BAZI KNOWLEDGE BASE
Spouse-palace combinations, clashes, punishments and harms in BaZi
A spouse-palace contact means that your Day Branch (the lower symbol in the birth-day column) forms a named traditional relationship with another branch. Identify the symbols first: Zi with Chou is a Six Combination, with Wu a Six Clash, with Wei a Six Harm, and with Mao a punishment relation. These are different rules. Calling all of them palace damage obscures the distinction and does not establish marriage or divorce.
Which branch combines, clashes or harms?
Each cell is a pair, valid in either direction. Find your Day Branch in a column, then check whether its counterpart occurs in the natal chart (the chart calculated for the birth moment) or period being discussed. The three cells in a row are unrelated pair listings, not one combined rule.
| Six Combinations | Six Clashes | Six Harms |
|---|---|---|
| Zi–Chou | Zi–Wu | Zi–Wei |
| Yin–Hai | Chou–Wei | Chou–Wu |
| Mao–Xu | Yin–Shen | Yin–Si |
| Chen–You | Mao–You | Mao–Chen |
| Si–Shen | Chen–Xu | Shen–Hai |
| Wu–Wei | Si–Hai | You–Xu |
Does a combination establish harmony?
Combination names a connection. Binding emphasizes restraint; transformation is a separate judgment requiring seasonal support and attention to obstruction. Zi with Chou identifies a Six Combination. Treating it as transformed Earth cannot follow from those two symbols alone, and hidden stems (the additional element symbols traditionally assigned inside each lower chart symbol) should not simply be deleted.
Triads and seasonal meetings have different membership: Shen–Zi–Chen is a triad, Hai–Zi–Chou a seasonal meeting. Shen and Zi alone are not the complete triad. A combination elsewhere that excludes the Day Branch is not a spouse-palace combination. Connection may serve as cultural imagery for coordination or entanglement, but it does not establish love.
What does a Jia-Zi day meeting a Wu year show?
In a Jia-Zi day, Zi contains Gui, Direct Resource for Jia. Wu contains Ding and Ji, Hurting Officer and Direct Wealth for Jia. An annual Wu creates a Zi–Wu clash with the Day Branch. This identifies branches and roles; it does not make Gui or a real person disappear.
Season, other roots and simultaneous combinations still matter. If the natal chart also contains Chou, the Zi–Chou combination needs consideration. Methods differ in handling concurrent contacts and need to explain their conditions. Neither automatic cancellation of a clash nor automatic marital breakdown follows.
Why are punishment and harm not literal injury?
Punishment conventions commonly include Zi–Mao, Yin–Si–Shen, Chou–Xu–Wei and repeated Chen, Wu, You or Hai for self-punishment. A method must say whether a two-member contact or the full triad is required. One Chen is not Chen–Chen self-punishment. Harms use the six pairs in the table rather than a severity inferred from their name.
These are traditional stem–branch classifications. They do not detect a partner’s intent, fidelity or danger, and adding them together does not produce a divorce-risk score. Actual experience and behavior establish what happened; a label should not create a conflict.
How do natal and annual contacts differ?
Natal branches keep their original positions. An annual branch joins the comparison for that period; it does not permanently enter the birth chart. Knowing one annual branch also leaves the luck pillar (a pair of symbols used to interpret a roughly ten-year period), annual stem and wider chart unexamined.
If the reading brings a life change to mind, ask whether moving, work travel or care responsibilities already need coordination. When no such situation exists, leave that mismatch visible instead of turning it into an argument. Palace terminology helps explain a report; people decide their relationships.