Ji Xianlin

This year coincides with the Jiawu Major Cycle. The Earthly Branch Wu (Fire) of the Major Cycle combines with the Earthly Branch Wei (Earth) of the Month Pillar, activating the Proper Officer Star, indicating academic progress and the ability to gain protection and support from elders or teachers—an auspicious sign for the path of study. The Year Pillar is Guihai. The Heavenly Stem Gui (Water) is the Proper Wealth Star, combining with the Day Master Wu (Earth) to form 'Wu-Gui combining into Fire'. Although this combination is considered a 'dull energy combination', during the study phase, its transformation into the favorable element Fire enhances motivation and passion for learning. Simultaneously, the Year Pillar's Earthly Branch Hai (Water) is the prosperous ground for Ren (Water), the crucial favorable element required for the Eight Characters' seasonal adjustment, representing the activation of the source of wisdom and inspiration. Overall, the protection from the Officer Star in the Major Cycle, the combination of the Year's Wealth Star with the self, and the effective seasonal adjustment collectively facilitated a smooth start in studies and an enriched inner world.

This year is the final year of the Jiawu Major Cycle. The Earthly Branch Wu (Fire) of the Major Cycle combines with the Earthly Branch Wei (Earth) of the Month Pillar, activating the Proper Officer Star in the Month Pillar, indicating academic progress and protection from elders. The Year Pillar is Gengwu. The Heavenly Stem Geng (Metal), the Resource Star, combines with the Heavenly Stem Yi (Wood), the Proper Authority Star, of the Month Pillar (Yi-Geng combine into Metal). The Earthly Branch Wu (Fire) combines again with the Month Pillar's Wei (Earth), forming the auspicious phenomenon of a 'Heaven-Earth Double Combination'. This signifies harmony in both internal and external environments, assistance from noble people, and is a critical period for forming beneficial connections and soaring in career (or studies). The combination of Resource Star and Authority Star is beneficial for exam performance, transforming talent into officially recognized achievements. Simultaneously, the Heavenly Stem Jia (Wood) of the Major Cycle is the favorable element for seasonal adjustment, corresponding to the imagery of 'the ice river thaws, grand plans unfold'. The Year Pillar's Earthly Branch Wu (Fire) is also a favorable element. With multiple auspicious signs converging, he was able to top the exam and enter the highest institution of learning.

This year, he is in the Guisi Major Cycle. The Heavenly Stem Gui (Water), the Proper Wealth Star, of the Major Cycle combines with the Day Master Wu (Earth). The Earthly Branch Si (Fire) combines with the Day Branch Shen (Metal), constituting a 'Heaven-Earth Double Combination'. This is a key period for establishing life foundations and benefiting career development. The Year Pillar is Jiaxu. The Heavenly Stem Jia (Wood), the Seven Killings Star, appears. Although it is an unfavorable element bringing pressure, Jia (Wood) happens to be the favorable element for seasonal adjustment, able to unblock the dry earth and bring opportunities and vitality. The Year Pillar's astrological influences gather four major noblemen: Heavenly Virtue, Monthly Virtue, Tai Chi, and Heavenly Official, indicating smooth academic achievements and fame, and ease in gaining appreciation and promotion from noble people. The combined action of the Major Cycle and Year Pillar directs the energy of the Proper Authority Pattern in the life chart towards the field of culture and education, enabling him to successfully complete his studies and smoothly enter the education industry, opening the door to his career.

This year, the life master is in the Guisi Major Cycle (Proper Wealth Cycle). The Heavenly Stem Gui (Water) of the Major Cycle combines with the Day Master Wu (Earth) to form 'Wu-Gui combining into Fire'. Furthermore, the Earthly Branch Si (Fire) combines with the Day Branch Shen (Metal), constituting the auspicious phenomenon of a 'Heaven-Earth Double Combination', indicating a stable foundation beneficial for long-distance travel, study, and establishing important life foundations. The Year Pillar is Yihai. Hai (Water) is the Partial Wealth Star (Ren Water), the favorable element for seasonal adjustment in the life chart, representing the source of wisdom and opportunity. Hai (Water) clashes with the Major Cycle's Earthly Branch Si (Fire) (the Traveling Horse Star), triggering 'Si-Hai clash', which is a strong signal for traveling across oceans and changing location for study. Simultaneously, the Major Cycle's Earthly Branch carries the 'Academy' astrological influence. The Year Pillar's Heavenly Stem reveals Yi (Wood), the Proper Authority Star. The Authority Star represents studies and reputation. Studying this year precisely corresponds to the imagery of the Authority Star being utilized and seasonal adjustment being effective, marking an important turning point and elevation in his life trajectory.

This year, he is in the Guisi Major Cycle. The Heavenly Stem Gui (Water), the Proper Wealth Star, of the Major Cycle is favored by the life chart and combines with the Day Master Wu (Earth) (Wu-Gui combine into Fire), forming the auspicious image of 'wealth coming to combine with me', indicating career opportunities actively presenting themselves, beneficial for establishing a stable professional platform. The Year Pillar is Dingchou. The Heavenly Stem Ding (Fire), the Proper Officer Star, appears, also a favorable element, representing knowledge, reputation, and noble people. The key point is that the Year Pillar's Earthly Branch Chou combines with the Hour Pillar's Earthly Branch Zi (Zi-Chou combine into Earth), and the Heavenly Stems Ding and Ren combine, forming an auspicious Heaven-Earth Double Combination in the Hour Pillar. The Hour Pillar represents distant places, later life, and subordinates/students. This combination accurately corresponds to the event of traveling to Germany (Hour Pillar as distant place) to hold a teaching position (Proper Officer Star governs education). The Year Pillar's astrological influence shows the State Seal Nobleman, further strengthening the symbolism of obtaining a formal position in an academic institution and mastering professional discourse.

This year, he is in the Renchen Major Cycle. The Heavenly Stem Ren (Water), the Partial Wealth Star, is the favorable element for seasonal adjustment. The Major Cycle's Earthly Branch Chen combines with the life chart's Day Branch Shen and Hour Branch Zi (the hidden stem) to form the Shen-Zi-Chen Triple Water Combination, concentrating the power of the Wealth Star and the favorable element for seasonal adjustment to the extreme. Water governs wisdom, circulation, and fame, corresponding precisely to the imagery of academic research. The Year Pillar is Xinsi. Although it clashes with the Year Pillar Xinhai, activating the ancestral palace, indicating the image of studying abroad. The Year Pillar's Earthly Branch Si contains the primary qi Bing (Fire), another favorable element for seasonal adjustment, and combines with the Day Branch Shen. Although there is conflict and breaking, it activates the power of the Officer Star (academics, diplomas). The Year Pillar's astrological influences show the State Seal Nobleman and Academy, typical signs of obtaining official academic certification and academic success. The life chart itself has the Resource Star appearing with the Proper Authority Pattern, indicating outstanding talent. Under this powerful cycle where Wealth, Authority, and Officer circulate smoothly, it is a fated outcome in destiny for research results to earn the highest degree.

This year coincides with the Renchen Partial Wealth Major Cycle. The Heavenly Stem Ren (Water) is a favorable element, indicating the opening of wealth patterns, beneficial for pioneering endeavors. The Year Pillar Bingxu conflicts with the Month Pillar's Wei (Earth) and forms a Heavenly Clash and Earthly Clash with the Major Cycle Renchen, a strong signal of major life transition and change, corresponding precisely to the image of returning home and starting a career. The Year Pillar's Heavenly Stem Bing (Fire) is the favorable element for seasonal adjustment, representing documents, reputation, and noble people. With Bing Fire appearing, talent is displayed and easily appreciated. The Year Pillar's astrological influence shows the Heavenly Official Nobleman, indicating promotion by noble people in the workplace. The Major Cycle's Earthly Branch Chen, together with the life chart's Shen and Zi (the hidden Ren Water in Hai can be seen as Zi Water), has the tendency to form a Triple Water Combination. Water is the Wealth Star, representing resource integration and career development, providing powerful energy support for founding the new department.

This year coincides with the intersection of the Xinmao Major Cycle (Resource Star cycle) and the Bingshen Year Pillar. The life master's Eight Characters form a Proper Authority Pattern. The original chart has a strong Authority Star, but the Year Stem's Resource Star is prominent, forming a potential contradiction of 'Resource Star confronting Authority Star'. In the Bingshen year of 1956, the Year Pillar's Heavenly Stem Bing (Fire), the Partial Officer Star, combines with the Major Cycle's Heavenly Stem Xin (Metal), the Resource Star. This is the auspicious image of 'Resource Star paired with Officer Star', resolving the Resource Star's impact on the Authority Star, meaning talent and rules reached a reconciliation, and ideas could be expressed through proper channels. Simultaneously, the Year Pillar's Earthly Branch Shen (Metal) forms a hidden combination with the life chart and Major Cycle's Mao (Wood), activating the Authority Star and also the Day Branch's Resource Star, representing the combination of thought and action. More importantly, the Year Pillar brought multiple noblemen such as Literary Star, Heavenly Official, and Fortune Star. Moreover, the favorable elements for seasonal adjustment, Ren (Water) (Wealth Star) and Bing (Fire) (Officer Star), are both present, with Wealth, Authority, and Officer circulating harmoniously. This precisely corresponds to the pattern of 'Authority Star nourished by Wealth, Officer Star coming to protect Authority', a typical astrological sign of personal talent gaining official recognition and identity being established.

This year, the life master is in the Gengyin Major Cycle. The Major Cycle's Earthly Branch Yin (Wood) and the Day Branch Shen (Metal) form a Yin-Shen clash, directly impacting the foundation of the Day Pillar, representing drastic changes and turmoil in the living environment and personal state. The Year Pillar is Dingwei. The Heavenly Stem Ding (Fire), the Proper Officer Star, combines with the Hour Stem Ren (Water), the Partial Wealth Star, seemingly indicating a nobleman combining with the Officer. However, the Earthly Branch Wei (Earth), the Robbery Wealth Star, is an unfavorable element and harms the Hour Branch Zi (Water), damaging the stability of the Hour Pillar. Most crucially, the life chart itself has a Proper Authority Pattern, which most fears 'Resource Star confronting Authority Star' and 'Authority and Killing Stars mixed'. Although the Major Cycle's Heavenly Stem Geng (Metal), the Resource Star, can control authority, in turbulent times, the Resource Star also represents thoughts and speech, easily seen as 'heterodox'. The Year Pillar's Heavenly Stem Ding (Fire), the Officer Star, is combined away, losing its restraint on the Resource Star, causing the Year Stem Xin (Metal), the Resource Star, to fiercely oppose the Yi (Wood) Proper Authority Stars in the Month and Hour Pillars (Authority Star represents the official, rules, constraints), forming the dangerous situation of 'Resource Star confronting Authority Star, causing endless trouble'. Simultaneously, the Major Cycle's Earthly Branch Yin (Wood), the Seven Killings Star, and the life chart's Authority Stars converge into a powerful force of the unfavorable element Wood (Authority/Killing). Excessive Authority/Killing Stars without control symbolize immense pressure and ruthless attacks from the official side, hence this calamity.

This year is Wushen. The Year Pillar and the Day Pillar Wushen repeat (Fu Yin), indicating old matters revisited, sorrow and不顺, the self's state陷入困境. The life master's Eight Characters have a Proper Authority Pattern, with a strong self favoring Wealth, and disliking mixed Authority/Killing Stars and Resource/Resource Stars. In 1968, he is in the Gengyin Major Cycle. The Major Cycle's Earthly Branch Yin (Wood), the Seven Killings Star, and the Year Pillar's Earthly Branch Shen (Metal), the Resource Star, form a Yin-Shen clash. This is a 'Year and Cycle clash together', with extremely strong impact force. Yin (Wood) is the unfavorable element Seven Killings, representing legal troubles, pressure, and束缚; Shen (Metal) is the Resource Star, representing thought and expression. Resource Star controlling Killing is originally good, but in a specific environment, the talent and thought represented by the Resource Star反而 become the 'evidence' of attack. The Year Pillar's Heavenly Stem Wu (Earth), the Companion Star, although an unfavorable element, intensifies the Earth's strength in the life chart, making the对抗 between Authority/Killing (Wood) and Resource/Resource (Metal) more激烈. The Major Cycle and Year Pillar double clash, and the clash occurs on the Day Pillar representing the self and environment, leading to drastic environmental changes and身心受创. This is precisely the extreme manifestation of the 'Resource Star confronting Authority Star' pattern under a specific historical period, where talent and rules发生剧烈冲突, leading to the darkest moment of life.

This year is within the Jichou Major Cycle (1971-1980). The Major Cycle's Earthly Branch and the life chart's Year and Hour Pillars Hai-Zi-Chou form a Triple Meeting Water Combination. Water is the life master's favorable element Wealth Star, its power reaching a peak, indicating a stable career foundation and the ability to gather powerful energy to complete a monumental work. The Year Pillar is Dingsi. The Heavenly Stem Ding (Fire), the Proper Officer Star, appears, another favorable element representing documents, reputation, and academic achievement. The Year Pillar's Earthly Branch Si (Fire) activates the Day Pillar Shen (Metal), forming Shen-Si combination. Although there is conflict and breaking, the combination of Resource Star and Partial Officer Star is precisely the deep fusion of talent (Resource Star) and knowledge (Partial Officer Star), beneficial for translation work requiring profound cultural底蕴 and precise expression. Simultaneously, the Year Pillar encounters literary star noblemen such as Literary Hall, Academy, and Literary Star, greatly enhancing his luck in academic research and literary expression, allowing this painstakingly translated work to be successfully completed.

This year, the life master is in the Jichou Major Cycle (Robbery Wealth Cycle). The Year Pillar is Wuwu. The Major Cycle clashes with the Month Pillar Wei-Chou clash, which is a 'clashing with the foundation' Major Cycle, indicating动摇 in life's foundation and必然 major career changes and转折. The Year Pillar Wuwu. Wu (Fire) is the Proper Officer Star, combining with the Month Pillar Wei (Earth) to form a beneficial combination of 'Authority and Officer Stars generating each other'. The Officer Star represents power, reputation, and noble people. This combination activates the Authority Star (representing official position) in the life chart,预示着 regaining recognition and重用 within the system. The Year Pillar's Earthly Branch Wu (Fire) is the Heavenly Virtue Nobleman, and the Major Cycle also has Heavenly Virtue Nobleman and State Seal, with multiple nobleman stars gathering, representing support and trust from high levels, enabling a return to important positions and holding multiple concurrent posts. Although the Major Cycle is Robbery Wealth, the Year Pillar's Officer Star is powerful, transforming the competitive pressure of Robbery Wealth into peer assistance and team support, jointly推动 career revival.

This year coincides with the intersection of the Wuzi Major Cycle (Companion Star cycle) and the Jisi Year Pillar (Robbery Wealth year). The Year Pillar's Earthly Branch Si (Fire) and the Year Pillar's Earthly Branch Hai (Water) form a 'Si-Hai clash', which is 'clashing with the Year Pillar (Tai Sui)', indicating major life changes and冲击, especially impacting the Year Pillar's parental palace and Wealth Star, often corresponding to剧烈震荡 in family and social environment. Simultaneously, the Year Pillar's Earthly Branch Si (Fire) and the Day Branch Shen (Metal) form 'Shen-Si combination and also conflict', activating the Day Master, with inner矛盾 and行动力交织. The life chart inherently has the structure of 'Resource Star confronting Authority Star', representing the natural conflict between talent, rebellious spirit, and rules, the official. In this year of 'clashing with Tai Sui' and the 'Resource Star' being activated, the life master,感召 by the时代洪流, made a moral choice超越 personal safety, precisely reflecting the激烈体现 of the 'Resource Star' nature and 'Proper Authority' sense of responsibility in his Eight Characters under极端环境. The Year Pillar's astrological influences show 'Salary Star' and 'State Seal', also暗示 that although his actions brought risk, his内心自有其坚持的准则与尊严.

This year coincides with the beginning of the Bingxu Major Cycle. The Major Cycle's Heavenly Stem Bing (Fire) is a favorable element, the favorable element for seasonal adjustment appearing, indicating a breakthrough in life and迎来重大机遇. The Year Pillar is Xinsi. Bing-Xin combine into Water. The Resource Star and Partial Officer Star combine, transforming personal talent, thought (Resource Star) and knowledge, reputation (Partial Officer Star) into tangible成果与传承 (combining into Water as Wealth). The Year Pillar's Earthly Branch Si (Fire) is also a favorable element and carries the State Seal Nobleman, symbolizing official recognition and cultural legacy传承. This year clashes with the Year Pillar (Tai Sui) (Si-Hai clash), impacting the Year Pillar's parental palace and spouse star, indicating major changes in family and foundation. Overall, with favorable elements from both Major Cycle and Year Pillar arriving together and nobleman stars appearing, it prompted him to make the significant decision in his later years to entrust his personal collection to the highest institution of learning. This既延续 his own cultural life and also conforms to the grand career blueprint symbolized by the Heavenly Official Nobleman.

This year is in the final year of the Bingxu Major Cycle. The Major Cycle's Earthly Branch Xu is the Tomb (Grave) of the Day Master Wu (Earth), having the imagery of归宿,终结. The Year Pillar is Jichou. It forms a Heavenly Clash and Earthly Clash with the Month Pillar Yiwei (Yi克己, Wei冲丑), and together with the Major Cycle's Xu and Month Branch Wei forms Wei-Xu-Chou Triple Punishment. With punishment and clash appearing together, the foundation is严重动摇, indicating major life changes and a critical juncture. The Year Pillar's Earthly Branch Chou combines with the Hour Branch Zi, activating the Hour Pillar, and the Hour Pillar is the归宿宫位. Simultaneously, the Year, Hour, and Year Pillar Hai-Zi-Chou form a Triple Meeting Water Combination, with Water power extremely旺. The life chart favors Fire for seasonal adjustment. The Major Cycle's Heavenly Stem Bing (Fire) is a favorable element but is overcome by the Year Pillar's旺 Water and also enters the Tomb in Xu. The favorable elements are severely controlled. Overall, with the life chart's foundation受刑冲, favorable elements overcome and entering the Tomb, the longevity star strongly activated,终至油尽灯枯,寿终正寝.