How your child operate (Part 2)

In the previous article, we mentioned that parents can understand what the strengths of their child are using Bazi. For people who do not have any background knowledge in Bazi, they can read out the article named “Bazi Introduction” to have a better understanding on Bazi. We will delve straight to the main structure of the chart for the purpose of finding the strength or the strongest element of a person in this article. Below is a sample chart. The season of birth for this person is circled in red in the chart, which is spring, and wood will be the strongest element in spring.

 

Bazi of a person born on 14 Feb 2013, 12pm

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

You can also see that there are 2 more wood protruding on the heavenly stem as well. Therefore, it is no doubt that the wood element is the strongest element in this chart. And wood when referring to the 辛 xin metal Day master in the day stem is its wealth element. Element that is controlled by the Day Master will be its wealth element and it is metal controlling wood in this case. Therefore the structure or the strongest element in this chart is direct wealth as the 甲 (yang wood) is an opposite element for the yin metal Day Master. Please refer to the 10 gods table in Bazi introduction article if you are not familiar with this.

As an alternative, you can print out your Bazi chart from Joey Yap’s website where you can find out what your profile is straight away. Click here to print chart.
 

Please bear in mind that there are other things that influences how a person behave as well like the Day master (Who he/she is), useful god (the most important element that brings balance to the Bazi chart), etc. I will focus on the 10 profiles for the purpose of finding out how your child operates in this article, so that you can focus on the area where your child can perform best based on their strengths.

The 10 profiles

Direct Resource

Your child is quiet, cultured, likes learning. They think a lot, meticulous and therefore can be a good analyser.
 

Indirect Resource

A good observer, they like unconventional knowledge and do things uniquely. They have the ability to see things differently from others, and are usually quiet as well.
 

Direct Officer

Your child is a good follower who can follow rules and regulations. Set a clear target or rule with your child and guide them with frequent monitoring and assessment.
 

Seven Killings

Your child is brave and daring, like a warrior. They are straightforward and a doer. They can be in business expansion line to help fight for market share for their company. The only thing that needs to look into is they need to learn to be patience and think thoroughly before they act as their weakness is acting too fast and too direct.
 

Direct Wealth

Good at management especially in saving money for the company as they are very structured and aims to do things the most efficient way. This makes them the best manager material for a corporate.
 

Indirect Wealth

Your child is a natural-born entrepreneur. Train them in business related areas so that they can become a successful businessman/woman in the future, not to forget financial management training as they are quite poor with managing finances.
 

Eating God

Like an artist, they have plenty of ideas and good imagination. They can express their idea in words like a good writer, or in art like painting and fashion designing.  They enjoy beautiful things.
 

Hurting Officer

Your child likes the lime light or attention, and is a natural performer. Let them attend talent classes to find and learn what they really like and grow their natural talent. They can be a good speaker, dancer, actor, musician, sportsmen etc.
 

Friend

Friend is most important to them. They like to network and have many friends. Friend influence has the most impact on those with highest percentage in Friend profile. Make sure your child is surrounded by the type of friends that are positive minded and can motivate your child. You can enhance this by letting your child join clubs or society groups that are full with ambitious young people.  
 

Rob Wealth

If your child is having Rob wealth as the highest percentage in the 10 profiles, they are very competitive in nature, and like challenges and competitions. They like to be in groups, and is not a lone ranger. Put your child in a competitive environment where they have peers who fight along with them. They perform best under pressure.

 

The above are just some suggestions for the parents to understand their child more. This can be used as an additional piece of information for the parents to consider before deciding on anything for their child. As you can see from above, there are people who are extrovert, like to be seen, talk to and surrounded by people. There are also people who are introvert, who thinks a lot, are quiet and like to be alone. Please do not think that it is a disadvantage if your child is shy and quiet; they could be the best strategist or analyst in the future with appropriate guidance. You just need to focus on the key areas where their strength lies and grow the talent that is suitable for them. There is a Chinese saying that goes that there will be an expert in each and every different industries and fields.

The dream of unleashing your child’s full potential has never been easier if you can identify your child’s true potential and give them appropriate training and guidance to nurture their talent.
 

If you would like to know more on this, there are books by Joey Yap that talks about the 10 Day masters, 5 structures and 10 profiles that explain this in more details. Click here to visit Joey Yap’s Mastery Academy.

Bazi Introduction

In order to allow the reader to understand and appreciate the technical articles in this site, we have prepared a brief introduction for readers who may not have any background knowledge on this subject at all. Hopefully, this helps and more people can know and appreciate the ancient art of our Chinese culture. 

Everything in Bazi is revolved around the 5 elements and its interaction with one another. Therefore a good understanding of the basics will take you a long way for the learning and understanding of Bazi. It will be very useful as well if you advanced further into other subject of Chinese Metaphysics like Fengshui (the study of Qi and landform) as they also uses the concept of five elements.

The five elements are namely metal, water, wood, fire, and earth. The basic relationship between the five elements are categorised into producing cycle, weakening cycle, and controlling cycle.

The producing cycle

 

Water produces wood: Water grows wood just like plants need water to grow.

Wood produces fire: We burn wood to produce fire.

Fire produces earth: Fire burns everything into ashes and returns it back to the earth. Earth can be referred to as soil, sand, dust, or ashes.

Earth produces metal: Metal refers to the natural minerals that grow in the earth.

Metal produces water: Metal does not really produce water but attracts water during its condensation process.

The weakening cycle

 

 

 

The five elements are weakened by element that they produce or grow, just like a mother is weakened after giving birth to her child. Therefore, metal weakens earth, earth weakens fire, fire weakens wood, wood weakens water, and water weakens metal.

The controlling cycle

 

 

 

Metal controls wood: As wood can be chopped down by axes which is made by metal.

Wood controls earth: The earth or soil is held together by the trees.

Earth controls water:  Just like the river or ocean which is contains/bounds the earth.

Water controls fire: Water can extinguish fire.

Fire controls metal: Fire is used to melt metal.

The Ten Stems/Ten Day Master

The five elements can be broken down into what we called ten stems by assigning a yin or yang polarity to each of the elements.

The Day Master is referring to the Day stem of a Bazi chart, which is circled in red in the chart below. As there are only ten different stems (yin and yang polarity of each of the five element), therefore we have ten Day Masters.

Day Master is very important in the chart as it represents the person, the ‘self’. What the rest of the 7 characters in the chart means will be derived by their relationship with the Day Master. 

 

 

Table 5: 10 Day Master table

Element	10 stems	Image	Description/Key characteristic
Wood	Yang Wood 甲 Jia		Big and tall trees. Benevolence, Straight forward, likes stability
	Yin Wood 乙 Yi		Twine and bushes. Flexible, adaptable
Fire	Yang Fire 丙 Bing		The Sun. Energy, passion, generous
	Yin Fire 丁 Ding		The light of candle. Meticulous, sentimental, motivator
Earth	Yang Earth 戊 Wu		Rocks, mountain. Loyal, dependable, trustworthy
	Yin Earth 己 Ji		Soil, dirt. Nurturing, productive, resourceful
Metal	Yang Metal 庚 Geng		Axe. Righteousness, power, fighter
	Yin Metal 辛 Xin		Jewelry. Elegant, attention-grabber, negotiator
Water	Yang Water 壬 Ren		Water in the ocean. Wisdom, adaptive, constant movement.
	Yin Water 癸 Gui		Mist, cloud. Mysterious, intuition, creative

 

Relationship with other element

Element that you (The Day Master) control is your wealth element

Element that controls you (The Day Master) is your influence element

Element that you (The Day Master) produce is your output element

Element that produces you (The Day Master) is your resource element

Element that is the same as you (The Day Master) is your companion element

 

Day master Element	Wealth element	Influence element	Output element	Resource element	Companion element
Wood	Earth	Metal	Fire	Water	Wood
Fire	Metal	Water	Earth	Wood	Fire
Earth	Water	Wood	Metal	Fire	Earth
Metal	Wood	Fire	Water	Earth	Metal
Water	Fire	Earth	Wood	Metal	Water

Table 6: Five elements relationship with the Day Master

The Ten Gods

The Ten Gods are derived when you further breakdown the five elements from table 6 above into yin and yang polarity.

10 Day master	Wealth element		Influence element		Output element		Resource element		Companion element
	Direct Wealth	Indirect Wealth	Direct Officer	Seven killings	Eating God	Hurting Officer	Direct Resource	Indirect Resource	Friend	Rob Wealth
甲 Yang Wood	己 Yin Earth	戊 Yang Earth	辛 Yin Metal	庚 Yang Metal	丙 Yang Fire	丁 Yin fire	癸 Yin Water	壬 Yang Water	甲 Yang Wood	乙 Yin Wood
乙 Yin Wood	戊 Yang Earth	己 Yin Earth	庚 Yang Metal	辛 Yin Metal	丁 Yin Fire	丙 Yang Fire	壬 Yang Water	癸 Yin Water	乙 Yin Wood	甲 Yang Wood
丙 Yang Fire	辛 Yin Metal	庚 Yang Metal	癸 Yin Water	壬 Yang Water	戊 Yang Earth	己 Yin Earth	乙 Yin Wood	甲 Yang Wood	丙 Yang Fire	丁 Yin fire
丁 Yin Fire	庚 Yang Metal	辛 Yin Metal	壬 Yang Water	癸 Yin Water	己 Yin Earth	戊 Yang Earth	甲 Yang Wood	乙 Yin Wood	丁 Yin Fire	丙 Yang Fire
戊 Yang Earth	癸 Yin Water	壬 Yang Water	乙 Yin Wood	甲 Yang Wood	庚 Yang Metal	辛 Yin Metal	丁 Yin Fire	丙 Yang Fire	戊 Yang Earth	己 Yin Earth
己 Yin Earth	壬 Yang Water	癸 Yin Water	甲 Yang Wood	乙 Yin Wood	辛 Yin Metal	庚 Yang Metal	丙 Yang Fire	丁 Yin fire	己 Yin Earth	戊 Yang Earth
庚 Yang Metal	乙 Yin Wood	甲 Yang Wood	丁 Yin Fire	丙 Yang Fire	壬 Yang Water	癸 Yin Water	己 Yin Earth	戊 Yang Earth	庚 Yang Metal	辛 Yin Metal
辛 Yin Metal	甲 Yang Wood	乙 Yin Wood	丙 Yang Fire	丁 Yin fire	癸 Yin Water	壬 Yang Water	戊 Yang Earth	己 Yin Earth	辛 Yin Metal	庚 Yang Metal
壬 Yang Water	丁 Yin Fire	丙 Yang Fire	己 Yin Earth	戊 Yang Earth	甲 Yang Wood	乙 Yin Wood	辛 Yin Metal	庚 Yang Metal	壬 Yang Water	癸 Yin Water
癸 Yin Water	丙 Yang Fire	丁 Yin fire	戊 Yang Earth	己 Yin Earth	乙 Yin Wood	甲 Yang Wood	庚 Yang Metal	辛 Yin Metal	癸 Yin Water	壬 Yang Water

Table 7: The Ten Gods

Strength of elements in a chart based on season

Element	Spring	Summer	Autumn	Winter
Wood	Prosperous	Weak	Dead	Strong
Fire	Strong	Prosperous	Trap	Dead
Earth	Dead	Strong	Weak	Trap
Metal	Trap	Dead	Prosperous	Weak
Water	Weak	Trap	Strong	Prosperous

Table 8: strength of elements based on season

The twelve Earthly Branches

People are familiar with the twelve animal zodiac signs that are associated to each year. For example, 2013 is a snake year. The table below shows the five elements that the animal sign contained. Determining the strength of the element will be based on the season that the person is born in, which is the same way as determining the strength of the stems’ element (Please see table 8 above)

Spring
Feb	Mar	Apr
寅 Yin Tiger	卯 Mao Rabbit	辰 Chen Dragon
甲 Yang Wood 戊 Yang Earth 丙 Yang Fire	乙 Yin Wood	戊 Yang Earth 乙 Yin Wood 癸 Yin Water
Summer
May	Jun	Jul
巳 Si Snake	午 Wu Horse	未 Wei Goat
丙 Yang Fire 庚 Yang Metal 戊 Yang Earth	丁 Yin Fire 己 Yin Earth	己 Yin Earth 乙 Yin Wood 丁 Yin Fire
Autumn
Aug	Sep	Oct
申 Shen Monkey	酉 You Rooster	戌 Xu Dog
庚 Yang Metal 壬 Yang Water 戊 Yang Earth	辛 Yin Metal	戊 Yang Earth 辛 Yin Metal 丁 Yin Fire
Winter
Nov	Dec	Jan
亥 Hai Pig	子 Zi Rat	丑 Chou Ox
壬 Yang Water 甲 Yang Wood	癸 Yin Water	己 Yin Earth 辛 Yin Metal 癸 Yin Water

Table 9: 12 earthly branches table by season. The small character in bold indicates the strongest main qi for the respective animal sign.

We will use the table below to show how the season of birth can determine the strength of all the elements in the chart.

 

 

Table 10 shows that people who were born in Feb will have a tiger sign as their month branch. This also indicates that the strongest element in the chart will be wood element as he/she is born in spring. The strength of each element in the chart can be determined by using table 8 above (e.g. In spring: wood prosperous, fire strong, water weak, metal trap, and earth dead).

After knowing what the element in your chart means to you and the strength of the element, you can know what your basic strength is and where your weaknesses lie. All this takes time and practice to master, but Bazi is definitely something worth investing for in your life.

I will stop here for the time being, and will come back to explain a little bit more when new concepts are introduced in other articles. If you want to learn more, you may also buy books like ‘The Destiny code’ and ‘The Destiny code revealed’ written by Master Joey Yap of the Mastery Academy, which is simple and easy to understand, and suitable for beginners who would like to know more about Bazi.