Sanming Tonghui · A Comprehensive Account of the Three Destinies

General Discussion of Years and Fortune Periods

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The Grand Duke is the year's Son of Heaven and highest among its spirits and Killings, ordering positions, sending the six energies in the source's fourfold phrase, and moving the four seasons to complete the year's work. Supremely honored, it makes conquest, clash, suppression, or subjugation in a person's chart inauspicious signs. Fortune harmonizes the twenty-four energies, carries lifelong good and ill, supports the four pillars, and assists the Three Origins. Fortune and annual year are exterior and interior to one another, tying human misfortune, blessing, life, and death. Year uses Heavenly Origin; fortune uses earthly branches. In good fortune, day stem injuring the annual Heavenly Origin lightens blessings. In bad fortune or when leaving Wealth and Office fortune, day stem injuring year stem makes misfortune heavy. If the chart has already prospered, calamity arrives immediately. Bad fortune must not simply be called Decline and Extinction: chiefly distinguish whether prosperity has already occurred and whether the allotment of energy has passed. Fortune takes birth month as its origin and most fears clash and conquest with the Grand Duke. Year and fortune clashing with month necessarily bring calamity. Opposing day is Reversed Repetition; pressing upon day is Repeated Chanting. Both disadvantage the six relations, with unexpected wealth losses, no auspicious omen. When judging year and fortune, a natal Heavenly Origin or branch may originally lack Office Star. With Direct Office in Heavenly Origin, or original Indirect Office excessively restrained, fortune meeting a heavenly-stem Office Star can also bring blessings. Branches without Wealth can gain wealth from a Wealth fortune stem. Branches without Killings can likewise suffer calamity from a Killing fortune stem. Obscure Energy images lack of brightness and a darkened way, as in Jia–Ji and Yi–Geng combinations: combination obscures. Day and hour stems should not combine with the Grand Duke's Heavenly Origin; doing so is called Obscure Energy. Distinguish day stem combining with Grand Duke, as Jia day and Ji year, from Grand Duke combining with day stem, as Ji day and Jia year. Jia combining with Ji gives heavier calamity, Ji combining with Jia lighter. Nearer year position gives heavier calamity, farther lighter. If year lies five branch positions before day and meets combination, it is Grand Duke Entering the House and Obscure Energy at the Door, indicating misfortune. Major fortune should not conquer or clash with the Grand Duke; fortune conquering year is especially feared and equals day offending it, indicating loss, depletion, and mourning. Noble Person, Emolument, and Horse resolving it make it somewhat auspicious; rescue in the eight characters removes concern. Translator's note: The source distinguishes favorable fortune from whether a chart has already prospered, and preserves opposite directions of an apparently identical stem combination. Its fourfold-transmission phrase is compressed. Irregular Yi-form graphs in the Jia–Ji examples are rendered Ji from the explicit combination context. Reversed Repetition and Repeated Chanting remain separate technical labels.

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