The Ten Gods 十神
What the Day Master controls at opposite polarity — named 妻财, wife-wealth, and read as property that only counts if the holder is strong enough to use it.
| Term 十神 | 正财 — Direct Wealth (zheng cai) |
|---|---|
| Relation to the Day Master | 我克 · 阴阳相异 — controlled by the Day Master, opposite polarity |
| Group | Wealth |
我克者，是人受制于我之义，故立名妻财，如人成家立产，须得妻室内助，故曰妻财。
What I control carries the sense of another being restrained by me, so it was named Wife-Wealth: as when a person builds a household and establishes property, they must have a wife's help within — hence Wife-Wealth.
正财者，乃甲见己、乙见戊之例。受我克制，为我之妻，譬人娶妻，妻赍财嫁我，我必精神康强，而后可享用，若衰微不振，虽妻财丰厚，但能目视，终不得用。
Direct Wealth is the case of Jia meeting Ji, or Yi meeting Wu. It is restrained by me and is my wife: as when a man takes a wife and she brings property in marriage — I must be sound and strong in spirit before I can enjoy the use of it. If I am faded and cannot rouse myself then however ample the wife's property, I can only look at it; in the end it cannot be used.
但能目视，终不得用 — you can only look at it, and in the end cannot use it. That sentence is the entire classical doctrine on wealth, and it is a claim about capacity, not about amount. Wealth in this system is a controlled relation: it counts as yours only to the extent you can exert control over it.
Hence the two failure cases the chapter names in the same breath:
若财多身弱，柱无印助，财少身强，柱有比劫，太过不及，皆不为福。
If wealth is heavy and the self weak with no Resource in the pillars to help, or wealth is slight and the self strong with companions in the pillars — excess and deficiency alike fail to be fortune.
The stated threat is 劫: 财怕劫，被劫则分 — Wealth fears Rob Wealth; robbed, it is divided. See Rob Wealth and Indirect Wealth for the two relations that sit on either side of this one.
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 | 己 — Ji |
| 乙 Yi yin Wood | 戊 — Wu |
| 丙 Bing yang Fire | 辛 — Xin |
| 丁 Ding yin Fire | 庚 — Geng |
| 戊 Wu yang Earth | 癸 — Gui |
| 己 Ji yin Earth | 壬 — Ren |
| 庚 Geng yang Metal | 乙 — Yi |
| 辛 Xin yin Metal | 甲 — Jia |
| 壬 Ren yang Water | 丁 — Ding |
| 癸 Gui yin Water | 丙 — Bing |
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.
Enter a birth date, time and longitude — the calculator returns the four pillars, the hidden stems, the nayin and the ten gods, with true solar time applied.
Open the chart calculator →正官 Direct Officer · 七杀 Seven Killings · 正印 Direct Resource · 偏印 Indirect Resource · 偏财 Indirect Wealth · 食神 Eating God · 伤官 Hurting Officer · 比肩 Parallel · 劫财 Rob Wealth