天干地支 HS / EB - Part 21 HS - YHZP Wu and Ji

戊 Wu Earth

戊土城墙堤岸同，振江河海要根重，
Wu Earth is like the castle wall or river banks, to hold rivers and seas its roots have to be heavy.

柱中带合形还壮，日下乘虚势必崩。
Meeting combination in the pillar(s)? its shape is still strong, under the day sitting on 'fake' (unsupported) it will collapse.

力薄不胜金漏泄，功成安用木疏通。
If its strength is thin, it will not win metals exhaustion, to be successful, it's good to use wood to tilt and let through.

平生最爱东南健，身旺东南健失中。
It likes east and south the most, when its prosperous go east and south but when it's lost. middle.

Implied meaning:

In order to contain Water, Wu earth has to be strongly rooted.
Meeting Gui to combine, Wu earth is still strong (as combination fire engenders earth)
Wu Zi pillar is inauspicious
Does not like metal when it's weak, 
To be successful, it needs wood
When it's strong it likes Wood and fire, 
When it's weak it likes Earth. 

Ji Earth

已土田园属四维.坤深为万物之基，
Ji earth as fields and gardens it belongs to the four corners (NE, SE, NW and SW), Kun is deep as it's the base of thousand beings

水金旺处身还弱.火土功成局最奇，
It's still weak at the place where water and metal are prosperous, it's most marvelous when fire and earth complete the work.

失令岂能埋剑戟.得时方能用磁基，
Losing the command, how can it bury swords and lances? gaining the season only it can be used loadstone. 

谩夸印旺遇多合.不遇刑冲总不宜
Prosperous resources with meeting many combinations are fake overestimation, not meeting punishment and clashes it will always not be beneficial

Implied meaning
Ji earth is weak at Chou and Shen, as metal and water exhaust earth. At these places fire and earth are beneficial.
Without support of the season, earth cannot withstand metal, when it's in season it can use metal.
Strong Fire and meeting combination is not really auspicious
Sitting on Si or Wei combination is not beneficial, clashes and punishments are beneficial