Hidden meanings of void branches in Bazi

"Void branch" is based on the theory of when matching 12 earthly branches to 10 heavenly stems, there will be no match for the last 2 branches.  These two branches are called "void branches".  They carry rich information about the individual or "daymaster" if void branch is found in his natal chart.

"Void" means disappearing, unreal, not solid, losses, not there, leaving, cut by half and also "exists in spirit or title only" (not physically exist).  When a star representing a relative is in a void branch, it means this relative is either   weak, chronically ill or passed prematurely.

Traditional Bazi calculates void branches in terms of year and day pillar.  Modern people are likely look at void branches in terms of day pillar only.

Read the following post if you have problem with the Bazi terms used below:
http://kenlaifengshui.blogspot.com/2011/05/4p-bazi-terminology-conventions.html

Void branch meaning can be extracted from two levels:

I.  MEANING FROM PILLAR LOCATIONS

• Void branch in year pillar (年上空亡): no blessing/ inheritance from older generations; also means tough or difficult teen or little or no care/ love during childhood
• Void branch in month pillar (月上空亡):  no support from sibling/s or siblings are weak or chronically sick; low luck during young adulthood
• Void branch in day pillar (日支空亡):  spouse is a weakling or no help from spouse; unstable marital relationship; also stands for low luck during middle age
• Void branch in hour pillar (时柱空亡): gets no help from children or children are weakling or die prematurely; low luck during old age.

II.  MEANING FROM 10 GODS/ TRANSFORMATION STARS

• Resource star in void (印星逢空):  low academic achievement, especially in this void is in year or month pillar.
• Power star in void (官星逢空):  problem in career or getting government post; problem getting/ keeping husband for female
• Wealth star in void (财星逢空):  little or no relationship with father or father dies prematurely; hard to find or keep wife for male
• Output star in void (伤食空亡):  little or no luck with fame/ blessing; unstable marriage; few children
• Children star or palace in void (子女星或子女宫逢空):  hard to conceive or children die prematurely or chronically sick.
• Sibling star or palace in void (比劫星或比劫宫临空):  no sibling or sibling die prematurely or chronically sick.

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Do you jinx your children? 克子女八字

Your Bazi natal chart can reveal a lot about you--  your spouse, your wealth luck, your parents,  your family background, if you are an angel or an ass, and even if you will jinx your children or not  (time to take a Bazi course!)

People with the following Bazi characteristics in their natal Bazi chart may jinx their children:

1.  "Children palace" location is occupation by unfavorable elements (ji-shen).  Hour pillar is the children palace location.  This means children is not good for the daymaster (DM) or they are just "average" and not doing too well.

2.  Children palace is seriously clashed or penalized.  This means children has little or no relationship (karma) with DM. live far away from DM or die prematurely.

3.  Children palace sits on void branch.  "Void" means nothing.  DM may not have any children or children has little or no relationship (karma) with DM or DM cannot rely on them for old age support.

4.  Children palace is occupied by output stars (shi-shen/ shang-guan) for male DM.  Power stars (zheng-guan/ qi-sha) mean children for male.  The arch enemies of power stars are output stars.  Hence when children palace is occupied by output stars implies jinxing children for a male DM-- children do not like staying at home or have poor prospect or simply being "average".

5.  Children palace is occupied by resource stars (zheng-yin/ pian-yin) for female DM.  Output stars (shi-shen/ shang-guan) mean children for female.  The arch enemies of output stars are resource stars.  Hence when children palace is occupied by resource stars implies jinxing children for a female DM-- children do not like staying at home or have poor prospect or simply being "average".

If you are smart, the same analytical technique can be applied to other pillars to examine other family relationship, like month pillar for parents or sibling relationship.  This is equivalent to reading 1 article and get 3 free.  Life is good for you.

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Fertility Bazi: Women with problems giving birth

Bazi characteristics of women with problem giving birth:

1. Chart with strong resource stars (zheng-yin/ pian-yin):  Output stars (shi-shen/ shang-guan) represents children for a female.  Resource stars are the arch-enemies of output stars.  For example, the output star of a female Jia-wood daymaster (DM) is fire and resource star is water.  Water extinguishes fire.  Hence if a chart with strong resource star will be unfavorable for child-birth, especially if the resource star is in the hour pillar (children palace!)

2. Chart with daymaster sitting on "yang-knife":  Chart with yang-knife on day-branch is prone to abortion, miscarriage or uterus surgery.  Women with the following day-pillars are sitting on a "yang-knife":  bing-wu, ding-si, wu-wu, ji-si, ren-zi and gui-hai.

3. Chart with day-branch clashing hour branch:  Hour pillar is the "children palace".  When it is clashed means instability, damaging, obstacles in giving birth and also prone to miscarriage.  Here are the potential day-hour branch clashes:  yin-shen, mao-you, chen-xu, si-hai, zi-wu and chou-wei. 

4. Chart with children star in void:  Void means "void branch" here.  Void means "not there" or nothing.

5. Chart with children star entombed:  "Entombed" means hidden or lacking relationship with children.  For example, water is the children star for a female metal DM and there is no water element in her chart except a hidden gui-water in the Chen water tomb.

"Ken, my chart has some of the characteristics listed above.  Is there any remedy or things that I can do to increase my chance of conceiving a child?" 

Yes, there are some simple  things that you can do.  Please refer to these:
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Click the following link if you want to understand the Bazi/4P terminology used here as compared to yours:
http://kenlaifengshui.blogspot.com/2011/05/4p-bazi-terminology-conventions.html


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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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Obama and 3-Penalties

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Someone has posted Obama's birth certificate in the web. It matches my estimation of his birth hour--- 7pm, Xu or dog hour.

I've estimated it is Xu hour because Obama rises to the top pretty quickly, so he must have some sort of 3-penalties. And his charts shows he has a "built-in" 3-penalties. Also Xu hour matches the predictions of his ZWDS chart too.

Enclosed is the 4-Pillars chart of Obama. You can match his life events with the links below.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barack_Obama
http://www.biography.com/featured-biography/barack-obama/index.jsp

Obama's year and month pillars "fan yin" or fight against each other from top to bottom, indicates an unstable and difficult childhood.

The void branches are interesting! Void means nothing or "not there". Obama has void branches in both spouse and children palace. His wife Michelle could have be a goner easily, had the day branch si not been the void branch. Same to Obama, he would have suffered many accidents and surgeries.

It is possible that Michelle Obama may have a "tough" or "equally-jinxing" 4P chart herself (I've not checked it yet) which may even out with her husband's.

Void branches at children palace or hour pillar may mean-- the day-master (Obama) has little or no karma with children (either little relationship, physically separated or children die prematurely) or does not get support from children during old age. He is unlikely to have male heir.

You may notice that major events are likely to happen when Obama's 3-penalty elements show up again in annual luck. His father had died of an auto accident in Xu year (1982). Xu is part of the 3-penalties element.

Also when hai or pig year comes, it clashes with his "bloody knife" or spouse palace. His "mother star" resides in spouse palace, hinting close relationship or significant influence on him. Obama's mother had died in a hai year (1995) with ovarian cancer (sickness matches the hai element).

See if you can track down his "sources" of current power lucks-- the power that may propel him to become the first black president of the United States. It is in the branches.... it is pretty powerful. But you may need my "4P Bootcamp" manual to figure that out.

Obama's hidden potential for power and leadership is much stronger than what he has shown externally. His "power luck" runs for 20 years and will be gone when he reaches 60 years old.

Obama's 3-penalties seems to affect his close relatives more--- father and mother had died relatively young. Too bad that I am older than Obama and may not live long enough to see how his 3-penalties affect his own wife and children.

3-penalties jinx close relatives more than the day-master. However, 3-penalties can be positive under certain conditions.

There is a "loner with few relatives" (gua-su) shen-sha in his hour pillar. Hour pillar stands for the last stage of his life. So this hints that he may live alone with most close relatives passed away or live far away when he gets old.

Also, if Obama gets elected, 2009 (ji-chou year) does not seem to be his lucky year!! Annual Ji (his bi-jian, peer or competitor) may snatch his "guan" or power. This may mean losing his presidency (a possible death or scandal, as chou is also a 3-penalties element), facing tough competitions or pressure from peers, OR disgraced in his old job if not elected. But the probability of occurrence seems low as his overall current 10-year luck is still positive. Besides, he has both Tian-De and Yi-De Nobleman stars to pull him out of trouble.

I deliberately read only part of the chart, so that you may have fun doing your own reading and interpretations.


Ken Lai

PS: I do not vote for any candidate. If you have problem following the terms used here or want to learn more about the paradox of 3-penalties, you may want to take my "4-Pillars Bootcamp" correspondence course w/12 hours video.

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Void

The concept of "void" is important both in FS and 4P.

For FS, void line primarily means the borderline between two mountains (90% of the case, there arevoids exist NOT in borderline, see my "Practical Door FS manual") and no "qi" comes into the house.

For 4P or Bazi, concept of void is derived from matching 10 stems to 12 branches-- 2 branches will have "no matching stem" and thus they are in "void".

When a 4P chart has void branches, depending on the location of the branch (year, month, day or hour pillar), it implies the lack of relationship between the day-master (DM) and the relative (family member) represented by the void branch. For example, if mother palace is in void, it means DM has little or no relationship with mother, separated from mother, mother died early and etc..

I'd a 4P client who was raised by her grandmother. She was depressed because she cannot figure out why her mother had left her and had been seeing a psychologist.

After I've pointed out there is a void branch in her mother palace and is predestined to have little or no relationship with her mother, she no longer needs to see the psychologist.

There are many applications and interpretations about void branches. Most are listed in my "4P Bootcamp" manaul.

Here is another way of playing with void branch.

First, find out the na-yin element of each pillar. For example Ding-hai's na-yin is earth (you can find a na-yin table from the free 4P file that I had given to this list long time ago).

For example, let's have an imaginary 4P:

Year: Ding-hai : na-yin = earth
Month: Jia-chen : na-yin = fire
Day: Yi-wei : na-yin = metal
Hour: gui-you : na-yin = metal

Day void branch = chen, si
Year void branch = wu, wei

From the above, we know month and day pillar are in void.

In this system, NOT all na-yin voids are negative.

When a metal vessel is empty (void), it makes noises. So this means fame (temples like to be built on metal void line, for fame).

When water is in void, it means clearness. So it means intelligence and righteousness.

When earth is in void, it collapse, so it is not good.

When fire is in void, wind blows in and become flaming and gives out light. This is consider as auspicious.

When wood is in void, it breaks.

Conventional interpretation for this example will be: lack of karma or relationship with mother (or sibling)- lack of karma or relationship with spouse (or no spouse).

With the na-yin interpretation: lack of karma or relationship with spouse though either one may be famous.

These deductions are not possible with strict 5-element or 10-transformation star ("10 gods") analyses.

There are other ways to look at void branches, like switching day and year void branch and switching day and hour void branches.

The concept of void is even more important in Buddhism. But that is a very long story!

Ken Lai

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