One of the ten forces

食神

Eating God

BAAK calls it Craft: output that comes easily and feeds people.

A stem of the element your Build generates, with your own polarity. It is one half of the Output pair 食傷; the other half is Challenge 傷官.

01When it is loudest

You spend six hours hyper-focusing on a side project nobody asked for, and somehow it is better than what the industry leads do

What arrives without being worked for

Output is your resting state. Where other people need a reason, a deadline or a commission to start, things come out of you because it is Tuesday. The craft instinct that takes most people a decade of deliberate practice arrived in you already running.

What the same wiring costs

You have four unfinished things that are all better than the finished thing somebody else shipped last month. They will stay unfinished.

02By the element it arrives as

The same force, five ways.

Craft is a relationship rather than a substance, so it can be made of any of the five. What it does to you is the relationship; what it looks like from outside is the element.

Drive木

You start five distinct projects before finishing one, because the high of a new opening always beats the logic of closing.

Emotion火

Your rough draft, made on a whim, looks cleaner than everyone else's fully polished submission.

Calm土

You will spend three full months perfecting the invisible infrastructure that nobody else will ever notice or thank you for.

Logic金

You will erase and redo an entire build over a single misaligned detail that only you can see.

Flow水

You absorb a convoluted rulebook in ten seconds, explain it in one sentence, and everyone starts using your translation.

03Finding it in a chart

Which stem is Craft to you.

Your Build is the stem of the day you were born. Find it on the left and the stem beside it is this force. Every row is worked out by the same code the report runs, not typed in.

BuildWo+甲→Fi+丙

BuildWo−乙→Fi−丁

BuildFi+丙→Ea+戊

BuildFi−丁→Ea−己

BuildEa+戊→Me+庚

BuildEa−己→Me−辛

BuildMe+庚→Wa+壬

BuildMe−辛→Wa−癸

BuildWa+壬→Wo+甲

BuildWa−癸→Wo−乙

Which force is loudest in yours?

All ten are in every chart. Which one runs the loudest is the thing this page cannot tell you, because it is the one thing that needs your birthday rather than a definition.

Read your chart

The other nine

Peer 比肩 Rival 劫財 Challenge 傷官 Opportunity 偏財 Income 正財 Pressure 七殺 Duty 正官 Insight 偏印 Backing 正印

The whole notation, on one page