LESSON P15 / 18 OF 20

A complete worked reading

Put it all together and read one complete chart end to end.

Original app lesson · freely available here

Reading a chart in five steps · example

1. Day MasterXin Metal, yin

2. Day branch main stemYi Wood = Indirect Wealth → close relationships

3. Month PillarRen Water = Hurting Officer → work

4. Most and leastOutput most, Officer least → defaults and what to practice

5. Combinations and clashesOne sentence on which area tends to shift

One sentence per step. Five sentences make a full reading.

The five steps

One: find the Day Master, note phase and polarity. Two: the Day branch’s main stem — one sentence on intimacy. Three: the month pillar — one sentence on work.

Four: count the five groups — one sentence on default and homework. Five: note combinations and clashes.

A worked example

Say the Day Master is Xin Metal (yin), the Day branch’s main stem Yi Wood (Indirect Wealth), the month stem Ren Water (Hurting Officer), with Output largest and Officer smallest.

Reading: fine-grained and decisive. In intimacy you work through fluid resources and chances — warm, easily distracted. At work you push through expression and output and dislike being managed. Homework: set your own boundaries or burn out.

Five sentences are enough

A complete reading is accurate, not long. Five sentences cover the main outline.

If you cannot say one, go back to that lesson rather than covering it with vague adjectives.

Five steps, five sentences. If one will not come, go back to that lesson.

CHECK YOURSELF

Try the lesson questions

No score. An incorrect first answer enters your review book.

What is step one of a full reading?

Much Output and little Officer — what is the homework?

Sources and further reading

Hong Kong Observatory · Stems and branchesNames, time periods, and stem correspondence tables.
San Ming Tong Hui · Volume 10The passage using the day stem as reference. Online transcription; teaching analogies are original.
San Ming Tong Hui · Volume 2Chapters on polarity, combinations and clashes. Facsimile collation remains an editorial task.
San Ming Tong Hui · Volume 5The day-stem relationship framework. The adopted calculation table is recorded separately.
Lesson cases and conventions7 January 2000, Taipei, 10:30 / 11:30 / 12:00, civil time. Replayed with a fixed calculation version; not independently validated against an almanac.
lunar-javascript · Adopted calculation dataVersion 1.7.7 used for replayed cases and correspondence-table checks. Algorithm agreement is not textual collation.

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