Indirect Wealth

IMeaning and associations

• Yin–yang relationship: Indirect Wealth is the phase the Day Master overcomes with the same polarity, such as Jia (yang Wood) overcoming Wu (yang Earth). Same-polarity control is described as resistant but not exhaustive. Compared with Direct Wealth 's meticulous accounting, it signifies large-scale command and circulation of resources.
• Core associations:
  • Social associations: Capital transactions, major speculation, gambling gains, large cash flows and substantial but irregular receipts.
  • Personal relationships: Primarily the biological father; in men's charts, middle-age affairs, secondary partners and incidental romances.
  • Temperament: Generous, extravagant, commercially and socially capable, and unconstrained. Excess without restraint is associated with opportunistic speculation and sexual indulgence.

IIFavorable and unfavorable conditions across schools

Indirect Wealth is wealth sought by many; the source says a chart needs sufficient structural strength to retain it.

• Most favorable: foundations and protection
  • A strong Day Master carrying great Wealth: Indirect Wealth is portrayed as larger than Direct Wealth. The Day Master needs a strong Lu or flourishing root, such as Jia Wood in Yin, to command such resources.
  • Indirect Wealth generating Seven Killings: Abundant financial resources nourish forceful Seven Killings . With an effective mechanism of restraint or transformation, the source associates this with a commanding regional figure.
• Most unfavorable: loss and excessive burden
  • Peer and Rob Wealth taking Wealth: Indirect Wealth is considered less afraid of rivals than Direct Wealth because it naturally circulates and is shared. Yet a crowd of rivals without Officer protection is said to divide even great earnings until nothing remains.
  • Weak Day Master and excessive Wealth: This is called “a poor person in a rich house”: like a treasury clerk handling enormous sums without owning any, remaining personally impoverished.

IIIPattern analysis: the month-command method of Ziping Zhenquan

Ziping generally groups Direct and Indirect Wealth together under the Wealth pattern.

• Quality and viability:
  • The central principle is: “Wealth favors deep roots and should not be overexposed.” If Indirect Wealth is exposed in the Heavenly Stems , an accompanying Direct Officer must protect it; otherwise exposed resources attract appropriation.
  • Output generating Indirect Wealth: If Officer is absent, a close connection with Hurting Officer or Eating God is required. Incoming Peer and Rob Wealth first generate Output, which then generates Wealth; this redirects rivalry into resource production and is said to avert loss.

IVConfiguration dynamics in Di Tian Sui

Di Tian Sui discusses the conditions of wealth and status in terms relevant to Indirect Wealth:

财神不真者亦泄气被劫也…财重劫轻身弱，皆为财神不真也

An inauthentic Wealth influence also has its qi drained and is robbed… heavy Wealth, light Rob Wealth and a weak Day Master all make Wealth inauthentic.

Di Tian Sui states:

一语道破：若为偏财旺相之巨贾命局，自身气力羸弱，此时纵见少许劫财相助，理当“比劫帮身承财”，然若此劫财孱弱难任金山之重，终究落得贫寒结局。此乃“敌众我寡，不受降”。逢此必须顺应财势，委身从财（从财格）。

The explanation describes a weak Day Master facing abundant Indirect Wealth. A little Rob Wealth may help, but if that help cannot bear the burden, poverty remains. When opposition is overwhelmingly strong, the prescription is to follow Wealth and form a Following Wealth pattern.

VApplications: luck cycles and overall judgment

• The father's lifespan: In both male and female charts, Indirect Wealth represents the biological father. When it is depleted and suffers punishments, clashes or harm, or cycles bring unchecked Peer and Rob Wealth, the source predicts harm or mortal danger to the father.
• Predicting sudden windfalls: With a complete Output-generating-Indirect-Wealth configuration and a strong Day Master, annual or luck cycles that clash open a Wealth store in the Earthly Branches —the source gives Chen and Chou activating Indirect Wealth as an example—are declared to bring unexpected riches.
• Romantic affairs in men's charts: Abundant Indirect Wealth without Officer to restrain it is interpreted as lifelong romantic indulgence and numerous partners, summarized by “favoring the concubine over the wife.”