Analysis of Major Fortune: How to View the Key Turning Points in Life

If a person's Bazi chart is their innate hand of cards, then the luck pillars are the new hands revealed every ten years. The quality of these luck pillars directly determines the overall direction and development potential of each stage of life.

What is the Great Luck?

The Great Luck (Dà Yùn) starts from the Month Pillar (the Heavenly Stem and Earthly Branch corresponding to the birth month) and is calculated in a sequence according to the forward or reverse order. Each Great Luck period governs about 10 years. The Heavenly Stem of the Great Luck governs the first 5 years, while the Earthly Branch governs the last 5 years (there is also a view that the Heavenly Stem governs the first 3 years and the Earthly Branch the last 7 years).

Yang male and Yin female follow the major luck cycles in order, Yin male and Yang female follow the major luck cycles in reverse, this is the basic rule.

How the Great Fortune affects life

The heavenly stems and earthly branches of the major luck period overlaying the birth chart can trigger the following changes:

• Supporting God of life: In this stage, everything goes smoothly, and opportunities frequently appear.
• Overcoming the taboo deity: Energy is gained and released, which may also bring breakthroughs
• Restrained Favorable Element: Luck is obstructed, setbacks increase, caution is needed in actions
• Bringing out potential combinations in the fate chart: specific major luck periods can activate dormant energies in the fate chart

Characteristics of Great Luck

• The Five Elements of Major Luck are of the same energy as the useful god in the natal chart or support the useful god
• The Great Luck forms favorable Three Harmonies and Six Harmonies combinations with the natal chart
• The major luck brings out wealth, authority, and talents in the natal chart, and the structure is clear.

Characteristics of bad luck

• The major luck period directly clashes with the Day Master (even more so for those with a weak self-element)
• The major fortune period triggers the punishments, clashes, and destructions in the natal chart
• The Five Elements of the major fortune period have the same energy as the unfavorable deity in the natal chart, amplifying the power of the unfavorable deity.

Major Luck Transition Period: Moments That Require the Most Attention

The period about 1-2 years before and after the major luck cycle change is a transitional phase of life energy, during which significant life changes are likely to occur: changing jobs, moving residences, relationship changes, health fluctuations, etc. During this phase, special attention needs to be paid to the interaction between one's natal chart and the new major luck cycle.

The overlay of annual luck and major fortune

Luck periods are the background color, and annual fortunes are the variations each year. When both the luck period and the annual fortune are good, it is a double blessing, often leading to major breakthroughs; when both are bad, it results in continuous lows; if the luck period is good but the annual fortune is bad, the impact is limited; if the luck period is bad but the annual fortune is good, there can still be partial improvement.