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Sanming Tonghui · A Comprehensive Account of the Three Destinies
On the Salty Pool
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The Huainanzi says: “The Sun rises at Fusang and enters the Salty Pool.” Thus the five phases' Bathing ground is named Salty Pool, taking the meaning of the Sun entering, when things darken. Yin–Wu–Xu take Mao; Si–You–Chou take Wu; Shen–Zi–Chen take You; Hai–Mao–Wei take Zi: the second position from Long Life, the Bathing palace. It is also Defeat Spirit and Peach Blossom Killing. The text describes this spirit as deceitful, sexually improper, and low. At Birth or Flourishing it gives beautiful bearing, indulgence in wine and sex, scattering money for pleasure, ruining household property, and pursuit of desire alone. At Death or Extinction it gives dejection and lack of restraint, deceitful words and deeds, wandering, gambling, ingratitude, broken trust, and illicit sex, with nothing left undone. Joined with Original Influence and further Birth and Flourishing, it often gives an improper person as wife. Joined with Noble Person and Established Emolument, livelihood often comes from oil, salt, wine, or goods, or a household is founded through a woman's hidden wealth. The text predicts lifelong Water danger, wasting illness, and repeated loss and obscure calamity. Entering Life gives destruction without achievement, no good omen, especially feared for women.
Salty Pool is not an auspicious Killing. Meeting it in day or hour and in a Water fate is especially harmful.
Translator's note: The complete four-group Salty Pool mapping and both source paragraphs are retained. Sexual, moral, gendered, marital, and illness judgments are historical astrological claims, not diagnoses or character assessments endorsed by the translation.
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