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Yuanhai Ziping · The Deep Sea of Ziping Astrology
Heart Mirror, Portents and Rhapsodies
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Song of the Heart Mirror
Human wealth and rank are all allotted beforehand;
the practitioner must explain them carefully.
Heaven's stars can add their influences;
the song calls this teaching free from error.
Hour, year and established month meeting the natal position:
this is where the Fortune Source is selected.
At the longevity source's combination there is no truth, as the line reads;
this account is not stated vainly.
Officer, Emolument, Nobleman and Horse meeting combination or punishment
bring fame at a single attempt.
A day in distinguished territory seeing Emolument and Horse
passes the examinations in vigorous adulthood.
Hour and day meeting Emolument and Horse positions
must give pure, distinguished office.
The five phases unmixed in hour and day
often give prominent office.
Repeated Yang Blade with Killings
gives great distinction and examination success.
The Three Wonders connected with Emolument and Horse
fill the world with reputation.
The day seated on a Food branch and combining stems
points to the Nine Ministers and Three Excellencies.
Jiazi and Jisi have one teaching:
the formula of Heavenly Virtue obtaining combination.
Bingzi and Guisi are considered with the preceding:
office among the Three Excellencies and ministers.
Wood meeting Metal without injury to self
sits centrally in the two administrations.
Fire meeting Water gives military authority:
a general guards the frontier.
Metal meeting Fire gives great authority:
regional office as an inspector.
Water meeting Earth and entering a Metal frame
suits service among attendants.
Earth meeting Wood makes proper Emolument:
the fortune of the Eight Seats and Three Terraces.
The year obtaining the month's Emolument is no joy;
take the day's distinction as master.
Nobleman at birth meeting Solitary and Widow
certainly makes a monk.
Voided Officer and Emolument meeting Nobleman
wear plain robes as an eminent monk.
The five phases without qi keeping Solitary and Widow
must make a religious practitioner.
Void, punishment, harm and Imprisonment
make a monk or a wrapped-head religious figure.
To know whether a chart holds authority,
flourishing Food Spirit must be complete.
Clashing Yang Blade with further Killings injury
must lead to the execution ground.
Di Killings encountered seated cross-legged, as the line puts it,
makes an evil ghost dying in penal prison.
Wheat Field meeting the Emperor Star
clearly determines banishment and exile.
Great Harm holding authority often gives early death:
in youth, Blade and Killings are met.
The day meeting Officer Ghost and repeated punishment
clearly gives a bad death.
Blade influence and Robbery Harm occupying the two ends
give dreams of Heaven's road in early years.
Emolument and Horse both meeting Extinction territory
make toil difficult to escape.
Month meeting hour in punishment and clash
makes the foundation utterly empty.
Officer in the hour at Birth and Flourishing
sets descendants in orderly ranks.
Facing Emolument, reaching Wealth and awaiting Officer
gives distinction and household property.
Pure Officer in day and month without Wealth
instead gives no official distinction.
Mao punishes Zi and Zi punishes Mao;
Gui and Yi mutually punishing give distinction.
Zi comes to clash with Wu;
Wei punishes Xu;
Jia and Yi meeting Shen display a distinguished name.
Emolument and Horse both extinct yet Wealth develops:
the Human Prime restrains it forth.
Why speak of obtaining one and distinguishing three?
It is Emolument and Horse Flying to Heaven.
The year combining with hour and day divides at two ends;
seek the distinction carefully.
A gentleman receives an audience to report to the ruler;
an ordinary person encounters disaster and obscuration.
What can regret and retreat in the heart accomplish?
Repeated yang strips official position.
Emolument in the pillars with Wealth in the cycle
lets gold and jade come from Heaven.
Though the preceding sayings distinguish high and low,
major luck cycles must also be examined.
Cycles meeting Emolument and Horse
generally bring advancement into office.
Heavenly and Lunar Virtues provide rescue:
a hundred disasters do no harm.
Facing Emolument and reaching Wealth is remarkable;
distinction gives official resources.
Emolument and Horse together with Nobleman in the chart
bring fortune, Emolument, pearls and treasures.
A noble gentleman seated on punishment and harmful influences
becomes known and rises young.
Assess yin and yang, distinction and lowliness;
understand them thoroughly within the mind.
Day, hour, self and chart have many varieties;
use the key through adaptable understanding.
The unusual longevity-source negation and the supplied Di Killings and Wheat Field expressions are preserved, without inventing missing star identities.
Rhapsody on Ominous and Auspicious Portents
Chart principles are deep and subtle, and Ziping can infer them. First take the day stem, then examine the month's command. Year and hour jointly show good and ill. The account claims no error concerning years and months; compare success and failure together, leaving no fortune or disaster out. Unseen forms require scrutiny, and threads of differentiation are difficult for later students to know.
Heaven is clear and Earth turbid; naturally one receives a single qi at birth.
Proper distinction of the five phases dislikes punishment, clash, restraint and break.
Stems and branches favor threefold and sixfold combination.
Yin, Shen, Si and Hai are Long Life for Wealth, Officer and Resource.
Chen, Xu, Chou and Wei are remarkable treasuries of Emolument, Horse and Resource.
Day Noble and Hour Noble strongly forbid punishment, clash, restraint and break.
Arching Emolument and Nobleman most fear filling the arched position, punishment and clash.
Observe combination where no combination appears: meeting harm need not be harmful.
Hurting Officer in the year dislikes cycles reaching Officer territory.
Yang Blade clashing or combining with the annual sovereign brings disaster when the cycle arrives.
Chen-Xu Kuigang dislikes Officer and fears Seven Killings.
Metal Spirit and Day Blade favor Seven Killings but dislike punishment and clash.
Indirect Officer in the hour requires control, with weak self and strong Officer as stated here.
Exclusive Killings must not meet flourishing Ghost; control is needed for strength. Examine original presence or absence, an encounter that may be no encounter, and obtain balanced qi.
Xinhai repeatedly meeting Chou fears filling the position and dislikes Officer. Pattern: Flying-to-Heaven Emolument and Horse. The supplied name here is Xinhai.
A Jiazi day again meeting the Zi hour dislikes Chou and Wu, and fears Geng, Xin, Ren, Gui, Hai and Zi. Pattern: Zi Distantly Inviting Si.
Emolument and Horse Flying to Heaven has Li, Xun—Si—and Bing-Ding gathering at Si and Wu.
Reverse-Clashing Heavenly Emolument and Ren Riding the Dragon's Back have many Chen clashing with Xu Officer.
Yi using Bingzi gathers distinction and reputation. The supplied pattern label is Yisi Rat Noblemen.
Alas, Wealth in a chart with qi need not be poor despite turning from Emolument. Extinct Wealth and a declining chart cannot become rich even with Established Emolument.
Gui reaching Gen's mountain—Yin—fears Geng and Xin and forbids Wu Earth. Pattern: Punishment Combination.
Ren meeting Chou dislikes Wu and Ji and fears Geng Metal.
Geng meeting Shen-Zi-Chen is Well-Rail Fork, also called Entering the Frame. It dislikes Bing and Ding and fears Si and Wu. Pattern: Well-Rail Fork.
Wu seeing the Shen hour fears Jia and Bing and also dislikes Yin and Mao. Pattern: Combining Emolument.
Xin Metal meeting Ji Earth is called a Following Pattern and Refined Qi. Fire injury in all Four Pillars without rescue gives disaster and obstruction.
A Xin day in a Wuzi hour dislikes much Zi and fears clash with the day. Pattern: Six Yin Facing Yang.
Yang Water meeting Chen and seeing Wu and Ji finds disaster difficult to escape.
Jia seeing Ji in the hour is called Indirect Wealth here; cycles favor Wealth territory.
A Ding day in a Xin year is called Annual Wealth; a cycle meeting Wu gives distinction.
Yi meeting Shen strictly dislikes punishment and clash.
Day and hour Returning Emolument suffer disaster upon meeting Officer. Pattern: Returning Emolument.
Other cases—Heavenly Clash and Earthly Strike, Yin Error and Yang Error, Craving Combination and Forgetting Officer, or Robber before Wealth—find distinguished reputation difficult to achieve.
Craving Combination and Forgetting Killings, with strong self, brings timely fortune and increased Emolument.
Hidden Officer and exposed Killings, when controlled, can still shine.
Exposed Officer and hidden Killings, with weak self, eventually meet trouble.
Weak self welcomes flourishing cycles.
Strong self most loves Killings territory.
Approaching factors advance; those whose work is complete retreat. Repeated wealth and distinction can be remarkable. Infer through adaptation; the author claims no error.
Rhapsody of Interwoven Threads.
Investigate Heaven and Earth's mysteries and creation's hidden workings. Distinguish rank and lowliness through rules taken from stems and branches; decide good and ill of life and death and infer the hidden workings of gain and loss.
Jia-Yi Wood most likes spring birth.
Ren-Gui Water especially suits winter flourishing.
Bing-Ding Fire shines in summer.
Geng-Xin Metal is sharp in autumn.
The Earth of Wu and Ji needs flourishing in the concluding periods of the four seasons.
The day is self: investigate strength and weakness.
The year is foundation and master: infer carefully.
The year stem is father and its branch mother.
The day stem is self and its branch wife.
The month stem is elder brother and its branch younger.
The hour branch is daughter and its stem son.
Later Killings restraining the year brings early loss of parents.
Earlier Killings restraining the later positions must injure children.
Horse entering the wife's palace gives a woman able to manage a household.
Killings in the child's position brings a disobedient son.
Emolument entering the wife's palace lets one live on her means.
Resource in the child's position brings honor through the child.
Owl in the child's position breaks the ancestral foundation.
Wealth and Officer flourishing in the month give the father's property.
Injured Wealth and scant Emolument are forbidden.
Flourishing Ghost and declining self are most disliked.
At the root, what self restrains is Wealth and what generates self Resource.
Food Spirit appearing secretly makes a full, plump person.
Repeated Owl Resource scatters ancestral Wealth.
Salty Pool with exposed Wealth signifies sexual excess and luxury.
Harmful Killings combining with the year calls for guarding against self-inflicted blade injury.
Earth restraining Water produces internal abdominal disease.
Fire refining Metal brings depletion illness.
Peach Blossom joining Emolument loses life through wine and sexual indulgence.
Flourishing Wealth with declining self loses life through Wealth.
Wealth generating Officer uses gifts to seek office; Wealth damaging Resource gives greed and dismissal.
Flourishing Wealth generating Officer makes self prominent.
Wealth generating and allying with Killings gives childhood death.
One Killings clashed and broken makes an incapacitated, idle person.
The many Killings meeting punishment make a fierce, cruel person.
Many heavenly stems, meeting their stem in the year, must give early death.
Many earthly branches, meeting their branch in the year, must give disaster.
Wealth generates Officer, Officer Resource, and Resource self: wealth and distinction are complete.
Stems ally with Wealth, Wealth with Killings, and Killings attacks self: harm and poverty press together.
You and Yin in punishment and harm continue to injure marriage.
Chou and Mao, Wind and Thunder, give much impatience.
Mixed Killings and Officer make a person of practical arts.
Wealth and Emolument generating Horse make a trader.
Horse falling into Void gives moving and wandering.
Clashed and broken Emolument means leaving one's native place.
Much yin benefits women.
Abundant yang suits men.
Yin exceeding yang means a woman builds up the household.
Yang exceeding yin means a man establishes the family.
Pure yang must leave a man lonely and poor.
Pure yin leaves a woman widowed and distressed.
Officer distinction in the birth year, with harmful influences subdued, leaves a name for ages.
Noble influences should be numerous.
Emolument should be few.
Put aside anxious calculation and distracted thought: no deviation, no error.
The supplied Xinhai and Yisi labels, Jia-Ji Indirect Wealth description, branch relations and differing favorable rules are retained without substitution from another passage.
Rhapsody on Assessing the Heart
People dwell within the six directions, and the heart's appearance follows the five phases. To know a lifetime, distinguish form and examine nature.
Officer is gracious and amiable, with elevated distinguished qi, a leisurely, humane and generous nature, an open heart, harmonious voice, beautiful refined bearing and quick intelligence.
Resource gives much wisdom, a full body, ease and kindness.
Food Spirit enjoys food and drink, has a substantial body and likes singing.
Indirect Officer and Seven Killings wield force above the Three Excellencies, like wine and sex, favor contention and fighting, love proud bearing, support the weak against the strong, have tiger-like temperament and wind-like haste.
Owl Resource holding power uses strategy, begins diligently but ends lazily, loves learning arts but learns much and completes little.
Indirect Resource, Robber and Blade leave ancestors and home. Outwardly modest, harmonious and righteous, inwardly they are called cruel and ignorant, exploitative and without compassion.
Exposed Direct and Indirect Wealth give generosity and loyalty, a liking for people's flattery, discussion of others' rights and wrongs, wine and romantic indulgence.
Hurting Officer that has injured Officer completely gives many arts and talents, strategy and proud disdain, much cunning, insult to others and great ambition, high cheekbones, prominent bones, large eyes and thick brows.
Day Virtue is kind and steady, acting with benevolence.
Kuigang has a stern, disciplined nature and intelligence.
Day Noble and Night Noble, with morning and evening glory, give purity, beauty and humane virtue without pride or extravagance.
Metal Spirit as a distinguished pattern is remarkable in Fire territory: decisive, perceptive talent without exploitation or deceit.
Yisi Rat Noblemen meeting Wu's clash becomes as poor as Master Yan.
Ren Riding the Dragon's Back broken by Ding has desire compared to Shen Cheng.
Well-Rail Fork and Flying to Heaven have hearts disdainful of others.
Punishment Combination and Hastening to Gen—Yin—have ample wisdom and much benevolence.
The Six Jia Hastening to Qian—Hai—are humane, firm and balanced in heart. Pattern: Six Jia Hastening to Qian.
The five yin stems forming a frame are called Buddha-mouthed and snake-hearted.
The Two Virtues with Resource generation act benevolently and spread kindness.
If the five phases transform, infer according to the resulting qi.
If the Four Pillars lack favorable relation, judge by the original stem.
Blazing Fire and dry Earth give a loud voice and fondness for propriety. Clear Water moistening downward gives understanding speech and benevolent action.
White Metal and clear Water give a dark, plump, round physique, as the source states.
Thick, weighty Earth qi keeps faith through the four seasons.
When gathered in accord, the results are as described; out of season, they reverse. This is only a broad outline: examine the subtleties. Students seeking the underlying relations should apply their minds here.
Rhapsody on the Hidden Mechanism
The Great Ultimate divides into Heaven and Earth; one qi separates into yin and yang.
Take the day stem as master and focus on Wealth and Officer.
Select the pattern from the month branch and distinguish high and low status.
A pattern that is not proper fails.
No pattern but a useful influence succeeds.
With Officer, do not seek a pattern.
With a pattern, Officer is favored.
Unbroken Officer, Resource, Wealth and Food give purity and elevation.
Killings, Hurting Officer, Owl and Blade become favorable when used.
Good and evil mingled together favor removing Killings and following good.
Mixed favorable and unfavorable influences forbid injuring the favorable and turning it harmful.
Officer and Killings together need strong self; controlling Killings is remarkable.
Officer and Resource together fear flourishing Wealth; assisting Wealth brings disaster.
Strong self with slight Killings is not harmed by Killings cycles.
Heavy Killings with light self gains fortune in controlling territory.
Strong self and much Resource favor Wealth territory.
Much Wealth and weak self fear Wealth territory.
A man meeting Peer, Robber and Hurting Officer harms wife and children.
A woman meeting Hurting Officer and Indirect Resource loses children and punishes husband.
Early loss of both parents comes from excessive Wealth.
Lonely harm to relations comes from strong self without support.
Year clashing with the month's command means leaving ancestors and establishing a home.
Day breaking and clashing the governing outline breaks the marriage string, then joins it anew.
Hour and day in direct clash injure wife and children.
Day communicating with the month's command lets one settle through ancestral support.
Wood growing in spring borrows Geng and Xin as authority.
Fire born in summer gains ample fortune from Ren and Gui.
Earth meeting Chen, Xu, Chou and Wei gains fame through heavy Wood.
Metal seated amid Shen and You develops fortune in Fire territory.
Water dwelling at Hai and Zi is difficult for Wu and Ji to invade.
Self seated in Rest and Imprisonment remains unfulfilled throughout life.
Strong self welcomes Emolument and Horse.
Weak self forbids Wealth and Officer.
Obtaining the season is judged as flourishing.
Losing the season is judged as declining.
Even rootless Four Pillars flourish if they obtain the season.
A day stem without qi becomes strong on meeting Robber.
Weak self favors Resource.
A flourishing master suits Officer.
Broken Wealth, Officer and Resource accomplish nothing.
Removing Killings, Hurting Officer, Owl and Robber brings fortune.
Jia and Yi born in autumn with exposed Metal prosper through Water, Wood and Fire cycles.
Bing and Ding descending in winter amid vast Water gain distinction in Fire, Earth and Wood directions.
Wu and Ji born in spring have rescue in the southwest.
Geng and Xin growing in summer are unharmed by Water and Earth cycles.
Ren and Gui meeting flourishing Earth prosper through Metal and Wood.
Weak self with Resource is unharmed by flourishing Killings, but forbids Wealth territory.
Hurting Officer that injures Officer completely is unharmed by Officer cycles.
Hurting Officer using Resource should remove Wealth.
Hurting Officer using Wealth should remove Resource.
If Hurting Officer, Wealth and Resource are all manifest, how can fortune develop? Strong self uses Wealth; weak self Resource. Using Wealth removes Resource; using Resource removes Wealth. Only then does greater fortune develop. This is retaining the favored and removing the disliked.
Much Wealth and weak self gain glory when self flourishes.
Strong self with declining Wealth develops fortune in flourishing-Wealth territory.
Repeated Officer requires control.
Repeated Food Spirit must avoid Officer territory.
Stubborn Metal without Fire cannot achieve great use.
Strong Wood without Metal finds a pure reputation hard to establish.
Much Water obtaining Earth accumulates much Wealth.
Fire flames meeting waves—the Water influence—gain high Emolument and office.
Officer and Resource present: without break, no glory, as this line reads.
Without Resource or Officer, a pattern can still confer distinction.
Yang Blade patterns favor Indirect Officer.
Metal Spirit especially needs control.
Mixed-qi Wealth and Officer develop through punishment and clash.
Excessive Officer distinction must topple where it flourishes.
Excessively strong self welcomes Wealth and Officer.
An excessively soft master does not suit Emolument and Horse.
Flourishing Officer, Resource and Wealth suffer disaster on entering Tomb.
Hurting Officer and Food Spirit together with strong self meet disaster in Treasury.
The distinction of luck cycles is selected through branches.
The year's weight is sought through stems.
Much Resource develops through Wealth cycles.
Flourishing Wealth need not fear Peer.
A pure pattern and proper frame give wealth, rank and glory.
Flourishing Resource and Officer give exceptional reputation.
Combining Officer is not taken as distinction.
Combining Killings must not be inferred as harmful.
Peach Blossom carrying Killings favors elopement in the source's judgment.
Canopy meeting Void gives much harsh exploitation.
Lifelong failure to develop comes from Rest and Imprisonment in the Eight Characters.
A lifetime without authority comes from declining self meeting Ghost.
Strong self should be drained and injured.
Declining self likes support and assistance.
Receive balanced qi; allow neither excess nor insufficiency.
Follow this method in detail, and the author claims fortune and disaster verify like shadow and echo.
The supplied no-break/no-glory clause is retained alongside different rules elsewhere; it is not silently rewritten as a promise of distinction.
Rhapsody on Hidden Subtleties
Heaven and Earth's two qi, yin and yang, descend in spring, summer, autumn and winter, each giving birth in its season. What has use is favorable; what lacks use unfavorable. Thus the text reveals the subtle principle of Heaven's mechanism and discusses the Great Way's hidden workings.
Heaven gives birth to people, each with a chart.
Early wealth and rank come when the Eight Characters, cycles and life periods all harmonize. Midlife solitude comes when the five phases meet Death, Extinction and Defeat.
Adoption and entering another household are divided between year and month.
Following mother to another husband comes with voided Indirect Wealth and flourishing Resource.
Early loss of father comes from Indirect Wealth in Death, Extinction or a Killings palace.
Separation from mother in childhood comes from much Wealth and dead Resource.
Many Peers make siblings unfeeling.
Many Yang Blades damage the wife's palace.
Officer meeting dead qi makes a child difficult to obtain.
Excessive Hurting Officer also makes children difficult to keep.
Clashing and breaking the governing outline must separate one from the ancestral estate. Added Void brings repeated abandonment and failure.
Resource meeting generation makes mother worthy and distinguished.
Indirect Officer returning to Emolument must make father prominent, as this passage states.
Officer in flourishing Emolument territory makes children honored and prominent.
Seven Killings at Long Life gives a daughter a poor husband.
Self born through a borrowed palace must live dependent on others.
A wife star losing the season brings separation along the way. If born through a borrowed palace, she is another person's adopted daughter.
Rampant wine and sexual indulgence come from Peach Blossom carrying Killings.
Kindness and quick understanding come when Heavenly and Lunar Virtues gather.
Flourishing Resource gives few children and sparse offspring.
Flourishing Direct Officer gives many daughters and few sons.
Rising Owl gives early death.
Flourishing Food Spirit gives advanced longevity.
Indirect Wealth meeting Defeat means a romantic father; if the child luminary arrives, household and property are ruined.
Self meeting Defeat gives rise and decline in early years.
Wife entering Tomb prevents obtaining her Wealth.
Father reaching Treasury means father dies first.
Peer meeting Emolument gives siblings a high reputation.
Much Food Spirit gives love of food and drink.
Flourishing Direct Officer receives nourishment and benefit.
Self reaching a Bathing year must fear water disaster.
Life entering a year of battle and restraint must meet fire disaster.
A woman carrying Peach Blossom seated on Killings is classified as eloping.
Much injury with Resource restrained means an unchaste mother in the source's judgment.
Year and month clashing make the ancestral estate difficult.
Day and hour clashing delay wife and children.
Punishment and battle in the Heavenly Prime make parents unreliable. Generation from the branches can turn harm favorable.
Weak day master with Water and Fire battling brings disputes.
Declining Jia Wood meeting flourishing Metal is called without benevolence or righteousness. These are the hidden workings of men's charts.
To outline women's subtle workings, purity lies in the Eight Characters.
Pure wealth and distinction come from one Officer in Birth and Flourishing.
All Four Pillars in Rest and Imprisonment must confer distinction, as this copy says.
Turbidity and sexual impropriety come from the five phases clashing into strength.
Prostitution and sexual excess are attributed to crossing Officer and Killings.
Many combinations of the chart master are called improper.
Killings filling the pillars are not restrained.
Much Resource leaves no children in old age.
Flourishing Hurting Officer injures husband in youth.
Excessive Food Spirit is called dissolute desire.
Absence of the husband star in all Four Pillars is not considered chastity.
Extinct Officer meeting Rest and Imprisonment gives solitary widowhood.
A clear, pure source and stream come from meeting Metal Pig.
Wood Tiger appearing gives three husbands among the Four Pillars.
Repeated Yang Blade, with Water and Fire meeting Snake, gives early loss in the husband's palace.
One Food Spirit in Birth and Flourishing: in seeking a son, reverence is due to the sage and enlightened, as the line says.
Judge the parents' palaces as in men's charts. Keep this book like a treasure; meeting a discerning master makes matters clear as in a mirror. The author claims that following the method never fails.
The favorable Rest/Imprisonment assertion, Indirect Officer as a paternal indication, and supplied animal and phase expressions are retained without reconciling them with other passages.
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