of the twenty-eight Chinese lunar mansions, “the Star”, in the Vermilion Bird of the South, whose animal is the horse.
- Zui Zui (觜, zī) is one of the twenty-eight Chinese lunar mansions, “the Turtle Beak”, in the White Tiger of the West, whose animal is the monkey.
- Zhang Zhang (張, zhāng) is one of the twenty-eight Chinese lunar mansions, “the Extended Net”, in the Vermilion Bird of the South, whose animal is the deer.
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