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A BaZi Case: Madness and a Fatal Leap after Urinating by a Temple
Noted by chance. Male chart, September 16, 1989, Yin hour. Si-You naturally combine, but the Mao-You clash blows the Wealth open; You month stores Xin, forming an Eating-God structure, while Bing Fire transparently shows as Seal and Xin combines with Bing within the structure. In the Xin-Wei luck cycle, Wei combines with Mao and resolves the Mao-You clash; Gui over You emerges as Wealth, two Xin fail to combine with Bing, Bing as Seal also emerges — Wealth breaks Seal. In the Ji-Chou year, Ji Earth generates Xin; Chou clashes Wei so Wei and Mao no longer combine, Mao and You clash again, and Wealth is blown open once more. Wealth no longer breaks Seal, but the Chou-Wei clash stirs Earth and makes Peer-and-Robber the taboo. He urinated beside a temple, went mad after returning, and died by jumping from a building in the Geng-Yin year.
Explanation of the Chao Yang Configuration
The Ziping Zhenquan (子平真诠) describes a Chao Yang Cheng Ge (朝阳成格), or Rising Toward the Light configuration: Wu goes to pay court to Bing, and a Xin day obtains the Official star. Because Bing and Wu share the same lu at Si, this carries the sense of drawing and attracting one another. Only when the heavenly stems contain no Wood or Fire can the configuration form, for Fire would make court unnecessary, while Wood as Wealth would provoke Wu's wrath so that it would no longer pay court. This interpretation differs from other texts. The Jishan Pian (继善篇) states: when Yin faces the Rising Sun, above all avoid Bing and Ding in the Li position. An ancient verse says: on a Xin day meeting only Wu and Zi, the Six-Yang noble configuration rejoices in the Rising Sun; do not fill in Bing, Ding, Si, or Wu, and treat luck cycles that encounter it by the same rule. The Zhegu Tian (鹧鸪天) says: on the six Xin days with a Wu-Zi hour, the Rising Sun activates Bing and joins the Official star; if Geng or Xin appear, gladness follows—purple ribbons and golden seals as a minister to the sage ruler. Yin and Mao bring rank; Bing and Ding bring poverty; northern luck must harm the body. Balanced and pure, one attains official nobility, becoming surely a minister of the Three Terraces and Eight Positions.
A Discussion of the Bazi Pattern
In the Sanming Tonghui (三命通会), the natal chart of presented scholar Zhang Ji is: Ren-Wu, Wu-Shen, Ren-Yin, Ren-Yin. And the natal chart of Vice Minister Ma: Ren-Yin, Wu-Shen, Ren-Xu, Ren-Yin. In the Shen month, the stored elements are Geng, Ren, and Wu; the residual qi of the month, Wu, emerges. According to common doctrine this would be Indirect Officer—that is, the Seven Killings pattern—but the texts treat this as an Indirect Seal pattern that uses the Seven Killings, so verification is needed. The Renjian (人鉴) contains a natal chart of the same form: Zhang Ji, courtesy name Puquan (1882–1947), from Cang County, Hebei, a politician of the Republic of China and senior Kuomintang figure. In his early years he studied at Lianhua Academy, went abroad to Waseda University in 1899, and joined the Tongmenghui in 1905. After the Wuchang Uprising he served as director of the Tongmenghui's liaison department and as a Kuomintang counselor.
A BaZi Chart Case: Excellent Studies but an Ordinary Life
Male chart: Jia-Zi, Bing-Yin, Ren-Shen, Ren-Yin. Born in a spring month, Ren water gains qi at Zi yet is still weak; qi has also drained from the year pillar, and the peer is consumed as well, so it is weak — judged as extremely weak. The Eating God appears transparent on the year, which is auspicious, so the person is extremely intelligent with superb studies. Yet two Yin clash one Shen, and the Owl God emerges from Shen to seize the Eating God (Jia) on the year, so the father died while the subject was young.
An Eight-Character Analysis of Zhu Yuanzhang
Wu-Chen · Ren-Xu · Ding-Chou · Ding-Wei. According to the San Ming Tong Hui, with Wu presiding over Chen, Xu, Chou, and Wei, this is the chart of a Son of Heaven founding a dynasty. The earth qi of the four directions all returns transparently to the year stem, like the Son of Heaven summoning the generals of the four quarters — the principle is quite apt. Moreover, the day master Ding sits on Chou: what is called fire-earth Hurting Officer. If the Officer star is fully controlled, there is an indication of entering the imperial gate — for the Officer is Ren water, all controlled by earth; this is the principle. Yet it receives the clash of Wei earth, which corresponds to the fates of Di and Yunwen. The popular claim that any chart with Chen, Xu, Chou, and Wei is an emperor's eight characters is incorrect.
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Wen Tianxiang's Birthday
According to the Collected Works of Wen Tianxiang: "In the third year of Duanping under Song Emperor Lizong, I was born on the second day of the fifth month at the zi hour. My grandfather dreamed that I rose on purple clouds, and named me Yun Sun. When I grew up, friends styled me Tianxiang. Later I was recommended as a tribute candidate; those who styled me changed it to Lüshan. When Lizong reviewed the examination essays and saw my name, he said: 'This is an auspicious sign of Heaven—a omen for the Song.' Friends then styled me Songrui, and that was how I was generally known." So Wen Tianxiang was born on June 6, 1236, at the zi hour.
A Textual Study of the Eight Characters of Daoist Master Wu Chongxu
Originally published in Daoist Yinfu Culture, 2019-11-04. Illustrations omitted. [Genealogy] 1: Jiaxu, Bingyin, Gengchen, Jiashen. [Immortality-Cultivation Song of Master Wu] 2: Jiaxu, Yichou, Dingchou, Bingwu. 3: Guiyou, Yichou, Dingchou, Bingwu. The winter-solstice term-change time of 1573 — during the Wanli era, the use of the vernal equinox as the zero-degree node had not yet begun. So it should be based on data measured from the winter-solstice solar shadow. The previous shortest winter-solstice shadow was at 10:03:48 on December 17, 1573. By January 23, 1574, a Gengchen day, which was the first day of the first lunar month, New Year's Day…
The Hidden-Spirit Song of Er-Liu: Transformation of Numbers
This formula has rarely been interpreted since antiquity, only because of errors among its transmitted versions; hence it has been re-ordered. In Zi, Gui water is seven parts true, Ren three and Xin one are newly born; in Chou, Ji five and Gui three, Xin metal two and a half are listed together. Newly born parts are not counted in the numbers; the rest all count as ten. Here "Xin two" is an error — so: in Zi, Gui seven, Ren three, Xin newly born; in Chou, Ji five, Gui three, Xin two. Xin at the Zi hour is newly born; its form is completed in Chou. In Yin, Jia wood is seven parts, Bing and Wu each three for fire and earth evenly; in Mao, Yi wood is seven parts, Gui water newly born and Jia three. ... The formula has rarely been interpreted since antiquity; it has been re-ordered.
A Computational Mapping of the BaZi Major Luck Cycles
Establishing major luck cycles in BaZi is a rather distinctive method of numerological computation. Depending on the sex of the person and whether they were born in a yin or yang year, one counts forward or backward to the solar-term boundary, totaling the number of days, and takes three days as one year of luck. Because there are fifteen days on either side of a solar term, whether counting forward or backward the total is only thirty days; with three days making one year, this amounts to ten years in all. From the major luck cycle one can see that in fact major luck simply changes by month—if counting backward, then assign the backward-counted months successively as ten-year cycles, and vice versa. Usually whether counting forward or backward, it rarely exceeds a single year, so generally major luck is set for twelve months, i.e. 120 years (in fact the computation can continue).
Yongzheng's Use of Personnel and Bazi
据史料记载，清朝的铁腕皇帝雍正，不仅平常喜闻祥瑞之事，任人用事时也常以人的生辰八字为考量标准。当然，即便如此，他也并未因信八字而误国。迷而不全然相信，反而是他驾驭群臣、统治民心的另一种政治管理方式。 雍正皇帝一度很信任的武将岳钟琪，在可信的奏摺史料中曾留下一些有关皇帝与八字的纪录。雍正六年他正在主持西部边疆兵务时，皇帝要他将有关重要将官的“年甲查奏”。 岳钟琪乃在同年四月十五日的奏折中将个人生辰八
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