Meaning
The 全書's dialogue begins:
太陰乃水之精，為田宅主，[…]與日為配。
In our translation: Tai Yin is the essence of water, master of the Property palace, [...] the Sun's mate. The quotation leaves out the epithet the line gives it, 化富; the facts give it as 富, abundance.
The text reads the Moon as the Sun reads the day, by the board: it has a waxing and a waning half, and is fallen from 卯 to 未 and at home from 酉 to 丑. A bright Moon, the dialogue says, gives a person who is 「聰明俊秀」, clever and handsome, 「端雅純祥」, upright, graceful and gentle. It fears Ju Men, the Ram and Spinning Top. By the text's own family table it is the mother's star for everyone and the wife's in a man's chart.
The 形性賦 gives it only an image, 「玉兔清奇」, the jade hare, fine and rare: the hare is the animal of the moon.
Our chart calls it the Moon, and our gloss reads: sensitivity, nurture and inner life; quiet, steady building over time.
A symbol, not the Moon
Tai Yin is placed one palace ahead of Tian Fu by counting; no lunar position or phase is computed, and the Moon of a Western natal chart is a different thing that our pages never link to it.
On the board
The Moon shares a palace with Tian Tong in 子 or 午, the Sun in 丑 or 未 and Tian Ji in 寅 or 申, and stands alone in the other six. It is brilliant (廟) in 子, 丑 and 亥, strong in 寅, 酉 and 戌, fallen (陷) in 卯, 辰 and 巳 and weak (不) in 午 and 未. In the common table it takes 化祿 in a 丁 year, 化權 in a 戊 year, 化科 in 庚 and 癸 years and 化忌 in a 乙 year.
What this page leaves out
The 全書 also says what a dim Moon means for a mother, a wife and the eyes. We record that it does and repeat none of it.
Correspondences
Each item with how it stands: “sourced” is in the work cited, “our construction” is EsoTerrier’s own, and “disputed” means the sources disagree.
- 諸星問答論, the opening line
- 「太陰乃水之精，為田宅主，[…]與日為配。」 Tai Yin is the essence of water, master of the Property palace, [...] the Sun's mate (with the epithet left out of the quotation; it is given in the facts) sourced
- 形性賦, form and nature
- 「玉兔清奇」 the jade hare, fine and rare (the hare is the animal of the moon); a sketch of a type, never a reading of anyone's body sourced
- The name in the sky
- The Moon in name only: the star is placed one palace from Tian Fu, and no lunar position or phase is computed sourced
- Dipper by series
- Listed as a Southern Dipper star on some practitioner pages because it belongs to the Tian Fu series; the 全書 calls it a star of the middle sky disputed
- 化科 in a 庚 year, other tables
- The Zhongzhou, 河洛 and 占驗 tables do not give the Moon 化科 in a 庚 year (天府 or 天同 take it instead) disputed
- English names elsewhere
- Moon Star (English Wikipedia); moon (iztro); the Moon on every site we checked sourced
- Our short name and gloss
- Moon: Sensitivity, nurture and inner life; quiet, steady building over time. our construction
How the schools read it
- 紫微斗數全書, 諸星問答論
- The essence of water and the Sun's mate, with a waxing and a waning half; it gives a person who is 「聰明俊秀」, clever and handsome, of an upright, graceful and gentle disposition.
- 紫微斗數全書, the lines under 希夷先生
- Fallen from 卯 to 未 and at home from 酉 to 丑; the mother's star for everyone and the wife's in a man's chart, by the text's own reckoning.
- 紫微斗數全書, 形性賦
- "The jade hare, fine and rare": an image of the moon, given as the star's form.
- Zhongzhou, 河洛 and 占驗 tables
- Do not give the Moon 化科 in a 庚 year; Tian Fu or Tian Tong takes it instead.
- Three-harmony practice (三合派)
- With the Sun, the star whose brightness teachers weigh most.
- EsoTerrier
- Short name Moon; our gloss names sensitivity, nurture and inner life, "quiet, steady building over time". Never linked to the Moon of a natal chart, and no reading of outcome.
Claims about it
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Tai Yin is the Moon of the sky, and the chart computes its position or phase.
falseWhat the record shows: It is placed one palace from Tian Fu by counting; no ephemeris is used. The waxing and waning in the text are a reading of the board, not of the sky.
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As a star of the Tian Fu series, the Moon belongs to the Southern Dipper.
falseWhat the record shows: The series is a placement grouping. The 全書 puts the Moon in the middle sky.
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The text's lines on the Moon foretell what befalls a mother or a wife, or harm to the eyes.
unverifiedWhat the record shows: The 全書 has such lines. We keep its image of the moon and its pairing with the Sun.
