Lou (婁, lóu) is one of the twenty-eight Chinese lunar mansions, “the Bond”, in the White Tiger of the West, whose animal is the dog.
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
- 16
- Direction
- West
Sacred timing
- Phase
- Metal
Practice
- Magical Uses
- Chinese astrologyTimingElectionLunar work
Nature and meaning
- Chinese
- 婁
- Pinyin
- Lóu
- Translation
the Bond
Details
- Animal
- Dog
- Animal Chinese
- 狗
- Quadrant
- White tiger
- Quadrant Name
- White Tiger of the West
- Ruler
- Venus
- Keywords
- Lunar mansionXiuWhite tigerMetal
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