Guides
Bazi Guides
Ten Gods, Five Elements, Sixty Jiazi, and Star Gods reference guides.
616 guides
Tarot Guides
Structured tarot spread guides for love, career, and daily clarity.
103 guides
I Ching Guides
64 hexagrams, core principles, and divination methods.
64 guides
Feng Shui Guides
Site selection, orientation, and form versus compass methods.
90 guides
- Where Did the Wangshuai Method Come From? Tracing Its Historical Origins
The strength/weakness method wasn't always central to Bazi. It evolved from a pattern-supporting tool in the Song dynasty to an independent system by the Qing. Here's the full evolutionary arc.
- Yongshen Principles for the Overly Weak Day Master
Can you support an Overly Weak Day Master or not? Why can't you take the normal support path? Here's the yongshen strategy for the Overly Weak state — follow the current or drain the pressure.
- Annual Pillar 'Greedy for Combination, Forgets Clash': How It Works
When the annual branch has both a clash and a combination with your chart, combination takes priority. The year that should've hit you gets distracted — and the clash fizzles.
- Combining Wealth (He Cai) vs. Controlling Wealth (Ke Cai) — Two Ways to Make Money
Combining wealth is slow but effortless. Controlling wealth is fast but exhausting. These two wealth-access mechanisms produce completely different income styles. Learn which one your chart uses.
- Five Types of Seven Killings by Element: Wood Kill, Fire Kill, Earth Kill, Metal Kill, Water Kill
Wood Kill chops. Fire Kill burns urgent. Earth Kill crushes slow. Metal Kill pierces sharp. Water Kill seeps cold. Each element's Seven Killings hits differently and needs different control.
- Hurting Officer Combines Seven Killings (Shang Guan He Sha): Soft Control That's Smarter Than Hard Control
When Hurting Officer combines Seven Killings via Heavenly Stem Five-Combination, it's a soft entanglement that neutralizes the threat without triggering backlash. Mechanisms and conditions.
- Lu Shen (Salary/Emolument Star): What It Represents and How to Read It
Lu isn't money — it's your original foundation. The Day Master's Lin-Guan position, your home base. Different pillars, different meanings. What happens when lu gets clashed or combined.
- Luck Cycle, Annual, Monthly, Daily: How the Four Time Layers Interact
Four time layers press on the natal chart simultaneously — which one calls the shots? Priority order, same-direction reinforcement, and opposite-direction conflict rules.
- Output (Shi-Shang) Bleeding-Off Brilliance — Turning Excess Into Talent, What Makes It a Real Pattern?
Output Bleeding-Off Brilliance (食伤泄秀 xiè xiù) is the most elegant way for an over-strong Day Master to release surplus energy — through creativity and skill, not fighting. This guide breaks down the three conditions that make it real.
- Seven Killings Attacking the Body (Qi Sha Gong Shen): Effects, Grades, and Rescue Paths
When Seven Killings directly overcomes the Day Master with no buffer — that's qi sha gong shen. Three severity grades, body and personality impact, and three rescue routes.