Yang Water Dog (Ren Xu, 壬戌) day pillar

early death. An Ox (丑) month with Metal and Fire periods; Dragon (辰) and Goat (未), the wealth-and-officer pattern — both noble. Tiger (寅) and Rooster (酉) running a northwestern period, noble. Monkey (申), Rat (子) and Dragon running a southeastern period, the highest grade. It dislikes Snake (巳) and Rooster months, solitary and ill; a Fire Pig (丁亥) month, cruel punishment and a bad death; a Metal Ox (辛丑) month, punishment.

夭。丑月金火运，辰未财官格，俱贵。寅酉，行西北运，贵。申子辰，行东南运，极品。忌巳酉月，孤单凶；丁亥月，凶刑恶死；辛丑月，刑。天干

a Dragon (辰) month, clashing open wealth and officer, noble. Ox (丑) and Dog (戌), also favourable. Where the pillars hold Yin Wood (乙), Yin Water (癸) or Rabbit (卯) characters, ordinary.

辰月，冲开财官，贵。丑戌，亦吉。柱有乙癸卯字，平常。

a Snake (巳) month, the Seven Killings (偏官) pattern, his name marked on the golden roll, the self seated in the jade hall. Pure Rat (子), third grade; Tiger (寅) and Rabbit (卯) running a northern period, the censorate. Also: the six Yang Water (壬) days seeing the Water Tiger (壬寅) hour are named the white-and-empty nobility — not for long, and where it flourishes calamity is born.

巳月，偏官格，名标金榜，身坐玉堂。纯子，三品，寅卯，行北运，风宪。又，

Yang Wood (甲), Yin Water (癸), Horse (午) and Rooster (酉) in year or month, literary nobility. Monkey (申), ordinary; Metal and Fire periods, noble.

甲癸午酉年月，文贵。申，平常，金火运，贵。壬癸相逢见卯贵，刑冲破害不周全。月逢二德兼身旺，改祸为祥乐自然。

Tiger (寅), Monkey (申) and Rooster (酉) months running a southern period, a noble relation. Pig (亥), Rabbit (卯), Goat (未), Monkey, Rat (子), Dragon (辰), Snake (巳) and Horse (午) in year or month, all favourable.

寅申酉月，行南运，贵戚。亥卯未申子辰巳午年月，俱吉。时遇甲辰

a Tiger (寅) year or month enters the Virtuous Day (日德) pattern, noble. Dragon (辰), Dog (戌), Ox (丑) and Goat (未), noble. Autumn, the Resource (印); summer, wealth and officer — both favourable; spring, Hurting Officer (伤); winter, strong — look to what shows at the stems, and nobility may still be taken.

寅年月，入日德格，贵。辰戌丑未，贵。秋印，夏财官，俱吉，春伤、冬旺，看干透何如，亦可取贵。

a Tiger (寅) month, the triad binding a wealth frame, abandoning and following it, wealthy. Autumn, the self having something to lean on, noble. Winter also favourable.

寅月，三合财局，弃命相从，富。秋，身有托，贵。冬亦吉。丙午时生

the Virtuous Day (日德), enfeoffing the wife and shading the children, and in middle age it damages wife and children again. Pig (亥), Rat (子), Monkey (申) and Rooster (酉) months, noble. Snake (巳) and Horse (午), if not noble then wealthy. A Dragon (辰) month, early death; the Monthly Virtue (月德), noble.

日德，封妻荫子，中年又损妻子。亥子申酉月，贵。巳午，不贵即富。辰月夭，月德贵。

broken, halting and much obstructed. Pure Rooster (酉), hugely wealthy. If it does not carry a month where the self is strong and runs to a country where the Killings (煞) is strong, unfavourable. With Yang Wood (甲) to check it, it will do. Yang Earth (戊) and Yin Earth (己) heavy, it governs blindness, ordinary.

破滞多蹇。纯酉，巨富。若不通身旺月，行煞旺乡，不吉。有甲制亦可。戊己土重，主瞎疾平常。申时壬戌合天元，运去财官福自然；鬼旺身衰无救助，平生劳碌不周全。

Pig (亥), Tiger (寅) and Rat (子) months running wealth and officer periods, conspicuously noble beyond the ordinary. Pure Pig, literary nobility.

亥寅子月，行财官运，贵显非常。纯亥，文贵。天干

unfavourable to the wife, made and unmade over again. Pure Dog (戌), noble. Tiger (寅) and Ox (丑), a military office. A Monkey (申) month, long life and the hall of learning, cultivating letters, mostly noble. A Pig (亥) month, the Established Prosperity (建禄), with wealth and officer showing at the stems; a Rabbit (卯) month, Hurting Officer (伤官), with the wealth star showing at the stems — both noble. A Goat (未) month, mixed-qi wealth and officer, with Ox and Dog punishing each other, favourable.

不利妻，主被妻妾害，反覆成败。纯戌，贵。寅丑，武职。申月，长生学堂，修文多贵。亥月，建禄，干透财官；卯月，伤官，干透财星，俱贵。未月，杂气财官，丑戌相刑。吉。壬庚相逢戌时生，库有财官锁闭门；究竟无头多反覆，功名到底似浮云。

wealth and rank in youth. Pig (亥), Monkey (申), Snake (巳) and Dog (戌) in year or month, first or second grade, noble. Pure Dog with Water and Fire periods, gold and purple.

少年富贵。亥申巳戌年月，一二品贵。纯戌，水火运，金紫。壬辛会遇亥时推，白玉休嫌出见迟；长生禄马无刑破，抛却麻衣挂紫衣。