角 Jiǎo: the Horn (Mansion 1 of 28) 角 · Jiǎo

Jiǎo — the Horn — opens the Azure Dragon’s body and the eastern quadrant. Classically read as the mansion of the imperial court announcement and the scholarly examination, where new endeavours are heralded with formal authority. Tong Shu doctrine reads Jiǎo days as favourable for inaugurations, marriages, and the formal beginning of long-cycle work; cautious for funerals and concluding ceremonies.

Configuration

• Mansion: 角 (Jiǎo) — the Horn
• Position: 1 of 28
• Four Symbol: 青龍 Azure Dragon — East, Spring, wood element
• Animal totem: 蛟 (Wood Crocodile)
• Element: wood
• Presiding weekday: Thursday

Classical domain

Jiǎo — the Horn — opens the Azure Dragon’s body and the eastern quadrant. Classically read as the mansion of the imperial court announcement and the scholarly examination, where new endeavours are heralded with formal authority. Tong Shu doctrine reads Jiǎo days as favourable for inaugurations, marriages, and the formal beginning of long-cycle work; cautious for funerals and concluding ceremonies. The mansion’s classical domain encompasses imperial palace, scholarly examinations, the announcement of new beginnings.

Auspicious activity register (Tong Shu doctrine)

Classical Tong Shu commentary records Jiǎo as broadly favourable for: marriage, formal inaugurations, scholarly examinations, signing of contracts, beginning of construction, ancestor veneration.

Cautious activity register

Classical commentary records caution for: funerals, concluding ceremonies, demolition, parting of ways. 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. Jiǎo is mansion 1 of the Azure Dragon’s seven, sitting within the broader wood-element register of the eastern quadrant.

The Jiǎo (角) 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 Jiǎo (角) 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 Jiǎo’s classical register — the mansion is classically associated with imperial palace, scholarly examinations, the announcement of new beginnings and its activity register reflects this domain.
• Read the mansion against the event you are planning. Classical Tong Shu doctrine records Jiǎo as favourable for marriage, formal inaugurations and cautious for funerals, concluding ceremonies.
• 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.