Kang
Kang (亢, kàng) is one of the twenty-eight Chinese lunar mansions, “the Neck”, in the Azure Dragon of the East, whose animal is the dragon.
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
- 2
- Direction
- East
Sacred timing
- Phase
- Metal
Practice
- Magical Uses
- Chinese astrologyTimingElectionLunar work
Nature and meaning
- Chinese
- 亢
- Pinyin
- Kàng
- Translation
the Neck
Details
- Animal
- Dragon
- Animal Chinese
- 龍
- Quadrant
- Azure dragon
- Quadrant Name
- Azure Dragon of the East
- Ruler
- Venus
- Keywords
- Lunar mansionXiuAzure dragonMetal
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