The Bazi pattern is the overall classification and naming by a fortune teller of the structural characteristics of a person's fate chart. The level of the pattern reflects, to a certain extent, the person's life style and potential achievements. Understanding one's own pattern is an important step in deeply understanding the fate chart.
What is pattern
Traditional destiny studies divide patterns into two main categories: 'zhengge' (ordinary patterns) and 'waige' (special patterns). Zhengge is based on the month branch's heavenly stem or earthly branch, while waige is based on the overall special structure of the life chart.
Eight Major Common Patterns (Standard Patterns)
The standard is to judge by the hidden stems of the monthly branch appearing in the heavenly stems, mainly as follows:
- Proper Officer Pattern:The monthly command represents a proper official position, follows rules and regulations when handling affairs, has career prospects in government, and is suitable for development within an organization.
- Seven Killings Pattern:The monthly command is Seven Killings, with strong initiative and great courage, suitable for entrepreneurship or military positions.
- Proper Seal Pattern:The monthly command is the Proper Seal, indicating profound knowledge, compassion and benevolence, with the assistance of noble people.
- Indirect Resource Pattern:The monthly command is偏印 (partial seal), indicating multi-talented and versatile, with unique thinking, but a tendency toward loneliness.
- God of Food Pattern:The monthly command is the Food God, quick-witted and intelligent, free from worries about clothing and food, with a gentle personality
- Hurting Officer Pattern:The monthly pillar corresponds to the Hurting Officer, indicating abundant talent, dissatisfaction with rules, and suitability for creativity and technology.
- Proper Wealth Pattern:The monthly command represents regular wealth, being practical and diligent, with stable financial status, valuing reality.
- Unconventional Wealth Pattern:The monthly command is for windfall wealth, adaptive and versatile, able to seize opportunities well, and has broad social connections.
💡 The pattern is just the framework of one's fate chart and does not determine a person's level of achievement. Even with the same proper official pattern, some people reach high positions while others remain ordinary employees—the key lies in whether the pattern is pure and whether the useful god is strong.
Special Structure (Outer Structure)
Genitive case
When the Day Master is extremely weak and there is no supportive force in the whole chart, it is advisable to follow a strong useful god. There are types such as following the wealth pattern, following the official pattern, following the child pattern (following the food and output). If the following pattern is truly followed, the structure is clear and noble; if it is only a pretended following, it is unstable and full of twists and turns.
Zhuan Wang Pattern
When the Day Master is extremely strong and there is no control or drainage in the whole chart, the favorable elements are those that follow its strength. The types are: Bending-Straight structure (Wood), Rising-Fire structure (Fire), Farming structure (Earth), Following-Transformation structure (Metal), and Moisture-Descending structure (Water).
Transforming Qi Pattern
The heavenly stems of the day and month form one of the five combinations and transform energy, and the transforming deity is strong without restraint. Examples include the Jia-Ji combination transforming into Earth, and the Bing-Xin combination transforming into Water. The formation of a transforming energy pattern is noble, but the evaluation is extremely strict.
The distinction between high and low patterns
The level of a pattern does not depend on what kind of pattern it is, but on:
- Whether the pattern is pure (the useful god emerges without being damaged)
- Whether the useful god is powerful (deep-rooted and not hindered by combinations)
- Does the major fortune align (move in the right direction)?
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