The Ten Heavenly Stems
A stem-by-stem companion drawn from the primary texts: what 《滴天髓》 and 《三命通会》 actually say about each of the ten Day Masters, translated with the original passages alongside.
The method these texts use is consistent and worth naming: one image, then a set of conditions — what the system needs, what it fears, and the specific way it fails. Not a personality type. Every essay below closes with those conditions stated plainly.
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