Bazi: Meanings of "Void" in pillars and 10 transformation stars

"Void" means nothing, missing, lacking karma and poor or no relationship in Bazi.  "Void" occurs because there are 12 earthly branches to match with ten heavenly stems.  Two branches in each group of 10 binomials in the 60-jia-zi cycle will have no match and are defined as "in void".


MEANINGS OF VOID IN PILLARS (四柱空亡)

• Year pillar in void:  Year pillar represents life period between age 1-16.  Daymaster (DM) suffers obstacles and illness during this period; lacking support from older generations.
• Month pillar in void:  Month pillar represents life period between age 17-32.  DM suffers obstacles more than successes during this period;  disharmony or with little or no relationship with siblings or parents.
• Day pillar in void:  Day pillar represents life period between age 33-48.  DM suffers bad luck in career/ wealth and disharmony in family during this period;  poor relationship with wife; wife may die prematurely or simply no wife
• Hour pillar in void:  hour pillar represents life period after age 48.  DM has little or no relationship with children or simply no children; cannot rely on children for old age support; likely to be alone and poor

MEANINGS OF VOID IN 10 TRANSFORMATION STARS  ("10 Gods"十神空亡)

1. Bi-jian (+peer) in void:  few siblings or siblings are not helpful or in disharmony; male DM will have no wife or wife is not helpful;  female DM lacks relationship with husband
2. Jie-cai (-peer) in void:  incapable or unhelpful siblings;  problems in accumulating wealth; easy to waste money away.
3. Shang-guan (+output) in void:  few children or no kid; marital problem or remarry
4. Shi-shen (-output) in void:  decreases in blessing and life expectancy
5. Zheng-cai  (+wealth) in void:  problems in accumulating wealth;  toiling hard for money; lacking relationship with wife; late marriage;  family disharmony.
6. Pian-cai (-wealth) in void:  jinxing father;  lacking relationship with father; no "unexpected wealth" luck
7. Zheng-guan (+power) in void:  deceases in wealth from government career; not suitable for public post;  few children for male DM;  poor relationship with husband for female DM.
8. Qi-sha (-power) in void:  lacking mentor/ help from superiors or senior generation; DM has no authority or influence;  few children for male DM;  poor relationship with husband for female DM.
9. Zheng-yin (+resource) in void:  problems in achieving authority and academic successes;  jinxing mother.
10. Pian-yin (+resource) in void:  problems in getting success in academia or school; jinxing step-mother.

My "Destiny and Luck Management" courses (see below) include some remedies and fixes for void.

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Bazi: 10 transformation stars ("10 Gods") on void 十神空亡

This time we discuss application of the "void" concept in Bazi.  It's void theory is based on the pairing of stems and branches and not borders between two mountains or palaces as in Feng Shui.

10 heavenly stems and 12 earthly branches are the "ABC" of Chinese metaphysics.  So almost every subject like Bazi, QMDJ, date-selection, divination and etc.,  have something on "void branch" due to the imbalance of this "10 stems" vs. "12 branches".  Two of the branches will be left out with no stems to pair with them.  These two branches are called "void branches".

There are 60 binomials (pairing of a stem and a branch of the same polarity or gender) categorized into 6 groups or "Xun".  Each xun has 10 binomials.  Members of each of these 6 groups have the same two void branches.  For example, members of the Jia-zi group ( Jia-zi, Yi-chou, Bing-yin, Ding-mao, Wu-chen, Ji-si, Geng-wu, Xin-wei, Ren-shen, Gui-you) have the same Xu and Hai as their void branches.

"Void" means nothing or disappeared.  The effects of a branch sitting on void is usually minimal or discounted by over 50%.

Void branches are classified in terms of:
--  year, month, day and hour branches
--  10 transformation stars
--  5-elements
--  "breaking bridge"
--  "horseback"
--  "mutual exchange"
--  and more

Here we just cover the 10 transformation stars or "10 Gods" on void.  For further info and remedies, please consult my "Destiny and Luck Management with Bazi" courses.  The following table is an excerpt from this "Destiny and Luck Management" course manual. 

TRANSFORMATION STARS AND VOID

Another way of looking at void branch is to check the branch in terms of the transformation star it represents.  For example, if the star is zheng-yin (resources) sits on void branch, it stands for lack of help or relationship with mother or older females or lack of or reduced academic progress for that period represented by the pillar.

Transformation star in void:	INTERPRETATIONS
Jie-cai 劫财 +peer	sibling rivalry; no or little help from siblings; problem accumulate wealth; easily over-spending/wasting money
Bi-jian 比肩  -peer	Male jinxes wife; female has poor spousal relationship; few siblings; sibling rivalry; no or little help from siblings
Shang-guan 伤官 +ouput	Orphan; marital discords or divorce; easy to miscarriage for female
Shi-shen 食神 -output	Likely to die prematurely; can mitigate the negative effect  with clash or combinations
Zheng-cai 正财 +wealth	Little or no relationship with wife; failures and rough life during old age
Pian-cai 偏财 –wealth	Little or no relationship with father; father is of little help or die prematurely; does not have “non-regular” wealth luck (like gambling, stocks and shares)
Zheng-guan 正官 +power Qi-sha 七杀 –power	Male has few or no sons; female has poor relationship with spouse; Can’t excel in careers; avoid public positions (government jobs); destined to leave hometown
Zheng-yin 正印 +resource	Problem to have academic success or power (authority); poor or no relationship with mother
Pian-yin 偏印–resource	Suffer obstacles in school or academic career; diffcult to achieve success; jinxing step-mother

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