Divination and Guidance
Can the number five alone be interpreted as a favorable red Horse?
English translation draft · Based on the Chinese article. This is not a word-for-word translation approved by Master Shengyuan.
No. Seeing five alone cannot establish the red Horse or a favorable event. Discussing lucky numbers, I noted that both red and black Horses represent five, so the number already fails to distinguish them.
In that explanation, the red Horse concerned wealth while the black Horse indicated an unfavorable direction. This was an interpretation of news-related numbers through Chinese chess then. It cannot be reversed into reading every five as wealth while skipping the red-black distinction.
News described someone who considered five lucky and won, but we also discussed someone selecting five without winning. Lucky-number reports and the Horse explanation cannot directly combine into a conclusion that choosing five guarantees a prize. Clarify the subject before treating an association as a repeatable rule.