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Five Horses Racing to the Trough
Read from the look of hills (at most medium)
Four or five roughly parallel spurs running down the same way (the horses), with a stream or long valley across their feet (the trough); the seat at the foot of the middle one.
- Traditional seat:
- the head of the middle horse, by the trough
- Traditionally said:
- income from effort (a traditional saying, for reference only)
- Used for
- shops, factories, offices
- Suits (traditionally)
- sales, logistics and transport, trades that want quick income
- Less suited (traditionally)
- galloping horses are unsettled — not for a quiet home or retirement.
- How this site reads it
- read for homes and graves, in town a main road may stand in for water (one step less sure), read from the look of hills: at most medium, a master should see it on site
- Example
- No landmark in the famous sites reads as this form yet.
How to use them
In Explore Land Veins, pick “Five Horses Racing to the Trough” in “Looks like a named form” to find the places in an area most like it.
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A named form (喝形) here is a likeness read off the shape of the ground — for reference only, never a verdict. Forms read from the look of hills (Rhinoceros, General…) go no higher than medium; forms that depend on the detail of a hill or on imagination are not read here and need a master on site.