Appendix III: A Quick-Reference Table of Annual Purple-White Stars for the Twenty Years of Period Nine (2024–2043)

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Following the starting formula for the annual Purple-White given in Section 9.3, the star entering the center for each of the twenty years of Period Nine is laid out below, along with the directions most commonly checked in practice—those occupied by Five Yellow and Two Black (the year's boundary is taken, by convention, at the start of the year; different lineages differ over whether this boundary falls at the Beginning of Spring or the first day of the lunar new year; this table is offered for illustrative study only):

Gregorian Year	Ganzhi	Star Entering the Center	Location of Five Yellow	Location of Two Black (the Sickness Talisman)
2024	Jiachen	Three Green	Due West	Southeast
2025	Yisi	Two Black	Northeast	Center
2026	Bingwu	One White	Due South	Northwest
2027	Dingwei	Nine Purple	Due North	Due West
2028	Wushen	Eight White	Southwest	Northeast
2029	Jiyou	Seven Red	Due East	Due South
2030	Gengxu	Six White	Southeast	Due North
2031	Xinhai	Five Yellow	Center	Southwest
2032	Renzi	Four Emerald	Northwest	Due East
2033	Guichou	Three Green	Due West	Southeast
2034	Jiayin	Two Black	Northeast	Center
2035	Yimao	One White	Due South	Northwest
2036	Bingchen	Nine Purple	Due North	Due West
2037	Dingsi	Eight White	Southwest	Northeast
2038	Wuwu	Seven Red	Due East	Due South
2039	Jiwei	Six White	Southeast	Due North
2040	Gengshen	Five Yellow	Center	Southwest
2041	Xinyou	Four Emerald	Northwest	Due East
2042	Renxu	Three Green	Due West	Southeast
2043	Guihai	Two Black	Northeast	Center

The pattern is plain to see: the star entering the center decreases year by year and cycles every nine years, so the positions of Five Yellow and Two Black likewise cycle on a nine-year period (2024, 2033, and 2042 share the same configuration in the table). Traditional practice takes the direction occupied by Five Yellow or Two Black in a given year as the direction where "breaking ground should be avoided" that year—readers can use this table to check for themselves the source of any given year's popular-media claim about "which direction should be avoided for renovation this year."

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