Yang Water Rat (Ren Zi, 壬子) day pillar

Dragon (辰), Dog (戌), Ox (丑) and Goat (未) months, mixed-qi wealth and officer; Snake (巳), Monkey (申), Rooster (酉) and Ox, Direct Resource (印绶), dwelling in the division where Earth (土) is thick — all noble. A Tiger (寅) month with Metal and Water periods, close to the throne, gold and purple. A Horse (午) month running a western period, sixth grade; a Rat (子) period, spoiled and ill. If it is pure Water Rat (壬子), the Yang Blade (羊刃), poor and ill. One account says wealthy young, hard from thirty-five, and greatly wealthy at the last. It dislikes a Metal Snake (辛巳) month, a cruel and evil death; a Metal Pig (辛亥) month, greatly ill; a Wood Rat (甲子) month, punishment.

辰戌丑未月，杂气财官；巳申酉丑，印绶，居土厚分野，俱贵。寅月，金水运，近侍金紫。午月，行西运，六品，子运败凶。若纯壬子羊刃，贫凶。一云，少年富，三十五后艰辛，末大富。忌辛巳月凶恶死，辛亥月大凶，甲子月刑。

Snake (巳), Rooster (酉) and Ox (丑) months, Direct Resource (印绶), much shaded by the parents. A Monkey (申) month with Fire and Earth periods, close to the throne with authority. Dragon (辰), Dog (戌), Ox and Goat (未), having officer and having Resource (印), ample resources and a broad reach, the name spread to the ends of the earth. Tiger (寅), Horse (午) and Dog months, the wealth broken, and the prosperity star (禄) and Resource do not make their frame — ordinary. Pig (亥) and Monkey in year or month, noble.

巳酉丑月，印绶，多受父母荫。申月，火土运，近侍有权。辰戌丑未，有官有印，丰资旷达，名播天涯。寅午戌月，财破，禄印不成局，平常。亥申年月，贵

pure Rat (子), and with no Horse (午) in year or month to clash and break it, it enters the flying to heaven (飞天) pattern, wealth and rank. Tiger (寅), Rabbit (卯), Snake (巳), Monkey (申), Rooster (酉), Dog (戌) and Pig (亥) in year or month, all noble.

纯子，年月无午冲破，入飞天格，富贵。寅卯巳申酉戌亥年月，俱贵。

Rat (子) and Rabbit (卯) punish each other — grief over wife and children; a noble one lifts him, money and cloth to spare, a generous destiny.

子卯相刑，忧伤妻子，贵人提携，财帛盈余，敦厚之命。

pure Rat (子) in year and month, the Flying Prosperity Horse (飞天禄马), with nothing broken, the six ministers. Snake (巳) and Rooster (酉), greatly noble. Pig (亥), also noble.

纯子年月，飞天禄马，无破，六卿。巳酉，大贵。亥，亦贵。

noble, but wife and children are hard to keep; the temper hard and strong, not to be struck at. A Dog (戌) year or month, pure Killings (煞) with something to check it, running Wood and Metal periods, office to the third grade.

贵，但难为妻子，性格刚强，不受击触。戌年月，纯煞有制，行木金运，官至三品。

upright, public and holding firm, solitary, high and noble. Where Rat (子) and Horse (午) in year and month are doubled, Water and Fire, the crossing complete, the highest grade.

公直撑持，孤高而贵。年月子午，字重，水火既济，极品。

carrying a month of Wood qi, noble; carrying Metal qi, wealthy; carrying Fire and Earth qi, wealth and rank. Where neither of the two runs through, running Fire and Earth periods is also favourable.

月通木气，贵；通金气，富，通火土气，富贵；两全不通，行火土运，亦吉。

The Yang Blade (羊刃) carrying the Killings (煞), a noble one lifting him. Snake (巳) and Horse (午) in year or month, close to the throne with authority.

羊刃带煞，贵人提携。巳午年月，近侍有权。

spring middling, summer favourable, autumn usual, winter strong. As with birth in a Rabbit (卯) month, fond of flowers and wine.

春平，夏吉，秋常，冬旺。如卯月生，好花酒。

name and profit advance and retreat. Yang Metal (庚) and Yin Metal (辛) in year or month, noble. Dragon (辰) and Ox (丑), punishment and clash; a Rooster (酉) month, breaking and harm, the wealth vault put to use; Snake (巳) and Horse (午), wealth and officer strong — all favourable.

名利进退，庚辛年月，贵。辰丑，刑冲；酉月，破害，财库得用；巳午，财官旺，俱吉。

it governs that the parents do not end well, and it comes out after without riches. Pig (亥) and Rabbit (卯) in year or month, advancing by his writing, greatly noble.

主父母不得善终，后发不富。亥卯年月，文章进身，大贵。