DayMaster 日主

DayMaster 日主

YHZP says:

予尝观唐书所载，有李虚中者，取人所生年月日时干支生剋，论命之贵贱寿夭之说，已详之矣！
I have already seen the record in Tang's (dynasty) book, as in Li XuZhong, uses a person birth year, month, day and hour, analyzes the engendering and countering relationships of the stems and branches, to determine the subject's nobility, lowliness, longevity or short-life, and I have gone through in detail.

至于宋时，方有子平之说；取日干为主，以年为根，以月为苗，以日为花，以时为果；
And as for the Song's (dynasty) period, there's the way of saying by ZiPing, Taken Day Stem as the Master, Year as the root, Month as sprout, Day as flower and Hour as fruit.

以生旺死绝休囚制化，决人生休咎。其理必然矣，复有何疑哉！
With Birth, Prosperity, Death, Extinction, At Rest, Trapped, Control and transformation to decide a person's auspiciousness or inauspiciousness. The principle is natural, no doubt about that!

一曰官，分之阴阳，曰官、曰杀，甲乙见庚辛也；
One is named 'Officer' is separated according to Yin and Yang, named Officer or named Killing, like Jia and Yi seeing Geng and Xin;

二曰财，分之阴阳，曰正财、偏财，甲乙见戊己也；
Two is named Wealth, separated according to Yin and Yang, named Direct (Conventional) Wealth or Indirect (unconventional) wealth, like Jia and Yi meeting Wu and Ji.

三曰生气之阴阳，曰印綬、曰倒食，甲乙见壬癸是也；
Three is named Engendering Qi of Yin and Yang,named 'Seal (an authority stamp) and the ribbon attached to it, named 'Pouring away food', like Jia and Yi meeting Ren and Gui.

四曰窃气之阴阳，曰食神、曰伤官，甲乙见丙丁是也；
Four is named Stealing Qi of Yin and Yang, is named the 'Food God' named 'Hurting Officer', Jia and Yi meeting Bing and Ding it is.

五曰同类之阴阳，曰劫财、曰阳刃，甲乙见甲乙是也。
Five is named the Same Kind of Yin and Yang, is named Rob Wealth, named Yang's blade, Jia and Yi meeting Jia and Yi it is.

大抵贵贱寿夭死生，皆不出于五者；
Generally, Noble or Lowly, long live or short live, death and birth are not out of these 5.

倘有妄立格局，从列其名，而无实用，其飞天禄马、倒冲井栏叉，即伤官，析而为之。
In case of absurd structures, there's a list of names, they are not really usable, like 飞天禄马, 倒冲, 井栏叉 (these 3 are special structures), are Hurting Officer, only of separate type.

举此一端，餘可知矣！
Seeing from this aspect, the rest can be known!

以日为主，年为本，月为提纲，时为辅佐。
Take the day as the Master, Year as the Base, Month as the Essential or Boundary, Hour as Assistant.

以日为主，大要看日加临于甚度，或身旺？或身弱？又看地支有何格局？
With day as the Master, is important to see if it adds up and arrives to what degree, or is Self prosperous, of is Self weak? and also see the branches have what structure.

金木水火土之数；后看月令中金木水火土，何者旺？又看岁运有何旺？却次日下消详。
Calculation of the five elements, after that look at the element inside the month's decree, which is prosperous? and also look at year and luck, which is prosperous? This should be analyzed in detail after analyzing the day.

此非是拘之一隅之说也。
This is not a biased or one sided view.

且如甲子日生，四柱中有个申字，合用子辰为水局；次看餘辰有何损益？
E.g, born in JiaZi day, in four pillars there's Shen, to combine with Zi and Chen to form a water frame, nect is to look at the remain of Chen, what has suffered damage and what has benefited?

四柱中有何字，损其甲子日主之秀气？
In the four pillars, which characters would  damage DayMaster JiaZi's Qi?

有坏其月神，则要别制之，不要益之。
If it's damaging the Month's God, it's necessary to be restrained, and not to be supported. 

论命者切不可泥之，月令消详；故表而出之。
Those discuss life must not be casual (careless), month's decree must be analyzed in detail; as one dresses when he goes out (meaning it's the logical thing to do).