The Lunar Mansions
☾Al-Fargh al-Mu'akhkhar
Lunar mansion 27 · the second spout
The twenty-seventh lunar mansion, the Moon's station at the hind Spout, between Pegasus and Andromeda.
Al-Fargh al-Mu'akhkhar is the second spout, the mansion of finishing what was begun. It mirrors your follow-through — the discipline to complete the pour — and the increase that comes only to those who see a generous act all the way through.
The Second Spout of the Celestial Water-Jar
Al-Fargh al-Mu'akhkhar, the twenty-seventh of the twenty-eight lunar mansions in Islamic astronomical tradition, marks the Moon's station in the latter part of autumn as it passes through the stars of Pegasus and Andromeda. Its name means "the hind spout" or "the posterior outpouring"—a pouring forth, a water-jar emptying itself. The first spout, Al-Fargh al-Muqaddam, comes before it in the zodiac; together they form a pair, as if a single vessel tips and empties in two stages. In the classical Arab star tables, this mansion occupied roughly thirteen degrees of Pisces, marking a threshold near year's end. The Greeks and Persians knew similar positions, though the mansion system as it crystallized was distinctly Semitic in origin, woven into the fabric of pre-Islamic Arabian timekeeping and later preserved in Islamic astronomical science.
Completing and Abundance
This mansion speaks to endings and their fruits. Where Al-Fargh al-Muqaddam is the beginning of pouring—the impulse, the tipping—Al-Fargh al-Mu'akhkhar is the sustained stream, the water reaching its mark. In classical texts it is associated with the carrying-through of tasks, the blessing that attends persistence, and the increase that rewards those who do not abandon a worthy work halfway. The spout does not cease; it empties itself fully. This mansion thus speaks to a mature form of generosity—not the flash of inspiration, but the discipline of completion. Those born under its influence, or those whose endeavors fall under its watch, are said to find their greatest success not in grand gestures but in the steady, reliable follow-through that others overlook or abandon.
A Mirror of Finishing
To encounter Al-Fargh al-Mu'akhkhar is to ask yourself: What am I in the midst of pouring out—effort, love, attention, resources—and am I seeing it through? The second spout reminds us that abundance and impact belong not to those who begin many things, but to those who pour until the vessel empties. It is a question without judgment, an invitation to notice where your discipline falters and where it holds true. Where do you stop short? And where, by sheer constancy, have you already seen something grow that might not have flourished otherwise?
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