Floating Moon -2

Especially for guests, the analysis of the flowing month is the most popular, and the more detailed, the better. Then, in actual practice of fortune - telling, the flowing month is used in two situations: First, when a guest asks about urgent matters. For example, his financial situation is very tight. He doesn't necessarily want to get rich; he just wants to know when he can have some relief! Or there is an unexpected disaster. Is it real or fake? Will the other party take it seriously? …… And so on. This is for oral consultations with guests.

However, the real application of monthly luck doesn't lie here. Where should it be used? It is used for a large number of annual luck analyses, that is, a detailed analysis of one's whole life, not just something spoken casually. When ordinary guests come to inquire about things, it's all called fortune - telling. We need to classify these situations! When someone brings a newly - born child to ask about the child's fortune, it's a simple analysis, just briefly talking about the eight characters of the birth date. If someone asks about financial matters, it's just an inquiry about a specific thing. If someone only asks about one thing, like when they will get married, it's also an inquiry about a specific thing. After one, two, or three times of consultations, if the guest gets familiar with the fortune - teller, or if the person is far away in the United States or Japan and doesn't come often but trusts the fortune - teller, then they may ask for an analysis of the annual luck! That's when the monthly luck comes into the picture.

Normally, at least five years are predicted in one batch. Predicting the fortune for five years is not just writing a few sentences like "good this year, bad next year". For what is called medium-scale prediction, large-scale prediction, and detailed prediction, the monthly fortune needs to be used, which means predicting the good and bad luck for each month. Well, it sounds quite complicated. If you're talking about predicting the good and bad luck for ten years, that's 120 months, and it's not easy to write it all down. Well, regarding the three key points mentioned just now, namely, the monthly fortune following the same path, the monthly fortune being in double harmony, and the monthly fortune being in opposition, it only involves three months!

There are twelve months in a year. There are sixty months in five years, but you've only talked about three out of sixty months. How can you criticize each month?

Of course, there are other rules. These three are the mainstream. Everyone will surely encounter them, regardless of their social status or the structure of their birth date in the Chinese zodiac system.

Apart from the three groups, not everyone has this! So what are we looking at? We're looking at what we previously talked about regarding the original eight - character chart. It's when the heavenly stem of the current month in the flowing month is the same as that of the major luck cycle. Previously, we talked about the original eight - character chart, the major luck cycle, and the annual luck cycle in relation to the eight - character chart, but now it's different. We only consider the relationship between the flowing month and the heavenly stem of the major luck cycle. For example, in the Jiazǐ major luck cycle, when it meets the Jiǎxū flowing month, there is an implied character 'Hài' between Jiǎzǐ and Jiǎxū. This implied 'Hài' character itself doesn't have much significant meaning. It can't be interpreted as a divine sign nor as one of the ten gods. In terms of punishments and clashes, the implied character can be related to the eight - character chart and the annual luck cycle. For instance, if an 'Hài' is implied and there is a 'Chǒu' in the eight - character chart, then there can be a triple - combination of Hài, Zǐ, and Chǒu.

As I just said, the flowing month has nothing to do with the birth chart and the current year in a direct sense. If it's through the "arching" method, then it can have a connection with the birth chart itself, resulting in clashes, punishments, combinations, and unions. For example, if an "Hai" is arched out and there is a "Si" in the birth chart, it means a "Si-Hai" clash. If the flowing month itself is "Hai", there's no problem. But if it's arched out, then it matters. In a ten - year major fortune cycle, such a situation in the current year only occurs twice. This probability makes sense in terms of a person's life. This is the case of "Jiazi" and "Jiaxu" arching out "Hai". For instance, during the "Jiashen" major fortune and the "Jiachen" current year, an "Zi" is arched out, which forms a triple combination of "Shen - Zi - Chen". When the flowing month and the major fortune arch out a triple combination or union, the influence is significant. If it then clashes with your birth chart, the impact is tripled!

So, there are opportunities for the major luck and the monthly luck to form an arch. In a decade, there are at least four or five times. Whether real good or bad fortune will occur depends on whether there is a clash. Everyone has also experienced many unexpected events, which turn out to be just a false joy, or a false alarm and unnecessary worry, with nothing actually happening. Some unexpected events can really bring you unexpected risks or unexpected joys, and it's all about the issues of clash and combination. So, when I verbally tell you about your eight - character horoscope for a particular year, 20 minutes will pass. But if I'm going to analyze the monthly luck for the twelve months, it'll take several hours! There are many more factors to consider.

For example, if there is an "arch" formation. When Shen, Zi, and Chen come together, it forms a water combination. There can also be a clash between Zi and Wu. If the Bazi (Eight Characters of Birth) contains Wu, then there is a clash between Zi and Wu. If the Bazi contains Chou, then there is a combination between Zi and Chou. Well, if we make it a bit more complicated, do you have the combination of Yin, Wu, and Xu in your original Bazi when the flowing month or the major fortune "arches" the combination of Shen, Zi, and Chen? If so, the problem will be even more serious.

The combination of three (San He) and the clash of three (San Chong) have come. So, as long as it's an implied character formed by the arching relationship, whether it's an independent one, or related to double combinations, double clashes, or the meeting of three (San Hui), it can be directly applied to the Bazi itself. Then, when this group is added, for the monthly flow over five years, it won't be just three months. It might be up to ten months, from five to ten months. However, not every situation will necessarily cause problems for you. The first three situations will definitely cause problems, but it depends on whether you can bear them or not.

Well, this question can be either true or false. If there are clashes and combinations, you will really feel that there are both good and bad omens, and the situation is complex. If there are no clashes and combinations, it's just idle talk, a false joy or a false alarm. When adding the monthly fortune, within five years, we can probably predict the monthly fortune for about eight to ten months. Let's say it's ten months! That's only one-fifth! Then what about the other months? Of course, we also know that not everyone has something significant happen every month. Then think carefully. Is it possible for a person to have nothing happen in a month? There are actually quite a few things going on in his mind! There are still things happening! It's just not about real good or bad fortune, or blessings and disasters. When we predict the monthly fortune for twelve months, we usually do it for five years, which is sixty months.

When making fortune - telling calculations based on the year, month, day, and hour, human feelings should be taken into account, including our astronomical calculations! The same goes for leap months. Have you all heard of leap years and leap months? You may think there's never been a leap first lunar month. In fact, there has been a leap first lunar month. But even when it's actually a leap first lunar month, it's not written as such. Instead, it's written as a leap second lunar month. You can't have people celebrate two Chinese New Years, right? You can't have people celebrate two Chinese New Year's Eves, right? So, there are no leap months in the first lunar month and the twelfth lunar month. It's a matter of human feelings. The same principle applies to fortune - telling. We don't predict bad luck for people in the first lunar month. If the fortune on the first day of the first lunar month is not good, the fortune - teller either makes predictions for a period before or after. So, fortune - tellers don't seriously predict the good and bad fortune for the first lunar month.

So what about the other eleven months? There is still nearly four-fifths of the time left, and the rules don't apply. However, there are still some minor rules that are very common and can be used almost every month; it's just a matter of whether to use them or not. Just now, when talking about the flowing months, I need to add one special rule, which is the case of incomplete five - elements. For those whose eight - character horoscopes lack water or wood, that is, the type with incomplete five - elements, it can be compensated in the major fortune, the annual fortune, and the monthly fortune. Although the effect is short - lived, it's better than nothing.

Let me take the simplest case of a female's birth chart as an example. For instance, if there are no official or killing elements in the four pillars of a female's birth chart, it is calculated that she has no husband in her destiny. Well, there isn't one in her natal chart. However, in the major cycles, annual cycles, and monthly cycles, she can meet someone. We often see in society that some relationships break up within two or three weeks, or within two or three months. That's because of the influence brought by the monthly cycles. This is a good thing for those with incomplete five - element combinations. So, this is the second way of using the monthly cycles. Then there is the third way. The third way of using the monthly cycles can be used or not. It can be applied comprehensively without any gaps. Therefore, whenever making a detailed lifelong fortune - telling based on the birth chart month by month, all three ways must be used. Usually, if you understand them, you can make a comprehensive fortune - telling.

Now, let's talk about the third way of analyzing the monthly fortune in the annual fortune-telling. The previous two methods are all practical and are used to measure good and bad luck. However, they account for less than one-fifth of the total cases. Although not every month in life is eventful, when analyzing the annual fortune, there can't be any gaps. Whether there are events or not, all twelve months need to be analyzed. So, what should be done with the remaining "gaps"? Therefore, the experts in the Ziping School of fortune-telling borrow the theory of the five - element selection of auspicious days, which is earlier than the theory of fortune-telling. Based on what? It's about the relationship of the upper element generating the lower element and the lower element generating the upper element, that is, the Heavenly Stems and Earthly Branches! It also includes the upper element overcoming the lower element and the lower element overcoming the upper element. It sounds like five statements, and they are applied to measure good and bad luck. For example, in the combination of "Jiawu", "Jia" belongs to wood and "Wu" belongs to fire. It's the upper element generating the lower element, that is, the wood of "Jia" generates the fire of "Wu". So, what kind of good or bad luck does it represent? According to the theory of selecting auspicious days, it means you are helping others. It is interpreted that whether this month is successful or not, you are helping others. If it is the lower element generating the upper element, for example, in the "Jiazi" month, "Zi" belongs to water, which means others are helping you! What does it mean that others are helping you? In the business field, it could be like getting a loan or finding a business partner. It only talks about the nature, not about success or failure! It doesn't say whether others can help you successfully, how much they can help. Instead, it means this month is suitable for others to help you. It could range from borrowing a few thousand dollars to getting help in an election, which depends on the background of the person whose eight characters are being analyzed. That's about the upper element generating the lower element and the lower element generating the upper element.

In addition, there is the principle of the superior overcoming the inferior! When I overcome others, it means I help others, and the decision-making power lies with me, and they are under my control! For example, if you come to me for investment, the decision-making power is mine. Will I make a decision this month? Or will I make a decision next month? Anyway, it's up to me. Even if I take a little advantage, it's also considered me overcoming others. The superior overcoming the inferior is what I mean by "I overcome". And the last one is the inferior overcoming the superior, which means the earthly branches overcome you! Of course, it doesn't sound very pleasant. You are subdued by others. So, in this flowing month, if it's the inferior overcoming the superior, you will lose the initiative.

Or when comparing the upper and lower parts, if the Heavenly Stems, Earthly Branches, and the Five Elements are the same, it means there is neither good nor bad, just maintain the status quo! For example, in the Jia Yin month, then all the Heavenly Stems and Earthly Branches are within these five groups! Just add this group, and the Heavenly Stems and Earthly Branches for sixty months can already be filled. Then this sentence becomes coherent! From the first lunar month to the fifth lunar month, there is a gap. Then use the mutual generation and restraint of the upper and lower parts and write according to the process. Well, this group is borrowed from the method of selecting auspicious days and is not very precise.

There is another set of more precise rules from "The Book of Fortune-telling by Li Xuzhong". The original text is about the eight characters of one's birth or the annual luck cycle, and it is borrowed for the monthly luck cycle. It's not about the Heavenly Stems and Earthly Branches themselves. Instead, two sets are combined. For example, in the Jiazi month and the Bingwu major luck cycle, when combined, what does it mean? Well, it's a situation where the Heavenly Stems generate each other while the Earthly Branches clash. The Heavenly Stem wood generates fire, and the Earthly Branches Zi and Wu clash. When these two sets are combined, it's called "Heavenly Generation and Earthly Clash", where the Earthly Branches clash while the Heavenly Stems generate each other. In this clash, achievements can be brought about.

Well, this group, if subdivided, has a total of nineteen categories. This group can be used not only for monthly fortune but also for annual fortune. In addition to the ten celestial stems and earthly branches relationships in the annual fortune, the relationship between it and the major luck cycle is not just the same as the so - called "heavenly clash on the stem and earthly clash on the branch" or "heavenly harmony on the stem and earthly restraint on the branch". Whenever there is no major clash or punishment, this group can be applied, and there should be nineteen situations. It is described in great detail in this book. It can be used for a simple analysis of the annual fortune and also for the monthly fortune. For example, in the Jiazi month and the Jiawu major luck cycle, with "heavenly harmony on the stem and earthly clash on the branch", there will be covert strife this month, but everything seems okay on the surface. Then who will have the strife? It's with people of the same generation as you. For example, in the Jiazi month and the Bingwu major luck cycle, with "heavenly generation on the stem and earthly clash on the branch", there are two ways of "generation". One is that the day master generates the major luck cycle, and the other is that the major luck cycle generates the day master. For example, on the Jiazi day and in the Bingwu major luck cycle, I generate others. With the clash of the earthly branches, others get more benefits than me. A clash means being involved in disputes.

Then it's also possible to have situations where the Earthly Branches are the same while the Heavenly Stems are in conflict. For example, in the cases of Jiazǐ and Gēngzǐ, the Earthly Branches are the same, but the Heavenly Stems are in conflict. In such cases, they remain in their original positions while their external manifestations are in contention. Well, there are situations like the Heavenly Stems generating while the Earthly Branches are the same, the Heavenly Stems being the same while the Earthly Branches are in conflict, the Heavenly Stems generating while the Earthly Branches are in punishment... and so on. There are also those sitting in the Three - Combinations and Six - Combinations. In total, there are nineteen types. If we incorporate the third and fourth groups, then it's more than enough to analyze the monthly fortunes of twelve months.

Then someone may ask, in fortune - telling, the eight - character birth data is divided into fifteen - year intervals, the major luck cycles are divided into ten - year intervals, the annual luck is divided into one - year intervals, and the monthly luck uses each month as a standard. Is it possible to calculate down to a specific day? Is there a way to calculate the daily luck? In the traditional fortune - telling system, there is no calculation of daily luck. It mainly focuses on the monthly level. Calculating to the monthly level is already quite precise. The real scope of fortune - telling mainly centers around the annual level. The monthly calculation is just a general supplement, in case the other party thinks our explanations are not detailed enough. We clarify which month it is, especially for major events, critical moments of life and death, and litigation matters. As long as one can get through that month, they've passed the hurdle! So, among the eight - character birth data, major luck cycles, annual luck, and monthly luck, which one is the most important? For more urgent matters, details are of greater importance. For matters of principle, just looking at the eight - character birth data is enough. What are matters of principle? What are details? For example, a lady's mother brings the eight - character birth data of her daughter's boyfriend to me and asks, "What do you think of this guy?" Without her having to say more, I understand. She's not asking whether this man will become a high - ranking official or make a fortune in the future. What she's asking is whether this man is honest and reliable, whether he has a house, and whether his salary is less than 50,000 yuan. That's the purpose of her question.

So, what about this way of asking? It's okay to use wealth and official stars. As long as the wealth or official star is in command, and there are no conflicts among the four pillars, and there is a preference or aversion of the day master, that's enough. Then another person, also a woman, came to ask me. She is not an ordinary housewife but someone who is engaged in business outside. She introduced a man to me for fortune - telling. On the surface, it was for fortune - telling, but actually, this woman hoped that I could tell whether this man was really rich or just pretending. You can't tell from appearance. They all have a Benz and the title of general manager! What she refers to is not just a house or tens of thousands of yuan. It's about tens of millions or more!

Since the topic has come up, and she doesn't really want to be a lifelong couple with him anyway, then let's look at the favorable elements for balancing the overall chart! There's no need to look at wealth and official positions! Wealth and official positions are just common concerns! If you can analyze based on the favorable elements for balancing the overall chart, your level is high. So, let's analyze from this perspective. Well, if another person comes and asks, "My husband is in a lawsuit with someone. Will he go to jail?" Then the two points I just mentioned are useless. There's no need to look at wealth and official positions, nor is there a need to look at the favorable elements for balancing the overall chart. It's not enough to just look at this year's annual luck. For his lawsuit, where's the key point? The court session is next month, and the verdict will be announced in three months. Then the key point shifts to the monthly luck!