鬼 Guǐ: the Ghost (Mansion 23 of 28) 鬼 · Guǐ

Guǐ — the Ghost — classically presides over ancestor spirits, the boundary between worlds, and the hidden wealth that ancestors guard. Tong Shu doctrine reads Guǐ days as favourable for ancestor veneration, formal funerals, and matters that touch the ancestral inheritance; broadly cautious for celebrations and inaugurations.

Configuration

• Mansion: 鬼 (Guǐ) — the Ghost
• Position: 23 of 28
• Four Symbol: 朱雀 Vermilion Bird — South, Summer, fire element
• Animal totem: 羊 (Ram)
• Element: metal
• Presiding weekday: Friday

Classical domain

Guǐ — the Ghost — classically presides over ancestor spirits, the boundary between worlds, and the hidden wealth that ancestors guard. Tong Shu doctrine reads Guǐ days as favourable for ancestor veneration, formal funerals, and matters that touch the ancestral inheritance; broadly cautious for celebrations and inaugurations. The mansion’s classical domain encompasses the ghost, ancestor spirits, hidden wealth.

Auspicious activity register (Tong Shu doctrine)

Classical Tong Shu commentary records Guǐ as broadly favourable for: ancestor veneration, funerals, inheritance proceedings, ceremonies that honour the deceased, the discovery of hidden wealth.

Cautious activity register

Classical commentary records caution for: marriages, inaugurations, openings, public celebrations. The cautious register is descriptive of the mansion’s classical reading, not prescriptive of a fixed prohibition — chart-specific reading determines whether the caution applies in a given case.

Vermilion Bird context

The Vermilion Bird governs the southern quadrant — the summer constellations, the fire element, and the register of warmth, illumination, and ceremonial public life. Its 7 mansions describe the bird’s body and its environment of festival and celebration. Guǐ is mansion 2 of the Vermilion Bird’s seven, sitting within the broader fire-element register of the southern quadrant.

The Guǐ (鬼) mansion is one signal in a complete date-selection reading — not the whole answer. Classical Tong Shu (通書) doctrine layers four inputs into any date selection.

1. The lunar mansion governing the date. The 28 Mansions cycle through the calendar in a fixed seven-day weekday-coupled rhythm, so each candidate date carries one mansion as its presiding register. This is the input these reference pages describe.
2. The day’s stem-branch pillar. Every calendar date is also a 60-jiazi day pillar — one of the 60 stem-branch combinations that cycle every 60 days. The day pillar carries its own register, classical activity associations, and clash-or-combination relationships with the chart of whoever the date is for.
3. The year and month context. The current Tai Sui (太歲, the year god), the month branch, and the running shen sha for the year all modulate the date’s register. A mansion classically auspicious for marriage may be partially neutralised if the date falls in a month that clashes with the bride’s zodiac.
4. The chart-specific question. The date is being selected for a specific person and a specific event. The combination of mansion + day pillar + year/month context + the person’s own BaZi chart determines whether the date is genuinely auspicious for them. The same date can be excellent for one person and contradicted for another.

This page describes the first input — the Guǐ (鬼) mansion's register. The reading is a useful starting reference. It is not a substitute for a chart-aware date selection that layers in the other three. Master Sean Chan’s auspicious date selection reads all four layers against your specific event question.

• Note Guǐ’s classical register — the mansion is classically associated with the ghost, ancestor spirits, hidden wealth and its activity register reflects this domain.
• Read the mansion against the event you are planning. Classical Tong Shu doctrine records Guǐ as favourable for ancestor veneration, funerals and cautious for marriages, inaugurations.
• The mansion is one of four inputs. See the “Why the lunar mansion alone is not enough” section above for the full date-selection calculus that includes the day’s stem-branch pillar, year/month context, and your specific BaZi chart.
• Book a chart-aware date selection via the auspicious date selection consultation to layer all four inputs together for your specific event.