Xu appears in 2 systems: the same name is used for more than one thing. Both are shown below.
Chinese mansions
Xu (虛, xū) is one of the twenty-eight Chinese lunar mansions, “the Emptiness”, in the Black Tortoise of the North, whose animal is the rat.
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
- 11
- Direction
- North
Sacred timing
- Phase
- Fire
Practice
- Magical Uses
- Chinese astrologyTimingElectionLunar work
Nature and meaning
- Chinese
- 虛
- Pinyin
- Xū
- Translation
the Emptiness
Details
- Animal
- Rat
- Animal Chinese
- 鼠
- Quadrant
- Black tortoise
- Quadrant Name
- Black Tortoise of the North
- Ruler
- Sun
- Keywords
- Lunar mansionXiuBlack tortoiseFire
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
- 22
- Direction
- Northwest
Sacred timing
- Phase
- Earth
Practice
- Magical Uses
- Feng shuiSite selectionCompass work
Nature and meaning
- Chinese
- 戌
- Pinyin
- Xū
- Kind
- Earthly branch
Details
- Start Degree
- 292.5
- End Degree
- 307.5
- Compass
- NW
- Keywords
- Feng shuiMountainEarthly branchEarth
- Branch
- Xu
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- Nü Nü (女, nǚ) is one of the twenty-eight Chinese lunar mansions, “the Girl”, in the Black Tortoise of the North, whose animal is the bat.
- Wei Wei (危, wēi) is one of the twenty-eight Chinese lunar mansions, “the Rooftop”, in the Black Tortoise of the North, whose animal is the swallow.
- Niu Niu (牛, niú) is one of the twenty-eight Chinese lunar mansions, “the Ox”, in the Black Tortoise of the North, whose animal is the ox.
- Shi Shi (室, shì) is one of the twenty-eight Chinese lunar mansions, “the Encampment”, in the Black Tortoise of the North, whose animal is the pig.
- Dou Dou (斗, dǒu) is one of the twenty-eight Chinese lunar mansions, “the Dipper”, in the Black Tortoise of the North, whose animal is the xiezhi.
- Bi Bi (壁, bì) is one of the twenty-eight Chinese lunar mansions, “the Wall”, in the Black Tortoise of the North, whose animal is the porcupine.
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