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偏印
Indirect Resource 偏印: Bazi Meaning & Day Master Table
Indirect Resource 偏印: It generates the Day Master, with same polarity. For a Jia 甲 Yang Wood Day Master, it is Ren 壬 Yang Water; its traditional reading centres on receiving influence and preparing to create.
Indirect Resource brings attention to the relationship between receiving influence and producing something of your own. Classical discussions become especially specific when it encounters Eating God, whose phase it controls. As a reflective reading, this can explore how preparation, inherited ideas or guidance affect expression: support may deepen understanding, while an overbearing influence can make independent expression harder.
- Phase relation
- It generates the Day Master
- Polarity test
- Same polarity
The two coordinates that produce the name
How Indirect Resource is calculated
Read Indirect Resource as same-polarity support flowing toward the Day Master. The target phase produces the Day Master’s phase, and placement locates that support relation.
Compare phases
It generates the Day Master
This phase relationship selects a pair of Ten Gods names before polarity distinguishes the two members.
Open the five-phase relationships →Compare yin and yang
Same polarity
The target stem has the same polarity as the Day Master, which selects Indirect Resource.
Open the polarity coordinate →The complete ten-stem mapping
Which target produces Indirect 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 | Target stem | Phase relation | Polarity |
|---|---|---|---|
| 甲JiaYang Wood | 壬RenYang Water | It generates the Day Master | Same polarity |
| 乙YiYin Wood | 癸GuiYin Water | It generates the Day Master | Same polarity |
| 丙BingYang Fire | 甲JiaYang Wood | It generates the Day Master | Same polarity |
| 丁DingYin Fire | 乙YiYin Wood | It generates the Day Master | Same polarity |
| 戊WuYang Earth | 丙BingYang Fire | It generates the Day Master | Same polarity |
| 己JiYin Earth | 丁DingYin Fire | It generates the Day Master | Same polarity |
| 庚GengYang Metal | 戊WuYang Earth | It generates the Day Master | Same polarity |
| 辛XinYin Metal | 己JiYin Earth | It generates the Day Master | Same polarity |
| 壬RenYang Water | 庚GengYang Metal | It generates the Day Master | Same polarity |
| 癸GuiYin Water | 辛XinYin Metal | It generates the Day Master | Same polarity |
Placement changes the reading scale
Where Indirect 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.
- 01 · Visible stems
On the chart’s surface
When visible, Indirect Resource shows the generating stem openly in the year, month or hour pillar with polarity matching the Day Master.
See the four visible pillars → - 02 · Hidden stems
Inside an Earthly Branch
When hidden, the generating stem is part of a branch’s interior. Primary, middle or residual placement describes how it is stored there.
Open the hidden-stem map → - 03 · Annual stem
Compared year by year
An annual Indirect Resource stem generates the natal Day Master and shares its polarity. Read it alongside the annual branch.
Compare a birth chart with the current year →