Terminology Directory
BAZI & I CHING GLOSSARY
Day Master
The Day Master (Ri Zhu) is the absolute core coordinate in a Bazi chart. It represents the "Self" and the foundational element of the chart owner. Every other element revolves around it.
Seven Killings
Seven Killings (Qi Sha, or Indirect Officer) is the most explosive and dangerous entity among the Ten Gods. It represents absolute power, ambition, destruction, and rebellion.
Yong Shen
Yong Shen (Useful God) is the most critical concept in Bazi. It acts as the "antidote" or core driving force that brings balance and success to the overall destiny chart.
Hurting Officer
The Hurting Officer represents overwhelming talent, pride, rebellion, and the destructive power to break traditional conventions.
Eating God
The Eating God is a gentle, highly auspicious star representing culinary enjoyment, longevity, artistic appreciation, and pure, unforced expression.
Direct Officer
The Direct Officer represents discipline, rules, reputation, official status, and in a female chart, the traditional husband.
Direct & Indirect Wealth
The dual nature of money: Direct Wealth represents stable, hard-earned income; Indirect Wealth represents speculation, big investments, and sudden windfalls.
Peach Blossom
Peach Blossom represents intense interpersonal attraction, aesthetic charm, and uncontrollable romantic encounters. It is the most famous symbolic star (Shen Sha) in Bazi.
Direct & Indirect Resource
Represents knowledge, education, the mother, and protective barriers. Direct Resource is orthodox knowledge; Indirect Resource signifies intuitive genius, esoterica, and paranoia.
Friend & Rob Wealth
The amplification of ego. Represents peers, competitors, and partners. It brings massive independence acting as a double-edged sword for wealth retention.
Decade Luck & Annual Pillars
The temporal engine of destiny. The Bazi chart is the static factory specs of a car; the Decade and Annual Pillars are the actual road conditions determining the ride.
Tomb & Storage
The four Earthly Branches: Chen, Xu, Chou, Wei. They function bilaterally as dark tombs burying decayed elements, or as massive vaults securing immense wealth.
Goat Blade
The most violently intense and destructive Shen Sha. It is a razor-sharp halberd that slashes through all obstacles. Master it, and you conquer empires; fail, and it shreds you.
Traveling Horse
The gearbox for geographical displacement. Signifies non-stop traveling, relocating, immigration, job transfers, and sometimes kinetic accidents.
Gua Shen
Gua Shen (Hexagram Body) represents the core substance or the physical body of the subject in traditional Liuyao (I Ching) divination, indicating whether a matter has tangible clues.
An Dong
An Dong (Secret Movement) occurs when a static line in a hexagram is clashed by the Day Branch while possessing high strength. It signifies hidden events or unexpected, fast-acting changes behind the scenes.
Xun Kong / Void in Bazi & I Ching
Xun Kong, often translated as "Void" or "Emptiness", stems from the offset between Heavenly Stems and Earthly Branches. It indicates the temporary or permanent absence, illusion, or delay of specific energies.
Yue Po
Yue Po (Month Rupture) occurs when a hexagram line is clashed by the Month Branch. It signifies macro-environmental denial, destruction, and foundational obstacles.
Changing Line
The Changing Line (Dong Yao) is the critical variable in a hexagram. It dictates the future trajectory and turning points of the situation. "Stillness remains, Movement transforms."
Flying and Hidden Spirits
When the specific entity you are divining for doesn't even appear in the casted hexagram, we must peel back the surface layer (Flying Spirit) to uncover the hidden truth buried beneath (Hidden Spirit).
Self & Object Lines
The Self Line represents the diviner (or the party issuing the question), while the Object Line represents the specific subject, event, or the opposing party. This forms the ultimate Yin-Yang interactive framework of a reading.
The Six Beasts
Azure Dragon, White Tiger, Vermilion Bird, Black Tortoise, Hooked Spirit, and Flying Serpent. They do not dictate winning or losing in a reading, but they flawlessly profile the atmospheric details, psychological states, and hidden nature of the event.
The Six Kins
The metadata tagging system of the universe. In Liuyao, we don't read raw elements; we read the assigned "Six Kins" tags to map the hexagram perfectly to human questions.
Primary & Relating Hexagrams
The starting coordinate and the inevitable future. The Primary Hexagram maps the exact present crisis, while the Relating Hexagram acts as a ruthless oracle, forecasting the absolute final outcome.
Supporting vs Hostile Spirits
The invisible hands behind the curtain. While your focus is on the frontline objective (Useful God), survival strictly depends on the supply lines (Supporting Spirit) and hidden assassins ready to strike (Hostile Spirit).
Advancing & Retreating
The calculus of momentum. It accurately graphs whether a situation is snowballing into an unstoppable juggernaut or slowly deflating into inevitable death.
Clash & Harmony Hexagrams
The absolute macro-verdict. A Clash Hexagram is a localized supernova—instant, violent disintegration. A Harmony Hexagram is military-grade epoxy glue—locking elements together permanently.
Wandering & Returning Hexagrams
The radar for deep psychology and geographical anchors. It accurately traps "liminal, indecisive mental states" and the "absolute final return to base".