"...To begin with the outmost of the circles inscribed on the circles inscribed on the compass plate, we find this circle (XVIII) divided into twenty-eight portions of unequal size, on each of which there is the name of one of the twenty-eight constellations through which the moon passes in her course along the ecliptic, with the number of degrees each constellation occupies. This circle therefore represent the moon's orbit and its use is to determine not only the lunar influences generally, but also the influence which each Particular Constellation is supposed to exercise on any given spot. Every Chinese calendar gives a series of twenty-eight tables containing a minute enumeration of the geomantic affinities ascribed to each constellation, but it will suffice here to state that fifteen of them are put down in the calendar as unlucky, thirteen as lucky. "