Nine Purple, the fire element star, occupies the centre of the base Lo Shu grid for Period 9, which began in February 2024 and runs to 2044 under the standard twenty year dating, making it the currently ruling star in ongoing Xuan Kong flying star practice at the time this entry was written. It is read as governing celebration, fame, romance and rapid, visible success, in contrast with the steadier, more accumulative reputation of the preceding Eight White, and its rise to prominence is one of the more closely discussed shifts in contemporary popular feng shui commentary.
A period star's influence is generally described as strengthening across its own twenty year span rather than arriving at full force immediately, so commentary from the early years of Period 9 typically frames Nine Purple's effects as still building, with its fullest expression expected in the period's later years, following the same pattern earlier commentary described for Eight White's own rise through the 2004 to 2024 span.
Sources Chinese Mathematical Astrology: Reaching Out to the StarsHo Peng Yoke with The Living Earth Manual of Feng-Shui: Chinese GeomancyStephen Skinner