Annual flying stars (流年飞星) in the classical texts
What the classics say
Verbatim passages retrieved from public-domain editions of the source texts. They are shown in the original Chinese; the gloss above is ours.
凶莫凶扵犯太歳又曰太歳叠吉星则贡福叠凶星则降祸俱言坐太歳之法也造者坐太歳极吉向太岁极凶然坐之有数端焉一查太嵗不叠戊巳隂府年尅打头火乃可坐二要八节三竒照之三要月日时或与太嵗一气或与太嵗三合乃吉若支冲之干尅之则犯歳君而大凶四要太阳紫白诸吉同到则尤妙福大而乆非别吉之可比也太歳禄马贵人原文：太岁煞神若加临，祸福当关如霹雳，门内间间有宅神，值辰值星交互测，此是游年剖断机，不识三般总虚掷。世俗以小流年翻卦，寻贪为生气，巨为天医，武为福德，以要官贵，岂能见荣显哉！【一个排来千百个，莫把星辰错，龙要合向向合水，水合三吉位，合禄合马合官星，本卦生旺寻，合凶合吉合祥瑞，何法能超避，但看太岁是何神，立地见分明，成败断定何公位，三合年中是。Sources: 殆知阁 (Daizhige) corpus, Chinese Wikisource and transcribed editions; see the manifest for each book's provenance. Classical readings are cultural references, not predictions. Methods and review