A Dou Shu Divination: On Windfall Luck
By 巫垚
AI translated from the original Chinese.
A week without a new article and readers are clamoring again, so while I have a bit of time, let me write one quickly. A few days ago, right after I finished a Zi Wei Dou Shu consultation, a younger schoolmate suddenly messaged me, asking me to guess what good thing had just happened to him.
Since it was a "good thing," let's first cast a divination and see what good thing happened to him.
Time: 21:29, February 2, 2021
Person: my younger schoolmate, born ROC year 73, a 甲子 year
Event: something good happened
From this time we get the following chart:
As usual, let's transform it directly:
In this chart we can observe a few points:
- 化祿: concentrated in the three palaces 巳, 酉 and 丑, the double-star 殺破狼 (Sha Po Lang). The 酉 Palace sees 祿存 (Lu Cun) and 鈴星 (Ling Xing). 鈴星 and 貪狼 (Tan Lang) form the "鈴貪格," a sudden-wealth pattern.
- 化權: concentrated in the 酉 Palace, strengthening 紫微 (Zi Wei), 貪狼, 祿存 and the power of the 鈴貪格.
- My schoolmate: born in 甲子, main star 七殺 (Qi Sha), falling in the 丑 Palace, receiving the power of the Lu stars of 巳, 酉 and 丑.
Overall judgment: something good really did happen to him, and it relates to the 鈴貪格 in the 酉 Palace. 鈴貪 is generally read as "sudden wealth," but can we be so bold as to say outright that a fortune suddenly fell from the sky for him?
Let's keep observing carefully what effects the chart produces.
紫微 and 貪狼 are in the 酉 Palace, and of these only 貪狼 can become 化祿. Let's find which palaces have the stem 戊.
- The first is 戊子, main star 天梁 (Tian Liang), which speaks of pleasant surprises. He must indeed have come into some unexpected money.
- The second is 戊戌, main star 巨門 (Ju Men), weak, so the 化祿 has little force; we won't discuss it.
Overall judgment: he probably suddenly came into some money, but the double-star 殺破狼 is also a work pattern. Did he suddenly land a good job, or suddenly come into some money? Most likely "money," but to be careful, let's count both "work" and "money" as answers, with "money" the stronger image.
Sure enough, he really did get a windfall. How enviable. But why did I say there was "an image of selling something for cash"? Let's bring the stems of my schoolmate, born in ROC 73, into the chart:
We know the key is 酉, and his stem at 酉 is 癸. 癸 is a very special stem, because it makes 破軍 (Po Jun) become 化祿 and 貪狼 become 化忌.
破軍 化祿 speaks of pawning, and 貪狼 化忌 of selling. Although it's a previous-generation graphics card, I think it should sell for about 14,000 dollars. As for why 14,000, I'll keep you guessing.