Guides

In-depth answers to the most common difficult questions in bazi practice — Can Yang stems really form Following patterns? Do Storage Tombs (Chen Xu Chou Wei) like or dislike clash and punishment? What is Greedy Combination Forgets Control? How to distinguish Transformation-Combination vs Binding-Combination vs Removal-Combination vs Activation-Combination? Do separated stems and branches interact? What is the true essence of fate reading? Every question receives a substantive answer from principle to case examples.

Career and wealth are among the most practically valuable domains in bazi analysis. A comprehensive guide covering how the Useful God determines career direction, how Direct and Indirect Wealth reveal wealth levels and acquisition methods, how Officer and Killing distinguish between the employee path and the entrepreneur path, and how the Five Elements match you to optimal industry tracks. From body strength/weakness to Wealth-Officer coordination to Five Element career selection — a complete career and wealth judgment system.

Health is bazi's 'checkup report' — know in advance which systems of your body are vulnerable. A comprehensive guide covering the full Five Element to body-organ mapping (Wood = liver/gallbladder/tendons, Fire = heart/vascular/small intestine, Earth = spleen/stomach/muscles, Metal = lungs/large intestine/skin, Water = kidneys/bladder/urinary-reproductive), disease patterns for imbalanced charts (excess Wood-Fire / excess Cold Metal-Water / Earth dryness / Water exhaustion etc.), bazi signals for injury and surgery (Metal-Wood warfare / uncontrolled Seven Killings / punishment-clash-harm), and targeted prevention and regulation strategies for different Five Element imbalances.

Marriage is one of the most sought-after topics in bazi analysis. A comprehensive guide covering spouse star identification and analysis for both genders, Peach Blossom (Xian Chi) patterns (inside-wall vs. outside-wall vs. rolling-wave Peach Blossom), the five major marriage timing signals (spouse star surfacing / spouse palace being combined / Red Luan & Sky Joy / Luck Pillar and Annual Star co-activation / age-based timing), basic compatibility principles (year pillar Nayin / Day Master Five Element / spouse palace matching), and danger signals for troubled marriages (Hurting Officer attacking Officer / Wealth star robbed / spouse palace clash and punishment / Yin-Cuo-Yang-Cuo days).

How does bazi reveal personality? A four-layer deep-dive: Five Element personality archetypes (Wood, Fire, Earth, Metal, Water), Ten God behavioral patterns (Officer, Seal, Companion, Output, Wealth modes), Ten Day Master individual portraits (from Jia Wood to Gui Water), and extreme personalities from special structures (Follow Strong / Follow Weak / Extreme Cold / Extreme Heat). Includes real case studies on how to synthesize a person's behavioral tendencies and innate disposition.

A comprehensive guide to the Six Relatives (parents, spouse, children, siblings) positioning rules across the Year, Month, Day, and Hour Four Pillar palaces, including the Ten God derivation of Six Relative stars, the image-reading meanings of each palace, the star-palace combined judgment methodology, and practical techniques for when Six Relative stars are missing or palaces are clashed.

When a Luck Cycle or Year Star arrives as a specific Ten God, what actually happens? This guide covers all ten gods — Direct Officer, Seven Killings, Direct Wealth, Indirect Wealth, Direct Seal, Indirect Seal, Eating God, Hurting Officer, Companion, and Rob Wealth — as they manifest through Luck Cycles (ten-year phases) and Year Stars (annual triggers), including the critical distinction between useful-god and harmful-god arrivals, and the generation-control chain effects when multiple gods interact across time layers.

Timing is the art of answering 'when' in Bazi analysis — covers the five-layer trigger system (natal chart → Luck Cycle → Year Star → Month Star → Day-Hour Star), the cycle window concept (which phase within a ten-year Luck Cycle does the event land), month-level resonance (how the Month Star amplifies or dampens the Year Star), day-hour precision (when events actually land on a specific day or hour), and the early/late mechanisms that explain why the same chart sees events earlier or later in a cycle.

The Luck Cycle is the core time dimension in Bazi analysis — covers the forward/backward arrangement rules from the Month Pillar (yin/yang year and gender determine direction), the 'three days = one year' algorithm for calculating age of first cycle, the classic debate over whether Stem and Branch each govern five years or co-govern ten, transition effects before and after cycle changes, and the power relationship between Luck Cycle and Year Star.

The Useful God is the soul of bazi analysis. Explore five selection systems — Support/Suppress, Disease/Medicine, Climate Adjustment, Mediator, and Follow the Strong — their core principles, application scenarios, and methodology. Clarify the roles of Assistant God, Like God, Dislike God, and Idle God. Walk through the complete three-step method from Day Master strength to final Useful God determination.

A complete map of the bazi structure system: from the eight standard patterns taken from the monthly branch to the outer patterns of Following (cong ge) and Single-Element Dominance (zhuan wang ge). Learn the three dimensions of structure quality — purity, Useful God completeness, and breakage risk — plus the triangular relationship between the Structure method, Strength method, and Blind School.

A single Ten God shows the foundation; combinations define the ceiling. Explore six classic Ten God pairings — Eating God Controls Killing, Hurting Officer Meets Seal, Eating/Hurting Generates Wealth, Killing Generates Seal, Wealth Breaks Seal, and Rob Wealth Grabs Wealth — their formation conditions, positive expressions, and power-imbalance failure modes.

The Year Star is the most precise time marker in Bazi analysis — covers the dual-layer action of the Year Pillar's Stem and Branch (Stem governs the external and visible, Branch governs the internal and hidden), the Year Star's dual triggering effect on both the natal chart and Luck Cycle, the four-layer image extraction system (Five Element → Ten God → Spirit Stars → Pillar Position), and practical auspicious/inauspicious and timing judgment.

Breaking (相破) is the most subtle relationship among the Twelve Earthly Branches—on the surface it looks like a combination, but underneath mutual destruction is underway. Hidden Combination (暗合) is the union reached at the Hidden Stem level. This guide explains the essence of Zi-You break, Yin-Hai break, Mao-Wu break, Chen-Chou break, Wei-Xu break, and the practical use of Wu-Hai hidden combo, Mao-Shen hidden combo, Yin-Chou hidden combo, and others.

A single Bazi chart often contains multiple Earthly Branch relationships simultaneously—combinations (合), clashes (冲), punishments (刑), harms (害), and breaks (破) can coexist. This guide explains the power hierarchy, priority rules, and the 'mediator' (通关) principle for reconciling conflicts, helping readers find the main storyline in complex natal charts.

The Branch Punishments (地支相刑) describe four types of hidden conflict between Earthly Branches: Zi-Mao (rudeness — over-nurturing turns toxic), Yin-Si-Shen (ungratefulness — help met with betrayal), Chou-Xu-Wei (power abuse — same-element infighting), and Self-punishment (Wu-Wu, Chen-Chen, You-You, Hai-Hai — internal contradiction). Unlike clashes, punishments don't announce themselves. They erode from within.

The Directional Frames (地支三会) unite three consecutive branches of the same season into a pure directional coalition: Yin-Mao-Chen into East Wood, Si-Wu-Wei into South Fire, Shen-You-Xu into West Metal, Hai-Zi-Chou into North Water. The strongest of all branch relationships — they override clashes, combinations, and even the month order. This guide explains the four frames, their power hierarchy, and why san hui trumps every other branch structure.

The Six Clashes (地支六冲) pit each Earthly Branch against its opposite across the zodiac: Zi-Wu (water vs fire), Chou-Wei (wet vault vs hot vault), Yin-Shen (wood vs metal), Mao-You (pure wood vs pure metal), Chen-Xu (water vault vs fire vault), Si-Hai (fire vs water). Clashes produce four outcomes — activation, breaking, removal, or boosting — depending on strength comparison. This guide explains each clash pair and the judgment logic.

Mutual Harm (相害, also called 穿/Piercing) is the most concealed attack relationship among the Twelve Earthly Branches—Zi-Wei harm, Chou-Wu harm, Yin-Si harm, Mao-Chen harm, Shen-Hai harm, You-Xu harm. This guide unpacks the essence of harm versus punishment and clash, the deep meaning of each pair, how to judge auspiciousness in practice, and harm's unique 'arrow from the dark' effect.

The Ten Gods (十神) are the critical bridge linking Heavenly Stems and Earthly Branches to human affairs in Bazi analysis. This guide covers all ten gods—Direct Officer (正官), Seven Killings (偏官/七杀), Direct Wealth (正财), Indirect Wealth (偏财), Direct Seal (正印), Indirect Seal (偏印), Eating God (食神), Hurting Officer (伤官), Companion (比肩), and Rob Wealth (劫财)—their core definitions, multi-dimensional archetypes (people, events, objects, settings, health), and their mutual transformations.