Terminology Directory

The Day Master is the birth day's Heavenly Stem and the reference point for the Ten Gods. It is one chart coordinate, not a personality verdict.

Seven Killings is the Ten God that controls the Day Master with matching polarity. Its symbolism is read through strength, regulation, and the full chart.

Yong Shen names an element or Ten God a Bazi school treats as useful to the chart structure. Selection methods vary and require the complete chart.

Hurting Officer is the Output Ten God produced by the Day Master with opposite polarity. It is used to discuss expression, skill, and responses to rules.

Eating God is the Output Ten God produced by the Day Master with matching polarity. It is traditionally read through output, interests, and aesthetics.

Direct Officer controls the Day Master with opposite polarity. It concerns rules and responsibility; gendered readings are historical conventions.

Direct and Indirect Wealth are elements controlled by the Day Master, distinguished by polarity. They are symbolic resource roles, not financial forecasts.

Peach Blossom is a Shen Sha located from the year or day branch group. It is an auxiliary symbol for social, aesthetic, and relationship themes.

Direct and Indirect Resource generate the Day Master and differ by polarity. They symbolize learning and support, not mental-health traits.

Friend and Rob Wealth share the Day Master element and differ by polarity. They are used to discuss peers, cooperation, competition, and resource sharing.

Decade Luck Pillars are ten-year Bazi periods; Annual Pillars are yearly stem-branch markers. Both are compared with the natal chart for timing.

Chen, Xu, Chou, and Wei are the four Earth branches. Bazi calls them Tombs or Storehouses in growth-phase and hidden-stem analysis, depending on context.

Goat Blade is a Shen Sha or strength marker located from the Day Stem in some Bazi schools. It cannot by itself predict injury, illness, or behavior.

Traveling Horse is a Shen Sha found from the year or day branch group. It is used for movement and relocation themes, not accident or career predictions.

The Eight Trigrams are three-line structures named Qian, Kun, Zhen, Xun, Kan, Li, Gen, and Dui. Stacking two trigrams forms one of 64 hexagrams.

Yang is drawn as a solid line and Yin as a broken line. Three lines form a trigram, six form a hexagram, and Old Yin or Yang may become changing lines.

A hexagram stacks a lower or inner trigram under an upper or outer trigram. Inner-outer symbolism is a reading convention whose meaning depends on context.

A Nuclear Hexagram uses original lines 2-3-4 as its lower trigram and 3-4-5 as its upper trigram. It is an auxiliary view of the middle structure.

The King Wen Sequence is the received order of the 64 Zhouyi hexagrams, traditionally attributed to King Wen; its exact compilation history is uncertain.

The yarrow method repeatedly divides 49 of 50 stalks to derive line values 6, 7, 8, or 9. Its line probabilities differ from the three-coin method.

Gua Shen is an auxiliary Earthly Branch calculated from the Self Line in some Liuyao schools. Readers use it with line roles and strength, not alone.

An Dong is a Liuyao rule for a strong static line clashed by the Day Branch. It marks potential movement and is checked against month and line strength.

Xun Kong comes from the two unmatched Earthly Branches in each ten-unit stem-branch cycle. Bazi and Liuyao use it as a contextual timing marker.

Yue Po occurs when a line branch clashes with the Month Branch. Liuyao uses it to assess monthly strength alongside the day, movement, and line role.

A changing line is an Old Yin or Old Yang line that flips to form the relating hexagram. It is read with its position, line text, and both hexagrams.

Flying and Hidden Spirits are Najia placements used when a Six Kins role is absent. The hidden line comes from the palace hexagram.

Self and Object are fixed lines in Eight-Palace hexagrams, used as contextual coordinates for the querent and the other party or subject.

The Six Beasts are day-stem-based line markers in Liuyao. They add traditional imagery but do not establish facts or outcomes.

The Six Kins assign Parents, Siblings, Authority, Wealth, and Offspring roles to lines from their elemental relation to the palace element.

The primary hexagram is the cast structure; the relating hexagram results from flipping changing lines. Together they frame change in a reading.

Supporting, hostile, and opposing spirits name lines that generate or control the Useful God and each other. They map the Liuyao support-control chain.

The Twelve Growth Phases map each Heavenly Stem through twelve branch positions from Birth to Nurturing. They are a traditional model of relative strength.

Six-Clash and Six-Harmony hexagrams are classified by branch relations among their lines. They suggest separation or cohesion only within the full reading.

Wandering Soul and Returning Soul are fixed positions in the Eight-Palace sequence. Their movement and return symbolism is not a psychological assessment.