Mao appears in 2 systems: the same name is used for more than one thing. Both are shown below.
Chinese mansions
Mao (昴, mǎo) is one of the twenty-eight Chinese lunar mansions, “the Hairy Head”, in the White Tiger of the West, whose animal is the rooster.
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
- 18
- Direction
- West
Sacred timing
- Phase
- Fire
Practice
- Magical Uses
- Chinese astrologyTimingElectionLunar work
Nature and meaning
- Chinese
- 昴
- Pinyin
- Mǎo
- Translation
the Hairy Head
Details
- Animal
- Rooster
- Animal Chinese
- 雞
- Quadrant
- White tiger
- Quadrant Name
- White Tiger of the West
- Ruler
- Sun
- Keywords
- Lunar mansionXiuWhite tigerFire
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
- 8
- Direction
- East
Sacred timing
- Phase
- Wood
Practice
- Magical Uses
- Feng shuiSite selectionCompass work
Nature and meaning
- Chinese
- 卯
- Pinyin
- Mǎo
- Kind
- Earthly branch
Details
- Start Degree
- 82.5
- End Degree
- 97.5
- Compass
- E
- Keywords
- Feng shuiMountainEarthly branchWood
- Branch
- Mao
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- Wei Wei (胃, wèi) is one of the twenty-eight Chinese lunar mansions, “the Stomach”, in the White Tiger of the West, whose animal is the pheasant.
- Bi Bi (畢, bì) is one of the twenty-eight Chinese lunar mansions, “the Net”, in the White Tiger of the West, whose animal is the crow.
- Lou 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.
- 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.
- Kui Kui (奎, kuí) is one of the twenty-eight Chinese lunar mansions, “the Legs”, in the White Tiger of the West, whose animal is the wolf.
- 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.
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