Guides

A complete guide to Mangpai Geng Metal image reading. Geng Metal's fundamental object images, body images, personality images, and how Geng Metal behaves differently across spring, summer, autumn, and winter.

A complete guide to Mangpai Gui Water imagery. Basic object images, body images, personality images, and how Gui Water behaves differently across spring, summer, autumn, and winter — with corresponding life manifestations.

Six core principles plus seven approach systems for mangpai image extraction. Day-stem image, Ten God image, five-element image, heavenly stem image, earthly branch image, palace limit-transport image, spirit-demon image — seven dimensions scan one chart. No overlaps, no gaps.

The four pillars of mangpai image reading: carry image (stem generates branch in one pillar), swap image (stem-branch interchange), share image (multi-layer consensus locks the conclusion), transform image (merge-transformation creates new images). With cases.

Bazi image reading isn't calculated — it's read directly from palace positions, Ten God characteristics, and generating-overcoming relationships combined with real-world social logic. A guide to reading ancestral, parental, sibling, spouse, and children information directly.

The inside-outside framework is how mangpai reads wealth and power acquisition. Day and Hour are the household. Year and Month are outside. Seal grabbing Officer is highest rank. Eating God grabbing Wealth is middle. Friend grabbing Wealth is lowest.

A complete guide to Mangpai Ji Earth image reading. Ji Earth's fundamental object images, body images, personality images, and how Ji Earth behaves differently across spring, summer, autumn, and winter.

A complete guide to Mangpai Jia Wood image reading. Jia Wood's fundamental object images, body images, personality images, and how Jia Wood behaves differently across spring, summer, autumn, and winter — with corresponding life manifestations.

Momentum is the gatekeeper of wealth and rank. Momentum plus work equals big. Momentum without work equals wasted potential. The three conditions for formed momentum, the momentum-work dialectic, and three rules for picking the working god.

Breaking is a Mangpai-specific technique ignored by most Bazi books. When a chart has Breaking and the annual cycle triggers it: objects break, gatherings scatter, successes carry a flaw, the sick may die. The six breaking pairs: Zi-You, Mao-Wu, Chen-Chou, Wei-Xu, Yin-Hai, Si-Shen. Pairs that are simultaneously Six Combinations deserve special attention.