Quick Overview of Several Special Patterns
The world of special patterns beyond the Eight Standard Patterns
The pattern method has more than just the Eight Standard Patterns — Exclusive Prosperity patterns, Following patterns, Transformed Qi patterns, Jian-Lu pattern, Yang-Ren pattern, He-Lu pattern, etc., all belong to the category of special patterns. These patterns have their own independent formation conditions and yongshen selection rules.
The common characteristic of special patterns: they are not determined by the conventional month-branch pattern method, but judged through Day Master strength-weakness, overall chart force distribution, or specific stem-branch combinations.
1. Day Master Extremely Strong Category
Exclusive Prosperity patterns (Qu-Zhi, Yan-Shang, Cong-Ge, Run-Xia, Jia-Se) — the Day Master's element type monopolizes the chart. Jian-Lu pattern — the month-branch is the Day Master's Lu. Yang-Ren pattern — the month-branch is the Day Master's Ren. In these three types of patterns, the Day Master is extremely strong; yongshen primarily uses Wealth/Officer or Output-expressing-elegance; Officer/Killing restraining the body is avoided.
2. Day Master Extremely Weak Category and Special Mechanism Category
Following patterns — the Day Master is extremely weak and submits to the overall chart's strongest Ten God. Transformed Qi patterns — after successful heavenly stem combination-transformation, the Day Master changes nature. He-Lu pattern — borrowing Lu through heavenly stem combinations. The commonality of these patterns is that the pattern foundation is relatively fragile — dependent on specific Ten God relationships and combination-transformation conditions. Once these conditions are disrupted during luck cycles, the pattern may break.
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Practical Key Points
- Judge standard patterns first as priority : First use the standard pattern framework to analyze — if standard patterns can explain it, don't mobilize external patterns. External patterns are only used when the standard pattern framework is insufficient.
Common Follow-up Questions
Q: Can one person have multiple special patterns simultaneously?
A:
Generally, only one pattern. Special patterns are mutually exclusive. When judging, determine the final pattern type following priority order.