Ken's Cyber Cave: Bazi: Meanings of "Void" in pillars and 10 transformation stars

Monday, November 6, 2017

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)

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
Jie-cai (-peer) in void: incapable or unhelpful siblings; problems in accumulating wealth; easy to waste money away.
Shang-guan (+output) in void: few children or no kid; marital problem or remarry
Shi-shen (-output) in void: decreases in blessing and life expectancy
Zheng-cai (+wealth) in void: problems in accumulating wealth; toiling hard for money; lacking relationship with wife; late marriage; family disharmony.
Pian-cai (-wealth) in void: jinxing father; lacking relationship with father; no "unexpected wealth" luck
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.
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.
Zheng-yin (+resource) in void: problems in achieving authority and academic successes; jinxing mother.
Pian-yin (+resource) in void: problems in getting success in academia or school; jinxing step-mother.