7 Red MetalThe nine starsNine Star Ki 九星気学

Seven Red Metal sits due west, on the Dui trigram — the lake, water gathered. Dui in the I Ching means pleasure: exchange, talk, enjoyment. West is where the sun sets, when the day ends and people eat and talk. So Seven Red's subject is exchange.

It shows up in you like this: you're at ease in company and conversation costs you nothing; your relationship with money is direct — you can earn it and you can spend it; and you know how to put a thing so that people want to agree.

Running well, Seven Red is whoever gets it agreed: a lot of collaboration isn't settled in meeting rooms, it's settled over a meal, and you have a native advantage in that setting. Blocked, it goes two ways. One is treating the pleasantness as the point, so the deep subject is permanently avoided. The other is a balance problem — money arrives easily, so it leaves easily. Seven Red's practice is keeping the pleasure as a tool rather than a destination: the agreement is the value, the atmosphere was only the road.