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Chapter 24 of 46
Wu Xing Jing Ji — Essential Records of the Five Elements
This chapter systematically explains the formation principles and real-world manifestations of various wealth stars in Eight Characters astrology. Wealth stars represent opportunities for wealth, material resources, and business capabilities, but their specific effects require comprehensive analysis based on the rise and fall of the Five Elements and the coordination of patterns.
Day Masters Jia and Yi (Wood) encountering Wu and Ji (Earth) → Wealth Star
Day Masters Bing and Ding (Fire) encountering Geng and Xin (Metal) → Wealth Star
Day Masters Wu and Ji (Earth) encountering Ren and Gui (Water) → Wealth Star
Day Masters Geng and Xin (Metal) encountering Jia and Yi (Wood) → Wealth Star
Day Masters Ren and Gui (Water) encountering Bing and Ding (Fire) → Wealth Star
(Quoted from Lin Kai Wu Ming)
Nayin Heavenly Wealth: The Nayin's inherent stem carries the true Five Elements wealth star and shows a combination. For example, a Yi Hai (Nayin Fire) person encountering the heavenly stem Geng → Fire overcomes Metal as wealth, and Yi and Geng combine. Indicates a life of abundance and comfort 🌱, with little experience of poverty.
Goes beyond surface stem-branch combinations (e.g., Jia encountering Wu), delving into the transformation level of the Five Elements:
Stem-branch combinations form wealth stars. For example:
Specific stem-branch combinations form Growth-Combination Wealth Stars:
Jia encounters Wu and Gui, Yi encounters Ji and Jia, Bing encounters Geng and Yi, Ding encounters Xin and Bing
Wu encounters Ren and Ding, Ji encounters Gui and Wu, Geng encounters Jia and Ji, Xin encounters Yi and Geng
Ren encounters Bing and Xin, Gui encounters Ding and Ren
Indicates building success from nothing 🏗️, with prospects of wealth and nobility.
The Five Elements of the Year Pillar's Nayin → generate the Five Elements of the Month Pillar (e.g., a Wood life person born in a Fire month) → Fire is the child of Wood, and wealth is gained through the child, indicating a life full of joyful events 🎉.
The prosperous energy of the native衍生 wealth stars (e.g., a Fire life person encountering a Fire month and Earth day/hour → Fire generates Earth as wealth), indicating layered accumulation of wealth.
Specific Three Combinations encountering Heavenly Stem combinations:
Three Combinations encountering specific stems and branches:
The Food God appears prominently and meets the tomb (e.g., a Wu Zi Fire person encountering Geng Xu → Wu eats Geng, Fire’s tomb is in Xu, and the Xin Metal in Xu is overcome as wealth), indicating a life of abundant salary and rank.
Wealth stars reside in positions of Longevity (e.g., Jia Wood encountering Wu Shen, Gui Water encountering Bing Yin), indicating easy gains of unexpected wealth or seeking wealth abroad 🌍.
Nayin overcomes the ghost star in the stem (e.g., Ding Mao Nayin Fire encountering Yi Geng Metal → Fire overcomes Metal, controlling the ghost as wealth).
Such people often start in unconventional fields, as intermediaries, or through technical skills 🎨, or work as public officials, often building wealth from nothing.
If accompanied by Chen, Xu, Chou, or Wei, they often gain wealth through technical skills; if combinations involve heavy penalties or killings, they may easily engage in gray income, and bad luck could lead to wealth-related disasters ⚖️.
Wealth stars enter the tomb (e.g., Wu and Ji Earth overcoming Water as wealth, Water’s tomb is in Chen), indicating piling up gold and jade 🏦.
Example: The命 of Top Scholar Bi
Embedded chart
| Pillars | Year | Month | Day | Hour |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ten Gods | 正印 | 伤官 | Self (M) | 偏财 |
| Stem | 己 | 癸 | 庚 | 甲 |
| Branch | 亥 | 酉 | 辰 | 申 |
| Hidden Stems | 壬食甲才 | 辛劫 | 戊枭乙财癸伤 | 庚比壬食戊枭 |
| Stage | 病 | 帝旺 | 养 | 建 |
Year Stem controls the Monthly Construction (e.g., Jia or Yi Wood year person born in Chen, Xu, Chou, or Wei Earth months), indicating high position and powerful authority 🎖️.
Nayin wealth is numerous and prosperous → wealthy and generous;
Wealth star in death or tomb → wealthy but stingy and greedy, or gaining inheritance or windfall wealth ⚰️.
Day Master is too weak to control the wealth star (e.g., Ren Yin Metal weak encountering Wu Chen Wood strong), instead the wealth star consumes the body, damaging energy and luck 📉.
Wealth star faces robbery killing and decline (e.g., Bing Chen Earth life encountering Gui Si, Water wealth is exhausted in Si, and Si is also the robbery killing), indicates small gains and big losses 💔, be cautious of disasters caused by wealth.
Wealth stars are not just symbols of wealth but represent resource control, risk tolerance, and value creation capabilities. The ancients constructed a complex system to assess personal wealth potential through the interactions of the Five Elements and pattern combinations.
The essence of wealth is energy flow—the Five Elements overcoming each other as wealth reveals that "value arises from restraint and transformation." Individuals must seek dynamic balance between "taking" and "giving," "risk" and "stability."