Direct Resource (Zheng Yin, 正印)

What the classic Yuan Hai Zi Ping (渊海子平) says

Its section On Direct Resource (论印綬), whole.

What is the Resource (印)? What produces me is the Direct Resource (印綬). The classic says: an officer with no Resource is not a true officer; a Resource with no officer turns into blessing all the same. Why? Broadly, a person's life gets things that help, produce and nourish it, so that everything comes to me already made — is that not fine? So it makes a person of much thought and consideration, and thick with it. The Direct Resource fears Wealth (财), which makes a person tie up their purse. So where the four pillars and the fortune run to office and honour it turns into blessing, because the officer-ghost (官鬼) can produce me; the only fear is Wealth, and Wealth can injure me in return. This is what is fine in a Direct Resource: mostly people who receive their parents' shade and inherit their father's property, and live at ease on what is already made. And where two or three charts are set side by side, the one with more Direct Resource should be put first. It also governs a life with little illness and a good appetite. But if Wealth is much and rides strength, there is certainly much being held up and delayed. Though it welcomes the officer-ghost, if officer and ghost (鬼) are many, or the chart enters another pattern, it can no longer be spoken of as a Direct Resource alone. For instance, a Yang Wood (甲) or Yin Wood (乙) day born in the Pig (亥) or Rat (子) month; a Yang Fire (丙) or Yin Fire (丁) day born in Tiger (寅) or Rabbit (卯); a Yang Earth (戊) or Yin Earth (己) day in Snake (巳) or Horse (午); a Yang Metal (庚) or Yin Metal (辛) day in Dragon (辰), Dog (戌), Ox (丑) or Goat (未); a Yang Water (壬) or Yin Water (癸) day in Monkey (申) or Rooster (酉). The rest follow by kind. What it most fears is running a period where the Direct Resource dies or is cut off; or a period reaching death and cutting-off with something present to steal it as well — then the Yellow Springs follow, beyond doubt. The Direct Resource is what produces me and is also called the living qi. Yang meeting yin and yin meeting yang is Direct Resource (正印); yang meeting yang and yin meeting yin is Indirect Resource (偏印). It welcomes an officer star producing the Resource and dislikes strong Wealth breaking it. A Yang Wood person born in the Pig or Rat month has Water as Resource, dislikes Fire as its Hurting Officer (伤官) and dislikes Earth breaking the Resource; it wants to run toward living, strong ground and fears ground of death and cutting-off. Run that ground with something present to injure it, and it is dangerous. A Direct Resource person is thoughtful, has little illness through life, eats well and thickly, and enjoys income and wealth already made. Where two or three charts are compared, take the one with more Direct Resource. What is most disliked is Wealth arriving in strength, which certainly brings stagnation. If officer and ghost are many, or the chart enters another pattern, it cannot be argued as Direct Resource alone. In general, seeing it in the month and the hour is fine, and the month matters most. Reckon the month qi first: living qi after it means the parents' strength will certainly be had; living qi below the year means the ancestors' strength; living qi at the hour means the children's strength, years that hold out, and ease in the later scene. Where a Direct Resource is carried, an officer star should be carried with it — this is called officer and Resource both complete, and it must be an honoured chart. Even if the officer star is only inherited, having the parents' strength makes the blessing thick as well; an officer period is wanted and then it opens out, or a Direct Resource period will open it too. If the officer in use is not prominent, using the Direct Resource is the fine course; what is most feared is the year or period in the four pillars reaching Wealth ground and injuring the Resource. If the Resource is injured, it means the house broken and the ancestral home left, or marrying into another family; and reaching ground of death and cutting-off, if not demotion and loss of post then a life cut short. Take [Earth Dog, Metal Monkey, Water Rooster, Metal Monkey (戊戌 庚申 癸酉 庚申)]: a Yin Water day born after the mid-qi of the seventh month, with Metal Monkey (庚申) in both month and hour, seated on its own Metal store — hence Direct Resource; and a Yang Earth officer showing in the year stem. This is called officer and Resource both complete, and it is an extremely honoured chart. Take [Water Pig, Water Pig, Wood Tiger, Wood Rat (癸亥 癸亥 甲寅 甲子)]: this day uses Yin Water as its Resource and the Resource is strong indeed; but with no Wealth star to help it, the blessing that comes out is not thick. Take [Wood Tiger, Metal Horse, Earth Dog, Water Rat (甲寅 庚午 戊戌 壬子)]: this day, a Yang Earth, uses Yin Fire as Direct Resource and has a Tiger-Horse-Dog (寅午戌) Fire frame, which is good; but it does not sit well with the Water Rat (壬子) hour, Water in strength, and Wealth able to clash the Resource — hence the loss of sight. Take [Earth Rabbit, Fire Rabbit, Fire Dragon, Water Dragon (己卯 丁卯 丙辰 壬辰)]: this chart uses Rabbit as Resource and Yin Water as officer, the year at Rabbit and the day at Dragon, so officer and Resource are both complete and the early years were clear and important. To forty-two or forty-three, the Water Pig (癸亥) period did no harm; but at a Metal Monkey year, Water's Seven Killings (七杀) produced at Monkey, the Metal Monkey broke the Resource, and so it was not favourable. In verse: a month meeting Direct Resource welcomes the officer star; a fortune entering officer ground makes the blessing clean; a period of death and cutting-off is unfavourable to the self, and a Wealth fortune after it comes to nothing. In verse: Direct Resource with the officer star makes the fortune's qi pure, and meeting much Seven Killings (偏官) turns it to spirit; run to death, cutting-off and Wealth ground with no rescue, and one goes to the springs below. In verse: Direct Resource undiminished means blessing and fields enjoyed; office held by inheritance, with garden and land; the household receives its patents, full of money and grain, and spends ten thousand cash on daily keep. In verse: Direct Resource undiminished leans on the ancestors; the house and its lands shine on the family name; when the year's fortune meets a strong officer, wealth and rank are both complete and one walks in the moon palace. In verse: living qi over and over with no officer should be read as high-minded skill and craft; with no officer or Killings (杀) arriving there is no rank or income, and however great the craft it is solitary and cold. In verse: living qi over and over with no officer should be read as high-minded skill and craft; with no officer or Killings arriving there is no rank or income, and however great the craft it is solitary and cold. In verse: Direct Resource over and over makes a clean and rare pattern, and the stems and branches must be weighed closely; the Peach Blossom (咸池) in the branches with a binding in the stems makes a dissipated child who breaks the house. In verse: Direct Resource in stem and branch is welcome as it stands — name, wealth and income rising high; if a Wealth fortune arrives and injures the Resource, resign the post and step down, and the trouble is avoided. In verse: Direct Resource over and over enjoys what is already made, and only the Eating God (食神) is feared for its hidden punishment; if the early years do not go down to the springs, then solitude, leaving home, and a settled illness clinging on. In verse: a Yang Fire or Yin Fire in a Rabbit month has much officer and Killings; with no root in the pillars it fears Water country; damp Wood does not produce, and there is no flame in the Fire — the self prospers only in the south. In verse: Direct Resource should not have the self too strong; even with nothing wrong it is ordinary — unless the original chart has much officer and Killings, and then there is a name, and a roof-beam is made of it. In verse: a Yang Water or Yin Water meeting Monkey dislikes Fire breaking it, and only with Earth in the pattern is the honour known; a northern Water fortune is favourable throughout, and meeting a Tiger clash is never suitable. In verse: Wood meeting Yang Water and Yin Water drifts on the water, and with the day master rootless the autumn passes in vain; if the year and the period meet a strong Wealth fortune, the ill turns favourable and a prince is met. In verse: greed for Wealth spoiling the Resource should not be called ill — the fine reasoning of it must be weighed through; if the fortune takes the Wealth away it makes blessing again, and running a Wealth fortune once more ends the span of years. In verse: a Direct Resource passing through ground of death and cutting-off fears Wealth as ever and fears the Void (空亡) as well; meeting it certainly means much misfortune — drowning, fire, punishment, or a hanging. In verse: Direct Resource with peers showing again above, and a fortune that helps them will certainly injure the self; do not say this pattern has nothing rare in it — the fortune entering Wealth country makes the blessing and income real.

所谓印？生我者，即印綬也，经曰：『有官无印，即非真官；有印无官，反成其福。』何以言之？大抵人生得物以相助相生相养，使我得万物之见成，岂不妙乎；故主人多智虑，兼丰厚。 盖印綬畏财，主人括囊。故四柱中及运行官贵，反成其福，盖官鬼能生我；只畏其财，而财能反伤我。 此印綬之妙者，多是受父母之荫、承父之貲财，见成安享之人；若又以两三命相併，当以印綬多者为上。 又主一生少病、能饮食。 或若财多乘旺，必多淹留。 虽喜官鬼，而官鬼多或入格，又不可专以印綬言之。 假如，甲乙日得亥子月生，丙丁日得寅卯月生，戊己日得巳午月生，庚辛日得辰戌丑未月生，壬癸日得申酉月生者是也，其餘以类言之。最怕行印綬死绝之运；或运临死绝，复有物以窃之，即入黄泉，无可疑也。 夫印綬者，生我之谓也，亦名生气。以阳见阴，以阴见阳，谓之正印；阳见阳，阴见阴，谓之偏印。喜官星生印，忌财旺破印。 如甲人生亥子月中，水为印，忌火伤官，忌土破印，要行生旺之乡，怕行死绝之地；若行死绝之地，或有物以伤之，则危矣！ 印綬之人智虑、一生少病、能饱食丰厚、享见成财禄；若两三命相併，当以印綬多者取之。 最忌财来乘旺，必生淹滞。 若官鬼多，或入别格，又不可专以印綬论。 大凡月与时上见者为妙；而月上最为紧要。 先论月气之后有生气，必得父母之力；年下有生气，必得祖宗之力；于时上见之有生气，必得子孙之力，寿元耐久，晚景优游。 如带印綬，须带官星，谓之官印两全，必为贵命。若官星虽见成，得父母力，为福亦厚也；须行官星运便发，或行印綬运亦发。 若用官不显，用印綬为妙；最怕四柱中岁运临财乡，以伤其印。 若伤印，主破家离祖、出赘；又临死绝之地，若非降官失职，必夭其寿。 如【戊戌，庚申，癸酉，庚申】：此命癸日生于七月中气之后，月时皆是庚申，自坐金库，所以印綬；岁干又透出戊官，谓之官印两全，极为贵命。 如【癸亥，癸亥，甲寅，甲子】：此日用癸为印，印却旺；缘无财星相助，发福不厚也。 如【甲寅，庚午，戊戌，壬子】：此日戊用丁为印綬，有寅午戌火局为好；不合时上壬子水旺，财能冲印，所以失明。生气是丙丁火属木故也。 如【己卯，丁卯，丙辰，壬辰】：此命用卯为印，用癸为官，年在卯日在辰，所以官印两全，少年清要。至四十二、三岁，癸亥运亦不妨；至庚申年，水七杀生于申，乃被庚申破印，故不吉也。 《诗诀》月逢印綬喜官星，运入官乡福必清；死绝运临身不利，后行财运百无成。 《诗诀》印綬官星运气纯，偏官多遇转精神；如行死绝并财地，无救番为泉下人。 《诗诀》印綬无亏享福田，为官承荫有田园；家膺宣敕盈财穀，日用盘缠费万钱。 《诗诀》印綬无亏靠祖宗，光辉宅产耀门风；流年运气逢官旺，富贵双全步月宫。 《诗诀》月生日主喜官星，运入官乡禄必清；容貌堂堂多产业，官居廊庙作公卿。 《诗诀》重重生气若无官，当作清高技艺看；官杀不来无爵禄，总为技艺也孤寒。 《诗诀》重重印綬格清奇，更要支干仔细推；支上咸池干带合，风流浪荡破家儿。 《诗诀》印綬干支喜自然，功名豪富禄高迁；若逢财运来伤印，退职休官免祸愆。 《诗诀》印綬重重享见成，食神只恐暗相刑；早年若不归泉世，孤苦离乡宿疾縈。 《诗诀》丙丁卯月多官杀，四柱无根怕水乡；湿木不生无燄火，身荣除是在南方。 《诗诀》印綬不宜身太旺，纵然无事也平常；除非元命多官杀，却有声名作栋樑。 《诗诀》壬癸逢申嫌火破，格中有土贵方知；北方水运皆为吉，如遇寅冲总不宜。 《诗诀》木逢壬癸水漂流，日主无根罔度秋；岁运若逢财旺运，返凶为吉遇王侯。 《诗诀》贪财坏印莫言凶，须要参详妙理通；运若去财还作福，再行财运寿元终。 《诗诀》印綬如经死绝乡，怕财仍旧怕空亡；逢之定主多凶祸，落水火刑自縊伤。 《诗诀》印綬干头重见比，如行运助必伤身；莫言此格无奇妙，运入财乡福禄真。