Should I Quit My Job?
AI translated from the original Chinese.
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A friend wanted to quit and asked me for advice. My friend's work was mainly administrative paperwork. I asked what year they joined, and cast the chart below:
Without knowing how things actually were at work, I started from the patterns.
Where the chart's pattern lies
化科 △
The 卯 Palace has 化科 concentrated and sees 魁鉞 (Kui Yue) and 左輔 (Zuo Fu). This is the "double-star 殺破狼 (Sha Po Lang)"; if the work were pioneering in nature, we could focus on this.
化忌 ×
The 辰 and 子 palaces have Ji stars concentrated. 太陽 (Tai Yang) is weak in 子, and 巨門 (Ju Men) is also weak in 辰. And 巨門 sits with malefics, seeing 鈴星 (Ling Xing) and 陀羅 (Tuo Luo): 巨鈴陀, the "hanged for life" pattern. Besides that, it sees 天同 (Tian Tong) and 文曲 (Wen Qu).
The double-star 殺破狼 means work of a "pioneering nature"; star groups like 巨門, 太陽 and 天同 are closer to "administrative paperwork." So we take the palaces of 化忌 × as the main subject of discussion.
巨鈴陀: "hanged for life"
Analysis
My friend's work shows the "hanged for life" pattern. The pattern's name is just for reference. In my reading experience, "hanged for life" tends to show up as frustration in life: hands tied in everything, nothing done right, often blamed, so a sense of depression easily arises.
Also, the 辰 Palace of the "hanged for life" pattern also shows stars like "陰煞 (Yin Sha)" and "白虎 (Bai Hu)." If these occur in the key palace under discussion, especially in a negative pattern, the ill nature is intensified.
Advice
My friend said that at this workplace everyone had ulterior motives. It seemed any action or move could be over-interpreted by others, even used as leverage, trapping everyone in a vicious cycle of mutual harm with no way out of the whirlpool.
With the signs as they were, all I could do was advise my friend to quit, hoping a new job would get them away from this place of strife.
Afterword
After my friend took my advice and quit, they ran into backstabbers again.
According to my friend, the backstabber was their own manager, who often issued instructions that were hard to carry out, leaving everyone frazzled.
All I can say is that a reading can only help you choose a "relatively better" direction; it can't hand you a "perfect" direction. Going from a workplace where everyone is a backstabber to one where only the manager is, is progress of a kind.
Later I also learned that after my friend left, the company full of backstabbers had a murder case, which was all over the news. There's no causal link between a company where everyone has ulterior motives and a murder happening there, but if we really want to talk about fate and fortune, perhaps there is one. I don't know, and can't explain it.