Guides

A combined Earthly Branch temporarily forgets what it was supposed to produce or overcome — this is tanhe wang shengke. Master this subtle mechanism and your annual-branch readings get way more precise.

A complete framework for reading Bazi through Wealth and Officer stars — real vs. false, favorable vs. hostile, and the four tiers of wealth acquisition. The method that covers the 80% of charts that don't form classical patterns.

Wangshuai is foundational but not sufficient. Four specific ways it fails — special patterns, climate blindness, coarse granularity, and Day-Master-centrism — and how to patch each one.

Wealth produces Officer, Officer produces Resource, Resource produces the Day Master — a perfect prosperity loop. When all three treasures are present and flowing forward, wealth, power, and wisdom compound automatically.

The Twelve Growth Stages (zhangsheng, muyu, guandai... jue, tai, yang) describe each stem's lifecycle state on each branch. Learn what each stage means and how to correctly use them for strength judgment.

Tian ke di chong is the extreme configuration where a Heavenly Stem gets overcome while its Earthly Branch gets clashed — a double-line attack. Here's the judgment method and severity grading.

Tiaohou yongshen regulates climate. Fuyi yongshen balances the Day Master. They serve different masters and follow different rules — conflating them produces nonsense readings.

Tonggen (通根) and Tougan (透干) are paired terms — a stem's power comes from its branch root; a branch's expression comes through its stem emergence. Think tree canopy and root system.

Tonggen (root access) and tougan (stem emergence) are foundational concepts. What's xu fu (insubstantial)? What happens when a Ten God has no root? Straight breakdown of four high-frequency terms.

A mountain of gold you're too weak to carry. Three subtypes of the Wealth-heavy weak-DM pattern — Follow-Wealth, stuck-in-the-middle, and wait-for-support. Plus how to actually break out.