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Locating Body Parts in a Bazi

Bazi and Four Pillars 1848 wordsby Lü Wenyi
#Bazi#Body#Method
Translator's note. The body map. If a bazi is a mould and a person is the product, this is the page that tells you how to inspect the product: which pillar governs which region, which stem the left side and which the right, and a long inventory down to individual fingers. Only nine features are needed to read a whole life; the rest come into play at the finer time scales. The closing argument — that cosmetic surgery changes a fate — follows directly, and is the most testable claim in the corpus.

To judge which direction the fate-energy of people born under the same bazi has been expressed in — wealth, office, study, marriage, children — we need the positioning of body features against the chart.

In practice, this positioning has proved fairly accurate.

1. Platform positioning

2. The correction system

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To make this easy to remember, I have gathered the above into a table for students.

Year stem: left forehead, front of the face, left rear skull, front of the neck, left front of the neck, right back of the neck, left shoulder, front of the shoulder socket, left front of the shoulder socket, left back of the shoulder socket, upper abdomen, left thigh, front of the left thigh, back of the left thigh, front of the thigh, side of the wrist joint, left wrist joint, back of the left wrist joint, front of the left ankle, back of the left ankle, outer left ankle, inner left ankle, outer left ankle.

Year branch: jaw, back of the skull, back of the neck, back of the lower spine, right thigh, right wrist, left forehead, back of the skull, right side of the skull, back of the neck, front of the neck, right back of the neck, right shoulder, back of the shoulder socket, right front of the shoulder socket, right back of the shoulder socket, back of the abdomen, back at the heart, right thigh, front of the right thigh, back of the thigh, inner side of the wrist joint, right wrist joint, back of the right wrist joint, inner right wrist joint, back of the ankle, right ankle joint, front of the right ankle joint.

Month stem: eyebrows, outer ear, left arm, navel, knee, brow and eye, front of the chest and neck, left eyebrow, left eye, left ear, left arm, left upper arm, left back, navel, left waist, left front of the waist, left back of the waist, right knee, right kneecap, left popliteal fossa.

(Left, right, front, back, inner and outer are assigned by the student.)

Month branch: eyes, inner ear, right arm, mingmen, popliteal fossa, ear, back of the neck, right eyebrow, right eye, right ear, right arm, right upper arm, right back, mingmen, right waist, right front of the waist, right back of the waist, right knee, right kneecap, right popliteal fossa.

(Left, right, front, back, inner and outer are assigned by the student.)

Day stem: height, weight, complexion, nose, chest (breast), belly, calf, left calf, weight, complexion, nose, left cheekbone, left chest (breast), left shoulder blade, left forearm, belly, left calf, left buttock (lower back).

(Left, right, front, back, inner and outer are assigned by the student.)

Day branch: body colour, cheekbone, shoulder blade and back, buttocks, right calf, right forearm, right cheekbone, right chest (breast), right shoulder blade, right forearm, lower back, right buttock, right calf (buttock).

(Left, right, front, back, inner and outer are assigned by the student.)

Hour stem: mouth, the hollow of the chest, genitals, left foot, arch, left hand, mouth, lips, upper teeth, hollow of the chest, left flank, lower left back, genitals, left foot, left sole, left lower limb, arch.

(Left, right, front, back, inner and outer are assigned by the student.)

Hour branch: teeth, ribs, anus, right foot, sole, right hand, cheek, lower teeth, right flank, lower right back, anus, right foot, right arch, right sole.

(Left, right, front, back, inner and outer are assigned by the student.)

Every stem and branch in a bazi stands for several, even a dozen, body parts. When predicting the auspicious and inauspicious course of a whole life, only nine features are examined: height, crown, jaw, chest (breast), back, abdomen, waist and buttocks, arch, sole. All the other body parts a stem or branch stands for are used in reading specific events in annual, monthly and daily cycles. The relation between the annual cycle and the monthly and daily cycles is the relation between a large region of the body and the smaller regions it contains, and those in turn and the smaller still. Seeing this great inventory of parts, you may think the positioning cannot be applied in practice. In fact it is very simple to apply.

Even twin sisters, whose skull shapes are much alike — if the elder has had jaw surgery and the younger has not, their fates will diverge. By the same token, double-eyelid surgery, dyeing the hair, breast enlargement and buttock enhancement also change a person's fate.

Cosmetic surgery can change fate. What matters is getting it right: kill an unfavourable god by surgery and the fate moves in a good direction; kill a useful god and it moves in a bad one. Which it is depends on the ten god occupying that part. In real life, after cosmetic surgery some people die, some divorce, some go bankrupt, some fall ill — and the bazi model theory accounts for this better than anything else.

The positioning system is the golden key to the differing fates of five-fold and six-fold coincidences, and it matters a great deal.

In my own readings I have judged that a certain man must either have had a tooth out or be constantly knocking his teeth; I have judged another man to have a hernia. Both came from the positioning system, not from the ten gods.

If reading a fate covered only what is common, there would be no need to study this system at all. Every theory of bazi prediction except mine studies the commonality of fate; nobody studies its individuality. They try, but their theory is not built on a platform from which individuality can be solved. I do not say my theory is the best, but at least it can be said to be closer to the truth.

Through these three levels of division, the differing fates of five-fold and six-fold coincidences can be fully separated. The day branch, for instance, is the spouse's position and its location is the buttocks. If your day branch is the useful god, and your day branch is weak, and your buttocks have grown large and heavy, then your wife is either ugly or a painted pillow good only to look at. From the size of a man's buttocks we can rank the quality of the wives of all fifteen hundred men born under one bazi. The hour pillar is the children's position; likewise, from the feet we can judge the children of each person born under one chart, and judge whether a person's fate-energy has been expressed in his children. All of this holds in theory and stands up to practice.

Source：WeChat public account “Shikongren Coordinates” (时空坐标) · by Lü Wenyi

Chinese original：人体部位在八字中的定位

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