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Sanming Tonghui · A Comprehensive Account of the Three Destinies
Essential Selections of Wu Xian
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The Classic of the Divine Import of the Heavenly Origin says: In calculating a person's destiny, first examine flourishing and decline beneath the day, distinguish changing applications and configurations, and only then can Heaven and Earth complete creation. Distinction and low standing become clear above and below; flourishing and decline lie wholly in stems and branches. Within the four seasons, subtle principles of obstruction and passage are exhausted; within the Five Phases, glory and withering are personally endowed. Thus Jia and Yi born in spring at Yin and Mao need not fear Geng and Xin; Bing and Ding growing in summer, riding the printed Ji-shaped position and Wu, need not worry about Ren and Gui. Geng and Xin born in autumn at Dui are difficult for Li Fire to invade; Ren and Gui arriving in winter at Qian cannot readily be restrained by Wu and the printed Si-shaped stem. Earth born in the Four Seasons obtains its time, so Ghost's injury does no harm. But the Five Phases losing their ground and meeting restraint bring calamity that does not heal. If a transformation configuration forms an image, distinguish decline and flourishing and seek equal balance; within combinations recognize routes of arrival and departure. Metal reaches Extinction north of Gen, Fire disappears west of Qian, Wood falls shapeless south of Kun, and Water reaches a positionless place east of Xun. These are Yang stems all dying; meeting combination, they follow their category. If wife hides her form, judge from what is seen within the configuration. Yin born at the Four Cardinal Positions, with a flourishing hour, gives personal distinction and family glory. Death, Extinction, Tomb, and Decline, with the category injuring the stem, are especially deficient. Transformed influence entering a configuration without breaking brings great distinction in eight or nine cases out of ten; transformed influence losing its configuration and suffering injury brings glory in scarcely one or two out of a hundred. The loftiest and most distinguished dwell in flourishing places, with three positions supporting one another. The lowest and poorest dwell in decline, with creation hard to find in all four pillars. Original images lie in the branches; combinations within the stems. With the image formed and flourishing in use, all born amid Fire and Earth, and all four pillars uninjured, one ranks directly at court. Even if there is apprehension within the branches, reputation and freedom from poverty are still required by the wording. Progression to decline must bring calamity. If transformed creation occupies Decline, Tomb, or Extinction, or an image forms a mixed configuration, meeting combination is like not meeting it. When the husband travels through flourishing progression, wife follows husband; progression supporting the wife makes husband follow wife. The self meeting Ghost must use what lies within Heaven and Earth. Recognize glory, withering, high and low standing through the image's flourishing or decline. Body declining and Ghost flourishing requires injury and disability; Body flourishing and Ghost declining surely makes a harmful person's destiny. Ghost and Body both declining make a man wander like tumbleweed and a woman become a religious teacher or nun. A subdued Body concealed away may dwell in lofty reputation. Monthly influences injuring one another make a Concealed Image. Office and Ghost both complete prevent long life. Breaking and failure in the stems leave skills and crafts to accompany the person; full generation in the branches makes reliance on close relatives difficult, with independent establishment. The Five Phases belong to their images within the twelve branches. First divide north, south, east, and west; then distinguish within Threefold Combinations. Infer close relatives by following the image; assess wealth and distinction through Office and Emolument as two discussions. Flourishing Emolument may coexist with widowhood, solitude, and isolation; Office-Ghost may coexist with disability and short life. If the Body visibly transforms while its own influence is absent, original nature is wholly impaired. Borrowing the Five Phases to form an image leaves lifelong distress: how could ancestral wealth be obtained? Manifest blessings and abundance arise through parents of another household. For a Following Image, discuss guidance as influence; for a Transformation Image, discuss balance between Heaven and Earth. Following includes distinction and low standing; transformation includes wealth and poverty. Distinction within following obtains its time and ranks at court. A configuration completed within transformation, with progression turning favorably, receives investiture beside the emperor. A declining Following Image labors into old age; a hidden Transformation Image remains busy and unaccomplished throughout life.
It further says: Ziping's method discusses Wealth and Office exclusively, with Wealth and Office in the month most important and their manifestation in day and hour. Assess strength and weakness carefully. Discussing Wealth and Office does not discuss configurations; discussing configurations does not discuss Wealth and Office. Entering a configuration gives wealth or distinction; failing to enter gives poverty or early death. One or two configurations give a high minister or chief minister; three or four make Wealth and Office impure, producing a penal soldier or, commonly, one of the nine miscellaneous callings. Office fears injury, Wealth robbery. Seal seeing Wealth suffers greater calamity as Wealth increases. Hurting Office Seeing Office is heavier if originally present, lighter if originally absent: heavy gives relocation, light punishment. Hurting Office in the year leaves parents incomplete; in the month, siblings incomplete; in the day, difficulty for wives and concubines; in the hour, no continuation through descendants. Hurting Office and Robbing Wealth in year and month indicate birth in a poor, lowly household or to a secondary wife. In day and hour they injure descendants and indicate no blessings in old age. Mixed Office and Killing makes a sensual, lustful person, petty and low in conduct. Wealth and Seal make it favorable; their absence unfavorable. Robbing Wealth and Ruining Wealth give lofty aspirations but low standing and greed. Proper Wealth in the monthly command gives diligence, thrift, and stinginess. Numerous Robbers, Blades, and Companions punish parents, injure wives and concubines, and prevent accumulating wealth. For a merchant examine Wealth obtaining ground; for a chief minister, Proper Emolument obtaining its time. Heavy Seven Killing and Owl make a traveler through foreign places; Hurting Office and Robbing Wealth a deceptive, dishonest defaulter. Repeated Wondrous Forms give distinction; repeated Death and Robbery early death. Seven Killing should be restrained; standing alone makes it strong. Ghost meeting Office brings excessive pressure. Manifest Killing combined away makes the Five Phases harmonious as spring wind; hidden Killing combined in makes punishment and injury in the four pillars harm the self. Unrestrained Killing and Blade give women childbirth distress and men punishment and injury. Unbroken Two Virtues give worthy women and loyal, filial men. Wealth, Office, Seal, and Food surely reveal compassionate virtue; Robbery, Injury, Companions, and Owl hardly escape a reputation for harsh wickedness. Office clashed with, without combination, makes a drifter; sitting on Horse fallen into void makes a destitute person. Clash with the monthly command gives adoption into another household and departure from ancestors; Office and Seal meeting the indirect gives birth to a secondary wife or irregular parentage. Extinguished and fierce influence at the stem heads evokes Boniu's illness; hour and day clashing and punishing makes Bu Shang's weeping hard to avoid. Six Voids approaching Yihai leaves Meng Haoran with writing alone; Three Powers assembling at Renchen lets Shi Jilun indulge in gold and jade. Writing without Seal left Jia Yi frustrated at Changsha; Seal without writing left Li Si confined to Shangcai. Many punishments make a person unrighteous; many combinations make even the distant and estranged close. Many combinations indicate obscurity, many clashes misfortune. Much Chen gives fondness for fighting; much Xu for lawsuits. Chen-Xu Chief Strength brings much harm and little good. Void in day and hour brings difficulty for wife and children. Hunchback Post Horse parts one from native soil; mixed Office and Killing drives one to seek clothing and food. Injured Seal brings success and failure in fame and gain. Heavenly Kitchen meeting Owl reduces or increases food Emolument. Hurting Office meeting Yang Blade and Robbing Wealth makes one toil all day for food; Proper Office meeting Seven Killing and stripping injury makes one spend life seeking survival. Wealth and Office attract the favor of the highly distinguished; Killing and Injury give cause to fear petty people's humiliation. Office without clash or breaking gives outstanding rank and Emolument. Wealth with little Injury or Robbery gives both fame and gain. Office and Seal in places of punishment and confinement bring a distracted mind and busy Body. Day and hour in Ghost's Tomb region bring much worry and little joy. Blessing failing to bless means auspiciousness may still suffer injury; success failing to succeed means Killing lies within the configuration. Flourishing Wealth and Office give command of the ceremonial axe; Killing and Blade jointly manifest give military authority. Office is the basis supporting the Body: Office at Long Life requires abundant learning. Wealth is the source nourishing life: Wealth at flourishing places gives ample money. The three auspicious influences, Wealth, Office, and Seal, must be met; the four harmful ones, Robbery, Blade, Injury, and Killing, must be feared. Seal approaching Heavenly Yi receives investiture in a prosperous age; Wealth hidden in Office's storehouse accumulates rare treasures. Three Wonders Nobleman seen at birth gives pure academy learning rare in the world. Nobleman meeting Emolument and Horse makes even gold insignia insufficient. Office distinction aided by Wealth and Office, with repeated Wondrous Forms, must make a chief minister; if not an immortal guest on Penglai's Three Isles, one must walk the golden palace and jade steps. Reciprocal Emolument and Horse make all admire a young chief minister; punishment and breaking ultimately leave a fair-faced scholar. Seal without Office does not develop swiftly; Office without Seal finds conspicuous glory difficult. Wealth and Office carrying Seal accumulate jade and gold; Proper and Indirect meeting Wealth fill granaries and storehouses. Seal gives embroidered saddle and bridled horse; Office distinction jade belt and golden fish insignia. Nothing is more harmful than Yang Blade, nothing more calamitous than Hurting Office. Progression meeting Yang Blade, Robbery, and Ruin disperses property. Yang Blade sharing generating influence gives command beyond the general's tent. Hurting Office combined injures wife and children; Hurting Office carrying Blade harms father and mother. Office hidden and Killing visible must attract unnatural calamity; Killing hidden and Office clear should bring regional governing authority. Office Star further carrying Robbing Wealth brings little joy and much worry; Solitary Phoenix again meeting Injury and Killing separates blood relatives. Three Punishments and Six Harms striking make imposing standing difficult; repeated Solitary Star and Separated Corners often indicate poverty and early death. Ready-made enjoyment comes when initial progression immediately enters Wealth and Emolument; lifelong loneliness when progression and destiny diverge. Office without drawing Emolument means monthly Proper Office is injured; Wealth without enjoyment means Proper Wealth in the pillars is divided and seized. Emolument and Horse first met in the birth month give ancestral virtue and glory; Wealth and Office seen again in day and hour are meeting yet not meeting. It further says: Within the Four Images, hidden Earth completes them; within the Five Phases, refined stems bring glory. Hai, Mao, and Wei nourish Jia and Yi; Yin, Wu, and Xu gather blessings for Bing and Ding. Ren and Gui favor Flowing Down; Geng and Xin favor Pliant Change; Wu and the printed Si-shaped stem rejoice in the Four Seasons. Water Flowing Down gives literary distinction; Earth's Sowing and Reaping gives wealth, distinction, and commerce. Jia and Yi born in spring hold benevolence and virtue; Bing and Ding in summer contain clear discernment. Autumn Metal is resolute; winter Water rich in strategy. Abundant Wood without Metal, though benevolent, cannot complete creation. Flourishing Fire with declining Wood, though learned, finds conspicuous distinction difficult. Much Water meeting Earth forms an embankment's achievement; abundant Wood meeting Metal becomes fine beam timber. Water and Fire in balance form Already Across; Earth meeting flourishing Wood gives Sowing and Reaping. Metal and Fire with equal influence forge sharp instruments. The Five Phases' creation all achieves through Ghost. Failed Wood lacks benevolence and acts rashly; declining Metal lacks righteousness and kindness; extinguished Fire lacks propriety; turbid Water wisdom. Earth restrained by Wood often speaks untrustworthily; Metal Ghost likes killing; abundant Water much lust. A flourishing day still requires independent establishment; further assess good and ill above and below. Year and month supporting one another bring development through ancestors; hour and day clashing gives no benefit from wife and children. Decline and Tomb bring lifelong isolation; Birth and Flourishing lifelong eminence. Upper and lower combining give no harm; coming and going in restraining conflict bring much anxiety. Emolument and Horse restrained by the hour and broken by the day eventually bring retreat and deprivation despite position. A flourishing day and strong hour gathering refinement must bring sudden development even without blessings. If the month causes injury but the hour obtains Office and Wealth, progression can establish success. A month meeting Extinction and Injury, with the hour clashing opposite, must bring three household moves. Year in decline gives early hardship; month in flourishing region insufficiency in old age. Declining hour and refined day give a beginning without completion; weak month and strong hour give late glory. Strong flourishing Original Influence eventually reveals achievement and fame even before advancement; resting, confined foundations make wealth and distinction difficult even on obtaining ground. Weak Heavenly Origin leaves destiny unable to revive; master and root suddenly meeting rest and confinement leaves poverty without a place. Flourishing influence injured still finds lifelong rescue amid danger; failed influence meeting generation accomplishes nothing even on obtaining ground. The Five Phases losing ground makes Emolument and Horse Sharing One Region irrelevant; four pillars without a place to return make Wealth and Office Both Beautiful hard to discuss. What the day restrains is wife; what wife generates is child. Examine Birth and Flourishing, determine Death and Extinction. An hour in a flourishing place must give many sons; one in decline must end descendants. A man meeting two Wealth positions must take a concubine; combination meeting Emolument brings glory through the wife. Combination in Wealth's region makes establishment depend on wife. Yang stems meeting combination above and below make wives numerous and easy to obtain; generating influence within combination gives worthy wives and concubines. Four pillars reciprocally close bring many celebrations; Five Phases injuring one another in coming and going indicate unrighteousness. Wealth losing ground gives commerce at crossroads; an excessively flourishing Body the nine callings and technical arts. Gathered Fire punishing Water Virtue makes Buddhist religious life changeable; Water meeting flourishing Earth in mutual injury makes Daoist religious life without completion. Bright Fire and refined Wood give youthful distinction at court; blazing Fire and dried Water lifelong pursuit of money in markets. White Metal and Clear Water often give conspicuous distinction; Office meeting Ghost's position poverty and distress. Wealth beneath Wealth gives riches with stinginess. Yang Blade carrying Killing and punished gives men flogging and penal assignment. Abundant Wealth punishes and injures parents; flourishing Ghost gives prosperous descendants. Following and Transformation avoid following back to the root, leaving life's decline and joy unsettled. Bing and Xin transforming into Water and reaching Water's region rank at court; Ding and Ren transforming into Wood and approaching Wood's position become chief ministers. Eastern Metal and western Wood do not follow transformation, leaving lifelong empty reputation. Ren at Li and Bing at Kan, obtaining their positions, show conspicuous achievement. A declining Useful Spirit cannot bring blessings even with Emolument. Emolument and Horse with flourishing influence, meeting Noble Combination, give conspicuous glory. Office without Horse gives a minor post; Horse without Office low standing. All four pillars generating and flourishing give long life even without Office or Emolument; Five Phases failing and declining give early death even with Emolument and Horse. Chief Strength meeting clash and restraint often brings imprisonment. Establishing Emolument without Wealth, with punishment and restraint, surely makes servants. Yang Fire dying in Tomb and Extinction gives a fierce, obstinate character, often a cruel official. Yin Fire born in Long Life and Nurture gives a substantial person who should be wealthy. The Five Phases avoid Bathing with injury; the four pillars favor Birth and Flourishing restraining Killing. Harm disperses marriage ties; conflict entangles the Body in illness. Wood and Fire avoid Shen and You, bringing disaster, illness, and groaning. Declining Metal fears flourishing Fire, with suffering and lament. An hour in Ghost's place without restraint often gives poverty; progression to Wealth and Office without punishment must develop. Seven Killing and Yang Blade bring conspicuous fame and position; Proper Seal and Office Star with punishment and clash bring calamity. Ren Hastening to Gen develops wealth; transforming Killing into Office gives youthful achievement and fame. A Wu day in a Wu month with much Fire favors Office progression. Wealth and Office in defeated places give lifelong poverty and cold; Three Wonders without injury lifelong wealth and distinction. A day Establishing Emolument without Wealth or Office indicates solitude and poverty. Day Emolument Returns to the Hour without Wealth or Seal also finds development difficult. Indirect Wealth in the hour, with progression to siblings' positions, brings disaster to wife. Yang Blade in the hour with annual Proper or Indirect Wealth produces calamity. Flourishing Proper Office in the month gives both wealth and distinction; Indirect Office in the hour, if unfeeling, calamity. Wealth returning to a flourishing place without breaking makes the household prosperous; Seal generating the Body without injury gives radiant family standing. Office without Seal is not true Office; Seal without Office instead forms substantial blessings. Peach Blossom carrying combination makes a romantic, cultured person. Clouds troubling the Five Lakes makes a guest who starves at Shouyang. Stems punishing and branches combining turns joy to worry; stems combining and branches punishing leaves joy imperfect. If not one of the nine callings, a Buddhist or Daoist religious, one must acknowledge parents anew. Tomb-hour mixed influence needs a configuration key for conspicuous glory. Yang Blade and Metal Spirit meeting Seven Killing must give great distinction. Two Chen flanking a corner gives a person born to a secondary wife; Widow Lodge and Solitary Star a child living with another surname. Ren Water Riding the Dragon, meeting Chen, often ascends to Heaven's Treasury. Yi Wood Catching the Rat, meeting Zi, often early reaches the Moon Palace. Day Emolument Returns to the Hour without Office Star gives embroidered saddle and reins; month generating the day stem without Wealth influence gives jade belt and golden fish insignia. Six Yin Facing Yang in a seasonal-end month is judged only as Seal; Six Ren Hastening to Gen in a Hai month should be judged poor. Configuration without breaking or punishment completes fame and gain; Office and Seal injured or damaged reduce or halt rank. A weak Wife Palace offending through Robbing Wealth must harm wife; a yielding sibling position seeing strong Office must harm brothers. Weak Heavenly Origin out of season finds extended life difficult; a strong day master transforming Ghost should enjoy substantial blessings. A flourishing day without reliance leaves ancestors and relocates; without relocation, death comes abroad. A flourishing day without reliance loses Wealth and harms wife; if wife is not harmed, her family declines. Proper Office combined makes lifelong fame and gain empty; Seven Killing combined reverses misfortune into good fortune. Flourishing Killing with a declining Body drives pursuit of clothing and food; yielding Office disturbed by Killing submerges public and private endeavors. Flourishing Wealth with a strong Body piles up property. Jiachen or Jiaxu reaching Yin and Hai fills the house with gold and silk; Dinghai or Dingmao reaching You and Hai fills rooms with precious treasures. Six-Jia days meeting repeated Geng and Xin must suffer calamity; six-Bing Bodies dwelling at Hai and Zi without restraint must be poor scholars. Examine progression's gains and losses carefully. Obtaining ground but losing time is like fields receiving rain; obtaining time but losing ground like a damaged carriage pin in muddy roads. Obtaining time still permits a leap; losing ground makes promotion difficult. Fire reaching the south flourishes, Water the north becomes abundant, Earth reaching the east falls ill, Wood reaching the west declines, Metal entering the north sinks. Born at flourishing places, extinguished at Death places; born at Death places, released at flourishing places. Annual influence and progression both injuring the day master must endanger life. Progression influence and spiritual influence injured damage household and parents together. Progression's spirit restraining the year brings lawsuits; the year restraining progression's spirit official calamities. Metal indicates blades, penal punishment, and injury; Water rivers, capsizing, and drowning; Wood hanging, tiger bites, and dragon anger; Fire being crushed in nighttime sleep, burning death, and snake injury; Earth falling walls and subsidence. Assess heavy Five-Phase Killing in this way.
It further says: There are reasons why transformation does not transform, gathering does not gather, combination does not combine, and refinement does not refine. Transformation without transformation damages distinction; gathering without gathering Wealth; combination without combination Office; refinement without refinement blessings. There are also causes of transformation despite no transformation, gathering despite no gathering, combination despite no combination, and refinement despite no refinement. These respectively give powerful distinction, ultimate abundance, promotion to high office, and enjoyment of emolument and rank. Determine flourishing or its absence in the four seasons; examine influence or its absence in the Five Phases. Change things according to things and seek categories through categories. The Five Phases all require balance; no single thing may become one-sidedly withered. Water unable to overcome Fire wanders restlessly; Fire unable to overcome Metal suffers distress and alarm. Three Xin seeing Bing disperse money; two Ren seeing Ding make the household flourish. Refinement without Office gives skill in crafts alone; Wealth without support fulfills ambition only in commerce. Jia dwelling in Pliant Change's region suffers wind disaster and hardship; Metal forming Flowing Down's configuration drifts like duckweed and broken stalks abroad. If all flourish, follow what directs them; if all decline, they transform into another thing. One Ghost cannot overcome two palaces; one Emolument cannot overcome two Ghosts. The Five Phases in their own region give distinction or wealth; four pillars at broken places low standing or poverty. Birth and Flourishing are superior; Virtue and Refinement remarkable. Sitting on Academy makes a person of lofty literary arts; destiny meeting Ghost calamity a penal exile or thief. Hidden punishment within Emolument gives command of weapons in military office; restraint within punishment gives paperwork in public service. Ghost resting and mother flourishing gives abundant money, servants, and horses; Ghost flourishing and mother declining scatters parents and siblings. Complete Office and Seal give military office bearing banners; full gentle refinement gives examination success and civil appointment. Hidden Emolument gives the highest office; True Office exceptional rank and Emolument. Ten stems at Death, Extinction, Illness, and Decline dwell lowly in the dust; Five Phases at Three Wonders, Storehouse, and Tomb rank gloriously among officials. Two Ghost regions meeting Inverted Food must make servants. A single influence returning to its destination and meeting a Tomb month must indicate solitude and poverty. Gouchen obtaining its position at Chen and Si ranks among the Three Platforms; Dark Warrior holding authority at Hai and Zi receives office at the first rank. Gui seeing Gengshen holds a military post; Xin meeting Wuzi passes a high examination. Yin Water meeting refinement but losing ground makes Buddhist or Daoist religious life; Yang Fire without a destination meeting Water surely makes a harmful person. Metal entering Fire's region makes Wealth gather and scatter; flourishing Water entering the south fills and prospers the household. Geng in winter's three months has cold Water and chilly Metal; Fire's assistance makes it exceptional. Broken Emolument brings death; extinguished influence illness. An hour in Ghost's position, further clashed with and injured, truly brings danger. Assuming Office further approaching a declining and failed place makes Death and Extinction certain. Most distinguished is Office Star constituting the destiny; Proper and Indirect Wealth give blessings. Most harmful is Seven Killing approaching the Body; Heavenly Pardon and the Two Virtues bring auspiciousness. Office Star meeting Companions and Robbery gives office without distinction; Seven Killing receiving nourishment and aid becomes more harmful. Threefold and Sixfold Combinations joined by annual influence and progression must give glory. Seven or eight Offices, with Office in the monthly establishment, are welcomed. For four combinations and four punishments, distinguish correct and deviant in punishment and combination. For seven clashes and eight strikes, clashing and striking favor gathering and concealment. Flanking Nobleman and flanking Mound are hidden gatherings; Wealth and Office storehouses need clear clash. Office Star in Birth and Flourishing need not emerge visibly; Seal hidden beneath Beginnings and Middles need not reveal its form. Seal obtaining Robbing Wealth gives distinction; Wealth Origin favors Hurting Office as remarkable. Hurting Office seeing Seal gives indescribable distinction; Returning Emolument meeting Food and Injury gives endlessly subtle blessings. Year and day mutually containing Yin and Yang Blades brings repeated penal law. Mixed Office and Killing meeting Heavenly and Monthly Virtues brings high promotion. Flying Blade, Concealed Blade, and Gathering Blade bring much harm; Hurting Office stripping Office brings calamity when Office is seen. Yang Blade meeting Seal gives distinction but bodily disability; unrestrained Seven Killing meeting Office gives calamity and short life. Three Indirect and Three Proper influences meeting Three Wonders gives dignity at the first rank. Four Flourishing and Four Births completing the pillars give blessings above others. Killing transformed into Seal gives early success in a high examination; flourishing Wealth generating Office gives little inherited benefit. When Office and Killing come together, know which is supported; when Proper and Indirect meet, know which combines. Returning Emolument with Yang Blade in the month leaves worldly affairs unclear. Metal Spirit progressing into Water's region leaves corpse and body divided. Hidden Killing requires clarity about the Useful Spirit beneath the month; where it appears with no Wealth, calamity from emptiness must be suffered. Yang Blade further gathering and combining gives exile a thousand miles away. Wealth in use meeting robbery and seizure gives lifelong poverty. Human life is predetermined and poverty and passage already divided, yet one must recognize increase and decline and investigate beginning and end. Examine progression's source and the annual position. A weak Body meeting Seven Killing falls when progression reaches restraint. A strong Body with slight blessings dies when progression reaches decline and failure. Grand Duke disagreeing with destiny gives calamity and illness; four pillars generating one another with the year give neither calamity nor harm. A weak Body enters a configuration in vain: even if development comes, death is early. Slight blessings meeting rest and confinement must end in downfall and early death. Thus Useful Spirit cannot be sought arbitrarily; its form naturally appears. With blessings, use that other influence; without the proper time, the Body must be used. Calamity lies at the Five Gates; blessings and glory in progression influence. Substantial blessings are shared in common, but injury to the origin leaves ultimate distress.
It further says: Extinction cannot take Wealth born below it; Decline cannot oppose Ghost amid flourishing influence. Reverse restraint is unfeeling; following generation can rescue. If master lacks but root has it, half can be rescued. Day and hour both meeting the Two Virtues leave no harmful outcome in a hundred affairs; further Wealth and Office must indicate great wealth. With master and root powerful, Ghost can be Office; without their influence, Office becomes Ghost. Examine punishment and clash carefully: punishment may draw out or bring in, be auspicious or harmful; clash may move or fail to move, combine or fail to combine. Clash with decline must cause movement; combination with affinity gives wealth and distinction. For stored mixed influence, determine what comes first and later. For the governing outline's exclusive use, distinguish shallow and deep influence. When one Yang returns, Wood and Fire are used and Water concealed; when one Yin is born, Fire and Earth flourish and Metal lies hidden. What is coming advances and accomplishes when met; what has completed achievement retreats, so what benefit comes from obtaining it? Wealth, Office, and Seal in the monthly establishment return to their origin through the hour's allotted region, either supplementing deficiency or suppressing excess. Balance in creation makes the outcome favorable.
It further says: To determine destiny through the Three Origins, first examine whether the four pillars have Five Phases forming a configuration; next discuss destiny and progression's strength and weakness. A weak Body with flourishing Wealth needs a region strengthening the Body; a flourishing Body with declining Emolument favors a place generating Emolument. Seal's generation brings blessings and fears Wealth's region. Killing in the pillars should not flourish. A destiny without Wealth or Emolument suffers calamity when progression meets Emolument and Horse. Originally present Hurting Office brings calamity on again meeting Office's region. Most avoided is the day stem clashing with progression; favored is progression's stem generating the day stem. Examine affinity or its absence, combination or its absence, and auspicious or harmful gatherings. If Harm and Blade were originally present, blood relatives are injured. If Injury and Killing were originally present with the branches at Death and Extinction, and Emolument and Horse are both weak in progression, calamity comes before one can turn on one's heel. Further use annual influence to weigh calamity and blessing; none will fail to correspond. Meeting Establishing Emolument is here named Emolument and Horse Both at Extinction, leaving the life limit hard to escape. Yet within this, Emolument at Extinction can develop, and Companions can drain: influence has depth and shallowness, configurations completion and ruin. Do not infer everything rigidly from one principle.
Translator's note: The supplied source is a densely compiled historical text with differing general rules and exceptions. Its mixed stem-and-branch lists, irregular Si/Ji-shaped graphs, categorical predictions, and phrases that conflict with nearby rules are retained rather than harmonized. These include a weak Body falling on entering restraint progression, Establishing Emolument being called Emolument and Horse Both at Extinction, and the several formulations about Wealth, Office, Seal, and Returning Emolument. Unclear technical labels such as flanking Mound and Five Gates remain literal labels instead of reconstructed methods. Historical allusions are translated as the text's comparisons, without inventing further chart conditions.
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