天干地支 HS / EB - Part 23 HS - YHZP Ren and Gui

壬

Ren Water

壬水汪洋併百川，漫流天下总无边；

Ren water, huge ocean, a combination of hundred rivers, flowing under heaven without boundary.

干支多聚成漂荡，火土重逢涸本源。

Stems and branches, accumulating will become drifting, fire and earth, repeated encounter dry its source.

养性结胎须未午，长生归禄属乾坤；

Yang and Tai must be in Wei and Wu, ChangSheng and GuiLu belongs to Qian & Kun

身强原自无财禄，西北行程厄少年。

Self is strong and in natal without Wealth and Lu, going west and north would cause one to undergo difficulties since young age.

癸

Gui Water

癸水应非雨露麼，根通亥子即江河；

Gui water should not be the likes of rain and dew, if the root is connected through Hai and Zi, it becomes rivers.

柱无坤坎还身弱，局有财官不尚多。

In the pillar without Kun and Kan and self is weak, however many wealth and authorities in the structure will not be too many.

申子辰全成上格，寅午戌备要中和；

Shen Zi Chen complete becomes an upper structure, Yin Wu Xu complete must be in moderation.

假饶火土生深夏，西北行程岂太过。

Even if fire and earth born in deep summer, how can the journey to west and north be too much?

天干地支 HS / EB - Part 22 HS - YHZP Geng and Xin

《庚》
Geng Metal 

庚金顽钝性偏刚，火制功成怕水乡；
Geng Metal is blunt and behaves rather tough. When it's successfully controlled by fire, water land is feared.

夏产东南过煆炼，秋生西北亦光芒。
Born in summer, east and south is over forged, born in autumn, west and north it's still shinning.

水深反是他相剋，木旺能令我自伤；
Deep water in turn has to be countered, prosperous wood would cause myself to be injured

戊己干支重遇土，不逢冲破即埋藏。
Wu and Ji heavy, not meeting clash will cause Geng to be buried.

Implied meaning -
Meeting Ding, water is not good
Born in summer, does not like to meet wood/fire in LP
Born in autumn, likes metal/water in LP
Strong water has to be countered by earth
Strong wood would hurt metal
Strong earth must be clashed so metal will not be buried

《辛》
Xin Metal 辛金珠玉性通灵，最爱阳和沙水清；
Xin metal as pearls and jades, it connects spirits, loves Yand and sandy water to be clear.

成就不劳炎火煆，资扶偏爱湿泥生。
If it's successful, does not need fiery fire to forge, as support, it likes wet clay to engender

水多火旺宜西北，水冷金寒要丙丁；
Abundant water, prosperous fire, it's beneficial at west and north, water is chilly and metal is cold wants Bing and Ding

坐禄通根身旺地，何愁厚土没其形。
Sitting on Lu, connects through its root self is prosperous, does not worry about thick earth  burying itself. 

Implied meaning
Xin metal likes Yang polarity element
Fire is not really necessary for a good structure, 
Like Chen/Chou wet earth to engender
When Fire is strong, water is strong, metal / water becomes auspicious
Metal born in winter needs fire
Does not fear strong earth if self is strong

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

天干地支 HS / EB - Part 20 HS - YHZP Bing and Ding

《丙》Bing Fire


丙火明明一太阳，原从正大立纲常；
Bing fire is bright, as bright as the sun, its origin just and great, it sets WangChang (Wang Chang refers to the 3 Relationships; king and ministers, father and son, husband and wife, and the five virtues)

洪光不独窥千里，巨焰犹能遍八荒。
Its grand light peeps not only thousands of miles, its great flames also reaches to 8 directions.

出世肯为浮木子，传生不作湿泥娘；
Coming to this world, it's willing to be the child of floating wood, reincarnate and it does not want to be the mother of wet earth.

江湖死水安能剋，惟怕成林木作殃。
Dead water from rivers and lakes could counter / pacify it, it's only afraid of wood that's becoming forests as woe.

Implied meaning:
It's okay to be born by wet wood (wood with a lot of water)
It does not like to engender wet earth (Ji)
Ren 7K is okay for Bing (some think Ren is better than Gui but nowhere in this text indicates that)
It does not like abundant Jia wood. 


《丁》Ding Fire

丁火其形一烛灯，太阳相见夺光明；
Ding Fire has the form of candle and lamp, when meeting together with the Sun, the sun takes away its light.

得时能铸千金铁，失令难鎔一寸金。
When it is found (in season) it can cast thousands of gold and iron, when it's lost command (not supported by season) it's difficult to melt an inch of gold.

虽少乾柴犹可引，纵多湿木不能生；
Even though dry wood is little, it can ignite fire, even though wet wood is abundant, it cannot birth fire.

其间衰旺当分晓，旺比一炉衰一檠。
Strong or weak has to be divided to be analyzed, when it's prosperous it's a furnace, when weak it's a candlestick.

Implied meaning.
Strength is very important for Ding
Does not like Bing fire
When strong, metal is useful, when weak metal is not useful
Dry wood is useful when weak, just a small amount is enough
Wet wood cannot generate Ding fire

天干地支 HS / EB - Part 19 HS - YHZP Jia and Yi

《甲》Jia 

甲木天干作首排，原无枝叶与根荄；
Jia wood is the first of the Heavenly stems, originally without twigs, leaves and roots

欲存天地千年久，直向沙泥万丈埋。
It desires to exists in heaven and earth thousands years old, planted straight into the sand and clay hundred thousands of feet.

断就栋樑金得用，化成灰炭火为灾；
Cut to become ridge pole metal gets to be used, to turn into ashes and charcoals fire as the disaster;

蠢然块物无机事，一任春秋自往来。
A stupid, natural block of thing really has no use, naturally, letting spring and autumn come
 and go.

Implied meaning:
Both earth are useful for Jia,
In order to be successful, Metal should be used
When fire is too strong, health might have problem
Although seemingly useless, Jia could allow for longevity


《乙》Yi wood

乙木根荄种得深，只宜阳地不宜阴；
Yi wood has its root planted deep, only benefits from Yang land and not Yin.

漂浮最怕多逢水，刻断何当苦用金。
Drifting and floating it is afraid of too much meeting with water

南去火炎灾不浅，西行土重祸尤侵；
Going south fire and flame disaster is not shallow (strong disaster), going west heavy earth calamity is invading. 

栋樑不是连根木，辨别工夫好用心。
Ridge pole is not wood with chained roots, the knowledge to differentiate takes efforts to be studied. 

Implied meaning
Yi likes mostly Yang elements
Too many resources could be lonely or directionless
Too many authorities might injure Yi (health / body)
Too many wealths is not beneficial
To many outputs is not beneficial