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Direct Resource 正印 in Bazi: Meaning, Rule & Day Master Table

Direct Resource 正印: It generates the Day Master, with opposite polarity. For a Jia 甲 Yang Wood Day Master, it is Gui 癸 Yin Water; its traditional reading centres on learning, shelter and support.

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Direct Resource carries the traditional imagery of shelter, nourishment and help already available to the Day Master. Its reading can explore receptiveness, learning and the continuity provided by established knowledge. The interesting question is what that support makes possible. Connections with Officer and Output place receiving within a larger sequence of responsibility, understanding and expression.

Phase relation
It generates the Day Master
Polarity test
Different polarity
A scholar's relationship chart with a central Day Master tablet and ten paired medallions
Support received through the other polarityThe Day Master remains the reference point.

The two coordinates that produce the name

How Direct Resource is calculated

Read Direct Resource as different-polarity support flowing toward the Day Master. Its phase movement matches Indirect Resource; polarity changes the name.

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Different polarity

The target stem has the opposite polarity as the Day Master, which selects Direct Resource.

Open the polarity coordinate →

The complete ten-stem mapping

Which target produces Direct Resource for every Day Master

Each Day Master has exactly one target stem that produces this name. The phase changes from row to row, but the relationship and polarity rule remain constant.

Day Master and target-stem pairs that calculate as 正印 Direct Resource
Day MasterTarget stemPhase relationPolarity
甲JiaYang Wood癸GuiYin WaterIt generates the Day MasterDifferent polarity
乙YiYin Wood壬RenYang WaterIt generates the Day MasterDifferent polarity
丙BingYang Fire乙YiYin WoodIt generates the Day MasterDifferent polarity
丁DingYin Fire甲JiaYang WoodIt generates the Day MasterDifferent polarity
戊WuYang Earth丁DingYin FireIt generates the Day MasterDifferent polarity
己JiYin Earth丙BingYang FireIt generates the Day MasterDifferent polarity
庚GengYang Metal己JiYin EarthIt generates the Day MasterDifferent polarity
辛XinYin Metal戊WuYang EarthIt generates the Day MasterDifferent polarity
壬RenYang Water辛XinYin MetalIt generates the Day MasterDifferent polarity
癸GuiYin Water庚GengYang MetalIt generates the Day MasterDifferent polarity

Placement changes the reading scale

Where Direct Resource can appear in a chart

The name always comes from the same calculation. What changes is where the target stem is found: on the surface of a natal pillar, inside a branch, or in the stem of a year being compared with the natal chart.

  1. 01 · Visible stems

    On the chart’s surface

    A visible Direct Resource stem makes the generating relation explicit in one pillar while expressing the polarity opposite the Day Master.

    See the four visible pillars →
  2. 02 · Hidden stems

    Inside an Earthly Branch

    Inside a branch, Direct Resource names an internal stem that generates the Day Master and differs in polarity. Keep its hidden rank in view.

    Open the hidden-stem map →
  3. 03 · Annual stem

    Compared year by year

    As an annual relation, Direct Resource means the year stem generates the natal Day Master’s phase and differs in polarity.

    Compare a birth chart with the current year →