The Chart of a Scholar

AI translated from the original Chinese.

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Many people come for readings and ask what their occupation is, what their interests are, what they're good at... Don't the people asking already know all this? It looks as if they just want to test the reader's skill.

A chart can show innate gifts, but can't determine for certain what profession someone is in (would everyone born in the same hour work in the same field?). Yet with some charts, the kind of career a person will choose can be read very easily. From Ms. X's chart, it's easy to see that her profession is scholar. How do we read a scholar's chart?

From the chart we can see that her Four Transformations are all highly concentrated.

• 化祿 in 子, on 巨門 (Ju Men)
• 化權 in 辰, on 太陽 (Tai Yang)
• 化科 in 亥, on 廉貞 and 貪狼 (Lian Zhen, Tan Lang)
• 化忌 in 卯, on 武曲 and 七殺 (Wu Qu, Qi Sha)

A chart with such a prominent pattern also reflects a clearer picture of life.

We can see that 化科 △ in 亥 and 化忌 × in 卯 form a triad, and 巨門 化祿 ● and 太陽 化權 □ form a triad. So her gifts must lie in 巨門 and in 廉貞 and 貪狼.

The chart's pattern

巨門

The verse says: "巨門 is the star of Yin essence." That is, among the stars of Zi Wei Dou Shu, 巨門 is "the Yin within Yin." And 巨門 is Water, governing "wisdom." So when 巨門 works positively, it can speak of a great interest in learning. Such a person is single-minded and keeps delving into scholarship. So people with a strong 巨門 often have the nature of a "scholar." Even if not a scholar, they're bound to be capable of teaching themselves whatever interests them.

廉貞 and 貪狼

What's special about 廉貞 and 貪狼 here is that 昌曲 (Chang Qu) 化科 concentrate there. 昌曲 化科 speak of intelligence and talent, wide learning and knowledge, erudition and a strong memory.

The combination of 貪狼 and 昌曲 has the image of being "nimble and adaptable," needless to say.

The combination of 廉貞 and 昌曲, negatively, is the "粉身碎骨格" (shattered to pieces pattern), but read positively it means never stopping until the goal is reached. Whatever she wants to research, she'll get to the bottom of it, whatever the cost.

In sum, this chart clearly combines intelligence, delving into scholarship, erudition and a strong memory. A chart like this easily heads down the path of research.

Conclusion

I've seen several cases of this type in my career of readings. If not scholars, they're researchers at companies or government agencies. Research is their passion, and they can produce papers of excellent quality and quantity. Admirable.