Six Spirits

The Six Spirits supply symbolic details: Dragon for celebration or ceremony, Bird for speech or documents, Gou Chen for earth and entanglement, Snake for uncertainty or complications, Tiger for force or conflict, and Tortoise for concealed matters. Identify the relationship role first, then use Spirit imagery to elaborate its manner of presentation.

The Six Spirits, also called Six Beasts, cycle as Green Dragon, Vermilion Bird, Gou Chen, Coiling Snake, White Tiger and Dark Tortoise. Start the bottom line with Dragon for Jia/Yi, Bird for Bing/Ding, Gou Chen for Wu, Snake for Ji, Tiger for Geng/Xin and Tortoise for Ren/Gui, then continue upward and wrap around.

On a Geng day, the order is Tiger, Tortoise, Dragon, Bird, Gou Chen and Snake. Traditional imagery links the Bird with speech and documents, Gou Chen with earth and entanglement, and Tortoise with concealed matters. Spirits use the Day Stem; relationships use the palace element. Calculate the two label sets separately.

For a constructed document question, Parents with the Bird can elaborate writing, expression and communication. Bird on Siblings has a different subject role, so the same document interpretation cannot simply be copied.

The Six Spirits chapter in Zeng Shan Bu Yi treats this as a supplementary layer and argues against deciding outcomes from Dragon or Tiger alone. Explain the detail supplied by the imagery while tracing the operative relationships through focus, changes and calendar conditions.