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.
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
- 24
- Direction
- South
Sacred timing
- Phase
- Earth
Practice
- Magical Uses
- Chinese astrologyTimingElectionLunar work
Nature and meaning
- Chinese
- 柳
- Pinyin
- Liǔ
- Translation
the Willow
Details
- Animal
- Deer
- Animal Chinese
- 鹿
- Quadrant
- Vermilion bird
- Quadrant Name
- Vermilion Bird of the South
- Ruler
- Saturn
- Keywords
- Lunar mansionXiuVermilion birdEarth
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