Yang Earth Rat (Wu Zi, 戊子) day pillar

the wealth-star pattern. Tiger (寅) and Rabbit (卯) months, the prosperity star (禄) and horse attending the origin, conspicuously noble. Rooster (酉), Pig (亥) and Ox (丑) in year or month with a northwestern period, gold and purple and the censorate. It dislikes a Wood Rabbit (乙卯) year, punishment; a Water Snake (癸巳) month, punishment in the midst of strength; a Fire Horse (丙午) month, taking punishment in the midst of strength.

财星格。寅卯月，禄马朝元，显贵。酉亥丑年月，西北运，金紫风宪。忌乙卯年刑；癸巳月，旺中刑；丙午月，旺中受刑。

born in a Yang Earth (戊) month, mixed-qi Direct Resource (印绶), and with Yang Fire (丙) or Yin Fire (丁) showing at the stems, no pattern need be looked for — it governs wealth and rank. If year and month are Horse (午) and Rooster (酉) with Yang Metal (庚) and Yin Wood (乙) showing at the stems, the Yin Wood binds the Yang Metal and the Yang Earth binds the Yin Water (癸); Yang Earth feeds on Yang Metal, the Yang Metal strong at Rooster and noble at Ox (丑); Yin Water is wealth and Yin Wood the officer, and the Resource (印) is rooted at Horse — the stems and branches of day and hour are the bound virtue of heaven and earth, nobility and the prosperity star (禄) crossing each other; and joined with the whorl (罗文) nobility besides, whoever meets it governs the highest grade.

戊月生，杂气印绶，天干透丙丁字，不必格局，主富贵。若年月午酉，干透庚乙，乙与庚合，戊与癸合，戊食庚，庚旺于酉，贵于丑，癸为财，乙为官，而印根于午，日时干支为天地合德，贵禄交加，况兼以罗文贵，遇者主极品。

broken first and brought out after, noble. Born in a Goat (未) month with something at the stems to check it, noble. A Horse (午) month with nothing to check it, clever and close to the noble. Dragon (辰), Dog (戌) and Ox (丑), the self strong; Pig (亥) and Rabbit (卯), the Killings (煞) strong — but with a Resource (印) and something to check it, noble. Pure Wood Ox (乙丑) in year and month, gold and purple.

先破后发，贵。未月生，干有制伏，贵。午月无制，聪明近贵。辰戌丑身旺，亥卯煞旺，但有印有制，贵。纯乙丑年月，金紫。

hour and day punish each other, injury to the wife and harm to the children; he makes and stands by himself. Meeting it again in year or month, it governs the censorate. Horse (午) and Rooster (酉), the four cardinals complete, greatly noble.

时日相刑，伤妻害子，自成自立。年月再遇，主风宪。午酉，四正全，大贵。

born in spring, close to the noble. Summer, hardship. Autumn, authority high and the life short. Winter, wealth; carrying Fire and Earth with something to lean on, noble.

春生近贵。夏辛苦。秋，权高寿促。冬财，通火土，有倚托者贵。

noble. A Rat (子) month, Direct Wealth (正财), where Earth (土) is thick, conspicuous. Pig (亥) and Ox (丑) in year or month, office of the highest grade, among the inner ministers, wealth and rank both complete.

贵。子月正财，土厚地方，显达。亥丑年月，官居极品，内臣中，富贵双全。

Snake (巳), Tiger (寅) and Dog (戌) months, the censorate. Summer, not smelted, punished first and brought out after, and where it is strong there is much office. Calamity breaks the ancestral estate.

巳寅戌月，风宪。夏不熔铸，先刑后发，旺处多官。灾破祖。

if born in a Pig (亥) or Rat (子) month, it is also the bound the prosperity star (禄), noble.

若生亥子月，亦是合禄，贵。

Snake (巳), Rooster (酉) and Ox (丑) months, Hurting Officer (伤官) injured to the full; running a period where wealth is strong, a military office and the censorate.

巳酉丑月，伤官伤尽，行财旺运，武职风宪。

Rooster (酉), Monkey (申) and Dog (戌) months, the household's wealth fills the eye. Dragon (辰) and Ox (丑) clashing and punishing open the vault — both favourable.

酉申戌月，家财满目。辰、丑冲刑库开，俱吉。

with no Yang Earth (戊) character in year or month to break the pattern, noble. Monkey (申) and Rat (子) in year or month with a southeastern period; Pig (亥) and Rabbit (卯) with a southern period — both noble. Snake (巳), Horse (午) and Goat (未) strong, greatly noble.

年月不见戊字破格，贵。申子年月，东南运；亥卯，南运，俱贵。巳午未旺，大贵。