Direct Wealth

Pair the day master with the element it controls and reverse the polarity, and this is the stem that results. For 戊, yang earth, the controlled element is water, and the yin water stem 癸 is Direct Wealth. 淵海子平 compares the word 正, upright, with its use in Direct Officer, and says in short that yin seeing yang and yang seeing yin is what makes the wealth proper.

Its central picture is a bride with a dowry, shared by 淵海子平 and 三命通會 卷六 almost word for word. The goods are hers and she brings them to the household, and a husband too feeble to rise can only look at them. A point of view is built into this image, that of a man in an old household, and both books keep that seat. 三命通會 卷五 adds a ranking of the wives, with the proper one above the secondary.

Measure counts for more than amount in these chapters, as the quoted line says. 三命通會 卷六 counts too much with too little self, and too little with a strong self, as both falling short. Day master strength is a debate among schools and this page settles none of it. Modern popular BaZi associates the stem with salary and steadiness and keeps the old wife reading for men's charts, and 淵海子平 uses a different star, the Officer, for the husband in a woman's chart.