Meaning
The 全書's dialogue begins:
天梁屬土，南斗第二星也。司壽化氣為蔭……化暴戾為祥和。
In our translation: Tian Liang belongs to earth, the second star of the Southern Dipper. It keeps long life, its epithet is shelter, and ... it turns violence into calm.
The text makes it master of the Parents palace and gives a person 「性情磊落」, an open heart, 「循直無私」, straight and unselfish, and 「臨事果決」, decisive in affairs. The lines under 希夷先生 add a composed bearing and 「善識兵法」, a good judge of strategy. It softens the harm of Lian Zhen and the Fire and Bell stars, and the text says that only Tian Liang can check Po Jun. With Tian Ji it leans to religious and quiet lives.
The 形性賦: 「天梁穩重，心事玉潔冰清」, Tian Liang is steady and composed, its heart as clean as jade and as clear as ice.
The name means "heavenly beam", the roof beam that shelters a house. Our chart calls it the Sage, and our gloss reads: protection, mentoring and principle; an elder's steadying wisdom. The text's "long life" is an epithet of the star, never a promise about anyone.
On the board
Tian Liang is five palaces ahead of Tian Fu. It shares a palace with Tian Tong in 寅 or 申, the Sun in 卯 or 酉 and Tian Ji in 辰 or 戌, and stands alone in the other six. It is brilliant (廟) in 子, 寅, 卯, 辰, 午 and 戌, strong in 丑 and 未, gaining in 酉 and fallen (陷) in 巳, 申 and 亥. In the common table it takes 化祿 in a 壬 year, 化權 in a 乙 year and 化科 in a 己 year. It is the Body Master (身主) for anyone born in a 寅 or 申 year.
What this page leaves out
The dialogue also says what the star means for a person's health, rank and descendants, and that it keeps harm away. We record the register 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
- 「天梁屬土，南斗第二星也。司壽化氣為蔭……化暴戾為祥和。」 Tian Liang belongs to earth, the second star of the Southern Dipper; it keeps long life and its epithet is shelter ... it turns violence into calm sourced
- 形性賦, form and nature
- 「天梁穩重，心事玉潔冰清」 Tian Liang is steady and composed, its heart as clean as jade and as clear as ice; a sketch of a type, never a reading of anyone's body sourced
- The name in the sky (symbolic)
- The third lord named in the Daoist Southern Dipper scripture; which star of 斗宿 in Sagittarius bears the name is not settled, and the chart reads none 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 agrees, but for its own reason, the Dipper seat disputed
- English names elsewhere
- Heavenly Beam (English Wikipedia); sage (iztro); Heavenly Roof Beam on other sites sourced
- Our short name and gloss
- Sage: Protection, mentoring and principle; an elder's steadying wisdom. our construction
How the schools read it
- 紫微斗數全書, 諸星問答論
- 「性情磊落……循直無私。臨事果決」: open-hearted, straight and unselfish, decisive in affairs; its shelter reaches the person and the person's descendants.
- 紫微斗數全書, the lines under 希夷先生
- The Southern Dipper's keeper of long life; clear and mild, steady in bearing, and 「善識兵法」, a good judge of strategy. It softens the harm of Lian Zhen and the Fire and Bell stars.
- 紫微斗數全書, 形性賦
- Steady and composed, with a heart "as clean as jade and as clear as ice".
- A modern practitioner table
- Adds 刑, discipline, to its epithets; not in the 全書.
- Three-harmony practice (三合派)
- Reads it with Tian Ji, Tian Tong and the Moon, the group the 全書 itself names 機月同梁, and with the Sun.
- EsoTerrier
- Short name Sage; our gloss names protection, mentoring and principle. The text's "long life" is an epithet, never a promise.
Claims about it
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Tian Liang is a Southern Dipper star whose place in the sky the chart reads.
disputedWhat the record shows: The name is the third of the Southern Dipper scripture's six lords; which star bears it is not settled, and the chart places Tian Liang by counting.
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Tian Liang protects a person from harm and gives a long life.
unverifiedWhat the record shows: The 全書 calls it the star of long life and says much in that vein. It is the text's epithet.
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Tian Liang is a Southern Dipper star because it belongs to the Tian Fu series.
falseWhat the record shows: Its Dipper seat comes from its name and the 全書's table; the series is a placement grouping.
