Direct Resource
Also called Zhèng Yìn, the Proper Seal
A chart describes tendencies in a traditional system. It cannot decide health, money, law, marriage or children.
In the classical sources
生我者，有父母之义，故立名印绶。印，荫也。绶，受也。
What produces me has the sense of parents, so it was given the name 印绶. 印 is shelter. 绶 is to receive.
三命通會 卷五
About this relation
An official's seal and the silk ribbon it hung from give this stem its classical name, 印绶. 正印, Direct Resource, is the opposite-polarity stem of the element that produces the day master: earth makes metal, so for yin 辛 the yang earth 戊 is a Direct Resource. Older chapters often use 印绶 without dividing by polarity at all, and 三命通會 卷六 defines it simply as the element that produces the self.
The quoted lines are a pun: the word for seal sounds like shelter and the word for ribbon sounds like receive. 三命通會 卷五 builds on that with a pair of comparisons: an official with no seal has no proof of office, and a person with no parents has nobody to lean on. The family scheme of 淵海子平 agrees and reads 正印 as the mother. It also cites an older saying that office without a seal is no true office, and a seal without office turns into good fortune anyway.
三命通會 卷六 paints this as a gentle, thoughtful, well-fed figure who is stingy, a small flaw it names in the same breath. 卷五 lists the one fear of the position, wealth, because greed for wealth spoils it, and the ten-god table gives a mechanical reason, since the stem the day master controls also controls the Resource. The modern popular reading leans on mentors, study and support, which extends the parental image further than the passages do.
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