BAZI KNOWLEDGE BASE
Yang Blade: five Yang-stem targets, strength and Month Blade
Yang Blade (Yang Ren, 羊刃 or 阳刃) uses blade imagery for concentrated strength. Clarify applies the five-Yang-stem convention, with one branch target for Jia, Bing, Wu, Geng and Ren. The label neither measures violence nor establishes whole-chart strength on its own.
Clarify’s five-Yang-stem table
Record the target wherever it appears among the pillar branches. This rule does not assign Blade targets to Yi, Ding, Ji, Xin or Gui. That is a convention choice, not an absence of strength.
Sanming Tonghui discusses both one branch beyond Lu and the Zi Ping five-Yang-stem approach. Yin-stem Lu-offset, Imperial Prosperity and no-Blade conventions differ; a ten-stem Life Stages table is not a universal Blade rule.
| Day Stem | Yang Blade target |
|---|---|
| Jia | Mao |
| Bing | Wu 午 |
| Wu 戊 | Wu 午 |
| Geng | You |
| Ren | Zi |
How do Mao at the hour and Mao at the month differ?
Jia targets Mao. Mao at the hour gives an hour location, not a Month Blade condition. Mao at the Month Branch (the lower symbol in the birth-month column) supplies that month condition, after which pattern analysis still requires the whole chart.
Mao hides Yi, which is Rob Wealth (a traditional role associated with shared resources, cooperation and competition) for Jia. That relationship is more specific than the blade image: support and competition among peers depend on the surrounding stems and branches.
What comes after identifying concentrated strength?
Look at channels for Output, constraints from Officer relationships and whether the Day Master needs support. Traditional discussion of using Blade concerns organizing strength rather than calling all force good or bad.
Persistence, execution and boundaries are observed through behavior. A Blade marker does not mean injury or harm to others; its absence does not mean indecision.