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Bazi Guides
Ten Gods, Five Elements, Sixty Jiazi, and Star Gods reference guides.
729 guides
Tarot Guides
Structured tarot spread guides for love, career, and daily clarity.
189 guides
I Ching Guides
64 hexagrams, core principles, and divination methods.
192 guides
Feng Shui Guides
Site selection, orientation, and form versus compass methods.
213 guides
- Companion and Rob Wealth Seizing Wealth — More Than Just Losing Money
Bijie seizing wealth isn't just about losing money — it's a structural problem where same-level forces drain your resources. Mechanism, severity grading, and prevention explained.
- Companion, Rob Wealth, Yang Blade, and Salary — What's the Difference?
All four share the Day Master's element but play completely different roles. Companion is a colleague, Rob Wealth is a competitor, Yang Blade is an over-sharpened edge, and Salary is your foothold. Clear distinctions in one read.
- Diaohou Overview: Cold, Warm, Dry, Damp — Bazi's Climate Regulation System
Diaohou (climate adjustment) is Bazi's weather system — charts born in winter need fire to warm them; charts born in summer need water to cool them. This section covers diagnosis, selection method, conflict resolution, and the ten-stems month-by-month diaohou reference.
- Dynamic vs. Static in Bazi — Which Stems and Branches Are Active?
Not all stems and branches in a chart are working at the same time. Dynamic ones are 'on duty,' static ones are dormant. Learn how to tell which is which.
- Eight-Seat Balance — When Officer, Resource, Salary, and Killing Are All Present and Equal
When Officer (guan), Resource (yin), Salary (lu), and Killing (sha) all appear with balanced force, the chart has a rare full-spectrum authority structure. Learn the criteria and real-world meaning.
- Fan Ke (反克): When the Overcome Party Overpowers the Overcomer
Fan ke is reverse overcoming — when the supposed target is so much stronger it crushes the overcomer instead. Here are the five classic patterns and how to judge them.
- Five Yongshen Systems: Tiaohou, Fuyi, Tongguan, Bingyao, Geju Compared
Different schools define yongshen (Useful God) completely differently. Tiaohou yongshen fixes climate. Fuyi yongshen balances strength. Tongguan yongshen bridges conflict. Bingyao yongshen treats illness. Geju yongshen supports the pattern. One article, five definitions.
- Half Combinations: Birth-Place Half, Tomb Half, and Arch Combination Explained
When a Three-Harmony combination is missing one branch, it's a half-combination. Birth-Place half is strongest, Tomb half is weaker, Arch combination is weakest — but with hidden power. Learn the force hierarchy.
- Hidden Arch and Hidden Clamp in Bazi: What They Mean
Hidden Arch (angong) and Hidden Clamp (anjia) reveal invisible Earthly Branch combinations — two existing branches imply a missing third that operates in secret. Learn how to spot them and when they manifest.
- Hidden Stems in Earthly Branches — Hidden Without Emerging, Can They Participate in Chart Dynamics?
Hidden stems buried inside Earthly Branches work differently when not surfaced on the Heavenly Stems. Learn what hidden stems can and cannot do, and how they 'go public' during luck cycles.
- How to Combine Blind School, Ziping Pattern, and Wangshuai Methods in Practice
Three schools, one reading — but you don't use all three at once. A practical framework for deploying each school at the right stage: wangshuai for capacity, pattern for structure, blind school for event signals.
- How to Diagnose Cold, Warm, Dry, and Damp in a Bazi Chart
Cold, warm, dry, damp — each of the four imbalances has a precise diagnostic standard and its own correcting element. Cold needs si/wu fire. Damp needs wei/xu dry earth. Hot needs chou/chen wet earth. Dry needs hai/zi water.
- How to Select Your Diaohou Yongshen: Six Rules with Case Studies
The diaohou yongshen works best in the heavenly stems with an earthly branch root. Floats without root? Wait for the grounding luck cycle. Buried in branches? Wait to emerge. Six rules including follow-pattern exemptions.
- How to Spot Wealth in Luck Cycles: Six Iron Rules for Timing Financial Windfalls
Wealth showing up in annual or 10-year luck doesn't automatically mean money. It has to be your favorable god, uncontested by Companions, and fed by Output. Six rules, six transition laws, four wealth cycle types.
- Leadership Ability in Bazi: Eight Combinations That Make Natural Leaders
What Bazi patterns produce leaders? From Officer/Killing controlling Companions to Resource transforming Killing — eight leadership structures mapped with hierarchy levels and palace-position ceilings.
- Luck Cycle Transitions — Signs and Omens When One Cycle Ends and Another Begins
The 1-2 year period when Luck Cycles change is life's 'transition zone' — marked by clear omen signals. Learn the patterns and how to navigate them.
- Mixed Officer and Killing: When It Works, When It Destroys You
Mixed Direct Officer and Seven Killings isn't always bad. A strong Day Master can handle the mix. A weak one can't. The difference between having resolution (transforming turbidity into clarity) and having none is everything.
- Pure Yin and Pure Yang in Bazi — What Do They Mean?
When all four pillars' Heavenly Stems are all Yang or all Yin, and branches follow suit, you have Pure Yin or Pure Yang. Judgment criteria and personality/life impact explained.
- Ren Water vs. Gui Water as Wealth Stars: Yang Water and Yin Water Produce Completely Different Money
Ren Water is rivers and oceans. Gui Water is rain and dew. Same element, same Earth Day Master — radically different wealth styles. Ren needs a dam. Gui needs a channel. Use the wrong method, and the harder you try, the more you lose.
- Rob Wealth in Luck Cycles: Three Ways It Steals Your Money — Risk Levels Ranked
Rob Wealth stealing wealth comes in three forms: combining with wealth (most dangerous), clashing with wealth (moderate), and ordinary overcoming (mildest). Stems steal openly, branches steal in the dark. Here's how to spot and block each type.