One of the ten forces

比肩

Friend

BAAK calls it Peer: someone standing at your level.

A stem of your own element, with your own polarity. It is one half of the Self pair 比劫; the other half is Rival 劫財.

01When it is loudest

You have a low tolerance for incompetence, so you just do it yourself in half the time

What arrives without being worked for

You do not need to be carried and you do not need to be told. Put you somewhere with a hard job and no supervision and the job gets done, at your standard, which is the higher of the two standards in play.

What the same wiring costs

You take it back and do it yourself and you are genuinely faster, and now you are doing all of it forever. Nobody learns anything standing behind you.

02By the element it arrives as

The same force, five ways.

Peer 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 running on an idea solo, leaving others to catch up if they want to.

Emotion火

You just do your thing out in the open, and it does not occur to you that anybody is watching.

Calm土

You do not care about public applause as long as the work meets your personal standard.

Logic金

You have zero patience for small talk, skipping the social fluff to handle things yourself.

Flow水

You blend into completely different crowds without changing who you are or asking for approval.

03Finding it in a chart

Which stem is Peer 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→Wo+甲

BuildWo−乙→Wo−乙

BuildFi+丙→Fi+丙

BuildFi−丁→Fi−丁

BuildEa+戊→Ea+戊

BuildEa−己→Ea−己

BuildMe+庚→Me+庚

BuildMe−辛→Me−辛

BuildWa+壬→Wa+壬

BuildWa−癸→Wa−癸

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

Rival 劫財 Craft 食神 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