Main star
Pò Jūn
Army Breaker
A chart describes tendencies in a traditional system. It cannot decide health, money, law, marriage or children.
In the classical sources
在天為殺氣，在數為耗星，故化氣曰耗
In the sky it is a killing energy, in the reckoning a star of depletion, so its transformed energy is called depletion.
紫微斗數全書 卷一
About this entry
Army Breaker is the last star placed, ten palaces forward of 天府, after 七殺 and three empty palaces. Its table runs in opposite pairs, the strongest being 子 and 午 and the lowest 卯 and 酉.
耗 means to use up, and the book's account is a figure of waste and upheaval: seventh star of the Northern Dipper, water by element, and in charge of spouse, children and servants. 卷一 opens with a rough portrait of temperament, then adds that 天梁 can restrain it and 天祿 can settle it. At 子 and 午 the book counts it a temple position, and a verse on 破軍, 七殺 and 貪狼 together even cites the general 關羽 as a person with them.
Because of the fixed spacing, 破軍, 七殺 and 貪狼 always sit four palaces apart, the triangle the verses call 杀破狼. Its possible companions are 紫微 at 丑 and 未, 廉貞 at 卯 and 酉, 武曲 at 巳 and 亥. 化祿 falls on it in 癸 years and 化權 in 甲 years. Modern popular writing connects it with sweeping change, a reading the passages here do not state.
Where this text comes from
The Chinese follows the Wikisource text of 紫微斗數全書, whose base edition the page does not state. Statements about the calculator describe its own rules, and modern readings are labeled as modern.
The English name and the wording here are our own. Quotations keep the stored text of the witness.