The Ten Gods 十神
Wealth at matching polarity — explicitly 众人之财, everyone's money rather than one's own, and read as exposed rather than held.
| Term 十神 | 偏财 — Indirect Wealth (pian cai) |
|---|---|
| Relation to the Day Master | 我克 · 阴阳相同 — controlled by the Day Master, same polarity |
| Group | Wealth |
何谓偏财？乃甲见戊、乙见己之例。非妻所带，乃众人之财也。切忌有姊妹兄弟分夺，柱无官星，祸患百出。
What is Indirect Wealth? It is the case of Jia meeting Wu, or Yi meeting Ji. It is not property a wife brought; it is the money of the many. Above all it must not be divided and seized by brothers and sisters — with no Officer star in the pillars, trouble breaks out a hundred ways.
偏财好出，亦不惧藏，唯怕分夺，及落空亡，有一于此，官将不成，财将不住。
Indirect Wealth is happy to come out and does not fear being hidden either; what it fears is only being divided and seized, or falling into the void. With one of these present, office will not come together and wealth will not stay.
众人之财 — the money of the many. The classical distinction between the two wealths is not size and not source; it is whose it is. Direct Wealth is the household's; Indirect Wealth is in circulation, and the same openness that lets it come to you lets it go elsewhere.
That is why 姊妹兄弟, siblings — which is to say the companion stars — appear in the definition itself rather than in the advice that follows. Money that is common property is by definition claimable by peers.
The chapter's own descriptive line is 主人慷慨，不甚吝财，与人有情而多诈 — open-handed, not tight with money, warm with people and much given to manoeuvre. We quote it as the text's characterisation of the structure, not as a verdict on anyone; this site does not read personality off a single stem.
This is a lookup, not a judgement — it falls straight out of the element relation and the yin/yang match, and the table below is generated by the same function the chart calculator uses. Where the Day Master has its own essay, the name links to it.
| Day Master | This god is… |
|---|---|
| 甲 Jia yang Wood | 戊 — Wu |
| 乙 Yi yin Wood | 己 — Ji |
| 丙 Bing yang Fire | 庚 — Geng |
| 丁 Ding yin Fire | 辛 — Xin |
| 戊 Wu yang Earth | 壬 — Ren |
| 己 Ji yin Earth | 癸 — Gui |
| 庚 Geng yang Metal | 甲 — Jia |
| 辛 Xin yin Metal | 乙 — Yi |
| 壬 Ren yang Water | 丙 — Bing |
| 癸 Gui yin Water | 丁 — Ding |
Sources: 《三命通会》 (San Ming Tong Hui, Ming, 万民英) and 《子平真诠》 (Zi Ping Zhen Quan, Qing, 沈孝瞻 — the original text, without Xu Leyu's commentary). Every passage above is quoted from a local plain-text edition and verified character by character. Translations are ours; corrections are welcome.
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