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Sanming Tonghui · A Comprehensive Account of the Three Destinies
On the Six Harms
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The six combinations arise through responses of day-and-night yin-yang energy. The six harms arise from the six combinations, and through them day-and-night yin-yang energies are feared. The six harms are the twelve branches' positions of affront and combat.
Zi and Wei harm one another because Wei is Flourishing Earth and Hai and Zi Flourishing Water. This is Powerful Households Harming One Another. Thus Zi seeing Wei is harm.
Chou and Wu harm one another because Wu's Flourishing Fire affronts Chou's Dead Metal. This is Office and Hostile Agent Harming One Another. Chou seeing Wu is especially severely harmed if Wu also carries the true hostile agent of Chou's stem.
Yin and Si harm one another by relying on Assuming Office and arrogating ability to advance into mutual harm. Hostile agents among the coming and going stem spirits make it worse. Punishment is also within, so calamity and blessing especially require adjustment in judgment.
Mao and Chen harm one another because Mao's Flourishing Wood affronts Chen's Dead Earth. This is the younger affronting the elder. Chen seeing Mao is especially severely harmed if Mao also carries the true hostile agent of Chen's stem.
Shen and Hai harm one another by relying on Assuming Office, competing and envying talent, and striving to advance. Shen seeing Hai and Hai seeing Shen are equally harmful; Nayin conquering further makes it heavier.
You and Xu harm one another because Xu's Dead Fire harms You's Flourishing Metal, harm through jealousy. A You person seeing Xu is harmful, but a Xu person seeing You has no calamity. A Yiyou person obtaining Wuxu has Yi as true Metal and Wu true Fire, making the harm especially severe.
Six means the six relations; harm means loss. Infringement indicates damage to them, hence Six Harms. Zi and Wei pierce straight through the heart. With clash and combination, kindness has not formed before enmity arises: thus harm. A Zi birth fears Wu's clash, yet Wei combines with Wu. Chou fears Wei's clash, yet Wu combines with Wei. Yin fears Shen's clash, yet Si combines with Shen. Mao fears You's clash, yet Chen combines with You. Shen fears Yin's clash, yet Hai combines with Yin. You fears Mao's clash, yet the printed Wu combines with Mao. Thus all are harms. Further Sheep Blade, Robbery Killing, and Government Office in a person's chart make calamity especially severe.
Yin–Si and Hai–Shen at Birth or Flourishing give clear spirit and handsome appearance, love of contention, and delight in provocative action. At Death or Extinction, many plans yield little success; one forces imitation of others' work and strives upward tirelessly. In a noble configuration there is integrity and strategic skill; in a low configuration, much deceit, the printed love-of-poverty phrase, and meanness. Mao–Chen and Wu–Chou at Birth or Flourishing indicate competitiveness, much anger, severity, and lack of forbearance. At Death or Extinction they indicate poisoning, injury, cruelty, and overthrow. A noble configuration gives great power in penal and prison administration; a low one earns a living in unrighteous places. Zi–Wei at Birth, Flourishing, Death, or Extinction all disadvantage kin. A noble configuration often carries burdens from wives and concubines; a low one solitude without support. Xu–You at Birth or Flourishing cannot accommodate others and is often hard and perverse; at Death or Extinction it is cruel, hates goodness, and envies ability. A noble configuration entangles innocents in a damaged phrase and constructs lawsuits, with much treachery and flattery. A low one gives injury, hidden cunning, sycophancy, and bad conduct.
The six harms in a chart broadly indicate obstruction, solitude, kin separated like the opposing stars Shen and Shang, and scant wealth, especially feared in a woman's chart. Also establish the Life Palace, inspect where they fall, and judge each palace in detail. The supplied Luoluzi says: “Among the six harms, fate has seven injuries.” A verse says: “Six-Harm people fear day and hour; disabled in old age, in hardship, on whom can they rely? With Sheep Blade further consuming, if the sharp edge does not strike, the tiger also bullies.” Thus a chart's six harms especially fear stems and branches injuring one another, day and hour most important and Body and Life palaces next. Even in a noble configuration, rank is rank and harm is harm; neither conceals the other.
Translator's note: All six pairs and their directional exceptions are retained. The combination explanation prints Wu where its earlier pair names Xu; the love-of-poverty and innocent-entangling phrases are also irregular. Historical character, family, legal, disability, and gender judgments are translated as source claims.
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