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Bazi Guides
Ten Gods, Five Elements, Sixty Jiazi, and Star Gods reference guides.
595 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
- When Diaohou Isn't Needed: Follow-Patterns, Mild Seasons, and Extreme Cases Without Roots
Diaohou isn't universal — follow-patterns and transformation patterns skip it. Spring and autumn births with balanced charts don't need it. Extreme cold or hot charts with no root for the correcting element shouldn't force it.
- When Pattern Yongshen and Diaohou Clash: How Diaohou-Urgent Works in Practice
Pattern yongshen tells you which road to take. Diaohou tells you whether the road is passable. When they clash: extreme climate means diaohou first. Mild climate means pattern first.
- When Strength Balance and Diaohou Clash: The Underlying Logic and How to Choose
When strength balance says A and diaohou says B and they conflict — which wins? This article lays out a systematic framework for resolving the clash, drawn from the logic of cold-warm-dry-damp versus strong-weak support-restraint.
- Winter Month Diaohou: How to Warm a Chart Born in Hai, Zi, or Chou
The three winter months freeze everything — metal, wood, water, and earth are ice. Winter births need fire to thaw. This article covers diaohou strategy for hai, zi, and chou months — which fire to use, how much, and when not to force it.
- Bazi State Theory — The Still Chart Meets Dynamic Luck Cycles
The natal chart is a static structure. Luck cycles are dynamic force inputs. Understanding the chart's 'state' is prerequisite for judging how it responds to luck cycles. Core framework explained.
- Cai Guan Method vs. Pattern Method: How Two Chart-Reading Systems Work Together
The Pattern method tells you what type of person you are. The Cai Guan method tells you what you can actually get. Two systems, one chart — how to use them together for a complete reading.
- Clash-Motion vs. Combine-Motion — What's the Difference in Bazi?
Both Clash and Combine make Earthly Branches move, but the motion is completely different. Clash is collision (sudden, violent). Combine is traction (gradual, entangled). Mechanism breakdown and how to judge each.
- Clear Officer Star + Strong Day Master = Guaranteed Nobility: The Three Core Conditions
A clean Officer star plus a strong Day Master is the golden formula for status and power. The Officer must be genuine, unmixed, undamaged. The Day Master must command the season, ground, or crowd. Here's the full diagnostic framework.
- 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.