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When a knowledge star in month branch is same yin-yang as a day master or any one element from the inclusion of month branch, penetrated through stem is knowledge star of same yin-yang. The strong Pyeon-in structure needs to be restrained by money stars. Even it is ok when the Pyeon-in are clashed or penalized. But still the Pyeon-in is helpful for a weak day master.

Successful scenario

1) When a strong Pyeon-in is restrained by money stars

2) When a strong day master is accompanied by strong Pyeon-in, it requires expression stars to drain some energy.

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3) When a strong day master is accompanied by weak Pyeon-in, and it is supported by career star.

Unsuccessful scenario

1) When a weak Pyeon-in is restrained by money star

2) When a strong Pyeon-in supports strong day master

3) When there is no other element to control the strong Pyeon-in.

How we define the class of fate

1. Favorable elements are strong and unfavorable elements are weak  It makes both rich and noble fate

2. Unfavorable elements are strong but there is a useful applicable agent to control them 

One might have some challenges but is able to overcome difficulty.

3. Favorable and unfavorable elements are mixed 

Ordinary people‟s life

4. Useful applicable agents are weak and unfavorable elements are strong

One may run through lots of diversities in life and cannot overcome difficulties

The fate paths between rich and noble lives

When saju has a strong day master and strong money stars supported by expression star, it pursues wealth and it has talents to make money.

When saju has a strong day master and strong career stars, it pursues noble lives and achieves high position in its career. Like this, saju structure determines whether one achieves either rich or noble life. (Between money fortune cycle and career fortune cycle)

The meaning of strong day master – When a day master takes roots in a branch, we can say the day master is strong.

The agent that determines wealth – A Weak day master may require friend stars to achieve money fortune. A Strong day master requires expression and money stars.

The agent that determines nobility – A Weak day master may require knowledge stars to achieve noble fortune. A Strong day master requires money and career stars.

How to read successful or unsuccessful fate for each applicable and useful agents.

1. When a friend star is an applicable useful agent – People are firm, vigorous and patient. When a day master gets support from friend stars (ex, partners, friends, siblings) one may achieve fortune.

2. When an expression is an applicable useful agent – People are talented, smart, artistic and cultured. When a day master meets expression stars, one may build a stepping stone for success. One becomes intuitive and makes right decisions.

3. When a money star is an applicable useful agent – People are creditable and active. They also care others. When a day master meets money star fortune, it makes great wealth.

4. When a career star is an applicable useful agent – People want to keep

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their reputation and pursue respectful life. They value fidelity and show leadership. When a day master meets career star fortune, one is promoted to a higher position and its leadership is recognized by others.

5. When a knowledge star is an applicable useful agent – People are wise, calm and merciful. They keep trying to accumulate honor. When a day master meets knowledge star fortune, it achieves license, good scores at school and gains fame.

If saju has an applicable useful agent only in stem, it acquires good fortune when it meets the element in coming year‟s branch. It is because the energy needs to connect between stems and branches. If a day master has an applicable useful agent only in the inclusions of branch, it acquires good fortune when it meets the element in coming year‟s stem. This is due to the law of „roots and penetrations‟ between stems and branches. If a day master has a healthy applicable useful agent both in stems and taking a root in branches, one may develop better fate constantly.

Ordinary people usually have their favorable and unfavorable elements mixed in their saju, so we need to evaluate which is stronger or healthier when we read their life in details.

In case saju has great flow of energy,

1. It needs to follow the strong energy flow.

2. When it meets the strong energy in the coming year‟s fortune, it achieves good fortune.

Chapter 2 Harmony

Reading saju is to analyze the yinyang and 5 elements in saju. After defining a day master of saju, one may evaluate its relationship with other elements and read the condition of saju structure. It is a process like decoding the signs from heaven and earth from one’s birth.

There are 4 heavenly stems and 4 terrestrial branches in one’s saju, which are read through the yin and yang and the five elements of universe. Human beings are born imperfect considering the fact that saju has to compose 5 elements. Accordingly there must be both harmonious and disharmonious relation between the day master and other elements. To read this relationship is the core technique in practicing saju.

If you are able to evaluate how a day master is related with other elements, harmoniously or disharmoniously, you are already a master to read others’

fate. It would be a secondary work to figure out favorable or unfavorable elements, or to find out the applicable useful agent in saju. Also after this being clarified, there is no confusion about ‘structure’. It is still very difficult and complicated technique to read and clarify saju structure well, in practicing saju.

You may be able to find your own ways to read one’s fate, whether it is grasping the structure or comprehending the harmony, or else.

The major principle to comprehend ‘harmony’ in saju is to find neutralizing energy. Theoretically, from a day master’s viewpoint, if it’s strong, there required a restricting element. If it’s weak, there required a supportive (generating) energy. So when the saju has this neutralizing elements, we may call it ‘applicable useful agent’.

In summary,

1. Saju requires ‘harmony’ the most

2. It requires neutralizing elements to harmonize the energy relationship.

3. We need to review climate of saju to determine the neutralizing elements. For example, for a day master born in cold month branches, it needs to add warmth. On the other hand, for a day master born in hot

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month branches, it needs to add coldness.

Then, why ‘Harmony’?

In orient, humans are considered a part of nature, so we read their fate by one’s birth year, month, day and time. And it is of course required to have harmonized relationship and energy flow with heaven and earth.

Other than the day master or day stem, the rest elements in the saju could constitute one’s social and human relationship networks under the name of 5 stars or cycles. They are friend, expression, money, career and knowledge stars according to the 5 elements circulation.

Some people may have their saju with all five elements balanced, while others not. The fact that saju has only four pillars means human beings are not perfect as saju can’t satisfy all five elements. A billionaire may not be happy with his love life or sometimes he is not healthy enough to enjoy his wealth.

Most ordinary people pursue rich life but not all of them achieve what they want in their lifetime. An intelligent scholar usually falls in frustration for the lack of social recognition.

People seem to thirst for what they don’t have, instead of being satisfied with what they have.

The 4 stems and 4 branches in saju are not fossilized. Some letters are enforced while others are weakened as time goes by. Some letters are revived when they meet certain energy in coming years while others are damaged.

The logic in reading our fate by saju cannot be testified through certain experiments. Yet still exists.

Wood is not just called „wood‟. On the contrary, we have to understand that wood is generated by water, then it generates fire. Also it restricts earth and is restricted by metal, as seen by the five elements diagram. They should be understood by the relationship with others, so when the fire energy is strong, for example, we consider that wood might be exhausted as the wood energy is absorbed by the fire and the earth would become fertile by vital fire energy, and the metal can be damaged as the fire would melt it, and so on.

When ancient people studied the universe and the situation of human beings,

they tried to look everything under the concept of “relationship”.

Now we may be able to see how this understanding was applied to saju.

When we read the other elements in saju, energy balance and their relationship are more valued instead of just counting the number of each element.

As many of us agree, money is such important factor to determine one’s life successful or not in modern society. In reading the saju, if you found lots of money stars in your saju, would you consider that you have big money fortune and your life is happy?

The answer is no.

There are only four pillars in a saju while you need to fill them with five elements. So there always is a lacking in our life. Each element has its own luck and influence to your life, for example, a friend star gives you strength, a knowledge star gives you wisdom, an expression star talents, a career star social recognition and power, etc. So having many money stars means you are lacking the other fortune. And it also suggests that in order to make money, your energy is exhausted.

The oriental philosophy teaches us to look at the whole picture and understand the mechanism of relationship.

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Then, how to judge ?

First, Harmony of the 5 elements

1. If one element sitting on a branch as a regular energy  proper power and it has virtue.

2. If an element comes only from inclusion, whether one or more than two, not as a regular energy 

still weak and it lacks virtue.

3. If an element is sitting on more than two branches as regular energies

 excessive power (Excessiveness is not better than lacking, as it is cumbersome and disturb the other stars.

Second, Harmony of yin-yang

Yin and yang, coldness and warmth, brightness and darkness, etc. determine the atmosphere of saju.

Deepen your study of Harmony

The harmony of saju means it has all five elements properly constituted in saju. When we define favorable elements and unfavorable elements, the favorable elements need to be strong and unfavorable elements need to be weak. But before that, saju needs to have all five elements as possible. As written above, one regular element may bring proper fortune. If the element exists in more than two branches, it is called excessive and not favorable. If the element exists only in inclusions not as a regular energy, it is weak. You should be able to utilize this principle in practicing saju.

Let‟s see how we can judge with an actual example.

Time Day Month Year Male

Gye Gi Byeong Im

Yu Chuk O In

Metal Earth Fire wood

-wood ; proper -fire ; proper -earth ; proper -metal ; proper -water ; insufficient

When it comes to the 5 elements harmony, this saju is well balanced. Wood is a career star and this person has career fortune. Fire is a knowledge star and he has good fortune with his mother, study and respect. Earth is a friend star and he has supportive friends and siblings. Metal is an expression star, and he doesn‟t have difficulty in determining what to do in his life. Water is a money star, which is weak so he is lacking money fortune or luck of his wife.

Since he still has an appropriate expression star, he is making effort to earn money, but the outcome is not as much as he endeavors.

Then, what element will be damaged mostly in this saju ?

It is Water, which has least power. There is gye water included in chuk of a day branch. During his age 31-45, he may have some difficulty whenever chuk is clashed or penalized. If he had extra water element in other branch inclusions, the damage could be lessened.

Water element represents money, wife, outcome and health. If he had health

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problem for himself during this period, his wife would take good care of him.

Actually, his relationship with his wife and his health were good, but he had financial problems.

In this saju, the most powerful element is Byeong fire. Byeong fire in the month of o, requires im water to restrain its fire power. It is good that he has im water in year stem, but im water is too weak to influence byeong.

Let‟s go back to money star (water), which is positioned in the inclusions of Chuk.

During his age 31-45, he tries to make money. But it couldn‟t be enough.

How about year of gye-mi ? There was actually a clashing between chuk and mi, so he had financial loss in that year. He may acquire jeong fire from inclusion of mi, but still the loss of money is unavoidable. Other than this period(31-45), he may be able to meet girl friend and make money when chuk is clashed or penalized.