Auxiliary stars in Six Lines: what to retain

1Core principle: keep the interpretive systems distinct

2What is excluded and what is retained

The article advises keeping only the relevant auxiliary indications and excluding labels that interfere with the main judgment:

1. Auxiliary stars excluded from the primary judgment:

   • Do not decide good or bad outcomes, or life and death, from labels such as Da Hao, Xiao Hao, Sang Men, Diao Ke, Liu Xia, Xue Ren or Jiang Xing. In the approach presented here, punishments, clashes, control, breaks, concealed movement, tomb entry and exhaustion already describe the relevant conditions and timing. Importing additional star labels mechanically can make the conclusions contradict one another.

2. Two retained indications: concrete details, not independent verdicts

   • Traveling Horse: a sign of movement between places its role is to describe long-distance, rapid or substantial geographical movement, not life or death. For a missing or fleeing person, a moving focal line with Traveling Horse is read as distant travel and difficulty locating the person immediately, even in an otherwise favorable chart. In a favorable promotion question, it suggests an imminent trip, transfer or posting elsewhere.
   • Limited auxiliary use of the Tian Yi Nobleman: in a dangerous, uncertain situation, a very weak focal line coinciding with Tian Yi Nobleman may be read as help from a person of influence. This is a secondary image, distinct from elemental generation and control. The article insists that it never overrides the day and month branches and their elemental relationships.

3Passage cited by the source

Zeng Shan Bu Yi states:

世人舍五行之正理，而信神煞之虚妄，甚矣其愚也。

People abandon the proper principles of the five elements and believe the empty claims of auspicious and ominous stars: how misguided they are.

NoteThe source presents generation and control among Metal, Wood, Water, Fire and Earth as the foundation of its divination framework. It calls these relationships physical laws, which is the source's assertion rather than an established scientific result. Its practical argument is to avoid replacing the method's core relationships with hundreds of auxiliary names: in this approach, such stars are at most a minor supporting reference.