Trey: Five elements refers to the DM and all the gods in the chart. Being born prosperous or having Qi is an advantage because when LP goes to the places where the element is 'dead' or 'extinct', it can still function well.
寅申巳亥，四生之局；用物身强，遇之发福。
Yin-Shen-Si-Hai, the structures of 4 births; usable substances and self prosperous, meeting this is successful
Trey: Yin, Shen, Si and Hai are 4 places where elements are born, Yin is the birthplace of fire and earth, Shen of water (and earth), Si of metal and Hai of wood. Usable substances refer to Useful Gods, for example earth born in Shen can use Wealth, fire born in Shen can use Officer. Wealth and Officer gets ChangSheng Qi from the Month EB and together with a strong DM, the chart becomes a good structure.
辰戌丑未，四库之神；人元三用，透旺为真。
Chen-Xu-Chou-Wei, the gods of 4 storages; the Human Origin gets 3 uses, protrusion and prosperous are regarded as true.
Trey: This verse talks about DM born in the month of the earth, all 3 Qis contained in the earth can be used when they protrude and they are prosperous.
Take for example Jia born in Xu, Xu contains earth as the main Qi, which is Wealth, metal as the residual Qi, which is Officer and fire as storage Qi which is the output. The true Useful God is the one that protrudes or is prosperous.
子午卯西，四败之局；男犯兴衰，女犯孤独。
Zi-Wu-Mao-You, the structures of 4 defeats'; committed by men denotes rise and fall. committed by women denotes loneliness.
Trey: I have no idea why it is like this.
Hi Trey,
ReplyDeletesi yan du bu is made up of four words verses that compressed a concept(s) together. Because it is so simplified, we can interpret it in many ways.
For example,
寅申巳亥，四生之局；用物身强，遇之发福。
Your quote: Yin-Shen-Si-Hai, the structures of 4 births; usable substances and self prosperous, meeting this is successful
Can also be: Yin-Shen-Si-Hai, a structure with 4 births; usable substances (is attained) when self is prosperous, meeting this is successful.
relic
Hi relic,
ReplyDeleteThat is very true, the author compressed so much into such a small body of text. The text is supposedly very old.
I rely on my understanding to interpret, there is high possibility of misinterpretation. Could never know.
trey
Hi Trey,
ReplyDeleteYou misunderstood me. You did a great job in all the interpretations. I was merely suggestig that there could be more than one interpretation.
relic
Hi relic,
ReplyDeleteWell, :-D
Sorry that I misunderstood you, it actually true that my interpretation might not be correct. I don't know enough to understand everything written in the text so I am not very confident with my own interpretation.
trey