Hurting Officer (Shang Guan, 伤官)

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

Its section On Hurting Officer (论伤官), whole.

Hurting Officer (伤官) proves out like a spirit. It must be injured to exhaustion; injured and not exhausted, with the officer star arriving in strength, the misfortune is past telling. Hurting Officer meeting Officer (官) is a hundred kinds of trouble. But if the month command sits in the Hurting Officer seat, and the four pillars are matched so that everything done is done from that seat, and the fortune runs toward strength for the self, then this is a truly honoured person. Hurting Officer makes a person of many talents and arts, proud and high-spirited, forever holding that nobody in the world is their equal — and the honoured are wary of them and the crowd dislikes them. Let a period once meet Officer and the misfortune is past speaking of; or if a favourable star can resolve it, then a bad illness comes instead and ruins the body — and if not that, the period brings a legal matter. Where a period strips the officer away and the Wealth (财) star is not strong, these are people who live at ease. Weigh it carefully and there is not one failure in ten thousand. It is also said: Hurting Officer is what I produce — yang meeting yin, yin meeting yang — and is likewise called the leaking of qi. If the Direct Resource (印綬) is injured to exhaustion with not a trace left, and the self is weak, then the officer star is unwelcome, but the Seven Killings (七杀) is not feared. Yang Wood (甲) uses Yin Metal (辛) as its officer; if Yin Fire (丁) is strong it can produce the Earth that is the Wealth. What is most disliked is meeting the officer star, and the self must be strong. If the Hurting Officer is not injured to exhaustion and an officer star shows in the four pillars, and the year or the period then brings another, the misfortune is past telling. If it IS injured to exhaustion with not a trace left in the pillars, and the fortune runs toward strength or toward Direct Resource, that is honour instead. If the pillars have exhausted the officer star and the self is strong but there is not a trace of Wealth qi, it is only poverty and thin means. Where Hurting Officer is met, Wealth should be seen with it — Wealth is what can produce an officer. Where the pattern is taken as Hurting Officer, neither stems, branches, year nor period should meet the officer star; meeting it is Hurting Officer meeting Officer (伤官见官), a hundred kinds of trouble. A Hurting Officer pattern is usable when Wealth is present. The Killings (杀) of a Hurting Officer is as sharp as a Seven Killings injuring the self, and it proves out like a spirit. In the year, Hurting Officer means the parents are not both kept; in the month, the siblings are not complete; in the day, the wife; in the hour, no line carried on. Otherwise it must be injured to exhaustion and then it is favourable, and Wealth must be seen: lightly, the calamity of being driven far off; heavily, the trouble of punishment. Where Hurting Officer is at war, the life is hard to keep. If the month command is in the Hurting Officer seat and the pillars agree with it, and the fortune runs toward strength for the self, this is an honoured chart. A Hurting Officer person mostly carries talent proudly and holds others beneath them; the gentleman dislikes them and the small man fears them. Meeting an officer period with no Wealth to rescue it certainly means great calamity; if not, then some hidden and evil illness ruining the body, or a period bringing legal punishment. If the pillars have exhausted the officer star and the self is weak, a Wealth period brings blessing out: this is Hurting Officer meeting Wealth (伤官见财). Weigh it carefully and there is not one failure in ten thousand. It is also said: four pillars with an officer take the misfortune heavily; four pillars without one take it lightly. Broadly, where the pillars show an officer, or show Hurting Officer and take its Wealth, then a Wealth that reaches suitable ground opens out, and ground that ruins the Wealth is fatal. If the period has no Wealth in its branches, a bare showing in the stem will not do either. Take [Wood Pig, Earth Ox, Fire Pig, Metal Dog (乙亥 己丑 丁亥 庚戌)]: Yin Fire takes Yang Water (壬) as its officer, and Ox (丑) and Dog (戌) are Hurting Officer by nature — but Ox is the Metal store, and the hour carries a Yang Metal (庚) as Wealth. This person ran the Monkey (申) and Rooster (酉) limits as they wished, and died on entering Metal and losing his qi. Broadly: having injured the officer star, running an officer period brings calamity upon calamity, and the year behaves the same way. In verse: Hurting Officer injured to exhaustion is rarest of all — though injure too much and it turns unsuitable again; this pattern has a thousand changes in it, and searching it out takes a working mind. In verse: a Fire-and-Earth Hurting Officer should be injured to exhaustion; a Metal-and-Water Hurting Officer wants to see the officer; Wood and Fire meeting the officer, the officer has strength; Earth and Metal, take the officer away and it becomes an officer again; only in the Water-and-Wood Hurting Officer pattern are Wealth and Officer both welcome together. In verse: Hurting Officer cannot be called ill as a rule — held down, it gives clothing and income in plenty; an Eating God (食神) above with a binding below, and there are grandchildren to fill the eye and years like a pine. In verse: meeting Hurting Officer is not in itself suitable, but Wealth present and Officer absent is the ground of blessing; where the hour, day or month makes the Hurting Officer pattern, a fortune running to strong Wealth is honour beyond doubt. In verse: Hurting Officer injured to exhaustion is rarest of all; leave a Hurting Officer and trouble follows — relying on the self and riding over others, fond of winning, with harm to kin and much grief besides. In verse: Hurting Officer cannot be called ill as a rule — a Yin Metal day with a Water Dragon (壬辰) has honour in the middle of it; born in autumn or winter the qi is fine, born in the four season-ends it means wealth in plenty. In verse: Yang Fire (丙) with many roots and Earth joined to them, forming either a Monkey month or a Qian, the northwest (乾); run only to Metal and Water and the name and profit rise, and Fire and Earth coming again make the reckoning unsound.

伤官者，其验如神。 伤官务要伤尽；伤之不尽，官来乘旺，其祸不可胜言。伤官见官，为祸百端。 倘月令在伤官之位，及四柱配合、作事皆在伤官之处；又行身旺乡，真贵人也。 伤官主人多才艺、傲物气高，常以天下之人不如己；而贵人亦惮之，众人亦恶之。 运一逢官，祸不可言；或有吉神可解，必生恶疾以残其躯；不然运遭官事。 如运行剥官，财神不旺，皆是安享之人。 仔细推详，万无一失矣！ 又云，伤官者，我生彼之谓也；以阳见阴，阴见阳，亦名盗气。 印綬若伤尽，不留一点；身弱忌官星，不怕七杀。 如甲用辛官，如丁火旺，能生土财；最忌见官星，亦要身旺。 若伤官不尽，四柱有官星露；岁运若见官星，其祸不可胜言。 若伤官伤尽，四柱不留一点；又行旺运及印綬运，却为贵也。 如四柱中虽伤尽官星；身虽旺，若无一点财气，只为贫薄。 如遇伤官者，须见其财为妙；是财能生官也。 如用伤官格者，支干、岁运，都要不见官星；如见官星，谓之伤官见官，为祸百端。 用伤官格局，见财方可用。 伤官之杀，甚如伤身七杀，其验如神。 年带伤官，父母不全；月带伤官，兄弟不完；日带伤官，妻妾不完；时带伤官，子息无传。 其餘伤官，务要伤尽，则吉，见财方可；轻则远窜之灾，重则刑辟之难。 伤官有战，其命难存。 若月令在伤官之位，及四柱相合，皆在伤官之处；如行身旺乡，贵命也。 伤官之人，多负才傲物，常以他人不如己；君子恶之，小人畏之。 逢官运，无财救，必主大灾；不然主暗昧恶疾，以残其身；或运遭官刑矣！ 如四柱虽伤尽官星，身弱逢财运发福，是为伤官见财。 仔细推详，万无一失。 又云，四柱有官而被祸重，四柱无官而被祸则浅。 大凡四柱见官者，或见伤官而取其财；财行得地则发，行败财之地必死。如运支内无财运，干虚露亦不可也。 如【乙亥，己丑，丁亥，庚戌】：丁以壬为官。丑戌本为伤官，只是丑为金库，又时上有庚字作财；此人行申酉限如意，入金脱气遂死矣！ 大抵伤了官星，行官运则灾连；太岁亦然。 《诗诀》伤官伤尽最为奇，尤恐伤多返不宜；此格局中千变化，推寻须要用心机。 《诗诀》火土伤官宜伤尽；金水伤官要见官；木火见官官有旺；土金官去返成官；惟有水木伤官格，财官两见始为欢。 《诗诀》伤官不可例言凶，有制还他衣禄丰；干上食神支带合，儿孙满眼寿如松。 《诗诀》伤官遇者本非宜，财有官无是福基；时日月伤官格局，运行财旺贵无疑。 《诗诀》伤官伤尽最为奇，若有伤官祸便随；恃己凌人心好胜，刑伤骨肉更多悲。 《诗诀》伤官不可例言凶，辛日壬辰贵在中；生在秋冬方秀气，生于四季主财丰。 《诗诀》丙火多根土又连，或成申月或成乾；但行金水升名利，火土重来数不坚。