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Sanming Tonghui · A Comprehensive Account of the Three Destinies
Day-and-Hour Judgments for the Six Wu Days
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Six Wu Days at Renzi Hour
A verse says: “Six Wu days at Renzi hour connect season-ending months' Wealth in Tomb. If Body combines into true Fire, flourishing-Water fortune fears eye calamity.” Wife and Wealth flourish. Wu takes Ren as Wife Wealth, Ren Water flourishing at Zi while Wu Earth lacks energy. Chen, Xu, Chou, or Wei month without transformation obtains Wealth. Combining Gui and transforming, then falling into flourishing Water, hides Fire's light, making undertakings unsuccessful and insubstantial and giving eye calamity. Flourishing monthly connection noble. Wuzi day/Renzi hour is Wealth Star configuration. Yin/Mao month has Emolument/Horse Return to Origin, distinction. You, Hai, or Chou year/month with northwestern fortune gold-and-purple censorial. Avoid Yimao year punishment, Guisi month punishment amid flourishing, Bingwu month likewise. Wuyin day/Renzi hour in Mao Direct Office month noble; summer contrary, autumn little smoothness; Chou/You year/month auspicious. Avoid Jisi punishment, Jihai harmful punishment. Wuchen day/Renzi hour in spring flourishing Wealth/Office noble, summer contrary, autumn little smoothness; winter flourishing Wealth with southwestern fortune fifth/sixth rank. Avoid Gengchen harmful self-punishment, Xinsi Road-Cutting harmful punishment, Yichou ruin/harm. Wuwu day/Renzi hour clashes day/hour, sorrow and wife/child injury. Si/Wu year/month censorial; Yin, Mao, or Hai six ministries; Shen month with Wood/Fire fortune marquis or earl. Avoid Bingwu incomplete body, Guihai self-punishment early death. Unmixed Zi/Wu year/month and Chou/Xu punishment both give great nobility. Wushen day/Renzi hour high, obstructed first, flourishing later. Zi/You year/month is called hour Indirect Office, noble. Si, Wu, Wei, or Xu has Body restrained/transformed and exclusive Wealth use, all auspicious. Shen/You Food/Hurting generating Wealth with Jia/Yi emerging gives riches and rank. Avoid Jisi punishment/harm, Renwu early-death injury, Guihai solitary poverty. Wuxu day/Renzi hour with Yin, Si, or Wu year/month removes Wealth and retains Seal, third/fourth rank. A classic calls it Seeing Righteousness and Forgetting Profit, taking Seal and abandoning Wealth. Zi/You gives fifth-rank academy office; pure You with Water/Wood fortune highest Jade Hall rank. Avoid Wuwu facial marking/short life, Xinmao ruin/harmful punishment, Guichou punishment, Gengwu poverty/blindness. A verse says: “Wu day gladly meeting Renzi hour suits strong Body and flourishing Office. Fortune turning away from Rest/Imprisonment lets honored Emolument undertake wandering action.” Another: “Wu day/Renzi hour is Flourishing Wealth Generating Office. Transforming the printed Ding-Ding is endless, letting the child run east and west. Flourishing-Wood fortune gives distinction, refined writing manifold. Wide learning and pursuit of pleasure give riches and myriad strings of assets.”
Translator's note: All six day groups, prohibited year/month labels and both verses remain. Hour Indirect Office for the Wushen/Renzi case and Ding-Ding in the final verse are supplied wording, not silently repaired.
Six Wu Days at Guichou Hour
The introduction says following Six Wu prohibited months and infringed hours are judged as above. A verse says: “Six Wu days at Guichou hour abandon self to follow wife and pair. Clever and intelligent, especially fond of romance, flowers and wine.” Wu takes Gui as Wife Wealth, residual Gui in Chou following Wealth with flourishing Gui. Monthly connection transforming true Fire gives intelligence; Earth connection riches, rank and power. Summer with eastern fortune noble distinction. Wuzi day/Guichou hour born in the printed Wu month has Mixed-Qi Seal; Bing/Ding emerging gives riches/rank without needing another configuration. Wu/You year/month with Geng/Yi emerging has Yi/Geng and Wu/Gui combinations. Wu feeds on Geng, Geng flourishing at You and noble at Chou; Gui Wealth, Yi Office, Seal rooted at Wu. Day/hour stems/branches combine Heaven/Earth Virtue, Noble Emoluments interweaving with Luowen Nobility, indicating highest rank. Wuyin day/Guichou hour in Yin, Yi-shaped position, Wu, Wei, or Xu month transforms Fire auspiciously; autumn/winter ordinary. Wuchen day/Guichou hour in Yin, Si, Wu, Wei, or Xu has Fire transformation on proper ground; Shen–Zi–Chen Wealth also auspicious. Pure Earth year/month completing Four Storehouses noble. Wuwu day/Guichou hour with Yin, Xu, Wei, or Wu year/month intelligent, outstanding and authoritative. Wushen day/Guichou hour in Chen, Xu, Chou, Wei, or Wu month rich/noble and fond of wine/sex; summer eastern fortune noble. Autumn/winter flourishing Wealth generates Office; weak Body gives early death or poverty. Wuxu day/Guichou hour in summer with eastern fortune noble; season-ending months rich/noble, powerful and romantic. A verse says: “Transformation combines southern Li, Wealth's gate opens day and month. No clash/disruption lets blessing/Emolument naturally come.” Another: “Chou hour combines Wu/Gui into a cabinet, most liking punishment/clash and avoiding locks. Fortune suddenly finding a key opens a thriving household livelihood.” Another: “Wu day/Guichou hour transforms blazing Fire to light. Earth/Water fortune mismatched, southeast prosperous. Ancestral property unsettled and left, wife helps buy estates; otherwise kin punitive injury. Late scene glorious and flourishing.”
Translator's note: The printed Wu month and Yi-shaped branch, full Wuzi combined-virtue explanation, all six day groups and three ending verses remain. Luowen is retained as a source term without invented derivation.
Six Wu Days at Jiayin Hour
A verse says: “Six Wu days at Jiayin hour, within Illness, are injured by Ghost. Monthly strong-Body connection auspicious, weak day stem early death.” Declining Body and flourishing Ghost: Jia has Established Emolument in Yin, Bing generates Body. Strong-Body month with support and rescue transforms Ghost into Office for riches/rank; reverse poverty/early death. Strong-Body fortune also auspicious. Wuzi day/Jiayin hour ruins first then develops, noble. Wei month with stem restraint noble; Wu without restraint intelligent and near nobles. Chen/Xu/Chou strong Body or Hai/Mao strong Killing with Seal/restraint noble. Pure Yichou year/month gold-and-purple. Wuyin day/Jiayin hour has strong Body and kin living apart. Wu month Blade/Seal with Killing; Zi Direct Wealth supporting Killing with restraint emerging; Hai–Mao–Wei pure Killing and yielding Body with Blade emerging, southwestern fortune commands armies over vast distances. Si/Chou/Xu strengthens Body against Killing; You/Chou/Shen restrains Killing: all greatly noble. Robbery Killing conquering Body is disliked as harmful. Wuchen day/Jiayin hour has hour Indirect Office, Seal with Killing; Geng/Xin restraint gives rank, season-ending strong Body also noble. Wuwu day/Jiayin hour is Sheep Blade and hour Indirect Office, Blade combining Killing noble. Si/You/Chou month has astonishing clerical/legal skill; restraint should not be excessive. Yin, Mao, Chen, Si, Xu, or Zi year/month with stem restraint greatly noble. Wushen day/Jiayin hour with Shen/You Hurting and Killing in thick-Earth territory noble. Chou/Mao year/month removes Killing and retains Office, greatly noble; Metal/Fire fortune reaches highest ministerial rank. The Wuxu case prints Shen-Yin hour: Chen, Xu, Chou, or Wei month with Water/Wood fortune third rank; Chou/Wei year/month Metal/Water fortune riches and rank; Shen/Zi or You/Zi year/month noble, descendants prosperous. Si/Wu noble but wife/child injured. A verse says: “Yin hour with Wu day is extraordinary, surpassing the world. A humble gate displays generals/ministers; weak Body gives difficulty.” Another, again printing Shen-Yin, says: “Wu day at this hour has strong Body like flowers/trees meeting spring. Indirect Office fears punishment/clash; borrowed Killing instead makes authority/Seal. Flourishing Killing and declining Body reduce blessing, parents/siblings unreliable. Seal fortune brings paired blessings and smooth early talent/fame.”
Translator's note: All six day case positions, restraint/strength distinctions and both verses remain. Shen-Yin in the Wuxu case and final verse is identified rather than silently changed to Jiayin.
Six Wu Days at Yimao Hour
A verse says: “Six Wu days at Yimao hour do not look well with Hurting Office in the pillars. Without Xin/Shen, clash or harm, fame lasts to old age.” Office strong and Body weak: Yi Office flourishes at Mao, Wu is Dead. Unsupported and without monthly connection, weak Body transforms Office into Ghost; even rank gives short life. Monthly connection, strong supported Body and no Shen, You, Xin, Geng, Hurting Office or the source's Jia-Wood fate-breaking expression give distinction. Wuzi day/Yimao hour has day/hour punishment, wife/child injury and independent establishment. Repetition in year/month gives censorial rank; Wu/You completes Four Proper Positions, greatly noble. Wuyin day/Yimao hour with Hai/Zi year/month has worthy wife, filial child and rank. Pure Mao/Chen auspicious, Yin/Si also. Wuchen day/Yimao hour solitary yet noble; Si/Mao year/month strong Body and Office honors self/ancestors, filial child and worthy wife. Wuwu day/Yimao hour is Blade configuration: Direct Office removing Blade gives blessing. Zi, Yin, Mao, Chen, Wu, Wei, Shen, or Hai year/month distinction. Wushen day/Yimao hour ruins inheritance in middle age; spring noble, summer near nobles, autumn solitary hardship, winter riches/rank. Si month with Wood/Fire fortune fifth rank or higher. Wuxu day/Yimao hour has spring flourishing Office; summer complete Office/Seal noble distinction; autumn ordinary; winter noble. Xu/Chou year/month regional third rank; Xu month eastern fortune solitary poverty. A verse says: “Hour Office Born and seated on Emolument authority makes Wu day extraordinary. Strong supported Body makes rank; restraining/combining Office makes rank hard.” Another: “Wu day/Yimao hour has Wood clash and six combinations opening passage. Golden Rooster and the printed Jade-Mian show glory, hands together shine with authority/Seal. Yiyou/Xin injures siblings; repeated flowers bear fruit. A trapped Dragon finding Water happily rises through clouds, timing brings distinction.”
Translator's note: All six day groups and both verses remain. Jia-Wood fate-breaking and Jade-Mian are supplied expressions, not silently reconstructed into different graph or phase rules.
Six Wu Days at Bingchen Hour
A verse says: “Six Wu days at Bingchen hour have Treasure Wealth Storehouse benefiting Body. Without injury/disruption, Emolument and Horse assist riches/rank.” Office hides in Wealth Storehouse. Wu uses Ren/Gui Wealth, Yi Wood Office and Bing Reversed Food. Bing lacks energy at Chen, Ren/Gui enter Storehouse, Yi has residual energy; support and monthly connection give distinction. Wuzi day/Bingchen hour in spring near nobles, summer toil, autumn high authority and short life. Winter Wealth with Fire/Earth connection and support noble. Wuyin day/Bingchen hour is Dragon Singing and Tiger Roaring, great middle-age rank. Zi month northern fortune in thick-Earth territory third rank; eastern fortune censorial. Chou/Chen year/month fourth/fifth rank. Yin/Wu/Xu year with Earth month and Wood/Fire fortune highest rank. Wuchen day/Bingchen hour injures father and greatly develops. Strong-Body month with northeastern fortune rich; Water/Wood month with strong-Body fortune noble. Wuwu day/Bingchen hour with Hai/Mao year/month and northeastern fortune rich/noble; Wei/Chou southwestern fortune censorial. The next Wushen/Bingchen case labels both positions hour: season-ending month noble, no Earth connection but Earth fortune also noble. Wuxu day/Bingchen hour clashes day/hour, sorrow and wife/child injury. Chief Strength with northeastern fortune gives heavy authority and blessing. You month near nobles without blessing/Emolument; Hai/Mao/Wei Office/Seal noble. A verse says: “Bingchen hour is Reversed Food; Wealth and Office locked in Storehouse. No key makes advancement difficult, exactions and toil fill mornings/evenings.” Another: “Wu day/Bingchen hour has Fire seated in Storehouse without merit. Locked Wealth/Office governs prosperity, awaiting key for use. Mao/Xu opens Yi/Gui, raising fame, wealth and rank. Fire/Earth fortune does not prosper, undertakings like drunken dreams.”
Translator's note: All six case positions and both poems remain. The double-hour label and final locked-Storehouse/prosperity wording are retained despite other opening/closing qualifications.
Six Wu Days at Dingsi Hour
A verse says: “Six Wu days at Dingsi hour have Seal generating and Day Emolument returning. Wealth/Office unseen, without punishment/clash/disruption, timing early meets favorable winds and clouds.” Wu Emolument lies at Si, Ding Seal at Imperial Flourishing there. Year/month stems and branches should not see Wealth or Office: Office damages Emolument, Wealth Seal. No Office/Killing, no Wealth/Office fortune but Food/Hurting/Seal fortune gives high rank. Punishment, clash, disruption and harm avoided. Wuzi day/Dingsi hour noble. Zi Direct Wealth month in thick Earth distinguished; Hai/Chou year/month highest inner-court office and riches/rank. Wuyin day/Dingsi hour has Yin/Si punishment, wife/child injury. Wu month northeastern fortune censorial, Yin/Wu year/month fourth rank. Wuchen day/Dingsi hour in Si/You/Chou month romantic nature, great authority. No year/month Wealth/Office gives Finding the Road to Blue Clouds. Hai/Xu with southern fortune fifth/sixth rank, Shen northern noble. Wuwu day/Dingsi hour without Jia, Yi, Mao, or Yin is Day Emolument Returning to Hour, with Wu Emolument in hour and Ding in day, Exchanged Emolument, high rank. Food/Hurting/Seal fortune auspicious. Jia, Yi, Yin, Mao, or Wei permits Office/Seal use, also noble. Wushen day/Dingsi hour spring/summer ordinary, autumn success/failure, winter rich/noble; Wood/Metal fortune auspicious. Wuxu day/Dingsi hour without clash/disruption, no year/month Wealth/Office or corresponding fortune noble. Yin month uses Indirect Office, Wei/Shen fortune noble; Zi month with Jia emerging also noble. Hai–Mao–Wei seeing Wealth/Office remains auspicious: Returning Emolument does not avoid Office/Killing and Wealth when strong Body obtains them as blessing. A verse says: “Day stem's branch Emolument gladly returns to hour; no Wealth/Office promises rank. Without disruption, Yu's Gate has three waves; await a leap into Heaven's Pool.” Another: “Wu day/Dingsi hour meets Emolument origin and Seal, plucking examination cassia early and wielding ministers' authority. Food/Hurting fortune auspicious, Wealth/Office meeting ineffective. Parents/siblings give no support; with disruption, seek another configuration.”
Translator's note: All six day sets, both poems and the original author's explicit strong-Body exception to the initial Wealth/Office avoidance are retained.
Six Wu Days at Wuwu Hour
A verse says: “Six Wu days at Wuwu hour describe fierce, hard nature. Monthly Fire transformation in office auspicious; disruption, harm, punishment and clash are good.” Repeated Blade: Wu takes Wu branch as Blade, hard and fierce. Punishment/clash/disruption/harm restrains Blade; monthly connection gives frontier military office. Timely transforming energy in month greatly noble. Jia in year/month stems gives monk/Daoist. Annual flourishing Fire burns Wu Earth and often gives spleen/lung illness. No Yin, Wu, Xu, or Hai monthly connection but connected fortune also noble. Wuzi day/Wuwu hour in Si, Yin, or Xu month censorial. Summer not smelted, punishment first then development, many Offices at flourishing, with a separate calamity/ruined-ancestry phrase. Wuyin day/Wuwu hour in Xu three-harmony Fire with Gui emerging to transform, proper time/place, noble. Shen/Zi year/month gathers Water and Yin/Wu Fire for mutual completion; Chen also. You Hurting or Wei Office/Seal auspicious. Wuchen day/Wuwu hour is Arching Emolument; no Yin, Si, Jia, or Yi in year/month noble. Mao/Shen military; You/Chou/Hai southern fortune noble. Wuwu day/Wuwu hour punishes first then develops, often no good end. Yin, Si, Wu, or Xu year/month Seal greatly noble. Pure Wu gives military authority and great regional reputation; Hai, Mao, Wei, or Shen riches/rank. Wushen day/Wuwu hour is Arching Nobility. Yin year/month southern fortune censorial, Wu noble and long-lived, Xu literary rank. Wei filling and Si Established Emolument linked in one stretch give great nobility. Wuxu day/Wuwu hour greatly harmful. Mao/Wu year/month Office fortune gives distinction; Yin Seal with Killing turns harm auspicious. A verse says: “Wu meeting Wuwu in Fire's Li territory has flourishing Blade and strong Body greatly displayed. Obstructed timing leaves fame unachieved and ordinary livelihood.” Another: “Wu day/Wuwu hour's Equal delays Wealth/Emolument. Repeated wives and late children, development when Ren/Gui fortune arrives. Parents/siblings little benefit, Six Relations distant as ice and charcoal. Clash, conquest and disruption become remarkable; middle/late life noble.”
Translator's note: All six day groups, the separate summer calamity phrase and both poems remain. Wei filling the position and punishment/clash have favorable clauses here, retained beside adverse outcomes elsewhere.
Six Wu Days at Jiwei Hour
A verse says: “Six Wu days at Jiwei hour have Sheep Blade and Indirect Office not fearing clash. Nature mostly fierce, lifelong livelihood nonetheless unharmed.” Wu takes Ji as Blade and Jia Indirect Office. Exposed and hidden Ji in the hour make two Blades; Jia Wood within Wei combines a configuration. Punishment/clash/disruption/harm restrains Blade/Killing and gives rank. Flourishing monthly connection gives ordinary livelihood, with a statement that both parents are lost at twenty years. No monthly connection but Yin/Shen gives rank. The first Wuyin day/Jiwei hour case has day/hour piercing, sorrow and wife/child injury, bitter early and good late. Earth-month connection with Wealth/Office fortune noble; Water/Wood month with strong-Body fortune noble. A second Wuyin day/Jiwei hour case is difficult first, easy later, helped by Noble Person, rich if not noble. Jia in year/month restrains Blade; Wu/Wei branches strengthen Body, Killing/Blade both displayed, greatly noble. Wuchen day/Jiwei hour in spring/winter with northern fortune rich/noble. Wuwu day/Jiwei hour has Sheep Blade/Indirect Office, resourcefulness and short life; otherwise wife/child difficult, repeatedly reestablished. Wu/Hai year/month with Metal/Earth fortune noble, Shen/You rich. Wushen day/Jiwei hour noble; Wealth/Office fortune develops blessing. Yin clashing Killing is disliked as harmful. Wuxu day/Jiwei hour has spring flourishing Office noble, summer Seal stable, autumn ordinary, winter solitary hardship. Xu month Chief Strength fifth/sixth rank. Shen–Zi–Chen Wealth, Yin/Wu Seal, Jiyou Hurting and Hai/Mao Office/Killing must form their respective configurations for auspiciousness. A verse says: “Wu/Ji Earth piles in Wei; punishment/harm/clash still makes affairs harmonious. Dark first, bright later, harm turns good; Noble assistance emerges from buried dust.” Another: “Wu day/Jiwei hour has distant Six Relations. Fire Seal secretly assists, Jia, Yi, Yin, and Mao are primary. Flowers repeatedly fade then fruit forms, parents/siblings early lost or solitary. Independence plans itself, relying on Noble assistance.”
Translator's note: Both Wuyin paragraphs are retained and the absent Wuzi case is not invented. The twenty-year statement, Jiyou Hurting label, all remaining day sets and both verses remain as supplied.
Six Wu Days at Gengshen Hour
A verse says: “Six Wu days at Gengshen hour gladly meet Food Spirit in stem. Without Mao, Yin, Jia or Bing, why fear a jade belt failing to honor Body?” Geng Food, Ren/Gui Wealth: Geng flourishes and Ren is Born at Shen, Wu Earth has energy. Without Bing seizing Food and breaking Wealth or Yin/Si punishment/clash, autumn birth greatly noble. Bing, Jiayin and Si give reversals yet some fame. Only Jia Three Wonders emerging in year/month with branches gathering a configuration, or Yin/Chen alone, gives nobility. Wuzi day/Gengshen hour in Hai/Zi month also Combined Emolument, noble. Wuyin day/Gengshen hour harmful punishment then development; Yin month Food Emolument restraining Killing, noble. Wuchen day/Gengshen hour has Exclusive Food and Combined Emolument; pure Yin year/month, two Yin unafraid of one Shen clash, also noble. Wuwu day/Gengshen hour with Wei, You, or Chou year/month and no Bing, Jia, Mao or Yin is Combined Emolument, northwestern fortune noble. Jia/Bing with Combining Spirit hidden and Killing submerged forms pure yang four pillars, greatly noble. Wushen day/Gengshen hour has Body/Emolument Sharing Nest, riches and rank. Zi, Chen, Wei or You year/month and western fortune enters Combined Emolument, near upper third rank. Chou/Xu year/month auspicious; Chen/Xu injury/conquest ordinary. Hai/Si year/month with northeastern fortune first/second rank. Wuxu day/Gengshen hour has a damaged calamity/malaria-within expression. Zi month also Combined Emolument, literary third rank; Mao/Chen year/month greatly noble. A verse says: “Wu day gladly meeting Geng hour has Food combining Emolument, prosperity and honor. Punishment/clash amid flourishing permits only ordinary livelihood.” Another: “Wu day/Gengshen hour has branches Born and Flourishing, rare. Food generating Spirit displays light, energy flows above/below. Bing injures branches/leaves, Jiayin the siblings. No clash, disruption, punishment or conquest gives piled jade and gold.”
Translator's note: The damaged calamity/malaria phrase, Food-generating-Spirit wording, all six day sets and both poems remain. The two-Yin versus one-Shen and pure-yang exceptions are retained beside the general opening exclusions.
Six Wu Days at Xinyou Hour
A verse says: “Six Wu days at Xinyou hour fear Hurting Office and sudden Defeat in hour. Even Wealth Star's assistance leaves children unfulfilled and life ending early.” Wu uses Yi Office and Xin Hurting. Xin Metal flourishes at You, Wu Earth at Bathing, describing proud nature and low conduct. Yi emerging in year/month gives a hundred calamities; Yi followed by flourishing-Office fortune punitive harm. Generative monthly energy with northern fortune rich if not noble. Wuzi day/Xinyou hour in Si/You/Chou month has Complete Injury; flourishing-Wealth fortune military/censorial office. Wuyin day/Xinyou hour with Earth month and northwestern fortune rich if not noble. Wuchen day/Xinyou hour with Chou/Wei year/month and Wealth emerging noble. Guisi month puts Literary Hall/Study Hall in framework for high literary degree. Yin, Shen, Si, or Hai year infringes hour's Disordered Killing, leaving no late result. Wuwu day/Xinyou hour spring/summer ordinary; autumn Complete Injury powerful rank but short life; winter wife/child difficult. Wushen day/Xinyou hour with Xu, Hai, Chou or Zi year/month powerful nobility. Wuxu day/Xinyou hour in season-ending month noble. The ancients take Water/Earth at Defeat in You, hence many fail in final result, retire early from fame, or have unfulfilled children. Observing these six days, the author says none makes a great official, showing hour Hurting Office unfavorable. A verse says: “Wu meeting Xin is Stripping Office, particularly disliked in hour. Office Star brings exceptional calamity, further fearing illness and incomplete children.” Another: “Wu day/Xinyou hour's Hurting dislikes Office. Wealth-territory fortune finally prospers; disposition unstable. Even without disruption, ancestral property is hard to attract; siblings each fly ahead. Repeated wives and late children finally bring peace: difficult first, easy later.”
Translator's note: All six day groups, the author's no-great-official conclusion and both poems remain, without erasing earlier noble cases. These are historical family, bodily, lifespan and rank assertions.
Six Wu Days at Renxu Hour
A verse says: “Six Wu days at Renxu hour have Body in proper position meeting Heavenly Wealth. Autumn birth with strong-Body connection assures myriad assets.” Wu occupies its exclusive position and meets Wealth. The Wealth stem Ren is written with the Humaneness graph; Water has Cap and Belt at Xu. Spring/summer Ren lacks energy and assets do not flourish; winter Water too flourishing leaves empty Earth and weak Body unable to command. Only after autumn, firm substantial Wu Earth with energized Wealth/Fate gives riches and rank. Wuzi day/Renxu hour in You, Shen, or Xu month has abundant household Wealth; Chen/Chou clash/punishment opens Storehouse, auspicious. Wuyin day/Renxu hour with Yin, Wu, Xu, or Chen year/month and Metal/Water fortune greatly noble. Wuchen day/Renxu hour clashes day/hour, sorrow and wife/child injury; thick-Earth territory greatly noble. Mao month Fire/Metal fortune middling rank; Yin, Shen, Xu or Chou southwestern fortune highest rank. Wuwu day/Renxu hour in Yin/Wu/Xu month, much Fire in hour/year, is Seal, unavoidable solitary kin harm, difficult first and easy later, rich if not noble. Mao Office restraining Blade auspicious. Wushen day/Renxu hour has spring rank, summer ordinary, autumn riches/rank, winter ordinary. Wuxu day/Renxu hour rich/noble in autumn. Summer western fortune, spring northern, winter southern all noble; Chen/Chou month especially auspicious. A verse says: “Renxu hour's Wealth is buried in Storehouse, awaiting key to open. Wealth/Office Birth-and-Flourishing fortune assures riches, rank and glory.” Another: “Wu meeting Renxu hour gladly has Mao/Chou in pillars. Zi/Chen and Yi Nobility display Wealth/Office, going and staying with high people. Storehouse opens, rooms and dwelling fill; without clash siblings are hard to keep complete. Poverty first, riches later, affairs reunited; without rank, boxes and stores abundantly filled.”
Translator's note: Ren's Humaneness graph, all six day groups and both verses remain. The final verse's no-clash/sibling condition and the seasonal strength distinctions are not silently standardized.
Six Wu Days at Guihai Hour
A verse says: “Six Wu days at Guihai hour transform Fire without Xu, battling Water territory. A difficult Yi/Geng/Ding/Chou-and-absence phrase instead gives an extraordinary official fate.” Wu combines Gui into Fire, Fire Extinct at Hai and battling Water, unable to form the image. The person has empty refinement, mostly miscellaneous arts near nobles, with eye illness. Jia is Ghost, Ren/Gui Wealth. Ren flourishes and Jia is Born at Hai, Wu Earth energy Extinct, assets gathering/scattering. Yi, Ding and Geng flourishing in year/month stems give Three Wonders nobility. Earth-energy month strengthening Body with Fire/Wood fortune auspicious. Wuzi day/Guihai hour without Wu in year/month breaking configuration is noble. Shen/Zi year/month southeastern fortune or Hai/Mao southern noble. Si/Wu/Wei flourishing greatly noble. Wuyin day/Guihai hour in Wu/Wei month transforms Fire and gathers configuration, high chart. Spring mixed Office/Killing gives adequate food/clothing. You/Chou year/month third-rank capital office. Wuchen day/Guihai hour refined; Hai/Zi Wealth/Office month rich if not noble; Yin/Mao year/month distinguished; summer teaching office. Wuwu day/Guihai hour noble; Yin/Si year/month in thick-Earth/refined-Water territory sixth/seventh rank, Mao/Wei/Chen/Chou auspicious. Wushen day/Guihai hour with Zi/Wei year/month has no inheritance, riches through wife, otherwise changed roots/leaves and poverty/low status. Wuxu day/Guihai hour with Yin, Mao, Wu, Si, Chou, Xu or Hai year/month and Yi/Geng/Ding emerging gives pure important powerful office; Fire/Earth fortune appropriate. A verse says: “Wu/Gui transforming Fire born at Hai hour is sunset on rivers/lakes, dark then bright. Mao/Wei birth makes three harmonies auspicious; moving house must bring peace.” Another: “Wu day/Guihai hour has remarkable stem Fire transformation. Flourishing Yi/Geng/Ding is favored and must give distinguished fame. Spring-wind cheer in every direction, Six Relations punitive injury. Worthy wife and filial child bring happy ease; without disruption, examination fame.”
Translator's note: All six day groups and both verses remain. The opening Xu and ambiguous Yi/Geng/Ding/Chou absence phrase are not reconstructed, while the prose's explicit Three Wonders condition is retained.
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