Hurting Officer (伤官)

Hurting Officer (伤官) proves out like a spirit. It must be injured to exhaustion; injured and not exhausted, with the officer star arriving in strength, the misfortune is past telling. Hurting Officer meeting Officer (官) is a hundred kinds of trouble. But if the month command sits in the Hurting Officer seat, and the four pillars are matched so that everything done is done from that seat, and the fortune runs toward strength for the self, then this is a truly honoured person. Hurting Officer makes a person of many talents and arts, proud and high-spirited, forever holding that nobody in the world is their equal — and the honoured are wary of them and the crowd dislikes them. Let a period once meet Officer and the misfortune is past speaking of; or if a favourable star can resolve it, then a bad illness comes instead and ruins the body — and if not that, the period brings a legal matter. Where a period strips the officer away and the Wealth (财) star is not strong, these are people who live at ease. Weigh it carefully and there is not one failure in ten thousand. It is also said: Hurting Officer is what I produce — yang meeting yin, yin meeting yang — and is likewise called the leaking of qi. If the Direct Resource (印綬) is injured to exhaustion with not a trace left, and the self is weak, then the officer star is unwelcome, but the Seven Killings (七杀) is not feared. Yang Wood (甲) uses Yin Metal (辛) as its officer; if Yin Fire (丁) is strong it can produce the Earth that is the Wealth. What is most disliked is meeting the officer star, and the self must be strong. If the Hurting Officer is not injured to exhaustion and an officer star shows in the four pillars, and the year or the period then brings another, the misfortune is past telling. If it IS injured to exhaustion with not a trace left in the pillars, and the fortune runs toward strength or toward Direct Resource, that is honour instead. If the pillars have exhausted the officer star and the self is strong but there is not a trace of Wealth qi, it is only poverty and thin means. Where Hurting Officer is met, Wealth should be seen with it — Wealth is what can produce an officer. Where the pattern is taken as Hurting Officer, neither stems, branches, year nor period should meet the officer star; meeting it is Hurting Officer meeting Officer (伤官见官), a hundred kinds of trouble. A Hurting Officer pattern is usable when Wealth is present. The Killings (杀) of a Hurting Officer is as sharp as a Seven Killings injuring the self, and it proves out like a spirit. In the year, Hurting Officer means the parents are not both kept; in the month, the siblings are not complete; in the day, the wife; in the hour, no line carried on. Otherwise it must be injured to exhaustion and then it is favourable, and Wealth must be seen: lightly, the calamity of being driven far off; heavily, the trouble of punishment. Where Hurting Officer is at war, the life is hard to keep. If the month command is in the Hurting Officer seat and the pillars agree with it, and the fortune runs toward strength for the self, this is an honoured chart. A Hurting Officer person mostly carries talent proudly and holds others beneath them; the gentleman dislikes them and the small man fears them. Meeting an officer period with no Wealth to rescue it certainly means great calamity; if not, then some hidden and evil illness ruining the body, or a period bringing legal punishment. If the pillars have exhausted the officer star and the self is weak, a Wealth period brings blessing out: this is Hurting Officer meeting Wealth (伤官见财). Weigh it carefully and there is not one failure in ten thousand. It is also said: four pillars with an officer take the misfortune heavily; four pillars without one take it lightly. Broadly, where the pillars show an officer, or show Hurting Officer and take its Wealth, then a Wealth that reaches suitable ground opens out, and ground that ruins the Wealth is fatal. If the period has no Wealth in its branches, a bare showing in the stem will not do either. Take [Wood Pig, Earth Ox, Fire Pig, Metal Dog (乙亥 己丑 丁亥 庚戌)]: Yin Fire takes Yang Water (壬) as its officer, and Ox (丑) and Dog (戌) are Hurting Officer by nature — but Ox is the Metal store, and the hour carries a Yang Metal (庚) as Wealth. This person ran the Monkey (申) and Rooster (酉) limits as they wished, and died on entering Metal and losing his qi. Broadly: having injured the officer star, running an officer period brings calamity upon calamity, and the year behaves the same way. In verse: Hurting Officer injured to exhaustion is rarest of all — though injure too much and it turns unsuitable again; this pattern has a thousand changes in it, and searching it out takes a working mind. In verse: a Fire-and-Earth Hurting Officer should be injured to exhaustion; a Metal-and-Water Hurting Officer wants to see the officer; Wood and Fire meeting the officer, the officer has strength; Earth and Metal, take the officer away and it becomes an officer again; only in the Water-and-Wood Hurting Officer pattern are Wealth and Officer both welcome together. In verse: Hurting Officer cannot be called ill as a rule — held down, it gives clothing and income in plenty; an Eating God (食神) above with a binding below, and there are grandchildren to fill the eye and years like a pine. In verse: meeting Hurting Officer is not in itself suitable, but Wealth present and Officer absent is the ground of blessing; where the hour, day or month makes the Hurting Officer pattern, a fortune running to strong Wealth is honour beyond doubt. In verse: Hurting Officer injured to exhaustion is rarest of all; leave a Hurting Officer and trouble follows — relying on the self and riding over others, fond of winning, with harm to kin and much grief besides. In verse: Hurting Officer cannot be called ill as a rule — a Yin Metal day with a Water Dragon (壬辰) has honour in the middle of it; born in autumn or winter the qi is fine, born in the four season-ends it means wealth in plenty. In verse: Yang Fire (丙) with many roots and Earth joined to them, forming either a Monkey month or a Qian, the northwest (乾); run only to Metal and Water and the name and profit rise, and Fire and Earth coming again make the reckoning unsound.

伤官者，其验如神。 伤官务要伤尽；伤之不尽，官来乘旺，其祸不可胜言。伤官见官，为祸百端。 倘月令在伤官之位，及四柱配合、作事皆在伤官之处；又行身旺乡，真贵人也。 伤官主人多才艺、傲物气高，常以天下之人不如己；而贵人亦惮之，众人亦恶之。 运一逢官，祸不可言；或有吉神可解，必生恶疾以残其躯；不然运遭官事。 如运行剥官，财神不旺，皆是安享之人。 仔细推详，万无一失矣！ 又云，伤官者，我生彼之谓也；以阳见阴，阴见阳，亦名盗气。 印綬若伤尽，不留一点；身弱忌官星，不怕七杀。 如甲用辛官，如丁火旺，能生土财；最忌见官星，亦要身旺。 若伤官不尽，四柱有官星露；岁运若见官星，其祸不可胜言。 若伤官伤尽，四柱不留一点；又行旺运及印綬运，却为贵也。 如四柱中虽伤尽官星；身虽旺，若无一点财气，只为贫薄。 如遇伤官者，须见其财为妙；是财能生官也。 如用伤官格者，支干、岁运，都要不见官星；如见官星，谓之伤官见官，为祸百端。 用伤官格局，见财方可用。 伤官之杀，甚如伤身七杀，其验如神。 年带伤官，父母不全；月带伤官，兄弟不完；日带伤官，妻妾不完；时带伤官，子息无传。 其餘伤官，务要伤尽，则吉，见财方可；轻则远窜之灾，重则刑辟之难。 伤官有战，其命难存。 若月令在伤官之位，及四柱相合，皆在伤官之处；如行身旺乡，贵命也。 伤官之人，多负才傲物，常以他人不如己；君子恶之，小人畏之。 逢官运，无财救，必主大灾；不然主暗昧恶疾，以残其身；或运遭官刑矣！ 如四柱虽伤尽官星，身弱逢财运发福，是为伤官见财。 仔细推详，万无一失。 又云，四柱有官而被祸重，四柱无官而被祸则浅。 大凡四柱见官者，或见伤官而取其财；财行得地则发，行败财之地必死。如运支内无财运，干虚露亦不可也。 如【乙亥，己丑，丁亥，庚戌】：丁以壬为官。丑戌本为伤官，只是丑为金库，又时上有庚字作财；此人行申酉限如意，入金脱气遂死矣！ 大抵伤了官星，行官运则灾连；太岁亦然。 《诗诀》伤官伤尽最为奇，尤恐伤多返不宜；此格局中千变化，推寻须要用心机。 《诗诀》火土伤官宜伤尽；金水伤官要见官；木火见官官有旺；土金官去返成官；惟有水木伤官格，财官两见始为欢。 《诗诀》伤官不可例言凶，有制还他衣禄丰；干上食神支带合，儿孙满眼寿如松。 《诗诀》伤官遇者本非宜，财有官无是福基；时日月伤官格局，运行财旺贵无疑。 《诗诀》伤官伤尽最为奇，若有伤官祸便随；恃己凌人心好胜，刑伤骨肉更多悲。 《诗诀》伤官不可例言凶，辛日壬辰贵在中；生在秋冬方秀气，生于四季主财丰。 《诗诀》丙火多根土又连，或成申月或成乾；但行金水升名利，火土重来数不坚。

Yuan Hai Zi Ping (渊海子平) · On Hurting Officer (论伤官)

Direct Wealth (正财)

What is Direct Wealth (正财)? It is like the sense of Direct Officer (正官): yin meeting yang wealth, yang meeting yin wealth. Broadly, Direct Wealth is my wife's wealth. Another person brings their property to serve me, and I must be sound in spirit and strong before I can enjoy the use of it; if I am slack and unable to rouse myself, then however thick the wealth, I can only look at it — not a hair of it will ever be of use to me. So Wealth (财) wants to have its season; it does not want to be much. If Wealth is much, then the day stem itself must have force enough to carry it, and it should be turned into an officer. A single qi in the heavenly source, thin and weak, is poor and hard to remedy. This is why it delights in a strong self and does not want to run toward ground that controls it — what controls it is the officer-ghost (官鬼). What is also feared is a month command that is the self's own ground of decline and illness, with no parent in the pillars to produce the self; then Wealth is welcomed instead, and with Wealth present as well it is called too much wealth (财多). Where the strength cannot bear the wealth, a hundred troubles come out. Even a youth passing through resting ground finds things do not go as wished and matters pile one on another. But if in middle or late life the parent's ground comes round again, or a trine that can help the self, then it rises suddenly and cannot be held back. And if a youth rides strength while old age is out of the frame, it is not only a hard road and distress but quarrels breaking out with it. For Wealth is the beginning of contention. If the four pillars produce one another, and there is some honoured pattern besides, and no the Void (空亡); and the fortune runs to strength, with a trine producing Wealth — all of these are honoured charts. How deep the blessing goes follows the weight of the pattern entered. Wealth in quantity produces an officer, and for that the self must be sound. Much Wealth leaks the qi, the self is soft to begin with, and if the year or period injures the Wealth as well, a strange misfortune certainly comes; carrying a punishment together with Seven Killings (七杀), the ill of it is past speaking. It is also said: Direct Wealth welcomes a strong self and Direct Resource (印綬), and dislikes the officer star, dislikes the Overturned Meal (倒食), dislikes a weak self, and dislikes Friend (比肩) and Rob Wealth (劫财). The officer star must not be seen, for fear it steals the Wealth's qi; Direct Resource is welcome because it can produce a weak day master. For a Yang Wood (甲) day using Yin Earth (己) as Direct Wealth: if the self is weak, the misfortune arrives at once. Anyone whose chart is born under Wealth will come out of a rich house; if not adopted, then born to a secondary mother, or else clashing the parents. A strong self with no Rob Wealth and no officer star is the fine case. If the chart has an officer star on suitable ground, then a fortune welcoming much Wealth to produce that officer is good. And with the Wealth star on suitable ground as well, the fortune should not meet the officer star, for fear of controlling the self — the fear is a weak self. Broadly, Wealth whether indirect (偏) or direct (正) both welcome Direct Resource, and blessing can certainly come out. Take [Metal Ox, Fire Rooster, Fire Snake, Fire Goat (辛丑 丁酉 丁巳 丁未)]: a Yin Fire (丁) day seated on the ground of its Wealth, with a Snake-Rooster-Ox (巳酉丑) Metal frame besides, so Wealth is strong. Metal has the Wood store at Goat (未) and can produce the Yin Fire, so the self is strong enough to carry its wealth; running the fortune south and east, great wealth was to be expected. Yin Fire uses Yang Water (壬) as officer and Yang Metal (庚) as Wealth to produce that Yang Water; the self entering strong ground, blessing must come out. Where Wealth is used, not meeting the officer star is the fine case. Take [Metal Monkey, Wood Rooster, Fire Monkey, Fire Monkey (庚申 乙酉 丙申 丙申)]: a Yang Fire (丙) day meeting three Monkey (申) as Wealth — is that not fine? Yang Fire uses Yin Water (癸) as officer and Yin Metal (辛) as Wealth, and three Monkey with one Rooster (酉) make the Wealth strong. But the day is weak: Fire is ill at Monkey and dead at Rooster, so there is no qi in it, and running the fortune west into Metal the self grows far too weak. Strong Wealth producing the ghost (鬼) breaks and controls the self, so it cannot carry its own wealth — hence poverty. Take [Wood Rabbit, Water Goat, Metal Rooster, Earth Rat (乙卯 癸未 辛酉 戊子)]: a Yin Metal day seated on Rooster and a Yin Wood (乙) year seated on Rabbit (卯), self and Wealth both strong; with a Water Goat (癸未) Eating God (食神) and an Earth Rat (戊子) Direct Resource to help, great wealth and rank were to be expected. Take [Earth Rat, Fire Snake, Wood Dragon, Fire Tiger (戊子 丁巳 甲辰 丙寅)]: a Yang Wood day born in the last third of the fourth month, with Yang Fire and Yin Fire showing and producing the Yang Earth (戊) of that month; the hour returns to its prosperity star (禄) at Tiger (寅), so Wealth is strong — and the Yang Wood self is strong too. Early years ran Earth Horse (戊午) and Earth Goat (己未), then on into Metal Rooster (辛酉), where meeting the officer star was ill; in the Water Dog (壬戌) period a Yang Water controlled the Yang Fire, and in the midst of Hurting Officer (伤官) and Eating God he lost office and lost wealth, and the whole household died. At fifty-nine he entered the Water Pig (癸亥) period, strength for the self, and had a little ease; at sixty-five, in a Water Dragon (壬辰) year, he died. The early fortune made a Hurting Officer meeting Wealth (伤官见财) pattern taking Yang Earth as the Wealth, so the Earth Horse and Earth Goat periods, greatly strengthening and producing Earth, made the wealth thick; by Metal Monkey (庚申) and Metal Rooster in the west, meeting the officer, everything took effort. Water Pig is Yang Wood's Direct Resource, yet Fire clashing Water is still disliked, and Pig (亥) holds a Yang Water as well; a Water Dragon showing that Yang Water, with the Dragon (辰) already in both period and chart, left no doubt of death. In any Hurting Officer meeting Wealth pattern, meeting the officer star is disliked and only Wealth is welcome. What is most disliked is Yang Water controlling the Fire, for then the Fire cannot produce the Earth that is Yang Wood's wealth.

何谓之正财？犹如正官之意；是阴见阳财，阳见阴财。大抵正财，吾妻之财也。人之女貲财以事我，必精神康强，然后可以享用之；如吾身方且自萎懦而不振，虽妻财丰厚，但能目视，终不可一毫受用。 故财要得时，不要财多。 若财多则自家日本有力，可以胜任，当化作官。 天元一气，羸弱贫薄难治。是乐于身旺，不要行剋制之乡；剋制者，官鬼也。 又怕所生之月令，正吾衰病之地，又四柱无父母以生之；反喜财，又有见财，谓之财多。 力不任财，祸患百出；虽少年经休囚之位，故不如意，事多频併。或中年或末年，复临父母之乡，或三合可以助我者；则勃然而兴，不可御也。 倘少年乘旺，老在脱局，不惟穷途悽惶，兼且是非纷起。 盖，财者，起争之端也。 若或四柱相生，别带贵格，不值空亡；又行旺运，三合财生，是皆贵命。其餘福之浅深，皆随入格轻重而言之。 财多生官，要须身健。 财多盗气，本自身柔，年运又或伤财，必生奇祸；或带刑併七杀，凶不可言也。 又云，正财者，喜身旺、印綬，忌官星、忌倒食、忌身弱、比肩劫财。不可见官星，恐盗财之气也；喜印綬者，能生身主弱故也。 且如甲日用己为正财；如身弱，其祸立至。 凡人命带财下生，须出富豪；不螟蛉，必庶出、或冲父母。 身旺无劫财，无官星为妙。 若命中有官星得地，运行喜财星多生官。 兼有财星得地，运行忌见官星，恐剋其身；怕身弱也。 大抵财不论偏正，皆喜印綬，必能发福。 如【辛丑，丁酉，丁巳，丁未】：此命丁日身坐财之地，又见巳酉丑金局，故主财旺。盖金得木库居未，能生丁火，故身旺能当其财；运行东南方，宜乎巨富。丁用壬官，用庚金为财，生壬官；身入旺乡，必能发福。 凡用财，不见官星为妙。 如【庚申，乙酉，丙申，丙申】：此命丙日见三申为财，岂不美哉！丙用癸官，用辛为财，见三申一酉为财，故旺。盖缘日弱，火病申死酉，乃为无气，运行西方金乡，身弱太甚；财旺生鬼，败剋其身，故不能胜其财，所以贫也。 如【乙卯，癸未，辛酉，戊子】：此命辛日坐酉，乙年坐卯，身与财俱旺；又得癸未食神，戊子印綬助之，宜乎巨富贵也。 如【戊子，丁巳，甲辰，丙寅】：此命甲日生于四月下旬，并透出丙丁火，生其月中之戊土；时又归禄于寅，故财旺矣！然甲木身亦旺。早年行戊午己未运，迤邐行辛酉运，乃见官星则凶；壬戌运有壬剋丙，伤官食神之中，失官去财，死丧合家；值五十九岁，入癸亥身旺运，稍可安逸；六十五岁，逢壬辰年死矣。初运伤官见财格，取戊土为财，所以戊午己未二运大旺生土，故财厚矣；及至庚申辛酉西方见官，故凡事费力；虽癸亥为甲木之印綬，然亦忌火冲水，亥中又有壬水。壬辰透出壬水，运中、命中元有之辰，死无疑矣！凡伤官见财格，忌见官星，只喜见财。大忌壬水剋火，则火不能生甲木之土财也。

Yuan Hai Zi Ping (渊海子平) · On Direct Wealth (论正财)

Direct Officer (正官)

Direct Officer (正官) is Yang Wood (甲) meeting Yin Metal (辛) and the like: yin meeting yang is the officer, yang meeting yin is the ghost (鬼), and yin and yang matching each other is what completes the way of it. Broadly it wants to run toward ground where the officer is strong, which is the month command. The month command is the month command (提纲), the lifting-rope of the chart: look at it first and everything else after. Once it is called Direct Officer, a fortune running again to ground where the officer is strong, or forming a frame, and not running into Hurting Officer (伤官) ground or into ground where Metal and Wealth (财) are strong — all of these are places where blessing is made. Direct Officer is a thing of honour and greatly dislikes punishment, clash, breaking and harm; and where the year, month and hour stems all have an officer half-showing, the blessing is likely slight. One must also look at what other pattern the year and hour enter, and where the blessing is made, before judging fortunate or ill. To seize on one road and hold to it is to be unable to follow the changes, and then an error of a hair's breadth becomes a thousand-mile mistake. The classic says: it is following the changes that makes the spirit of it. Much Direct Officer is not blessing but the reverse. Why? A person's chart should get the qi of the mean; too much and too little are the same thing. The balanced qi makes the blessing thick; a lopsided control makes calamity. Having taken the month command as Direct Officer, if the year or hour stem or branch holds even one Seven Killings (偏官), it is already mixed, and the weights must be measured carefully. It is also said: getting it in the month command is the case, and it welcomes a strong self and Direct Resource (印綬). Yang Wood using Yin Metal as officer welcomes Earth to produce that officer; what it most fears is punishment, clash, breaking and harm, the Yang Blade (阳刃) and the Seven Killings (七杀) — those make a poor chart. An hour stem meeting the Killings (杀) is officer and killer mixed (官杀混杂). Where the four pillars carry punishment, clash, breaking or harm, none of them is read as an honoured chart. The officer coming to control me is one thing; my going to control the officer does no harm. One position holding two officers does no harm either. If the month command holds a Direct Officer and the hour stem or branch a Seven Killings, it can no longer be spoken of as Direct Officer. Take Yang Wood using Yin Metal as officer, born after the mid-qi of the eighth month, Metal strong at Rooster (酉): that is Direct Officer. If Yin Metal does not show in the stems but the branches hold Snake (巳), Rooster and Ox (丑), then even outside the mid-qi of the eighth month it may still be called an officer. What matters is a strong self, with the hour returning to ground where Yang Wood is strong. If the year or hour shows a Direct Officer and the branches make an officer pattern too, then the eighth-month mid-qi does not bind. In general the officer star needs Direct Resource and a strong self before it opens out; with no Hurting Officer breaking the Resource (印) and the self not weak, it is an honoured chart. If the chart has an officer star and the fortune runs into Hurting Officer, it is not favourable; one must wait for a Direct Resource or officer-strong period, and then office can be had. On too much of it: for a Yang Water (壬) or Yin Water (癸) person whose pillars are Dragon (辰), Dog (戌), Ox, Goat (未), Snake and Horse (午) with no officer or Killings showing in the stems, then officer and Killings are hidden inside in quantity. If the pillars already carry something to hold them down, well; if not, a Wood period is wanted, and a Wood trine is good too. Broadly, much officer means mixture, and it must be cleared and cleaned before blessing comes; and much officer running an officer period does not answer either. On mixture: the officer star wants to be pure and not mixed. Take Yang Wood using Yin Metal as officer: if the year is Yin Metal, the month Rooster and the hour another dead officer, then however many there are it does no harm, because purity is wholly good. But if there is a Yang Metal (庚) or a Monkey (申), then it is mixed into a Killings and injures the self. A Fire period to hold it down is wanted, and then blessing comes out. The rest follow the same way. In verse: Direct Officer must be sought in the month; unbroken and uninjured, the honour does not stop — jade bridle and gold saddle, true wealth and rank, two ranks of banners going up to the imperial city. In verse: the true qi of the officer star is reckoned from the month; no clash and no breaking is rarest of all; with the middle years' fortune coming to help, general and minister, duke and marquis, are all within reach. In verse: Direct Officer is kindness and virtue, pure in temper — a place can be made by writing and the academy; officer and Resource producing each other, met by the year's fortune, and here is a court official in the jade hall. In verse: Direct Officer broadly wants the self strong; where the qi is weak, seek a strong period. Let the year and the period meet living, strong ground, and with no clash and no breaking it is prosperity. In verse: with Yin Earth (己) as the day stem and an officer star showing, the month command must hold a Yang Fire (丙) or a Yin Fire (丁); Metal and Water producing each other makes a low pattern, and Fire arriving to gather it up gives Wealth its name in strength. In verse: a Yin Metal day with a Yang Fire showing and the month at Tiger (寅) — inside the pattern it turns back and grows a root of wealth; the officer star must not be met twice over, and when the fortune comes to clash and punishment, Rooster and Monkey are feared. In verse: the eighth-month officer star gets its proper name, and what the pattern most fears is Rabbit (卯) and Yin Fire; clear those out of the pillars and the fortune does the same, and the honour and the name show.

夫正官者，甲见辛之类；乃阴见阳为官，阳见阴为鬼，阴阳配合成其道也。 大抵要行官旺乡，月令是也。月令者，提纲也。看命先看提纲，方看其餘。 既曰正官，运复行得官旺之乡、或是有成局；又行不得伤官之地，并金财旺之乡，皆是作福之处。 正官乃贵气之物，大忌刑冲破害；及于年月时干，皆有官星隐露，恐福渺矣！又须看年时上别有是何入格？作福去处，？方可断其吉凶。 茍一途而执取之，则不能通变，必有差之毫釐，谬以千里之患，经曰：『通变以为神者』是也。 正官或多，反不为福。何以言之？盖人之命，宜得中和之气，太过与不及同；中和之气为福厚，偏党之剋为灾殃。 既用提纲作正官，年时支干位，或有一偏官便杂矣！不可不仔细以轻重推测也。 又曰，于月令得之是也，喜身旺、印綬。 如甲用辛官，喜土生官；最怕刑冲破害、阳刃七杀，为贫命；如时干逢杀，乃官杀混杂。盖四柱有刑冲破害，皆未为贵命看。 官来剋我，我去剋官不为害。 一位若两官不妨。 若月令中有正官，时干支有偏官，便难以正官言之。 且如甲用辛为官，生于八月中气之后，金旺在酉，故谓之正官；如天干不透出辛字，却地支有巳酉丑，虽不能于八月中气之后，亦可言官。大要身旺，时辰归于甲木旺处。 如岁时透出正官，地支又有官格，却不拘八月中气之后。 大率官星须得印綬、身旺则发；若无伤官破印，身不弱者便为贵命。 如命中有官星，而行伤官之运，则不吉；必待印綬、官星旺运可发，必得官。 《诗诀》正官须在月中求，无破无伤贵不休；玉勒金鞍真富贵，两行旌节上皇州。 《诗诀》正气官星月上推，无冲无破最为奇；中年岁运来相助，将相公侯总可为。 《诗诀》正官仁德性情纯，词馆文章可立身；官印相生逢岁运，玉堂金马坐朝臣。 《诗诀》正官大抵要身强，气弱须求运旺方；岁运更逢生旺地，无冲无破是荣昌。 《诗诀》己干为主透官星，须要提纲见丙丁；金水相生成下格，火来拘聚旺财名。 《诗诀》辛日透丙月逢寅，格中返化发财根；官星不许重相见，运到冲刑怕酉申。 《诗诀》八月官星得正名，格中大怕卯和丁；若还柱内去其忌，运亦如之贵显名。 如壬癸生人，四柱是辰戌丑未巳午，天干不露官星与杀，则官杀暗藏于中为多。若四柱元有为好；若无制伏，须行木运，与三合木局亦好。 大凡官星多则杂，务要除而清之，乃可发福。 若官星多又行官运，亦不济事。 官星要纯，不要杂。 假如甲木用辛金为官，若年是辛，月是酉，时上亦是死官，虽多儘不妨，盖纯一儘好；若有金或庚申，则混杂为杀，以伤其身。要行火乡制伏，则发福也。餘倣此也。

Yuan Hai Zi Ping (渊海子平) · On Direct Officer (正官论)

Seven Killings (七杀)

Seven Killings (七杀) is also called Seven Killings (偏官). It likes a strong self that binds the Killings (杀), likes the Killings held down, and likes the Yang Blade (阳刃); it dislikes a weak self, dislikes meeting Wealth (财), and where it is produced dislikes having nothing to check it. Self strong and the star with force in it, call it Seven Killings; self weak and nothing checking it, call it Seven Killings. Where this star is present, do not simply call it ill. Having a Seven Killings is better than having a Direct Officer (正官): many of the greatly rich and greatly honoured have it — but only where the self is strong and binds the Killings is it fine. Yang Wood (甲) takes Yang Metal (庚) as its Seven Killings and welcomes a Yang Fire (丙) or Yin Fire (丁) to hold it down; a Yin Wood (乙) binding it instead is called a binding that forgets the Killings (贪合忘杀), greedy for the union and forgetting the Killings. The Killings should be held down, but not held down too far — anything taken to its extreme turns back into misfortune. Self strong and running a period that strengthens the self makes blessing. Self weak and running toward further weakness, and the misfortune does not wait to arrive. If the four pillars already carry something that holds it down, a Seven Killings period is welcome. If they carry nothing, the Seven Killings coming out is the misfortune. Running toward strength for the self, with a Yang Blade as well, the honour is beyond speaking of — but Wealth in strength is unwelcome, because Wealth produces the Killings. When the year or the period comes onto it, even a strong self has much calamity, and a weak self far more. Wood Monkey (甲申), Wood Rooster (乙酉), Fire Ox (丁丑), Earth Tiger (戊寅), Earth Rabbit (己卯), Metal Goat (辛未) and Water Goat (癸未): people born on these seven days are governed by the Killings — quick-tempered, sharp, clever and deft of mind. Where much Killings is seen, it means a person harsh and short-lived and thin in means. Seen in the month it weighs heavy, in the hour light. Why? The day's Seven Killings is only one; if the year and the hour show it again, the Killings is many and becomes misfortune. Then ground that holds it down is wanted, and a strong self with something holding it down makes it authority instead. What it most fears is a clash, and the Yang Blade, which is very ill. An hour Seven Killings is only one, and the self must be strong; where the year, month and hour all hold it down there is blessing. Then a period where the Killings is strong is wanted, and a period reaching suitable ground in trine will also open out. Without anything holding it down, a period that holds it down is what brings the blessing. Running a strong-Killings period with nothing to check it, and misfortune is made. An hour Seven Killings fears neither the Yang Blade nor a clash. Take [Metal Ox, Wood Goat, Wood Rabbit, Fire Rat (辛丑 乙未 乙卯 丙子)]: the self is strong, born in the sixth month, with Metal Ox (辛丑) showing in the year as Seven Killings; happily the Fire Rat (丙子) binds the Metal Ox Killings, so there is rank and authority with it. Take [Wood Horse, Fire Tiger, Metal Rat, Fire Rat (甲午 丙寅 庚子 丙子)]: the self is weak, a Fire frame present, a Fire Tiger (丙寅) Seven Killings in the month and a Fire Rat again in the hour; Fire controls the Yang Metal and Metal dies at Rat (子). Self weak, Killings strong, and nothing holding it down — so illness and thin means, as it should be. Take [Fire Snake, Earth Monkey, Water Rat, Earth Monkey (丁巳 戊申 壬子 戊申)]: the self is strong, two Yang Earth (戊) as Seven Killings drawn back to Snake (巳); Yin Fire binds with Yang Water (壬) and Yang Earth binds with Yin Water (癸), Metal has its Birth (長生) at Snake and Yang Earth has its prosperity star (禄) at Snake. So both the Yang Water and the Yang Earth are strong, and hence the honour. In verse: Seven Killings is like a tiger and fears many clashes; with the fortune strong and the self strong, what can it do? Self weak and tiger strong makes calamity; self strong and the Killings held down is honour in balance. In verse: Seven Killings and Indirect Resource (偏印) are hardest of all to read; above and below producing each other there is profit and a name; the four stores seated on Wealth should face honour, and one steps out to duke and minister easily. In verse: if Yang Earth or Yin Earth (己) meets officer and Killings, with Metal and Water added to the frame; born with Fire it should meet Fire, and when the Fire withdraws it worries at Metal and fears Wood breaking in. In verse: Seven Killings held down turns into authority — one mounts the clouds at a touch and rises young; if the year and the period run to ground where the self is strong, the name is greatly used and blessing doubled. In verse: Seven Killings cannot be called ill as a rule — held down it gives clothing and income in plenty; an Eating God (食神) above with a binding in the branches, and there are grandchildren to fill the eye and blessing without end. In verse: a yin Yin Water meeting much Yin Earth is injured, and the Killings star needs Wood to bring it down; the name and profit may stand high, but the years of the life are not long. In verse: a Yang Fire person with much Pig (亥) and Rat has the Killings star holding the Resource (印) and turns back to balance; going east the name and profit rise, and the fortune reaching west turns everything to grinding. In verse: spring Wood without Metal is nothing rare, and much Metal risks danger in return; take the balanced qi within the pattern and there is blessing, long life, peace and everything in order.

夫七杀者，亦名偏官，喜身旺合杀、喜制伏、喜阳刃；忌身弱、忌见财，生忌无制。 身旺有气为偏官，身弱无制为七杀。 凡有此杀不可便言凶？有正官不如有偏官，多有巨富大贵之人；惟其身旺合杀为妙。 如甲以庚为七杀，喜丙丁制之；乙合之，谓之『贪合忘杀』。 七杀却宜制伏，亦不要制之太过；盖物极则反为祸矣！ 身旺又行身旺之运为福。 如身弱又行身弱之乡，祸不旋踵。 四柱中元有制伏，喜行七杀运；元无制伏，七杀出为祸。 如行身旺乡，更有阳刃，贵不可言；但忌财旺，财能生杀故也。岁运临之，身旺亦多灾；身弱尤甚。 甲申、乙酉、丁丑、戊寅、己卯、辛未、癸未，此七日生主杀，性急伶俐、心巧聪明。 如见杀多者，主人凶夭贫薄；月见之重，时见之轻。何也？日七杀，只一位见之，如年时再见，杀多为祸；却要制伏之乡，又要身旺有制伏为权，最怕冲与阳刃大凶。 时七杀只一位，要本身旺，如年月时三处有制伏为福；却要行杀旺运，运三合得地亦发；若无制伏，则要行制伏为福。 行杀旺运无制伏，则祸作。 时上七杀，却不怕阳刃，而亦不畏冲。 如【辛丑，乙未，乙卯，丙子】：此命身旺，生于六月之中，岁干透出辛丑为七杀；喜得丙子合辛丑之杀，乃贵而有权。 如【甲午，丙寅，庚子，丙子】：此命身弱，见火局，又见月令丙寅七杀，时又见丙子；火剋庚金，金死于子，身弱杀旺，又无制伏，宜乎带病贫薄。 如【丁巳，戊申，壬子，戊申】：此命身旺，见二戊为七杀，引归于巳；丁与壬合，戊与癸合，金又长生于巳，戊禄在巳；乃壬戊二字俱旺，所以贵也。 夫偏官者，盖甲木见庚金之类；阳见阳，阴见阴，乃谓之偏官，不成配偶，犹如经言：『二女不能同居，二男不可并处』是也。 偏官即七杀，要制伏，盖偏官七杀即小人；小人无知，多凶暴，无忌惮，乃能劳力以养君子，而服役护御君子者。小人也，惟是不惩不戒，无术以控制之，则不能驯伏而为用；故，杨子曰：『御得其道，则驯伏或作使；御失其道，则狙诈或作敌。』小人者，狙诈也，要控御得其道矣；一失控御，小人得权，则祸立见矣！ 经曰：『人有偏官，如抱虎而眠，虽借其威，足以摄群畜；稍失关防，必为其噬脐，不可不虑也。』如遇三刑俱全、阳刃在日及时、又有六害；复遇魁罡相冲，如是人之凶不可具述。 制伏得位，运复经行制伏之乡，此大贵之命也。 茍于前者，凶神俱聚，运游杀旺之乡，凶害有不可言者可知也。 如有一杀，而制伏有二三，复行制伏之运，反不作福。何以言之？盖尽法无法，虽猛如狼，不能制伏矣！是又不可专言制伏，要须轻重得所；不可太甚，亦不可不及。须仔细审详而言，则祸福如影响矣！ 又云，有制伏则为偏官，无制伏则为七杀；譬诸小人，御之得其道则可使，失其道则难敌，在吾控御之道何如耳！ 凡见此杀，勿便言凶，殊不知带此杀者，多有贵命。如遇三刑六害、或阳刃魁罡相冲，如是之凶，不可谓之制伏；但运行制伏，此贵人命也。茍如前凶神俱聚，其运复行杀旺之乡，祸不可言。 大抵偏官七杀，最喜身旺、有制伏为妙。元有制伏，可行杀旺之方；元无制伏，可行制伏之运。 身旺化之，得为偏官；身弱无制伏，则为七杀。 制伏复行制伏运，谓之大运，则为偏官无餘烬矣！ 月中之气，怕冲与阳刃。其本身弱，若杀强则难制；如身强杀浅，则是假杀为权刃。 如曰七杀不怕刑冲。宜详之！ 《诗诀》偏官如虎怕冲多，运旺身强岂奈何；身弱虎强成祸患，身强制伏贵中和。 《诗诀》偏官偏印最难明，上下相生有利名；四库坐财宜向贵，等闲平步出公卿。 《诗诀》戊己若逢见官杀，局中金水更加临；当生有火宜逢火，火退愁金怕木侵。 《诗诀》偏官有制化为权，唾手登云发少年；岁运若行身旺地，功名大用福双全。 《诗诀》偏官不可例言凶，有制还他衣禄丰；干上食神支又合，儿孙满眼福无穷。 《诗诀》阴癸多逢己字伤，杀星须用木来降；虽然名利能高显，争奈平生寿不长。 《诗诀》六丙生人亥子多，杀星拘印返中和；东方行去兴名利，运到西方事转磨。 《诗诀》春木无金不是奇，金多犹恐反遭危；格中取得中和气，福寿康寧百事宜。

Yuan Hai Zi Ping (渊海子平) · On Seven Killings (论七杀)

Rob Wealth (劫财)

Also called the blade turned back (逆刃): Yin Wood (乙) meeting Yang Wood (甲) is Rob Wealth (劫财). Yin Wood takes Yang Metal (庚) as its husband, and a Yang Fire (丙) present controls that Yang Metal — so it harms the husband; in a man's chart it harms the wife. One of the five yang stems meeting one of the five yin is Losing Wealth (败财), and it governs harm to wife and children. One of the five yin meeting one of the five yang is Rob Wealth, and it governs loss and waste, and small people to guard against — but it does not harm the wife. Yin Wood takes Yang Earth (戊) and Yin Earth (己) as its Wealth (财), and a Yang Wood present seizes the Yin Earth and spoils the Yang Earth; Yin Fire (丁) takes Yang Metal and Yin Metal (辛) as its Wealth, and a Yang Fire can seize the Yin Metal and break the Yang Metal. The rest follow the same pattern. When an elder brother meets a younger, the younger can spoil the elder's wealth and take his wife. When a younger meets an elder, the elder can rob the younger's wealth but does not dare take his wife. Wealth is what people want, and set between brothers there is mostly contention — how many are Bo Yi (伯夷) and Shu Qi (叔齐), who yielded a kingdom to each other? A man's chart with much Rob Wealth often harms the wife. That is the extreme statement of it.

亦名『逆刃』，如乙见甲为劫财。 乙以庚为夫，见丙剋庚，故剋夫；男命则剋妻。 五阳见五阴为败财，主剋妻害子。 五阴见五阳为劫财，主破耗、防小人，不剋妻。 乙以戊己为财，甲见夺己坏戊；丁以庚辛为财，丙能夺辛破庚；类如此也。 兄见弟，弟能败兄之财，夺兄之妻。 弟见兄，兄能劫弟之财，而不敢取弟之妻。 财者，人之所欲，方令弟兄见之，多有争竞，如夷、齐能几人。 男命见劫财多剋妻，此极论也。 【渊海子平】神煞

This section carries a clause fixing a woman's outcome by her sex; it is removed in the Chinese as well as the English, on the same footing as everywhere else here. The full text is at the source.

Yuan Hai Zi Ping (渊海子平) · On Rob Wealth (论劫财)

Eating God (食神)

Eating God (食神) is the star that produces the Wealth (财) that is mine. Yang Wood (甲) is Wood and Yang Fire (丙) is Fire, and this is called the leaking of qi — so why is it called the eating god? Because Yang Fire can produce the Yang Earth (戊) that is Yang Wood's wealth, and it is named for that. A chart carrying it is read as thick in wealth and ample in food, generous in capacity, full in body, at ease and self-sufficient, with children and with length of years. It steadily dislikes meeting the Officer star (官星) and avoids the Overturned Meal (倒食), which would injure it, and it welcomes a Wealth to be produced into. One of it alone makes a person of blessing, though even then not entirely clean. It likes the self strong and does not like Direct Resource (印綬), which would injure it as well. When a period reaches suitable ground, blessing can come out; broadly it behaves like the Wealth star. Take [Earth Goat, Earth Snake, Fire Goat, Metal Ox (己未 己巳 丁未 辛丑)]: a Yin Fire (丁) meeting Yin Earth (己) is Eating God, and an Ox (丑) and Snake (巳) raise a Metal frame that becomes the Wealth; the self is not weak either, so there is office and long life both. Take [Wood Snake, Wood Rooster, Water Rooster, Wood Rabbit (乙巳 乙酉 癸酉 乙卯)]: three Yin Wood (乙) as Eating God, a Snake-Rooster-Ox (巳酉丑) frame forming Direct Resource, and the three Yin Wood turning into Hurting Officer (伤官). Yin Water (癸) uses Yin Wood as its Eating God, but the Metal frame controls the Yin Wood, and the three Yin Wood with a strong Rabbit (卯) control the officer star. So neither name nor profit came to anything. In verse: Eating God with force behind it beats Wealth and Officer (官) both, but the stem itself must be strong first; if instead it is injured and the food seized away, there is nothing but hurry, toil and trouble. In verse: Eating God undamaged makes a lofty pattern; Yang Wood, Yang Fire, Yang Metal (庚) and Yang Water (壬) hold that honour firmly, Yin Fire, Yin Earth, Yin Wood and Yin Metal (辛) have blessing and income in plenty, and heroes come out of that gate. In verse: a Yang Wood person meeting Yang Fire is leaking qi at root, but the Yang Fire goes on to produce wealth and is called Eating God — broad in mind and easy in body, thick in clothing and income; though facing Direct Resource it means solitude and poverty. In verse: a Yang Earth day at a Monkey (申) hour makes a rare Eating God, and only in autumn and winter are blessing and income even; Yang Wood and Yang Fire at Rabbit and Tiger (寅) come to break it, and then it is met and yet not met, and the person is left alone. In verse: the star of long life joining it is rarest of all, and then why fear a Seven Killings (七杀) in the year or hour; hold down the ill and check the Killings (杀) with a strong stem above, and here is a rich and honoured child of the world. In verse: Eating God standing before and the Killings behind means clothing and income undiminished, wealth and rank thick; Eating God close up against the Killings becomes calamity instead, and a life spent hurrying about the dusty world.

食神者，生我财神之谓也；如甲属木，丙属火，名盗气，故谓之『食神』。何也？殊不知丙能生我戊土中食丙之戊财，故以此名之也。 命中带此者，主人财厚食丰、腹量宽洪、肌体肥大、优游自足、有子息、有寿考。 恒不喜见官星，忌倒食，恐伤其食神；喜财神相生。 独一位见之，则为福人；然终亦不清。 却喜身旺，不喜印綬，亦恐伤其食神也。 如运得地，方可发福；大概与财神相似。 如【己未，己巳，丁未，辛丑】：丁见己为食神，有一丑巳合起金局得之为财；又喜身不弱，所以有官亦有寿也。 如【乙巳，乙酉，癸酉，乙卯】：此命见三乙为食神，见巳酉丑合局为印綬，又有三乙化为伤官。癸用乙为食神，被金局来剋乙木，再被三乙木并卯旺剋我官；所以名利都无成也。 《诗诀》食神有气胜财官，先要他强旺本干；若是反伤来夺食，忙忙辛苦祸千般。 《诗诀》食神无损格崇高，甲丙庚壬贵气牢；丁己乙辛多福禄，门阑弧矢出英豪。 《诗诀》甲人见丙本盗气，丙去生财号食神；心广体胖衣禄厚，若临印綬主孤贫。 《诗诀》申时戊日食神奇，惟在秋冬福禄齐；甲丙卯寅来剋破，遇而不遇主孤悽。 《诗诀》寿元合起最为奇，七杀何忧在岁时；禁凶制杀干头旺，此是人间富贵儿。 《诗诀》食神居先杀居后，衣禄无亏富贵厚；食神近杀却为殃，终日尘寰慢奔走。

Yuan Hai Zi Ping (渊海子平) · On Eating God (论食神)