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8 Mansions Part 3

 There is a lot more material about 8 mansions now and I think we can see much of how the system is used in practice. With that it seems that the whole 4 group of beneficial influences, may be coming from something else.More time would be needed to place them I assume.  But the"less beneficial" group seems to be very much on point. So lets expand there! So in there we have 4 : Wu Gui (五鬼) Liu Sha (六煞) Huo Hai (祸害) Jue Ming (绝命)  And this 4 seems to fit very well to what we know, so good time to go more into them.  First interesting idea is that depending how well a house field is doing, they take different meaning. House field, meaning the state of the house overall. We can say how good the "feng shui" is, as well. For example we mentioned Jue Ming - as closeness vs Liu Sha - as openess to people.  This is somewhere in the middle, for a house that is working somewhat well, though not great. If we have to go from worse to spiritual levels/best may go like this: ...

Di Tian Sui Chapter 10 (more of a thoughts on the translator calculators, then a translation)

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 Made a replacing software that helps with translation of Five Arts texts. To synchronize checked a chapter from DTS 《滴天髓阐微》 , that I was wondering about before. Will post the result. Don't take it too seriously, its just a surface thing, to test the software.   Not sure it will make it online, however, as the code has security problems, even though it does its job well enough, so far. : ) Sources for the original text: https://www.8bei8.com/ https://ctext.org/   《滴天髓阐微》上篇第10章 形象 Chapter 10 of the first part of Drops of Heavens Essence.  Image 两气合而成象,象不可破也。 The two qi combine to form an image , and the image should not be broken . 原注:天干屬木,地支屬火,天干屬火,地支屬木,其象則一。若見金水則破,餘仿此。 Original note: The heavenly stem belongs to wood, the earthly branches belong to fire or the heavenly stem belongs to fire, the earthly branches belong to wood, and their symbols are one. If you see metal or water, image will break, and the rest will be like this. 任氏曰:两气双清,非独木火二形也,如土金、金水、水木,木...