Between the night of October 8 and the early hours of October 9, the Draconid meteor shower reaches its peak, and these same days happen to fall in World Space Week. Wishing on a meteor is a small thing, but it follows a set of old rules: one meteor, one wish, and the wish must be short enough to state a “when.”
The twenty-eight mansions divide the circuit of the sky into twenty-eight regions and are grouped by the Four Symbols. The eastern Azure Dragon covers Jiao, Kang, Di, Fang, Xin, Wei and Ji; each mansion carries an animal image and a corresponding name in the modern constellations.
Qi Zheng Si Yu, also called the Five Stars method, reads the dignity of the twelve palaces held by the sun, moon, five planets and four hidden luminaries, together with the degrees they occupy in the twenty-eight mansions. It belongs to China's old stellar-fate learning and is traditionally divided into three schools.
