Tian-Chong

The fastest-moving of the nine stars. Fierce, quick, and arriving the moment it is mentioned — no notice given, and none expected. Used well that is decisiveness: clean, brisk, finished. Overshoot it and the same force is rashness, coarseness and a want of ballast. What it tends to look like in a real matter is something that comes up suddenly and gets settled head-on and on the spot, rather than worked around.

• People and roles: the warrior, the police officer, the athlete, the manager — and also the one who starts the quarrel, and the one who has come back to settle a score.
• Fast and sudden: things arrive in a hurry and arrive unexpectedly; going in at the front and finishing it there and then is the normal state of this star.
• Both ends have to be looked at: willing to fight and willing to charge is its auspicious face, reckless and heedless of what follows is its inauspicious one. One drive, two ways for it to end.
• Body and objects: the forehead, the heart, the triple burner; the axe, the iron hammer, the big drum and the bell — things that make a noise the moment they are touched.

"Mildly auspicious" is only the default reading. The same charge reads completely differently in a question about a competition and a question about a quarrel — what is being asked is what decides whether this time it breaks a situation open or crashes into trouble.

Nature

Standing still is the hardest thing there is; the moment something blocks the way, the person involved has moved before the thought has. It looks like decisiveness, and what is underneath it is a fear of being slow — the sensation of slowing down is simply not tolerable.

Style

Think of it, do it, discuss it afterwards. A long meeting that ends without a conclusion is unbearable; testing the idea with an actual move is preferred every time. The more urgent a situation gets, the better the performance in it.

Strength

Starting things and forcing them through — punching a hole in whatever is stuck, and getting a situation moving in a short space of time. The clearer the target, the higher the efficiency.

Impression

Blunt and direct; the tempo of a room picks up as soon as they walk into it. Some people admire the drive and some cannot keep up with it, and getting comfortable takes a little while either way.

Pitfall

Impatience produces misjudgement, and both the risk and the finishing-off get skipped. Charging forward without watching the tempo, and, once the temper is up, losing control that much more easily.

At the feng shui layer Tian-Chong answers for the bladed, the loud and the moving class of object, and for the places that go with them.

• Character: hard and fierce, strongly offensive; it governs conflict, decisiveness and action.
• Objects: axes, iron hammers, knives and swords, firearms, metal implements, machinery, vehicles, aircraft and ironware, along with the big drum and the bell — and anything white.
• Places: doors and windows, large trees, and the coffin.

A star answers for objects and places, not for rooms — which part of a house counts as the main entrance and which as the bedroom is business for the gate and stem layers.