Timing Theory

The year's branch combines, clashes, punishes, or harms the natal chart and Grand Fortune — events fire. Combinations bind, clashes change, punishments erode, harms stir disputes.

How to tell if an annual fortune year is good or bad? Watch what the year's stem and branch do to your favorable and unfavorable gods, then map it to career, wealth, love, and health.

Da Yun sets the decade's tone, Liu Nian sets the year's events. Combining them stacks good and bad to read the net result — how matched and mixed pairs resolve, and when to push or hold.

When does a predicted event happen? Response timing: the chart sets direction, the Grand Fortune sets the environment, the year locks the trigger, and the month and day pin the date.

A ten-year Da Yun doesn't move evenly: about three years to start, four to mature, three to wind down. Learn each phase's rhythm — build early, push in the middle, hold late — and which years to advance or hold.

Da Yun shifts every ten years. Fortune turns on whether your favorable gods hold ground and your unfavorable gods gain strength — not on the stems and branches themselves. This guide reads three things: day master strength, stem-branch pairing, and how the cycle hits your natal chart. Use it to judge a ten-year cycle's direction and see the rhythm of each phase.

Da Yun sets long-term trends on a ten-year cycle; the annual cycle (Liu Nian) pinpoints when events actually happen. This guide lays out the logic — Da Yun frames, Liu Nian times — plus how to push when they align and steady yourself when they clash, so you know which year to place big moves.

Judgment runs coarse to fine: the luck cycle covers ten years, the year star one year, the month star one month, and the day star one day. This guide shows how to drill three layers down from the cycle and year, using five-element strength and combines and clashes to pin a year's fortune to a specific month and day — precise without the mysticism.

One to two years before a Da Yun shift, your body, mind, and life often shift visibly: lighter sleep, mood swings, old ties and projects wrapping up, new chances popping up. This guide breaks down the common signs and how to read them, plus practical advice for keeping your rhythm steady and avoiding rushed decisions during the handover.

The year star governs one year and sets events in motion. This guide shows how the year's stems and branches trigger events through generate, control, combine, and clash against your natal chart and luck cycle. A clash to the spouse palace means relationship change. Combining with the wealth star brings money in. Fu Yin and Fan Yin mean repetition. Read what the year triggers and when, and pin the timing to a single year and event.

Learn how Grand Fortune (Da Yun) cycles work, how direction is determined, and how to read decade-level timing alongside the main chart.

A practical guide to calculating Grand Fortune start time using solar terms, direction rules, and the traditional day-to-year conversion method.

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Learn what true solar time is, why it differs from clock time, and how to correct birth time using longitude and the equation of time.