Guides

Wu Earth is the yang earth — the mountain, the city wall, the dam. Unlike Ji Earth (the field), Wu Earth's value is structural: it carries weight and blocks water. This guide explains Wu's need for Jia Wood to break its crust and壬water to justify its existence, plus the full seasonal adjustment map.

Xin Metal is the yin metal — jewelry, surgical knife, refined silver. Unlike Geng's roughness, Xin is about precision and beauty. This guide explains Xin's love for壬water (金水相涵, metal and water reflecting each other) and丙fire (寒金向阳, cold metal facing the sun), its fear of too much earth (土重金埋, earth burying metal), and how Xin people thrive through refinement rather than force.

Xu Earth is the eleventh earthly branch — a yang earth that hides 戊辛丁, making it the 火库 (fire storage) and the scrap-metal earth of late autumn. This guide covers Xu's role as the loyal guardian, its 卯戌合 fire transformation, the explosive 辰戌冲, the 寅午戌三合火 bureau, and the 丑戌未 punishment (三刑). Xu is dry dust with buried fire — the Dog that guards what the fire left behind.

Yi Wood is the flexible yin counterpart to Jia — the vine, the grass, the crop. This guide explains Yi's essential nature, its symbiotic relationship with Jia, the living-dead distinction for Yi, and how Yi people navigate career, relationships, and challenges through flexibility rather than force.

You Metal is the tenth earthly branch — a yin metal branch hiding only 辛, making it one of the four cardinal pure branches (四正). This guide covers You's identity as finished metal at peak refinement — the jewelry, not the ore — its perfectionism, the 辰酉合金 union, the violent 卯酉冲 (marriage crisis clash), and the 巳酉丑三合金 bureau. You is the Rooster: proud, precise, and incapable of being anything less than finished.

The 'Auspicious Gathering' and 'Inauspicious Gathering' structures from Sanming Tonghui reveal how Ten Gods behave when they converge into formations. Learn the three core judgment principles and the trap of auspicious patterns hiding danger.

When the Traveling Horse star meets the Wealth star in bazi, fortune arrives like a tiger. Learn the two forms of Yi Ma Wealth, the three conditions for the structure to work, and how to catch the horse in luck cycles.

The Ren Yuan Si Ling Fen Ye method appears in classical texts but ancient practitioners rarely used it for selecting bazi structures. Understand why this theory got shelved and how modern practice handles the controversy.

The four storage months are the easiest place to get pattern selection wrong. A clear guide to the three core rules: exposed-stem priority, combination-transformed patterns, and kind vs. unkind, with examples across Jia, Bing, Ren, and Gui Day Masters.

Chart quality is not just about fitting a named pattern. Assess chart level across five dimensions: yin-yang balance, hot-cold balance, five-element flow, month-branch useful god, and day-branch favorable god.

A complete listing of the 24 small patterns across the six major categories — Direct Officer, Seven Killings, Wealth, Seal, Food Deity, and Hurting Officer — plus the breaking conditions and the three principles of pattern selection.

Is the Yong Shen (Favorable God) the core of a bazi structure or just a supporting player? Explore how Yong Shen's weight shifts across great, mid, and small structures, plus the hidden influence of concealed gods.

The Indirect Seal stealing Food Deity and the Hurting Officer paired with Seal are separated by a hair's breadth. Understand the dialectics of pattern transformation and the art of restraint — when a useful god gets too strong, it turns into a burden.

Xinpai's non-adjacent non-action rule says stems and branches only interact with immediate neighbors. Classical texts like Yuanhai Ziping directly contradict this. Covers the rule's logic, the debate, and the improved conduction model.

A complete walkthrough of Xinpai's five core theories: Empty-Death rules and fill-in mechanics, Hundred-God substitution for missing relatives, Reverse Judgment for extreme power flips, Void-Solid distinction between natal and luck-cycle elements, and the Inner-Outer dual-layer reading method.

Xinpai simplifies Bazi into four structure types, introduces non-adjacent non-action and reverse judgment, and prioritizes dynamic analysis over static classification. This guide covers the full framework — from the four-pattern system to the five core theories and the key breaks from traditional Ziping Bazi.

Xinpai Empty-Death Theory redefines how missing branches work: the year branch is never empty, month-branch emptiness substitutes the year branch for strength calculation, and luck cycles fill empty slots through a defined hierarchy. Covers all rules and practical applications.

Xinpai structures Bazi time analysis into three tiers: annual pillar (highest authority), ten-year luck pillar (decade theme), and natal chart (foundation). Covers the interaction hierarchy, the 'luck sets the theme, year sets the timing' principle, and practical judgment rules.

Reverse Judgment is Xinpai Bazi's most advanced technique. When Five Element power reaches extreme imbalance, useful gods reverse to harmful and harmful gods reverse to useful. Covers theoretical roots, trigger conditions, all five reversal types, and post-reversal judgment rules.

Xinpai systematizes stem-branch interactions with precise rules: non-adjacent non-action limits the interaction range, all five stem combinations are treated as binding (not transformation), and every clash and combination has a quantified force-reduction standard.