箕 — Jī, the Winnowing Basket, is mansion 7 of 28 in the classical lunar-mansion cycle and one of the seven mansions of the Azure Dragon (青龍) quadrant. The Winnowing Basket — the wind’s register and gossip. Auspicious for harvest and storage; cautious for matters of discretion.
箕 Jī: classical reading
Jī — the Winnowing Basket — closes the Azure Dragon’s seven mansions and classically presides over the wind, gossip, and the dispersing of fortune. Tong Shu doctrine reads Jī days with mixed register: auspicious for the gathering and storage of resources but cautious for matters that depend on quiet handling, given the mansion’s association with rumour and dispersal.
Configuration
Mansion:箕 (Jī) — the Winnowing Basket
Position: 7 of 28
Four Symbol:青龍 Azure Dragon — East, Spring, wood element
Animal totem:豹 (Leopard)
Element: water
Presiding weekday: Wednesday
Classical domain
Jī — the Winnowing Basket — closes the Azure Dragon’s seven mansions and classically presides over the wind, gossip, and the dispersing of fortune. Tong Shu doctrine reads Jī days with mixed register: auspicious for the gathering and storage of resources but cautious for matters that depend on quiet handling, given the mansion’s association with rumour and dispersal. The mansion’s classical domain encompasses the winnowing basket, the wind, gossip and rumour.
Auspicious activity register (Tong Shu doctrine)
Classical Tong Shu commentary records Jī as broadly favourable for: gathering of resources, storage, harvest, beginning of trade, opening a business.
Cautious activity register
Classical commentary records caution for: confidential negotiations, matters requiring discretion, marriages with complicated family circumstances. 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.
Azure Dragon context
The Azure Dragon governs the eastern quadrant of the night sky — the spring constellations, the wood element, and the register of growth, ascension, and scholarly emergence. Its 7 mansions describe the dragon’s anatomy from horn to winnowing basket. Jī is mansion 7 of the Azure Dragon’s seven, sitting within the broader wood-element register of the eastern quadrant.
Why the lunar mansion alone is not enough
The Jī (箕) 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.
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.
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.
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.
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 Jī (箕) 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.
Practical priorities
Note Jī’s classical register — the mansion is classically associated with the winnowing basket, the wind, gossip and rumour and its activity register reflects this domain.
Read the mansion against the event you are planning. Classical Tong Shu doctrine records Jī as favourable for gathering of resources, storage and cautious for confidential negotiations, matters requiring discretion.
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.
What does the 箕 (Jī) mansion mean in classical date selection?
Jī (箕), the Winnowing Basket, is mansion 7 of 28 in the classical lunar-mansion cycle — one of the seven mansions of the Azure Dragon (青龍) quadrant of the night sky. Classical Tong Shu doctrine reads Jī as the winnowing basket — the wind’s register and gossip. auspicious for harvest and storage; cautious for matters of discretion.
What is the Jī mansion classically auspicious for?
Classical Tong Shu commentary records Jī as favourable for: gathering of resources, storage, harvest, beginning of trade, opening a business. The classical register reflects the mansion’s underlying domain — the winnowing basket, the wind, gossip and rumour. Note that the lunar mansion is one of four inputs into any complete date-selection reading; chart-specific application requires layering in the day’s stem-branch pillar, the year and month context, and your own BaZi chart.
Should I avoid events on Jī mansion days?
Classical commentary records caution for confidential negotiations, matters requiring discretion, marriages with complicated family circumstances on Jī days, but the caution is descriptive rather than prescriptive. Whether the cautious register actually applies to your specific event depends on the day’s stem-branch pillar, the year/month context, and your own chart. A chart-aware date selection consultation reads all four layers together to determine whether a candidate date is genuinely contraindicated for you.
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