Flying & Hidden Spirits

Hidden Spirit addresses where to locate a required relationship absent from the visible chart. Flying is the visible layer; Hidden is borrowed at the matching position. Flying generating or controlling Hidden describes support or restriction between those layers. Hidden is not an invented unknown person: palace and line position determine its source.

Najia assigns relationships from the palace element. When a required relationship is missing, find it in the palace’s pure hexagram and place it beneath the same line position in the primary chart. The borrowed line is Hidden and the original visible line Flying. Their positions must match.

Gou belongs to Qian’s metal palace and lacks Wood Wealth. Borrow Qian’s second-line Yin wood beneath Gou’s second line. Gou’s visible Hai water is Flying, and water generates the hidden wood. Next assess the two layers’ strength, void, breaks and day/month interactions separately.

Use Gou as a structural money example: absent Wood Wealth is borrowed as second-line Yin beneath Hai water. First locate the focus; second identify Hai generating Yin; third examine Yin’s season, void or clash conditions. Location, relationship and effectiveness are three separate steps.

Compare Dun: at that position the visible line is Wu fire, and hidden Yin wood generates it. This is Hidden generating Flying. Both borrow Qian’s Yin, but different visible lines create different relationships. Identifying a Hidden Spirit is only the starting point.