Seven Killings in the Year: Complete Stem Lookup and Source Case

Which Year Stem is Killings for each Day Master?

Use the Day Stem (the upper symbol in the birth-day column) as reference and inspect the actual Year Stem. Killings hidden only in the Year Branch (the lower symbol in the birth-year column) is a separate placement from the exposed-stem table.

How should the Wu-Xu, Geng-Shen, Ren-Wu, Gui-Mao case be read?

Ren is the Day Master: Year Wu is Killings, Month Geng Indirect Resource and Hour Gui Rob Wealth. Wu 午 contains Ding Direct Wealth and Ji Officer; Shen contains Geng Resource, Ren Peer and Wu Killings. Authority is therefore not absent everywhere except the Year Stem.

The passage mentions Wu–Gui, Mao–Xu and Wealth (the role family controlled by the birth-day element, often interpreted through resources and practical demands)/Officer in Wu 午. Identify these actual relations first. Combination does not erase Killings or automatically transform both pairs into Fire.

Why does the passage both relax and require restraint?

The passage distinguishes a strong self with one year instance from repeated or excessive Killings. Appropriate strength does not need ever more restraint simply because the role is present; excessive pressure cannot be ignored merely because it sits in the year.

For Ren facing Wu, Metal Resource can mediate Earth into Water, Wood Output (the role family produced by the birth-day element, often interpreted through expression and activity) can control Earth and Fire Wealth may strengthen Earth. Effectiveness depends on season, roots and participants, not just the presence of any Resource, Output or Wealth label.

What do the ancestry and senior-servant images explain?

They explain the historical sense of the year’s position and distance. They do not establish poverty, strict parents, influential ancestors or a personal obligation to obey.

After locating Year-Stem Killings, examine support, restraint and mediation in the wider chart. Actual family relations and professional abilities are understood from facts and experience.

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• Special patterns overview

  Distinguish local configurations, whole-chart methods and source cases.

• Seven Killings in the Day Branch

  Compare exposed Year-Stem and hidden Day-Branch (the lower symbol in the birth-day column) Killings.

• Seven Killings Pattern explained

  Return the placement to the month and whole chart.

References

• Sanming Tonghui, Siku edition, vol. 5: 年上七杀
• Gujin Tushu Jicheng, Arts: parallel text
• Clarify editorial method and source principles