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Sanming Tonghui · A Comprehensive Account of the Three Destinies
Day-and-Hour Judgments for the Six Bing Days
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Six Bing Days at Wuzi Hour
A verse says: “Six Bing days at Wuzi hour have Wealth/Office Born and Flourishing, meeting Food. Monthly support gives greatest nobility; declining Body with a damaged Fu-support phrase ordinary status.” Office flourishes and Wealth is Born. Bing uses Xin Wealth and Gui Office; Bing combines Xin, Wu combines Gui. Gui flourishes and Xin is Born in Zi, but Bing Fire lacks energy. Fire-energy connection and monthly support give nobility; none poverty and low status. Wood connection is also auspicious. Bingzi day/Wuzi hour in Yin, Si, Mao, or Wei month has Wood generating Fire, greatly noble. Winter energy-less Bing gives poverty and early death. Xu month with Fire/Earth fortune fifth/sixth rank. Avoid Dingsi month for early death, Jiyou for ruined household, lost land, and low status. Bingyin day/Wuzi hour in Mao/Chou month pure nobility; Yin/Xu ordinary. Summer strong Body needs Water/Metal in pillars for auspiciousness. Zi Direct Office month greatly noble. Avoid Guisi punishment, Guihai violent death, Jiyou great ruin. Bingchen day/Wuzi hour is Day Virtue, favoring Office Star. Xu month with strong Body is especially suitable for military nobility. Yin month with Metal/Water fortune middling nobility. Shen three harmonies combines Killing with Seal and is noble. Avoid Jisi violent death, Jihai self-punishment death, Guichou ruined inheritance and violent death. Bingwu day/Wuzi hour is Day Blade, needing Office/Killing restraint or combination. Chen, Xu, Chou, or Wei month gives great riches; Hai, Mao, Wei, or Yin year/month great nobility. Shen/Si gives third-rank literary office, military nobility not lasting. Pure Zi is the noble Zi/Wu Double Enclosure configuration. Avoid Dingsi violent death, Dinghai self-punishment violent death, Xinchou solitude. Bingshen day/Wuzi hour with Si/Wu year/month and northeastern fortune gives censorial office; Zi month with Wood/Fire fortune third rank; Chou seventh; You/Hai meets nobles yet becomes lowly. Avoid Guisi for middle-age punishment, Yiyou ruin. Bingxu day/Wuzi hour has spring Seal most auspicious, summer excessively strong Body ordinary, autumn flourishing Wealth and declining Body noble if supported. Pure You year/month gives literary advancement. Avoid Jihai death without intact body, Guichou poverty and early death. A verse says: “Livelihood flourishes in four season-ending months; Bing/Wuzi joins Food and Office. No injury completes old age; harm amid auspiciousness, passage amid danger.” Another: “Bingzi meeting Wuzi hour places Office and Food blessing together. Until Wu/Ding are met, remain hidden; middle-age connection brings great pleasure. Parents, wife, and child rejoice in combination, literary talent hidden in the heart. Good fortune arriving brings wealth, rank, leisure, and freedom.”
Translator's note: All six day/month/fortune groups, every named prohibited month and both ending verses remain. The opening Fu-support phrase is damaged; no replacement condition is invented. The winter, pure-Zi and military-duration exceptions retain their separate contexts.
Six Bing Days at Jichou Hour
The supplied introduction says following Six Bing prohibited months are as above, hours considered together. A verse says: “Six Bing days at Jichou hour have Office and Ghost generating one another, Emolument unformed. Shen/Geng and flourishing Yi let one pass life without seeking Wealth or Emolument.” Hurting Office turns from Emolument, with proud contempt. Bing uses Gui Office; residual Gui within Chou is injured by exposed and hidden Earth. Gui emerging brings calamity. Geng/Xin instead lets Hurting generate Wealth, blessing and celebration. Bingzi day/Jichou hour with Yin, Hai, Shen, or Chen year/month and Wealth/Seal/Food emerging is noble. Bingyin day/Jichou hour ordinary; Yiyou month is Direct Wealth, healthy Yi/Geng noble. Si/Chou year/month with Office/Seal emerging noble. Bingchen day/Jichou hour with Shen/Hai year/month transforms Water auspiciously; without transformation short life. Xu month clashes Storehouse and everyone advances. Yin/Wu strong Body forms Blazing Upward, greatly noble. Bingwu day/Jichou hour in spring with Fire/Metal fortune reaches highest rank. Summer ordinary, autumn rich, winter noble, wife/child difficult. Wu/You year/month fifth/sixth rank, evidence of monthly Emolument generating Wealth. The next Bingshen case prints Si-Chou hour and gives blood illness. Shen month achieves a literary Confucian office, Mao noble; Zi/Chen gathering Office and Yin/Mao Seal both auspicious. Bingxu day/Jichou hour high, with military/punitive circumstances followed by advancement. Hai/Mao month and Fire/Metal fortune greatly noble; Chen/Wei completing Four Storehouses and Fire/Earth configuration gives great riches. A verse says: “Bing's Wealth and Office hide in Storehouse; Xu, Chen, and Wei display writing. Declining Body without a key seeks fame and profit only ordinarily.” Another: “Bing day at Jichou hour hides Hurting Office and Wealth Storehouse. Wei/Xu fortune is extraordinary, breaking out Wealth/Office to flourish. Near nobles, planning seizure and Robbing Wealth still has harm. Six Relations have little true harmony; judge by the hour and do not blame it.”
Translator's note: The cross-reference, all six case positions and both poems remain. Si-Chou in the Bingshen case is not silently corrected to Jichou; the Shen/Geng/Yi opening and final seizure wording follow the source.
Six Bing Days at Gengyin Hour
A verse says: “Six Bing days at Gengyin hour have Study Hall's generative energy assisting Body. Fortune combining and connecting Metal configuration must give honored riches and rank.” Bing has Long Life at Yin, refined writing and Generative Study Hall. Geng/Xin are Wealth; Geng is Extinct and Bing flourishes at Yin. Monthly Metal configuration makes Wealth flourish, riches and rank complete, favoring western fortune. No configuration gives slight Wealth. The opening day case is printed Two-Zi day/Gengyin hour. Zi month gives proximity to nobles; Guiyou month with Water/Wood fortune high nobility, Fire/Wood fortune fifth rank or above. Wei/Shen or the printed Gui-Wu year/month gives great military nobility but short lifespan. Bingyin day/Gengyin hour gives nobility not lasting. You/Shen year/month inherited lineage and an unimportant office; Zi, Chou, Yin, or Wei distinction, pure Yin especially auspicious. Bingchen day/Gengyin hour in Yin, Wu, Xu, or Wei year/month gives worthy wife, filial child, riches and rank complete. Shen/Zi with northern fortune greatly noble; You/Chou rich. Bingwu day/Gengyin hour without Ren, Gui, Zi, Wei, or Si in year/month is Flying Heavenly Emolument and Horse, noble. Si, You, Chou, or Shen governs literature, rich if not noble. Wei Hurting Office; Chen poverty first, riches later; Hai month with western fortune distinction. Bingshen day/Gengyin hour has Hai–Mao–Wei and Shen–Zi–Chen configurations, flourishing Office and Seal, greatly noble. Si/Chou Wealth configuration auspicious; Yin–Wu–Xu Fire ordinary. Bingxu day/Gengyin hour in Hai/Zi month noble distinction. Shen/You year/month with northern fortune, or Yin–Wu–Xu with Office/Ghost fortune, both greatly noble. Death/Extinction fortune is said to assure death. A verse says: “Bing and Geng combining at Yin hour dispel danger and blessing follows. Fortune from humble gates gives generals and ministers; timing brings easy ascent.” Another: “Bing day at Gengyin hour is assured; parents decline or flourish, leaving home. Wife/child early harmed and late honored, White Tiger returns to flourishing mountain. Wood forms forests of pine and cypress, livelihood accumulates assets and grain. Gold and jade fill the hall, admired as exemplary.”
Translator's note: All six case positions and both verses remain. Two-Zi, Gui-Wu, Bing/Geng combining, and Flying Heavenly for Bingwu are supplied irregular labels, not silently replaced. All specific fortune and rank qualifications are retained.
Six Bing Days at Xinmao Hour
A verse says: “Six Bing days at Xinmao hour have flourishing Wood and two wives, a clever person. Not flourishing, transformed Water in Death territory gives many sensual interests.” Bing at Mao is Bathing, Defeated Wealth meeting Combining Spirit Xin. Very strong Body unable to transform describes impropriety and sexual greed. The source's awkward comparison then has weak Body transforming Water, Water Dead at Mao, refinement without fruition and habitual cunning and deception. Only Bingwu or Bingyin born in spring with strong Body not transforming gives refined literary distinction. Bingzi day/Xinmao hour has Zi/Mao punishment, wife/child injury. Same year/month gives leading examination fame and close-attendance rank. Yin, Wu, Chou, or Xu with stems and branches all combining gives great nobility. Bingyin day/Xinmao hour has no ancestry, independent establishment and limb illness; Yin, Mao, Wei, or Zi month noble, other months ordinary, annual/major fortune alike. Bingchen day/Xinmao hour in Yin/Xu month has Heavenly/Monthly Virtue and high status. Si month with northern fortune noble; You/Chou also; Hai/Mao/Wei greatly noble. Bingwu day/Xinmao hour with Gui Office in year/month removing Blade is auspicious. Zi month injures wife/child. Yin/You gives hard, unyielding character and third/fourth rank. Wu/Xu with southeastern fortune or Mao with northwestern fortune noble. Bingshen day/Xinmao hour is obstructed, intelligent and fond of wine/sex. Strong Body not transforming is noble; spring auspicious; winter with northern fortune rich and noble. Si/Chou year/month with eastern fortune second rank, Wu/Wei third. Bingxu day/Xinmao hour injures wife/child; strong Body not transforming noble. Spring intelligent and fond of wine/sex; winter with western fortune rich and noble; summer censorial office. A verse says: “Bing/Xin transforming Water do not match; assistance and strong Body give great prosperity. Four pillars meeting clash, conquest or disruption pass time in physical and mental toil.” Another: “Bing day at Xinmao hour greedily ruins Seal through Wealth, difficult to achieve. Wealth/Office fortune displays fame, weak Body unstable temperament. Parents and Six Relations cannot be relied on; standing independently and changing ancestors achieves. Siblings each seek prospects; disruption makes ordinary fate.”
Translator's note: All six day groups, the awkward weak-Body comparison and both poems remain. The general adverse strong/non-transforming description and later noble exceptions are not silently reconciled.
Six Bing Days at Renchen Hour
A verse says: “Six Bing days at Renchen hour have Killing seated on Storehouse, Fire difficult to approach. Strong Body instead gives official nobility; weak Body poverty and early death.” Water and Fire have not achieved completion. Bing sees Ren Indirect Office; Ren Water at Chen combines a configuration, Fire Dead without light. Spring/summer strong Body transforms Ghost into Office; further Body-flourishing fortune gives nobility. Autumn/winter declining Body and flourishing Ghost unsupported gives poverty, low status and disability. Bingzi day/Renchen hour in Chen, Xu, Chou, or Wei month restrains Indirect Office, auspicious. Hai/Mao year/month rich and noble; Yin/Wu with Zi fortune or Zi with Yin/Wu fortune noble, otherwise monk/Daoist. Bingyin day/Renchen hour has flourishing Body and Killing; Yin, Mao, Chen, Chou, or Wei year/month greatly noble, Si/Wu/Xu also noble. Bingchen day/Renchen hour is solitary with Wealth and a bad death. Spring with northern fortune or summer eastern fortune noble; autumn southern fortune third-rank office. Bingwu day/Renchen hour noble, strong Body and shallow Killing; Chen, Xu, Chou, or Wei month restrained Indirect Office noble, unrestrained ordinary. Bingshen day/Renchen hour has calamity within flourishing: spring ordinary, summer blessed, autumn rich, winter short life. The printed Shen–Zi–Chen Wood configuration with Seal/Equal emerging to assist gives great nobility; Food restraining Killing also noble. Exposed unrestrained Killing and Wealth supporting strong Killing are disliked, indicating untimely death. Bingxu day/Renchen hour harmful. Mao/Wei year/month with Fire/Earth fortune third rank, worthy wife and filial child. Chen/Xu/Chou month stable; Yin, Wu, Zi, or Si year/month censorial. A verse says: “Bing day/Renchen fears Shen; further yang Water assures calamity. Yin–Wu–Xu in pillars turns harm auspicious, incomparable nobility.” Another: “Bing day at Renchen hour Tomb has declining Body and Depletion Ghost on the road. Siblings give no support, wife/child ties go astray. Gentlemen's writing receives blessing, ordinary kindness becomes distance. Office/Emolument fortune allows plans; without disruption, rich if not noble.”
Translator's note: All six day groups and both verses remain. Shen–Zi–Chen is explicitly called Wood in this supplied passage and is identified rather than corrected. The differing supported/unsupported and restrained/unrestrained conditions remain.
Six Bing Days at Guisi Hour
A verse says: “Six Bing days at Guisi hour have Day Emolument Returning to Hour and Office. Without Si, Yin, Ren, or Gui month, how difficult can readily obtained fame be?” Bing at Si sees Gui Direct Office seated on Nobility. No Ren/Ji or Yin/Hai clashing/punishing in the pillars gives nobility; their presence otherwise. Office connecting flourishing Water and Bing flourishing Wood invariably give nobility in the text. Bingzi day/Guisi hour has Bing Emolument at the supplied Yi-shaped position and Gui Emolument at Si, Exchanged Emolument and Horse. No Ren, Yi-shaped graph, Yin, or Hai clashing/breaking in year/month gives close-attendance/censorial rank up to duke or marquis. Bingyin day/Guisi hour in spring without Water stems/branches gives literary advancement and embroidered robes, honoring wife and sheltering children. Mao, Xu, Shen, or You year/month second/third rank. Bingchen day/Guisi hour disadvantages ancestors. You, Xu, Yin, or Chou year/month forms Chief Strength; strong-Body connection noble. Bingwu day/Guisi hour in Chou/Chen Mixed-Qi Wealth/Office month distinguished. Yin gives Bing Long Life; Si month, written with the Yi-shaped graph, Established Emolument. Wealth/Seal emerging gives great nobility, with abstinence from alcohol advised. Zi flourishing Office or You flourishing Wealth auspicious. Bingshen day/Guisi hour sits on Indirect Office and Wealth, rich if not noble. Bingxu day/Guisi hour in Mao, Xu, Chou, or Wei month noble but not lasting; Yin/Hai year/month censorial, disliking clash/punishment and advised to avoid drink. A verse says: “Bing day at true Guisi hour is Proper Nobility, gladly close. No year/month clash or disruption assures honored riches and rank.” Another: “Bing day at Guisi hour has rare Direct Office, Emolument and Horse. Wife/child are difficult early; clash/conquest of Office Emolument most avoided. Gentlemen's writing excels, ordinary people have surplus Wealth and Emolument. Gold and jade emerge from sunken mud, gathering especially when fortune and timing arrive.”
Translator's note: The different opening/prose avoidance lists, all six day groups and both poems remain. Yi-shaped graphs and Gui's stated Emolument at Si are preserved, not silently normalized; year/month and longevity exceptions retain their contexts.
Six Bing Days at Jiawu Hour
A verse says: “Six Bing days at Jiawu hour enter Concealed Crystal and need Earth. Wu and the printed Si are most auspicious; excessive blazing Fire brings much hardship.” Bing at Wu is too flourishing, needing Ji to combine Jia into Earth. Fire energy's crystal is concealed, light illuminating every direction; without Earth blessing is difficult. Chen, Xu, Chou, or Wei month has the upper influence subduing Fire into balance and nobility. Wu/Ji further emerging in year/month with Metal/Water fortune gives rank; without emergence, Earth-energy fortune also noble. Connection avoids punishment/disruption. Bingzi day/Jiawu hour is auspicious in spring, unsupported in summer, flourishing Wealth in autumn, noble Office in winter; few children and late achievement, Fire/Earth fortune develops. Bingyin day/Jiawu hour in Chen, Xu, Chou, or Wei month subdues Fire into balance and nobility; Wu month excessive Fire harmful. Bingchen day/Jiawu hour has Yin/Mao Seal assistance, Shen/You called flourishing Seal, Si/Wu flourishing Body, Hai/Zi flourishing Office: all auspicious. Fire/Earth is weightiest; without it blessing slight. Wei, Xu, Chen, or Chou auspicious. Bingwu day/Jiawu hour in Yin, Wu, or Xu month is Reversed Clash, second/third rank; Zi month with southern fortune eighth/ninth rank; Yin with southern fortune gold-and-purple; Wu with eastern fortune close-attendance rank. Bingshen day/Jiawu hour without Fire/Earth energy has slight blessing; Metal/Water fortune noble. Bingxu day/Jiawu hour has spring auspiciousness, summer solitude and kin injury, autumn auspiciousness but few children. Yin/Wu/Xu month gives extraordinary wealth and rank, an immortal-like chief minister. A verse says: “Bing day/Wu hour has little Water calamity, blazing Fire with more fuel. Fire, punishment and disruption in pillars give assured middle/late glory.” Another: “Bing day at Jiawu hour has Robbing Blade and Hurting Office in pillars. Declining Wood and flourishing Fire turn to ash; season-ending frameworks give nobility. Gentlemen pass freely, commoners preserving ancestry meet calamities. Six Relations have little harmony, undertakings succeed and fail.”
Translator's note: Concealed Crystal is the supplied configuration name. Si in the opening and Shen/You flourishing Seal, all six day sets and both poems are retained, including the verse's apparently favorable punishment/disruption wording. No missing negative is inserted.
Six Bing Days at Yiwei Hour
A verse says: “Six Bing days at Yiwei hour, born in Fire month, often have wealth and rank. Yi Direct Seal in the configuration brings comfort only without Wealth Star.” Generative Seal takes Wei as Bing's Seal Storehouse. Monthly Fire connection gives nobility. Without connection, no Wealth in pillars and no Wealth fortune still make a high chart; seeing Wealth greedily ruins Seal and gives ordinary status. Winter flourishing Office supporting Seal gives distinction. Bingzi day/Yiwei hour has spring stable, substantial Seal, summer stability, autumn reversals, winter nobility, annual/major fortune alike. Bingyin day/Yiwei hour in Mao/Wei month is Seal configuration, wise and substantial, wife/child difficult. Yin, Si, Zi, or Chen year/month noble. Bingchen day/Yiwei hour has spring auspiciousness, summer stable, autumn toil, winter distinction. Si/Wu month with northwestern fortune sixth/seventh rank. Bingwu day/Yiwei hour rich if not noble; Wu/Xu year/month censorial. Shen–Zi–Chen Office restrains Blade; Hai, a printed Seal word, and Wei has Seal transforming Blade: both auspicious. Bingshen day/Yiwei hour without Fire connection and without Wealth is a good chart. Zi/Chen year/month gathering Office or Hai/Mao gathering Seal gives nobility. Bingxu day/Yiwei hour with Shen, Zi, or Chen year/month has close-attendance rank; Yin, Mao, or Si greatly noble. A verse says, with month in place of day: “Wei hour with Bing month is certain; goose companions fly separately as fate permits. Eastern and northern fortune preserve ordinary livelihood.” Another: “Bing day at Yiwei hour gains northeastern glory. Strong Body and flourishing Wealth need no sigh; distinction in great halls. Gentlemen title wives and shelter children, commoners a good livelihood. Gold and jade pile high, rich rank rides saddled horses.”
Translator's note: All six day sets and both poems remain. The printed Seal word in Hai/Seal/Wei and Bing month in the verse are identified without silent correction; no missing branch or day graph is invented.
Six Bing Days at Bingshen Hour
A verse says: “Six Bing days at Bingshen hour have declining Body, broken Wealth divided by Equal. Hidden flourishing Ghost on Seven Killings ground: without rescue how can household prosper?” Geng is Bing's Wealth and Ren Ghost. At Shen, Geng flourishes, Ren is Born and Bing Fire has no energy; Wealth is divided and seized by Equal. No Body-flourishing month gives poverty and low status. Support and rescue with Body-flourishing month and corresponding fortune give nobility. Bingzi day/Bingshen hour connected to Fire or Yin/Mao month with strong-Body fortune is auspicious. Pure Metal in year/month abandons self for Wealth, also auspicious. Bingyin day/Bingshen hour has opposing day/hour clash, sorrow and wife/child injury; Fire month with strong-Body fortune auspicious, Hai month manual skill. Bingchen day/Bingshen hour in Yin month with southern fortune noble; Zi three-harmony Office and emerging Seal greatly noble; Hai birth with Ren emerging often early death; Xu/Wei ordinary. Bingwu day/Bingshen hour has blood/Fire disaster and later great advancement. Si month with Geng/Xin emerging is Wealth Star configuration, military nobility. Bingshen day/Bingshen hour high and sexually inclined. Zi/Chen year/month with eastern fortune noble, otherwise disability and short life. Hai–Mao–Wei auspicious. Bingxu day/Bingshen hour without Ren, Gui, Hai, Zi, or You filling the positions is judged Arching, noble. Yin, Xu, Si, or Wu gives flourishing Body unsupported, monk/Daoist. A verse says: “Two Bing meeting Shen hour, without punishment/disruption, change household standing. Fire/Metal smelting has much success/failure; Seal alone escapes ordinary rank.” Another: “Bing day at Shen hour has Equal yang Fire hesitant. Flourishing Indirect Office brings right and wrong; wife/Wealth within may be fulfilled. Ancestors gain and lose; parents and siblings cannot support. Timing brings saddle, Horse and ordered household, assets with empty reputation and slight profit.”
Translator's note: All six day groups and both verses remain. The change from unsupported poverty to supported nobility, pure-Metal following-Wealth exception and Bingshen-hour Arching rule retain their stated conditions.
Six Bing Days at Dingyou Hour
A verse says: “Six Bing days at Dingyou hour have Blade Born and Body Dead, bringing calamity. No rescue assures harm; abandoning self for Wealth makes longevity difficult.” Ding is Blade and Xin Wealth. Xin flourishes at You, Bing is Dead and Ding Fire at Long Life: abandoning self for Wealth. Without rescue or Body-flourishing monthly connection, and Blade not punished/clashed, the source describes cruelty, ignorance of propriety and righteousness, beginnings without endings. Monthly connection or rescue gives skilled crafts. Guimao month has Gui breaking Ding Blade as Office, Gui Water Born at Mao and flourishing Yi Seal within Mao. Powerful Useful Spirit and Water/Wood fortune give distinction. Bingzi day/Dingyou hour has spring stability, summer nobility, autumn ordinary, winter auspiciousness. Wei, Shen, You, or Hai year/month greatly noble. Chou gathering Zi or Chen gathering You also noble. Bingyin day/Dingyou hour with Mao, Hai, or Wei year/month and Office/Killing emerging noble; other months skilled but ordinary. Bingchen day/Dingyou hour with Yin, Wu, Xu, or Si year/month and Killing/Seal emerging noble; Shen/Zi gathering Office with Seal/Equal emerging noble. Fire/Earth year/month should see Wealth for auspiciousness. Bingwu day/Dingyou hour in Si, Wu, or Xu month makes a good monk/Daoist chart; You noble; Hai, Zi, Chou, Yin, Mao, or Chen Office/Seal year/month greatly noble. Bingshen day/Dingyou hour with Water/Wood monthly energy and Water/Wood fortune noble. The printed Yi-shaped position and Wu flourish Body; Hai/Zi Office. Both year/month conditions complete give great nobility. Bingxu day/Dingyou hour with monthly Wood and Water fortune noble, Metal energy with Fire fortune Golden Horse/Jade Hall and peerless talent/fame. Exposed Geng and hidden Wu give poverty and early death. A verse says: “Bing Fire meeting You is mismatched, setting sun with little radiance. Four pillars disliking clash, conquest and disruption have Six Relations injured and wandering uncertainty.” Another: “Bing day at Dingyou hour has Heavenly Origin blazing Fire melting Metal. Six Relations are uneasy, prospects blocked. Day/night thoughts are insufficient, even office fears greed. Si month changes household; Zi/Wu brings others' angry resentment.”
Translator's note: All six day sets and both poems remain. The no-punishment/clash condition and Yi-shaped graph are retained rather than silently corrected; supported versus unsupported conditions remain separate.
Six Bing Days at Wuxu Hour
A verse says: “Six Bing days at Wuxu hour meet Food Spirit in Fire configuration. Monthly Fire connection gives blessing and longevity; no connection, even auspicious encounters, ordinary status.” The general Bing day/Wuxu hour statement gives long life and preserved reputation/profit. Yin, Hai, Mao, or Wei Seal and Shen, You, Xu, or the printed Yi-shaped position in year/month give nobility. A Bingyin day/Wuxu hour paragraph then calls it Temple Food: Bing takes Wu as Food and Longevity Star. At Xu, Bing Fire enters Storehouse and Wu occupies its exclusive position. Monthly Fire and southeastern fortune give deep blessing and longevity; none ordinary. A first Bingzi day/Wuxu hour paragraph repeats long life and preserved reputation/profit, with a damaged Jia/Year-Wins expression around Hai/Mao/Wei Seal and Shen/You/Xu/Yi-shaped year list giving nobility. A second Bingzi day/Wuxu hour paragraph gives summer blessing and longevity complete; spring Wood conquers Earth and Food meets Owl. Yin month has both Bing/Wu Long Life, most auspicious; Shen/Geng restraining Jia greatly noble. Autumn/winter declining Fire poor/low. Si/Shen/Hai year/month highest censorial rank. Bingchen day/Wuxu hour in Wu month has energized Bing and thick Earth, fifth/sixth rank; Hai with Metal/Fire fortune censorial. Bingwu day/Wuxu hour has healthy flourishing Sheep Blade and Food, sudden fame/profit. Hai, Wei, Chen, or Xu year/month with western fortune censorial. Bingshen day/Wuxu hour in Hai month with eastern fortune noble; Yin/Wu strong Body with exposed Wealth auspicious. Chou/Chen punish/clash Xu Storehouse, developing late. Bingxu day/Wuxu hour poor; connected Yin/Si/Wu/Xu Fire configuration gives complete blessing/longevity and great nobility; Wealth also auspicious. A verse says: “Hour Food configuration lives among towers, shops, tea rooms, cake and wine stalls, repeatedly establishing a household.” Another: “Bing day/Xu hour opens Wealth Storehouse; not yet met in youth, stay hidden. Connected fortune sooner or later reaches Office rank; without Office, still develops Wealth.” Another: “Bing day at Wuxu hour has complete granary and Storehouse. Repeated blessing/Emolument arise naturally, riches, noble rank, worthy wife and admired children. Gentlemen establish writing early, ordinary people continual assets. Heavenly Solitude and parents' early loss in a damaged phrase; Chen/Xu key opens distinction.”
Translator's note: Every supplied general and day-labeled paragraph is retained, including two Bingzi paragraphs and the intervening Bingyin explanation; duplicates are not collapsed. The Yi-shaped position, Jia/Year-Wins and parental-loss phrases, all other day conditions and three verses remain without invented repair.
Six Bing Days at Jihai Hour
A verse says: “Six Bing days at Jihai hour have flourishing Ren within Hai injured by the Yi-shaped Earth graph. Monthly connection gives nobility; without Yin/Mao only ordinary status.” Ghost flourishes and Body is Extinct. Bing sees Ji Hurting Office, Ren the source's Proper Ghost, Jia Reversed Food. Exposed Ji over Hai meets flourishing Ren generating Jia, while Bing Fire's energy is Extinct. Strong-Body month with support transforms Ghost into Office and gives nobility, yet ultimately cruelty. Strong-Body fortune also noble. Weak unsupported Body without monthly connection and Ren emerging gives a hundred calamities, proud contempt and ordinary status. Bingzi day/Jihai hour in autumn/winter ordinary; Wei month with Water/Wood fortune and Wood/Fire emerging noble; Zi with eastern fortune greatly noble. Shen, Hai, Chou, or Xu year/month also noble. Bingyin day/Jihai hour in summer transforms Ghost into Office, worthy wife and filial child, rich if not noble. Yin, Mao, Chen, Si, Shen, or Chou year/month, or Wu/Xu gathering, with stems further showing Bing and the printed Xu gives great power and rank. Bingchen day/Jihai hour is Day Virtue. Yin month auspicious; Chen month rich monk/Daoist, ordinary people solitary kin harm. Xu clashing Chen and Si clashing Hai, with Bing's flourishing Storehouse, both auspicious. Mao/Wei with Metal/Water fortune or Shen/Zi with Wood/Fire fortune noble. Bingwu day/Jihai hour military nobility. Yin, Si, or Wu month gives repeated wives and late child, rich if not noble. Autumn/winter advancing/retreating fame and profit; You/Wu/Xu greatly noble. Bingshen day/Jihai hour in spring/summer changes roots/leaves and improves blessing through wife; autumn/winter ordinary. You month with southeastern fortune censorial. Bingxu day/Jihai hour with Yin, Mao, Si, or Wu has Wood generating blazing Fire, wife injury and few children, intelligence, riches and rank. You, Hai, Zi, or Chou ordinary, eastern fortune also noble. A verse says: “Bing day/Hai hour has highest fate, orchids emerging from weeds. Four pillars also clashing, conquering or disrupting make fame/profit futile labor.” Another: “Bing day at Jihai hour is remarkable without Ren. Few children and two or three wives, gladly meeting Heavenly-Yi. Parents and siblings travel far; punishment/Void makes literary blessing incomplete. Eight Characters differ in height; firmly avoid greed for Wealth causing dismissal.”
Translator's note: All six day sets and both verses remain. Proper Ghost, Yi-shaped Earth and Xu appearing in a stem list are supplied irregularities, not silently repaired. Wealth, kin and rank statements retain their historical conditional contexts.
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