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Flying Heavenly Lu Ma: Four Days, Implicit Clashes and Their Conditions
Flying Heavenly Lu Ma is a classical way of invoking an implicit Officer (the role family that controls the birth-day element, often interpreted through rules and demands): repeated Zi or Hai branches refer through the opposite branch to an Officer in absent Wu-Horse or Si. Lu Ma is authority terminology here, not the Travel Horse, and nothing is added to the actual chart.
Which Officer is invoked for each of the four days?
The main passage lists Geng-Zi, Ren-Zi, Xin-Hai and Gui-Hai, with the tenth/eleventh winter months and a repeated Day Branch (the lower symbol in the birth-day column) elsewhere in Year, Month or Hour. Each row fixes the Day Master (the birth-day element used as the chart’s reference) before identifying the Officer in the target branch.
| Day | Repeated source | Implicit target | Officer in target | One retaining branch in main passage |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Geng-Zi | Zi | Wu-Horse | Ding | Wei, Yin or Xu |
| Ren-Zi | Zi | Wu-Horse | Ji | Wei, Yin or Xu |
| Xin-Hai | Hai | Si | Bing | Shen, You or Chou |
| Gui-Hai | Hai | Si | Wu Earth | Shen, You or Chou |
Why distinguish retaining the target from binding the source?
For repeated Zi invoking Wu-Horse, Wei combines directly with the target, while Yin or Xu belongs to its Fire-trine group. Chou instead combines with the source Zi, which the passage treats as an obstruction.
For repeated Hai invoking Si, Shen combines with the target and You/Chou belongs to its Metal-trine group; Yin binds the source Hai. The passage seeks one suitable retaining branch, not more branches at any cost or an automatically complete trine.
What if the Officer or target branch is already present?
The main passage starts where actual Wealth (the role family controlled by the birth-day element, often interpreted through resources and practical demands)/Officer is not available as the selected route, then discusses visible authority and a filled target. Ding with Geng-Zi is an actual Officer; an actual Wu-Horse is a real target branch. Explain those real relations before calling them wholly absent.
The opening does not impose a blanket ban on Resource (the role family that supports the birth-day element, often interpreted through learning and support), so its Wealth/Officer condition should not be expanded into a prohibition on all three. Not meeting this implicit pattern says nothing about a person’s prospects.
Are the four-day limit and Output classification uniform throughout?
No. The main passage names four days, while a later account allows Xin/Gui with repeated Hai regardless of the seated branch. This page uses the main four-day version as the entry point and identifies the broader account separately.
The closing note also distinguishes Geng-Zi and Xin-Hai from Ren-Zi and Gui-Hai. Gui in Zi is Hurting Officer for Geng but Rob Wealth for Ren; Ren in Hai is Hurting Officer for Xin but Rob Wealth for Gui. The four are not uniformly Output patterns.
What can this old method explain?
It explains why some classical readings discuss authority where no Officer is plainly selected, and helps distinguish actual hidden stems (the additional element symbols traditionally assigned inside each lower chart symbol) from an implicit theory. An invoked branch should not be added to the chart’s element count.
The name does not establish promotion, travel, immigration or wealth, and failure to match it does not predict failure in life.
Continue reading
- Special patterns overview
Distinguish local configurations, whole-chart methods and source cases.
- The Bing-Wu/Ding-Si reverse direction
Compare Fire branches invoking Water Officer in the reverse direction.
- Reading an actual Officer
Return the placement to the month and whole chart.