He filed for bankruptcy six times. Then he became president of the United States. Then he lost. Then he won again.
Every political analyst, every journalist, every late-night host had an explanation. None of them could explain all of it at once.
Bankruptcies—bad business decisions. The first election—populist wave, Hillary’s emails, Russian interference; take your pick, each one enough to ignite the powder keg. The 2020 loss—COVID, suburban women, mail-in ballots. The 2024 comeback—inflation, the border crisis, Biden’s age.
Each explanation covers one chapter of Trump’s life. No single framework connects the whole book.
Here’s what doesn’t add up.
A man who went bankrupt six times shouldn’t have the credibility to run for city council, let alone the presidency. A man who lost an election and refused to concede shouldn’t have the political capital to run again. A man who is simultaneously the most hated and the most supported figure in American politics sits at the most dramatic intersection in statistics, emotion, and strategy.
That’s Donald Trump.
There is one lens that explains every contradiction—every impossible comeback, and every pattern that looks like chaos but operates like clockwork.
The Code
Donald Trump. June 14, 1946, 10:54 AM. Queens, New York.
In most of East Asia, your birth time is treated like a password. Urban legend says never share it with strangers. Odd—why would anyone care? Because people know what this system can extract from eight characters and a timestamp. It’s accurate to the point of being unsettling, as if it could see straight through you.
The system is called BaZi (八字). It encodes a person’s birth moment into four pairs of characters known as the Four Pillars (四柱). Each pillar has a Heavenly Stem (天干) on top and an Earthly Branch (地支) below—eight characters total. Stacked together, they map the energy architecture of an entire life.
Trump’s birth data is public record. Here is his chart.
Year Pillar: 丙 (Fire) / 戌 (Earth)
Month Pillar: 甲 (Wood) / 午 (Fire)
Day Pillar: 己 (Earth) — Day Master / 未 (Earth)
Hour Pillar: 己 (Earth) / 巳 (Fire)
His Day Master (日主)—the character that represents the self—is Jǐ Earth (己土). Yin Earth. Not a mountain. A field: flat, soft, the kind of ground where anything can grow.
But pull back the lens and look at the seven characters surrounding this “soft soil.” The system’s physics turn alarming.
According to Dī Tiān Suǐ, Jǐ Earth’s factory setting is “humble and absorbent, centered and storing within”—soft and load-bearing by nature. Now look at the full structure: the year pillar 丙戌 is fire paired with a fire storehouse carrying enormous thermal energy. The hour pillar 己巳 is pure smoldering fire.
The foundation is even more extreme. The three Earthly Branches—巳 (Fire), 午 (Fire), 未 (Earth)—connect in a straight line. In BaZi’s underlying mechanics, this is called Three Directional Fire (巳午未三會火方): all three fire-position branches fused into a single geological-scale force. The entire base of this chart is one continuous, near-critical-temperature southern fire sea.
This soft farmland—the kind that was supposed to be humble and receptive—is being continuously scorched by the fire sea below. And in the entire natal chart, there is not a single drop of water to cool it down. The classical text Qióng Tōng Bǎo Jiàn gives this extreme climate structure a cold diagnosis: “Without Guǐ Water, the field is called Drought Land.”
This is not gentle soil you can casually cultivate. This is a superheated, completely sealed continental plate that continuously stores heat inward. Any conventional resource or regulation, the moment it touches this plate’s surface, is instantly vaporized and consumed by the sheer thermal mass.
Now look at the base.
Three Earthly Branches—巳 (Fire), 午 (Fire), 未 (Earth)—lined up at the bottom of the chart, forming a configuration called Three Directional Fire. All three fire-direction branches present and accounted for, fused into an absolute thermal field. The classical texts call it a Directional Convergence (三會). It doesn’t simply add a little fire to the chart—it rewrites the entire underlying environment into a merciless geological furnace, incinerating every trace of conventional vitality in the system.
Does this chart have any water?
Fire and earth combined account for over ninety percent of the chart’s energy. Metal survives only as trace amounts in the hidden stems.
Water: zero.
Not low. Not weak. Absent in the physical sense. The entire chart contains no 壬 (Rén), no 癸 (Guǐ)—not in the Heavenly Stems, not in the Earthly Branches, not even in the hidden stems. The element that represents tangible wealth, fluid transformation, and the cooling function required for balance is completely missing.
A field that has thoroughly caught fire. No rain. No river. No well. Not a single drop of water—just endless, relentless heat.
Drought Land
What is Jǐ Earth?
In the world of Chinese metaphysics, it is farmland: soft, flat, accepts anything. Seeds fall and take root. Rain falls and gets absorbed. Ash falls and gets incorporated. Dī Tiān Suǐ calls it “humble and absorbent, centered and storing within.”
But now the ground beneath it is on fire. Not a campfire—a Directional Convergence. Three fire-attribute branches fused into a geological force. Ground temperature changes. Soil chemistry changes. The field itself becomes something else.
What happens to soil when every last drop of moisture is extracted and heat is continuously applied?
It hardens.
Ceramics. Pottery. Bricks. Sān Mìng Tōng Huì gives this extreme phase transition a cold definition: “Wood and Fire seize authority, tempering Jǐ Earth into magnetite, irreversibly losing its centered harmony... scorching fire cracks the earth—this is exactly what it means.”
Every civilization discovered the same principle: wet earth is soft, but fired earth permanently loses its capacity to nurture life and becomes structural material of extreme hardness. The transformation is irreversible—you cannot turn a brick back into mud.
This means the system is no longer farmland capable of sustaining ordinary life. It has been forged and solidified by extreme heat, ultimately becoming a fortress that rejects all external penetration—absolute defense.
《窮通寶鑑》〈三夏己土〉：”禾稼在田，最喜甘沛，取癸為要……故無癸曰旱田。”
“When crops sit in the field, they crave sweet rain. The key is Guǐ Water... without it, the field is called Drought Land.”
Drought Land. Not a metaphor—a technical term. The classical diagnosis for a Jǐ Earth chart with no water in the height of summer.
What kind of decisions does a system make when running at maximum heat with zero cooling?
Fast ones. No buffer. No “wait, let me reconsider” mechanism.
In BaZi’s computational logic, water is the Day Master’s Wealth Star (財星)—representing value exchange, objective assessment, and room for compromise. Water provides that function: flexibility, negotiation, the willingness to take the long way around. But water here isn’t suppressed or weakened. It is absent in the physical sense.
This system’s factory settings never included the component for “buffering and compromise.” Its only decision-making mode when facing an obstacle is to deploy extreme heat and absolute mass to steamroll straight through.
《滴天髓》〈天干〉：”己土卑薄，中正蓄藏。不愁木盛，不畏水狂。”
“Jǐ Earth is humble and thin, centered and storing within. It does not fear abundant wood, nor is it afraid of raging water.”
Wood controls earth—that’s the physics of the Five Phases. Wood represents rules, regulations, and institutional authority. In BaZi, wood is the Officer Star (官星) for an Earth Day Master—the element responsible for control and restraint. Trump’s entire chart contains exactly one piece of wood: 甲 (Jiǎ) in the month pillar’s Heavenly Stem. One tree standing directly above a geological furnace.
The classical texts call this mechanism Officer Drained by Resource (官泄於印). When wood—institutional constraint—descends to suppress earth, it doesn’t even reach the surface before the massive thermal energy from the base consumes it. Against this extreme-temperature system, every law, every political norm, every external force that tried to contain him doesn’t get “deflected.” It gets metabolized.
Combustion, then assimilation. Wood feeds fire, fire converts into the absolute mass of earth. What would be lethal institutional pressure for anyone else becomes, for this system, instant expansion fuel.
《滴天髓》〈衰旺論〉：”旺之極者不可損，以損在其中矣。”
“That which is extreme in its strength cannot be diminished—for destruction is already contained within it.”
He went into real estate—Jǐ Earth’s essential nature is land and property. The core of this system, the Day Master itself, literally is the ground you build on.
He went bankrupt six times. Six. Not once or twice—six complete structural collapses.
But six times later, the field was still there. Because in the physics of the Five Phases, fire cannot destroy earth. Extreme heat doesn’t demolish it—it tempers and phase-shifts the soil into a material with absolute defensive properties. As long as the geological furnace at the base keeps burning, the fired bricks will not crumble. An endless cycle of refinement and solidification.
Six lives. Every time the HP bar hit zero by any conventional definition, this extreme system simply consumed all the damage wholesale—then auto-respawned at full health.
《三命通會》卷五〈論正財〉：”財為養命之源，凡人八字不可無財。”
“Wealth is the source that sustains life. No person’s chart should be without it.”
His chart has no Wealth Star. According to classical logic, this system shouldn’t be viable.
And indeed, this maps precisely onto his real-world trajectory—for the better part of his life, his resource metabolism exhibited an economic physics that defied common sense: money came in and evaporated, came in and evaporated. The massive geothermal energy consumed every drop of moisture, the fire baked it into brick, and the cycle repeated.
Under extreme heat, this system still maintained an alarming physical inertia, forming a perfectly sealed operational loop.
This smoldering pattern persisted for decades—until the external conditions finally changed.
Waiting for Rain
BaZi doesn’t just map the system structure at the moment of birth. It maps your timeline.
Every ten years, a new pair of Heavenly Stem and Earthly Branch forcibly rotates into the chart. In classical terms, this is called a Decade Period (大運).
According to Sān Mìng Tōng Huì: “The Decade Period is the outer layer of the natal chart.” If the birth chart is that superheated, perfectly sealed base plate (the inner), then the Decade Period is the external environmental variable that switches every ten years (the outer).
The physical interaction between the birth chart and each incoming Decade Period determines the structural conditions for that decade. You don’t get to choose. When the gears of time engage, they engage.
Trump’s Decade Periods:
丙申 (1964–1973) Direct Resource: Fire/Metal
丁酉 (1974–1983) Indirect Resource: Fire/Metal
戊戌 (1984–1993) Rob Wealth: Earth/Earth
己亥 (1994–2003) Companion: Earth/Water
庚子 (2004–2013) Hurting Officer: Metal/Water
辛丑 (2014–2023) Eating God: Metal/Earth
壬寅 (2024–2033) Direct Wealth: Water/Wood
Now overlay the timeline.
1971—The system receives its physical input (takes over his father’s company).
Decade Period: Direct Resource.
In BaZi’s underlying computation, the Resource Star represents “that which generates me”—patronage, gifts from above, direct infusion of capital. Sān Mìng Tōng Huì offers a precise characterization: “The Resource Star... is like being born into ready-made blessings, receiving what was already prepared.”
This machine was never cold-started from zero. He didn’t build from scratch—the chart’s structural conditions let him catch an entire pre-existing platform. The massive fire energy (Resource Star) fed naturally into the Jǐ Earth furnace as physical fuel (fire generates earth). All of it was written into the system’s initial settings.
1980s—The bottomless capital appetite (Atlantic City casino empire rises).
Decade Period: Indirect Resource.
Still the Resource Star (fire) input module, but Indirect Resource operates more extreme, more unconventional, and more aggressive. The gravitational pull of this superheated system expanded further—it no longer settled for conventional fuel (his father’s foundation) but activated a leverage mechanism of “fighting fire with borrowed fire.”
Other people’s capital, bank financing—the moment any of it touched this extreme-temperature continental plate, it was instantly absorbed into the furnace, assimilated, and directly converted into the absolute mass driving his frantic casino expansion. The furnace didn’t just keep burning—it shamelessly extracted external fuel to burn harder.
1991—First bankruptcy.
Decade Period: Rob Wealth. Both characters are earth—戊戌. A chart already maxed out on earth and fire gets more earth poured in.
《三命通會》：”建祿生提月，財官喜透天，不宜身再旺，惟喜茂財源。”
“When the Day Master draws strength from the month, it gains nothing from becoming stronger still. What it craves is flourishing wealth.”
The Day Master was already strong enough. More strength was pointless—what it desperately needed was water (wealth). But the Decade Period didn’t deliver water. It dumped more dry earth, pushing the field into an even more cracked, parched state. This is Rob Wealth—for a chart where water is wealth, earth robs it dry.
Imagine a field that’s been baked by extreme heat into long-term drought. Already critically short on water, it then gets buried under massive loads of dry soil, temperatures still climbing, until even the trace moisture left in the air is incinerated.
That suffocating pressure—that’s what sat on Trump.
BaZi has always been about how you, as an individual, perform under the seasons and climate of nature.
2004—The Apprentice premieres.
Decade Period: 庚子. Heavenly Stem: Hurting Officer (Metal). Earthly Branch: Indirect Wealth (Water). This parched, smoldering drought field—sealed and superheated for fifty-eight years—finally received the first rainfall carrying the energy of metal and water.
In BaZi’s physical structure, Hurting Officer represents the forceful discharge and external display of the Day Master’s energy (metal). And 子 is the Wealth Star (water)—the element this chart was born completely without and desperately craved. Zǐ Píng Zhēn Quán states: “When Hurting Officer generates Wealth... as long as the Day Master is strong and rooted, it becomes a noble configuration.”
This chart’s Day Master is extraordinarily strong—fully capable of bearing and transforming this energy. The opportunity arrived, and the system had the physical stamina to seize it. Conditions met.
His pivot to television wasn’t simply a function of marketing genius. The chart’s physics had, for the first time, opened the “Hurting Officer generates Wealth” breakthrough path—the structural conditions for “converting high-profile output into tangible wealth” finally existed. The massive accumulated geothermal pressure finally found a discharge vent, and he followed that gravitational channel straight in.
Eating God and Hurting Officer both represent talent and intelligence, but the difference matters: Eating God is inner wisdom; Hurting Officer is outward brilliance—dazzling, comparative, aggressive. Where there’s comparison, there’s aggression—a perfect fit for the ruthless competition and elimination mechanics of reality television.
2016—The power fortress is cast (elected president).
The Decade Period advanced. Metal energy still flowed, but the system’s output module switched to Eating God.
Compared to the previous decade’s wild, uncontained torrent of Hurting Officer expression, Eating God’s output mechanism is more restrained, focused, and precise. No longer indiscriminate energy display—this is structural momentum channeled with high strategic intent. Sān Mìng Tōng Huì states: “Eating God controlling Seven Killings is extraordinarily auspicious.” In BaZi’s mechanical design, Eating God has the capacity to forcibly suppress extreme external pressure and convert it into substantive control.
The Day Master’s accumulated geothermal energy stopped radiating outward aimlessly and struck with precision at a single breakthrough point. Pure “high-profile expression” underwent a physical phase transition at this moment, directly cast into an absolute power fortress. The system successfully converted its outward momentum into the highest form of secular power.
2020—Structural thermal shock (loses re-election).
The chart was still operating under the Eating God decade’s precision control. But the Annual Period (流年) that year was 庚子.
The Earthly Branch 子 (Water)—like a sub-zero ice projectile—slammed head-on into the chart’s core foundation: the month pillar’s 午 (Fire). This is one of the most violent and lethal tectonic collisions in classical metaphysics: the 子午 Clash.
The month pillar’s 午 fire is no ordinary fire—it’s the core of this superheated, high-gravity geological furnace. When a single year’s feeble 子 water crashes directly into the natal chart’s extreme 午 fire, the physical law from Dī Tiān Suǐ activates without mercy: “When the weak clashes with the strong, the strong erupts.”
This drop of ice water had no chance of cooling this superheated continental plate. The opposite happened—it was force-fed into an extreme-temperature sealed furnace and flash-vaporized, triggering a catastrophic thermal shock.
The external environment’s objective reality (子 water) tried to forcibly collide with and tame this system. The Decade Period’s Eating God still attempted to maintain strategic control from above, but the 子午 Clash had already detonated the foundation. The chart’s long-accumulated inward-consuming, infinitely expanding momentum finally hit the physics’ mandatory critical point, triggering systemic collapse.
Like a glass frozen to extreme cold, suddenly placed over a high-heat source—unable to withstand the thermal differential, it shatters.
2024—The absolute conversion of power (elected again).
Decade Period: 壬寅. Direct Wealth.
壬 is water. It sits in the Heavenly Stem—not hidden in the Branches, not indirectly derived, but openly and unmistakably, like an ocean, suspended directly overhead.
In BaZi’s underlying logic, Indirect Wealth belongs to market opportunities where many streams converge. Direct Wealth has a different physical definition: “that which I absolutely control and bend to my use.” This is no longer reality television’s ephemeral ratings, nor the campaign trail’s swaying momentum—this is the most tangible, hardest-core sovereign territory: ballots counted and deposited, the legal authority of the White House, and the absolute domain where this superheated system can convert its will into reality at one hundred percent efficiency.
This chart went seventy-eight years without water. The preceding decades fed it fire, then earth, then more suffocating fire and heavier earth. Until the energy of metal arrived and physically cracked open the surface of this superheated plate—metal generates water—forcing open a gravitational channel for outward acquisition. And then, for the first time in his entire life, the Wealth Star—representing real-world resources and monumental harvest—sat in the most visible seat of the Decade Period.
Sān Mìng Tōng Huì is explicit: “Wealth is the source that sustains life.” This extreme drought field, parched for seventy-eight years, finally got its rain.
But this was no gentle, nourishing drizzle. Dī Tiān Suǐ is equally explicit: “壬 water is vast and boundless... surging to the heavens, crashing across the earth.” This was a violent, destructive deluge carrying annihilating physical momentum.
Even more extreme: the Decade Period’s Earthly Branch 寅, the instant it touched the chart’s surface, triggered an immediate chain reaction with the natal 午 and 戌, igniting the most massive geothermal furnace in classical metaphysics—寅午戌 Three-Combination Fire (三合火局).
The sky unleashed a heaven-surging, earth-crashing deluge. The underground simultaneously detonated an extreme-temperature fire configuration. In this unprecedented “water-fire collision”—this extreme physical impact—the superheated furnace flash-vaporized the vast flood, completing the absolute consumption of real-world power.
Who would have guessed? This Mr. Trump—who endured seventy-eight years in a drought field—turns out, in the underlying logic of the system, to be a textbook case of “peaking in the later years.”
The Mirror
In the previous article, we examined Zhu Yuanzhang—a beggar who became the founding emperor of China’s Ming Dynasty.
Now lay both charts on the table.
The similarities jump out immediately: both earth, both extreme charts, both violent rises and catastrophic falls, and both stood back up when everyone believed it was impossible. Zhu Yuanzhang’s 丙 Fire Day Master generated massive earth throughout his chart. Trump’s 己 Earth Day Master is earth itself. What both systems share: enormous mass, extreme density, impervious to conventional force.
But look closer. The engines are completely different.
Zhu Yuanzhang’s core driver was Seven Killings (七殺): 壬 water—extreme external threat pressing inward. In the underlying logic of creation, “Killing attacks the self” is a lethal momentum that could destroy the Day Master at any moment. His entire life was spent sleeping next to the tiger: parents starved to death, three years as a beggar, then cutting a path through mountains of corpses. His Hurting Officer was his weapon; Seven Killings was the reason he swung the blade. He purged his own generals not because he was powerful—because he was afraid. The fear of survival drove everything.
Trump’s core driver is Three Directional Fire (Resource Star): 巳午未—geological-scale heat rising from the base. In the system’s design, the Resource Star represents “that which generates me”—innate resources and physical inheritance. He wasn’t being chased by external threats. The internal heat simply had nowhere to go but outward, expanding endlessly.
His chart doesn’t have the component called “fear” installed. In the Five Phases, water governs wisdom—it represents the survival mechanism of retreat and cooling. His chart has not a single drop. He doesn’t kill people. He deploys absolute mass and extreme heat to burn straight through.
The starting points diverge too. Zhu Yuanzhang began from absolute zero: a beggar who couldn’t afford a burial plot. His extremity was forcibly activated by deprivation and death. Trump began from the Resource Star’s patronage: his father’s company, a ready-made platform. His extremity was self-ignited by surplus thermal energy.
One is a sun that broke through the earth from darkness. The other is a drought field that caught fire at birth and waited seventy-eight years for rain.
The system doesn’t care about your nationality. In the underlying computation of creation, there is no politics and no culture—only pure energy laws and physical limits. But under the same label of “extreme,” the engines can be completely different. Those who can read structure will never confuse two charts.
The Door
There is one chart whose spacetime coordinates have been completely sealed by a state apparatus.
The Chinese government has never—and will never—release its supreme leader’s true birth time.
Not because of a steadfast commitment to materialism. Quite the opposite—they know better than anyone how penetrating this underlying computational system can be.
Sān Mìng Tōng Huì states: “Examine its details and know misfortune before it sprouts. Investigate its function and perceive the boundaries of life and death.”
The chart is hidden because the core node of a system must never expose its physical limits. As long as someone understands the gravitational channels of the Heavenly Stems, Earthly Branches, and Five Phases, exactly when this enormous power apparatus will face structural overdraft, when it will encounter an irreversible thermal shock, and what “misfortune before it sprouts” and “the boundaries of life and death” ultimately look like—all of it will be laid bare before anyone who knows how to read.
What These Words Mean
BaZi (八字)
A Chinese metaphysical analysis system that encodes a person’s birth moment into eight Heavenly Stem and Earthly Branch characters. Over 500,000 possible combinations.
Four Pillars (四柱)
Year, month, day, and hour pillars—the four pairs of Heavenly Stem and Earthly Branch that comprise a BaZi chart.
Heavenly Stems (天干)
甲乙丙丁戊己庚辛壬癸—ten cyclical symbols representing the yin/yang polarity and Five Phase attributes of energy.
Earthly Branches (地支)
子丑寅卯辰巳午未申酉戌亥—twelve cyclical symbols corresponding to time and direction.
Day Master (日主)
The Heavenly Stem of the day pillar. Represents the self. Every analysis orbits this anchor.
Jǐ Earth (己土)
Yin Earth. Farmland, soft soil—a load-bearing, receptive Day Master.
Five Phases (五行)
Wood, Fire, Earth, Metal, Water. Not static elements—a dynamic cycle of generation and control.
Three Directional Fire (三會火方)
When 巳, 午, and 未—all three fire-direction Earthly Branches—appear together, they fuse into an absolute directional thermal field.
Three-Combination Fire (三合火局)
When 寅, 午, and 戌 combine, they ignite an extreme-temperature geothermal furnace.
Hidden Stems (藏干)
Heavenly Stem energies concealed within Earthly Branches—not visible on the surface but active in the system’s computation.
Officer Star (官星)
The element that controls the Day Master (wood controls earth). Represents rules, regulations, and institutional constraint.
Seven Killings (七殺 / 偏官)
The element that controls the Day Master with matching polarity and merciless rigidity. Represents extreme external pressure, survival threats, destructive force, and—when survived—absolute authority seized at the edge of life and death.
Officer Drained by Resource (官泄於印)
When the Officer Star (wood) is absorbed by the Resource Star (fire) before reaching the Day Master. Institutional constraint is metabolized before it makes contact.
Resource Star (印星)
The element that generates the Day Master (fire generates earth). Represents patronage, inheritance, and gifts from above. Direct Resource shares polarity; Indirect Resource has opposite polarity.
Wealth Star (財星)
The element the Day Master controls (earth controls water). Represents tangible wealth, liquid resources, and real-world harvest. Direct Wealth has opposite polarity; Indirect Wealth shares polarity.
Rob Wealth (劫財)
Same element as the Day Master, opposite polarity (戊 Earth vs. 己 Earth). Competes for and drains the Day Master’s wealth sources.
Companion (比肩)
Same element and polarity as the Day Master (己 Earth vs. 己 Earth). Parallel competition.
Hurting Officer (傷官)
The element the Day Master generates, opposite polarity (Metal). Represents outward brilliance, bold expression, and dazzling display.
Eating God (食神)
The element the Day Master generates, same polarity (Metal). Represents inner wisdom, restrained strategy, and precision control.
Decade Period (大運)
A ten-year Heavenly Stem and Earthly Branch cycle representing external environmental conditions.
Annual Period (流年)
A single year’s Heavenly Stem and Earthly Branch, interacting with the natal chart and current Decade Period to produce that year’s events.
子午 Clash (子午沖)
When 子 (Water) and 午 (Fire) collide head-on—one of the most violent tectonic impacts in classical metaphysics.
Established Prosperity Format (建祿格)
When the Day Master draws strength from the month branch (己 Earth born in the 午 month). An extremely strong Day Master configuration.
Drought Land (旱田)
The classical technical diagnosis for a Jǐ Earth chart with no Guǐ Water in the height of summer. A term of art, not a metaphor.
Climate Balancing (調候)
The mechanism of using water or fire to regulate the hot/cold/dry/wet balance of a chart.
Where These Words Come From
《窮通寶鑑》 (Qióng Tōng Bǎo Jiàn / Treasury of Comprehensive Guidance)
〈論土・三夏己土〉：”禾稼在田，最喜甘沛，取癸為要……故無癸曰旱田。”
《滴天髓》 (Dī Tiān Suǐ / Drop of Heavenly Marrow)
〈天干論・己土〉：”己土卑薄（古本亦作卑濕），中正蓄藏。不愁木盛，不畏水狂（旺）。”
〈衰旺論〉：”旺之極者不可損，以損在其中矣。”
〈天干論・壬水〉：”壬水汪洋……沖天奔地。”
〈地支論〉：”衰者沖旺旺神發。”
《三命通會》 (Sān Mìng Tōng Huì / Compendium of Three Fates)
卷五〈論正財〉：”財為養命之源，凡人八字不可無財。”
卷十二〈五言獨步〉：”建祿生提月，財官喜透天，不宜身再旺，惟喜茂財源。”
卷二〈論天干陰陽生死〉：”木火司權，煆煉己土，遂成磁石，反失中和之氣……火燥土裂，正此謂也。”
卷五〈論印綬〉：”印綬者……譬人生得物相助相養，受現成之福。”
卷二〈論大運〉：”大運者，乃八字之表裏也。”
卷十一〈消息賦〉：”食神制煞吉非常。”
卷一〈論十干名字之義〉：”將攷其細而知未萌之禍福，究其用而察向往之死生。”
《子平真詮》 (Zǐ Píng Zhēn Quán / Authentic Interpretation of Zǐ Píng)
〈論傷官〉（及〈論用神成敗救應〉）：”傷官生財……只要身強而有根，便為貴格。”
〈論偏官〉：”煕以攻身，似非美物，然大貴之格多存七殺。”
