Sanming Tonghui · A Comprehensive Account of the Three Destinies

Day-and-Hour Judgments for the Six Ding Days

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Six Ding Days at Gengzi Hour A verse says: “Six Ding days at Gengzi hour have declining Body and flourishing Ghost hidden. No monthly rescue gives poverty and early death; strong seat instead auspicious prosperity.” Body is Extinct and Ghost flourishes. Ding uses Geng Wealth and Gui Ghost; Gui within Zi leaves Ding Fire energy-less and unsupported. Strong-Body month with support gives rank; further strong-Body fortune great rank. The reverse poverty, early death and low status. Dingchou day/Gengzi hour ordinary; Wood/Fire connection or strong-Body fortune noble. Some Hai/Zi year/month charts are noble because soft yin Ding does not fear Water territory. Dingmao day/Gengzi hour poor; Chen, Xu, Chou, or Wei restrains Indirect Office, Wu month strengthens stem, spring strengthens Body: all auspicious; autumn/winter ordinary. Avoid Guisi ruined inheritance/harm, Jiwei punitive injury, Jiashen facial marking and bloody death. Dingsi day/Gengzi hour has spring flourishing and summer strength, both noble; autumn/winter ordinary. Season-ending months with balanced restraint auspicious; Zi/Chen with western fortune fourth/fifth rank. Dingwei day/Gengzi hour in Chen, Xu, Chou, or Wei has restrained Indirect Office; Wu strong stem noble. Other months with restraint auspicious; Wuzi refined writing. Avoid Wushen early death, Bingxu punishment, Xinchou harmful punishment. Dingyou day/Gengzi hour in Chen, Xu, Chou, or Wei is firm, clear and outstandingly noble. Chen/Si year/month reaches chief-ministerial honor. Avoid Jiayin ruin/violent death, Guisi violent death away from home, Yiyou punitive death. Dinghai day/Gengzi hour flourishes greatly after fifty. Chen, Xu, Chou, or Wei month auspicious; Yin/Wu year/month noble. Avoid Gengyin violent death, Gengshen death without intact body, Xinyou ruin. A verse says: “Gengzi hour with Ding day has Fire falling into rivers/lakes, dark then bright. Four pillars also clashing, conquering or disrupting leave lifelong study only empty fame.” Another: “Ding day/Gengzi hour has shining Ding Fire. Fire Womb and Metal Extinction gain and lose, wives/concubines not completely favorable. Conquest, punishment, clash or disruption makes literary blessing incomplete. Mutual generation, rescue and Noble assistance make difficulty first, ease later.” Translator's note: All six day groups, named prohibited months, age-fifty condition and both verses remain. The yin-Ding Water exception is retained beside the general weak-Body/flourishing-Ghost warning. Six Ding Days at Xinchou Hour The introduction says following Six Ding prohibited months are as above; hour prohibitions are not discussed. A verse says: “Six Ding days at Xinchou hour store much old Wealth and grain. Body without support is not harmful; support gives worthy wife and ample riches.” Chou is Wealth Storehouse, Xin Wife Wealth, the supplied Yi-shaped graph Food. Chou flourishes Metal configuration and hidden Ji obtains position, while Ding Fire lacks energy. Losing Heaven's time without support develops through wife; support and rescue give abundant Wealth and Food. Dingchou day/Xinchou hour in Shen/You month is Wealth configuration generating Office, noble. Wu month has injured Wealth and strong Body, official Emolument. Pure Zi/Yin gives third-rank military nobility; Water month hard toil; Chen noble relatives. Dingmao day/Xinchou hour with Chen, Si, or Wei year/month rich/noble, wife/child late. Yin/Mao Seal assists, Xu Storehouse strengthens Body, with punishment. Chou/Ding support gives great nobility. Dingsi day/Xinchou hour gains rank through a woman. Si, You, Chou, or Shen year/month has Wealth generating Office, rich and noble. Mao ordinary, corresponding fortune also noble. Chou month southwestern fortune greatly noble. Dingwei day/Xinchou hour clashes day/hour, sorrow and wife/child injury. You month with Water connection auspicious; annual/major fortune alike. Dingyou day/Xinchou hour with Yin, Mao, Si, or Wu has strong supported Body, high literary rank and extraordinary favor. Shen/You/Xu flourishing Wealth followed is most auspicious; Hai/Zi flourishing Office also. Dinghai day/Xinchou hour has spring Seal auspicious; autumn with Fire energy also; summer too flourishing harmful; winter flourishing Office/Killing auspicious. Wei/Xu month clashes Chou Storehouse open, rich. A verse says: “Xinchou meeting Ding is Treasure Storehouse; without a key riches are hard to claim. Punitive/clashing fortune meets a high person, rises abroad and displays fame.” Another: “Ding day/Xinchou hour's Indirect Wealth Storehouse likes punishment/clash. Without distinction, fame is empty. Wife/child celebrate fittingly, parents/siblings find little harmony. Household changes afresh, Wealth and blessing revive; surely a glorious fate.” Translator's note: The cross-reference, ambiguous Food graph, Chou/Ding support phrase, all six day cases and both poems remain without reconstructed conditions. Six Ding Days at Renyin Hour A verse says: “Six Ding days at Renyin hour abandon Body to follow Office and transform Wood. Water/Wood monthly connection forms the image, honored, peacefully rich and incomparably noble.” Ding/Ren transforms Wood, healthy and flourishing at Yin. Water-configuration month gives great nobility, Wood connection also noble. Dingwei month with eastern fortune good. Dingchou day/Renyin hour transforms nobly: winter flourishing Office noble, spring Seal stable, summer auspicious, autumn ordinary; eastern fortune good. Dingmao day/Renyin hour nobly transforms auspiciously. Yin/Mao year/month with Metal/Water fortune greatly noble; Hai/Zi month western fortune noble. Dingsi day/Renyin hour has Ding Dead at Yin, Si without vitality and Yin punishment, beginnings without endings. Metal/Water fortune gives honor. Yin/Wu year/month strengthens Body, Shen–Zi–Chen Office, Hai–Mao–Wei Seal: all can be noble. Dingwei day/Renyin hour has a bad death. Spring Seal auspicious, summer Wood/Fire fortune develops blessing, autumn rich, winter noble. You/Xu year/month third rank; Hai, Mao, Yin, or Xu literary rank; pure Mao with Metal/Water fortune gold-and-purple. Dingyou day/Renyin hour with Hai, Wei, Yin, Mao, Shen, or Zi year/month is intelligent, rich and noble, highest censorial rank. Si/Wu chief minister; Chen month Metal/Water fortune, Xu eastern fortune, both noble. Dinghai day/Renyin hour is Day Nobility, with complete Office/Seal and distinguished writing. Zi month greatly noble, transforming energy harmful. A verse says: “Ding/Ren transformation entering Metal territory busies itself for dog-like Emolument and fly-like fame. Integrity declines beyond esteem, kin before one's eyes estranged.” Another: “Ding day/Renyin hour combines into flourishing Wood territory. No Shen/You monthly branches brings high-person recommendation. Parents/siblings offer little strength, outsiders smile like spring wind. Water/Wood fortune with no Metal gives distinguished glory.” Translator's note: All six day groups and both poems remain, including Dingwei's adverse opening with later seasonal exceptions and Dinghai/Zi's noble-versus-transforming-energy contrast. The dog/fly imagery is translated rather than replaced with an invented technical rule. Six Ding Days at Guimao Hour A verse says: “Six Ding days at Guimao hour have flourishing Ghost and declining Body, unbearable distress. Support and monthly connection permit blessing; otherwise poverty and sorrow.” Ding uses Gui Ghost and Yi Reversed Food. Gui is Born and Yi flourishes at Mao. Support, rescue and a strong-Body month transform Ghost into Office auspiciously; without it in the pillars, connected fortune is also auspicious. The reverse gives poverty, blindness, blood illness, wife calamity and few children. Dingchou day/Guimao hour in Chen, Xu, Chou, or Wei month has balanced restraint and rank; Wu strong stem noble; Shen/Chou censorial. Dingmao day/Guimao hour in Yin/Mao month has Seal with Killing, not judged harmful; Office fortune gives distinction. Dingsi day/Guimao hour born Chou month with northern fortune is auspicious in thick-Earth territory, second/third rank in refined-Water territory. Shen/You using Wealth also auspicious. Dingwei day/Guimao hour has Indirect Office generating Seal: spring auspicious, summer ordinary, autumn rich, winter poor. Dingyou day/Guimao hour has Nobility in both day/hour, most auspicious. Spring/summer strong Body transforms Ghost into Office; autumn/winter declining Body hard toil. Si/Xu month noble; pure Wu/Chou year/month with Geng/Ji emerging pure nobility. Dinghai day/Guimao hour in Mao Seal month has close-attendance rank; Yin/Wu capital office fifth/sixth rank. A verse specifically says: “Dingchou day born at Guimao hour seeks ordinary fame and profit. Weak Body's cleverness backfires; success needs connected fortune and Noble encounter.” Another: “Ding day at Guimao hour, declining unsupported Body ordinary. Ghost thieves in the gate consume assets/grain; ancestral preservation must guard ruin. Parents/siblings unreliable, wife/child leave home. Strong Body in fortune subdues Killing, permitting honored fame/profit.” Translator's note: All six day groups and both verses remain, including the first ending verse's specific Dingchou label and the differing thick-Earth/refined-Water conditions. Six Ding Days at Jiachen Hour A verse says: “Six Ding days at Jiachen hour have Office obtaining position and Seal generating Body. No monthly connection gives ordinary blessing; support equals a Noble Person with Emolument.” Seal and Ribbon, Office Storehouse: Jia Seal, Ren Office, Jia Wood within Chen generating Body and Office combining a configuration. Monthly connection and support give rank, otherwise ordinary. Spring favors northern fortune, winter southern, auspicious. Dingchou day/Jiachen hour auspicious; Hai/Zi month rich and noble; Shen month eastern fortune or Wu Metal/Water fortune noble. Pure Yin highest censorial rank. Dingmao day/Jiachen hour in Chen, Xu, Chou, or Wei month solitary kin injury, connected fortune develops Wealth. Chou month southern fortune noble; Mao Metal/Water fortune powerful close-attendance office, unfavorable for proposals and memorials. Dingsi day/Jiachen hour harmful punishment and solitary kin injury. Spring Seal auspicious; summer/autumn ordinary; winter flourishing Office. Pure Xu with Wood/Fire fortune gives an unimportant office. Dingwei day/Jiachen hour in Chou, Hai, Mao, or Wei has Seal and noble Office; summer ordinary; Chen/Xu substantial rank; You/Wu with Metal/Water fortune greatly noble. Dingyou day/Jiachen hour ordinary. No Xu in year/month gives Day Ruler Glorious Nobility configuration. Spring southern fortune noble, northern greatly noble. Wu year with monthly branch combining gives the source's Human-and-Horse Transformation, especially noble. Dinghai day/Jiachen hour is Day Nobility with Office/Emolument positioned, surely distinguished. Shen/Chen year/month greatly noble; Wu month northeastern fortune or Chen northern noble. A verse says: “Ding day meeting both Office and Seal uses a key to open Wealth Storehouse and see Money Dragon. No four-pillar punishment/disruption makes fortune a wealthy noble elder.” Another: “Ding day/Chen hour has flourishing Storehouse and generating Seal. Xu key opens, gladly meeting Ren/Ding, refined writing outstanding. Kin and Six Relations suffer punishment/conquest; fruit forms and flowers fade into renewed honor. Only delayed fortune awaits Money Dragon: dark first, bright later.” Translator's note: All six day sets and both poems remain. Human-and-Horse Transformation and Money Dragon are the supplied phrases, not silently replaced technical labels. Six Ding Days at Yisi Hour A verse says: “Six Ding days at Yisi hour secretly gather Hurting Office with Owl. Eastern fortune makes empty refinement; Metal/Water territory Noble Emolument.” Ding uses Ren Office and Yi Reversed Food. Ren is Extinct at Si, exposed Yi Reversed Food and hidden Wu Hurting Office healthy and flourishing, describing proud contempt and ordinary status. Metal/Water monthly energy gives rank; connected fortune too. Dingchou day/Yisi hour gives spring riches, summer solitude, autumn auspiciousness, winter rank. Dingmao day/Yisi hour has spring Seal, summer flourishing, autumn Wealth, winter Office: choose what is usable, all can be auspicious. Wu/Wei year/month distinguished writing, Office/Emolument fortune auspicious. Dingsi day/Yisi hour with Si month is Reversed Clash, Hai/Ren Office; no Water filling/breaking gives fourth/fifth rank. Dingwei day/Yisi hour fitting Reversed Clash without clash/disruption noble; Si/Hai year/month third/fourth rank; You/Chou gathering Wealth rich. Dingyou day/Yisi hour has Defeated Wealth and Reversed Food; Metal/Water year/month with Metal/Water fortune auspicious. Dinghai day/Yisi hour clashes day/hour, sorrow and wife/child injury. Si–You–Chou and Shen–Zi–Chen Metal/Water configurations use Wealth/Office for riches and rank. A verse says: “Ding day/Si hour fears Tiger punishment. Wealth/Office fortune finally connects. Good intentions and affection become ill will; difficulty first, ease later.” Another: “Ding day at Yisi hour has broken Wealth and Reversed Food, difficult to connect. Parents/siblings peaceful, wife/child without anger or gloom. Gentlemen refined in literature, commoners proficient in assets and skills. Repeated Ren, Geng, Xin, or Gui give sufficient middle/late Wealth and fame.” Translator's note: All six day groups and both poems remain, including Dinghai's opposed day/hour clash and usable Metal/Water-configuration outcomes. Six Ding Days at Bingwu Hour A verse says: “Six Ding days meeting Bingwu gladly have Day Emolument in the hour. Without Rat, Rabbit or Gui injury, youth rises on the road to blue clouds.” Ding Fire has Established Emolument at Wu, Finding the Road to Blue Clouds. No branch Owl breaking and no Gui stem punishment leaves pure Emolument and nobility. Zi/Mao branches or Gui breaking Emolument make encounter no true encounter. Dingchou day/Bingwu hour ordinary; Yin, Mao, Xu, or Wei year/month noble. You/Chou using Wealth most auspicious; Hai/Zi Office/Killing avoided. Dingmao day/Bingwu hour has calamity amid flourishing, Mao punishing/breaking makes a commoner. Si month with northwestern fortune noble, southeastern highest power; Yin/Hai second-rank military office. Complete Zi/You greatly noble. Dingsi day/Bingwu hour has Ding Emolument Wu and Bing Si, Exchanged Emolument. No Yin, Hai, or Zi in pillars gives literary distinction. Dingwei day/Bingwu hour noble, inheritance ruined then achieved. Ren/Gui in year/month avoided. Jiashen month has Three Wonders of Wealth/Office/Seal; Chen Office Storehouse; Hai Office/Seal: all greatly noble. Dingyou day/Bingwu hour ordinary, unfavorable for descendants. Hai–Mao–Wei year/month noble; Si–You–Chou ordinary; Yin–Wu–Xu rich. Dinghai day/Bingwu hour ordinary; Zi month with Metal/Water fortune bureau office. Wei, Shen, You, or Chou year/month auspicious. A verse says: “Ding day/Wu hour forms Emolument's origin, no Office Star surpasses colleagues. No punishment and auspicious fortune give a road through blue clouds to red skies.” Another: “Ding day/Bingwu hour exchanges shining Emolument/Horse. Brilliant fame rare in the world, literary study gives nobility. Without Gui, Zi, or Mao in year/month, timing grants literary blessing. Rough cloth becomes brocade, wind carries the cloud-road ten thousand li.” Translator's note: All six day groups and both poems remain, including the source's Owl-breaking term and its differing Zi/You and Zi/Mao conditions. Six Ding Days at Dingwei Hour A verse says: “Six Ding days at Dingwei hour have Fire supported by Wood configuration, born with energy. Livelihood stable and ordinary; Water fortune gives proper ground.” Ding takes Jia Seal; Wei Wood Storehouse is Seal territory. No Wealth in pillars or Wealth fortune, year/month connected to Hai–Mao–Wei and support give stable blessing. Dingchou day/Dingwei hour has Chou/Wei punishment/clash and no good end. Chen/Xu year/month completes Four Storehouses, highest rank; Shen/Wei third rank and a plain, leisurely judicial post. Dingmao day/Dingwei hour develops amid punishment. Yin/Mao Seal month develops substantial Wealth; Chen, Xu, Shen, or Wu auspicious. Dingsi day/Dingwei hour is noble Arching Emolument. Zi in year makes Wu the palace gate; arching it greatly noble. Void and filling the position avoided. Year/month Wealth rich, Office/Seal noble, all auspicious. Dingwei day/Dingwei hour has excessive Eight Exclusives, early harm to parents, wife and children, ordinary livelihood; monk/Daoist auspicious. Metal, Water and Wood connection plus Metal/Water fortune makes stable livelihood and great nobility. Dingyou day/Dingwei hour is Day Nobility. Hai, Mao, Wei, or Yin month gives substantial livelihood; Yin with Metal/Water fortune gold-and-purple censorial rank. Dinghai day/Dingwei hour in Mao forms three-harmony Seal, noble and long-lived; Shen flourishing Wealth/Office, Hai flourishing Office, auspicious. Summer energized Ding gives Confucian office but unavoidable solitary poverty. A verse says: “Two Ding meeting Wei hour face dangerous paths then middle-age blessing. Auspicious fortune and Noble combination give assured leisurely livelihood.” Another: “Ding day/Dingwei hour lies buried in granary/Storehouse. Youth cannot rise, awaiting time; Chou/Wei clash brings passage. Parents/siblings are unreliable; flowers yield fruit of wife/Wealth. Timing brings sufficient longevity and renewed blessing, delightful late honor.” Translator's note: All six day groups and both poems remain, including Dingchou's no-good-end statement beside its high-rank exceptions and Dinghai's office with solitary-poverty qualification. Six Ding Days at Wushen Hour A verse says: “Six Ding days at Wushen hour have Heavenly Origin turning from Emolument, defeating Body. No monthly rescue prevents Wealth development, only ordinary subsistence.” Ding takes Ren Office, injured by Wu Earth upon Shen. Ren emerging in year/month makes Seeing Office harmful. Even flourishing Geng Wealth cannot be controlled by one's defeated Body; no Body-flourishing month ordinary. Jiayin year/month favored, Renzi avoided. Dingchou day/Wushen hour refined and noble; Wei/Shen year/month noble, southeastern fortune greatly noble. Si month northwestern fortune six ministries. Dingmao day/Wushen hour in spring uses Seal with Hurting Office, autumn Wealth, both auspicious; summer Equal, winter Hurting Sees Office, ordinary. Season-ending months auspicious. Dingsi day/Wushen hour rich if not noble, unavoidable punitive kin injury. Summer with northwestern fortune noble; autumn/winter toil. Dingwei day/Wushen hour in Si, Wu, Wei, or Xu gives flourishing Body and distinction. Hai/Mao gathering Wei or Zi/Chen gathering Shen both noble. Dingyou day/Wushen hour in Yin, Wu, Xu, Chou, Chen, or Wei month has Complete Injury and Day Nobility, examination success; Metal/Water fortune gives gold-and-purple robes. Dinghai day/Wushen hour has day/hour harm, sorrow and wife/child injury. Monthly connection and flourishing Body give distinction. Wuxu/Dingsi year/month with excessive Fire/Earth gives eye illness. The sole supplied closing verse says: “Ding day/Wushen hour is proper; flourishing Heavenly-Origin energy displays literary brightness. Office may be plain, yet auspicious fortune must establish household.” Translator's note: All six day groups and the single supplied ending verse are retained. No customary second verse is invented after the source's terminal semicolon. Six Ding Days at Jiyou Hour A verse, with an Yi-shaped first hour graph, says: “Six Ding days at Jiyou hour have Study Hall meeting Nobility, a rare configuration. Energized wife/child and flourishing Food become remarkable without disruption or punishment.” Ding Fire has Long Life at You, both Study Hall and Heavenly-Yi Noble Person. Ji Food and Xin Wealth, exposed Ji and hidden Xin at You born/flourishing, give refined writing. Mao/Yi clashing or breaking prevents nobility. Dingchou day/Jiyou hour with Chen, Si, Wu, Wei, Shen, or Xu year/month noble. Dingmao day/Jiyou hour clashes day/hour, sorrow and wife/child injury; Fire energy auspicious, Yi/Mao avoided. Hai/Wei or Si/Chou in year/month provides one of two combinations, not judged as clash. Dingsi day/Jiyou hour with Si/You/Chou year/month has flourishing Wealth generating Office, lifelong riches and rank; Hai/Zi also auspicious. Dingwei day/Jiyou hour with Fire energy noble; Mao, Yi, or Gui not noble. Dingyou day/Jiyou hour has punitive harm and solitary malice, Wood/Fire month auspicious. Dinghai day/Jiyou hour obstructed; Wu, Ji, Bing, or Ding year/month gives powerful close-attendance office. Mao, Jia, Yi, or Yin with northwestern fortune noble. A verse says: “Ding day/You hour ultimately sees Nobility; Indirect Wealth with Food meets Emolument without return. Born/flourishing stems and branches turn harm auspicious; Wealth Star disrupted hides calamity's mechanism.” Another: “Ding day/Jiyou hour has vigorous Food generating Wealth. Leisurely blessing/Emolument comes naturally, lifelong cheerful freedom. Gentlemen broad as sea, commoners affection throughout the world. Twofold Beauty of Wealth/Office is in the image, an unobstructed flowing course.” Translator's note: The Yi-shaped opening graph, all six day groups and both poems remain. Day/hour clash with a combining exception and the differing Mao-related conditions retain their stated contexts. Six Ding Days at Gengxu Hour A verse says: “Six Ding days at Gengxu hour meet Defeat within Tomb, blessing difficult. Without rescue Ghost injures; Wealth does not gather and eyes are harmed.” Ding uses Geng/Xin Wealth, yet Bing within Xu is Defeat, preventing blessing. Without rescue, repeated Gui Water injures eyes. Dingchou day/Gengxu hour punishes day/hour, sorrow and wife/child injury. Yin, Hai, Shen, or You year/month third rank; Wu, Wei, Zi, or Chen with Metal/Wood fortune also noble. Dingmao day/Gengxu hour with Hai/Wei year/month gathers Seal, noble. Zi Killing/Seal auspicious; year/month Established Emolument gives noble monk/Daoist. No rescue with flourishing Gui often eye illness; You month not noble. Pure You/Xu year/month with Ji/Jia emerging gives nobility containing harm. Dingsi day/Gengxu hour in Chen/Si month with Metal/Water fortune censorial. Printed Gui-Zi or Ren-Hai with southern fortune highest rank; pure Wei northwestern fortune third/fourth. Strong Body without Wealth/Office fortune ordinary, monk/Daoist refined. Dingwei day/Gengxu hour indicates punishment. Hai/Mao Seal or Shen–Zi–Chen Office gives literary rank. Wu Established Emolument month with Zi clash harmful. Year/month Earth generating Wealth gives riches; Wealth generating Office riches and rank. Dingyou day/Gengxu hour is Day Nobility, close to nobles, skilled and strategic. You/Xu Six Harms leave kin unfeeling; autumn fifth/sixth rank. Dinghai day/Gengxu hour is Day Nobility; Si/You/Chou year/month fourth/fifth rank. Yin, Mao, or Hai with Fire/Metal fortune six ministries. A verse says: “Ding day at Xu's hour has a locked Storehouse without key. Parents/siblings unreliable; diligent self establishes household.” Another: “Ding day/Gengxu hour has Fire/Metal punitive harm, early death and solitude. Without Chou/Chen no key, Storehouse closed yet Wealth stored. Combining and relying on wife to settle, kin grow distant. Late blessing changes household: sweet later, bitter first.” Translator's note: Bing within Xu, printed Gui-Zi, all six day groups and both verses remain. General eye-risk, noble exceptions and late-development conditions are not silently collapsed. Six Ding Days at Xinhai Hour A verse says: “Six Ding days at Xinhai hour have Twofold Beauty of Wealth/Office and Seal at Long Life. Monthly connection gives highest rank; none slight fame/profit.” Ding uses Ren Office, Xin Wealth, Jia Seal. At Hai exposed Xin is Wealth, hidden Ren Office generating Jia Seal. Fire connection with support gives great nobility and complete beauty; no connection poor fame/profit. Dingchou day/Xinhai hour has autumn flourishing Wealth, summer strong Body, spring flourishing Seal, all distinction; winter excessively strong Office/Killing risks Body unable to carry blessing. Dingmao day/Xinhai hour has hour Wealth/Office/Seal Three Wonders, further year/month Seal assistance and Wealth generation greatly noble. Pure Zi with Wood/Fire fortune sixth rank. Si/You/Chou month forms Xin Wealth's configuration and support, riches and rank. Dingsi day/Xinhai hour clashes day/hour, sorrow and wife/child injury. Fire connection, autumn birth and eastern fortune noble. Xin-stem month obtaining Si/Hai ruins ancestors and displays refinement. Dingwei day/Xinhai hour with Hai, Mao, Wei, Yin, Chen, or Wu year/month and Direct Seal/Office emerging intelligent and distinguished; western fortune highest rank. Si/Chou month censorial. Dingyou day/Xinhai hour has Noble Person Holding Seal, noble; Zi month eastern fortune censorial. Si/Chou gathering Wealth or Mao/Wei Seal, with Wealth/Office/Seal emerging, greatly noble. Dinghai day/Xinhai hour is Day Nobility with all Three Wonders; monthly connection and strong Body noble. Mao/Wei three-harmony Seal greatly noble. A verse says: “Heavenly-Origin Ding day at Hai hour is rich, with a long easy road to blue clouds. Featherless chicken becomes phoenix, soaring through limitless prospects.” Another: “Ding day/Xinhai hour has Heavenly-Origin Emolument/Horse in one homeland. Jinshi office and court robes surely make a humble home's general or minister. Worthy wife, filial child and immeasurable dignity/power, rapid rise through bureaus and capital halls: truly Wealth/Office Born and Flourishing.” Translator's note: All six day groups and both poems remain, including the unusual Xin-month/Si-Hai clause and winter strong-Office warning.

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