Yang Fire Rat (Bing Zi, 丙子) day pillar

Tiger (寅), Snake (巳), Rabbit (卯) and Goat (未) months — Wood can produce Fire, greatly noble. A winter month, Yang Fire (丙) without qi, poor and short-lived. A Dog (戌) month running Fire and Earth periods, fifth or sixth grade. It dislikes a Fire Snake (丁巳) month, early death; an Earth Rooster (己酉) month breaks the household and loses the land, the self low.

寅巳卯未月，木能生火，大贵。冬月，丙火无气，贫夭。戌月，行火土运，五六品贵。忌丁巳月，夭；己酉月，破家失土，身贱。

Tiger (寅), Pig (亥), Monkey (申) and Dragon (辰) in year or month, with wealth, Resource (印) and Eating God (食) showing at the stems, noble.

寅亥申辰年月，天干透财印食者贵。

born in a Rat (子) month, close to the noble. A Water Rooster (癸酉) month running Water and Wood periods, highly noble; Fire and Wood periods, fifth grade and above. Goat (未), Monkey (申) and a Water Horse (癸午) year or month, the self in a military office, greatly noble, the life shallow.

Rat (子) and Rabbit (卯) punish each other — injury to the wife and harm to the children. With year and month the same, it governs first place in the lists and the nobility of one who attends the throne. Where Tiger (寅), Horse (午), Ox (丑), Dog (戌) and the stems and branches all bind, greatly noble.

子卯相刑，伤妻害子。年月同，主魁名，近侍之贵。寅、午、丑、戌、天干地支俱合者大贵。

Dragon (辰), Dog (戌), Ox (丑) and Goat (未) months, the Seven Killings (偏官) held in check, favourable. Pig (亥) and Rabbit (卯) in year or month, wealth and rank. Tiger (寅) and Horse (午) running a Rat (子) period; Rat running Tiger and Horse periods — both noble. Otherwise a monk or priest.

辰戌丑未月，偏官有制，吉。亥卯年月，富贵。寅午，行子运；子，行寅午运，俱贵。不然僧道。

Yang Fire (丙)'s prosperity star (禄) is at Snake (巳) and Yin Water (癸)'s prosperity star is at Snake — The prosperity star and horse exchanged between them. With no Yang Water (壬), Yin Earth (己), Tiger (寅) or Pig (亥) in year or month to clash and break it, close to the throne and the censorate, a position reaching duke or marquis.

丙禄在已，癸禄在巳，互换禄马，岁月无壬已寅亥冲破，近侍风宪，位至公侯。

born in spring, favourable; summer, nothing to lean on; autumn, the wealth strong; winter, officer and nobility. Few children and late in coming; Fire and Earth periods bring it out.

春生吉；夏无依，秋财旺，冬官贵，少子晚成，火土运发达。

spring, the Direct Resource (印绶) steady and thick. Summer settled, autumn reversals, winter noble — and the year period likewise.

春，印绶稳厚。夏平稳，秋反复，冬贵，岁运同。

if it carries Fire qi, or a Tiger (寅) or Rabbit (卯) month, and runs a period where the self is strong besides, favourable. Year and month pure Metal — abandoning the self and going to wealth, also read as favourable.

若通火气及寅卯月再行身旺运，吉。年月纯金，弃命就财，亦以吉论。

spring settled, summer noble, autumn middling, winter favourable. Goat (未), Monkey (申), Rooster (酉) and Pig (亥) in year or month, greatly noble. With an Ox (丑) to gather Rat (子), or a Dragon (辰) to gather Rooster, both are read as noble.

春稳，夏贵，秋平，冬吉。未申酉亥年月，大贵。有丑会子，有辰会酉，俱以贵论。

long life, name and profit not lost. Born with Tiger (寅), Pig (亥), Rabbit (卯) and Goat (未) as the Resource (印), and Monkey (申), Rooster (酉), Dog (戌) and Snake (巳) in the year, noble. A summer month, blessing and long life both complete. Spring, the Wood controls the Earth and the Eating God (食神) is taken by the Owl (枭). A Tiger month, Yang Fire (丙) and Yang Earth (戊) both at their long life, best of all; with Monkey or Yang Metal (庚) to check the Yang Wood (甲), greatly noble. Autumn and winter, the Fire declining, poor and low. Snake, Monkey and Pig in year or month, the censorate at the highest grade.

寿永，名利不失。家亥卯未印及申酉戌已年胜，贵。

autumn and winter, ordinary. A Goat (未) month running Water and Wood periods, with Wood and Fire showing at the stems, noble. A Rat (子) month running an eastern period, greatly noble. Monkey (申), Pig (亥), Ox (丑) and Dog (戌) in year or month, also noble.

秋冬，平常。未月，行水木运，干透木火者，贵。子月，行东运，大贵。申、亥、丑、戌年月，亦贵。