The Seven Mansions of The White Tiger
As the other three Symbols, there are seven "mansions", or positions, of the moon within White Tiger. The names and determinative stars are:
Mansion no. | Name (pinyin) | Translation | Determinative star |
---|---|---|---|
15 | 奎 (Kuí) | Legs | η And |
16 | 婁 (Lóu) | Bond | β Ari |
17 | 胃 (Wèi) | Stomach | 35 Ari |
18 | 昴 (Mǎo) | Hairy Head | 17 Tau |
19 | 畢 (Bì) | Net | ε Tau |
20 | 觜 (Zī) | Turtle Beak | λ Ori |
21 | 參 (Shēn) | Three Stars | ζ Ori |
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Famous quotes containing the words mansions, white and/or tiger:
“The street-lamps burn amidst the baleful glooms,
Amidst the soundless solitudes immense
Of ranged mansions dark and still as tombs.”
—James Thomson (18341882)
“While the white man keeps the impetus of his own proud, onward march, the dark races will yield and serve, perforce. But let the white man once have a misgiving about his own leadership, and the dark races will at once attack him, to pull him down into the old gulfs.”
—D.H. (David Herbert)
“Truly men hate the truth; theyd liefer
Meet a tiger on the road.
Therefore the poets honey their truth with lying; but religion-
Vendors and political men
Pour from the barrel, new lies on the old,”
—Robinson Jeffers (18871962)