One of the ten forces

劫財

Rob Wealth

BAAK calls it Rival: someone reaching for the same thing.

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

01When it is loudest

You do not actually care about the prize until you notice somebody else trying to take it from you

What arrives without being worked for

Competition sharpens you rather than rattling you. You find another gear the moment somebody is going for the same thing, and you have done your best work in exactly those stretches.

What the same wiring costs

Take away the person you are racing and the whole thing goes flat. You need an opponent more than you need the thing you said you wanted.

02By the element it arrives as

The same force, five ways.

Rival 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 do not want it until somebody else does, and then you have to win.

Emotion火

You perform ten times better when all eyes are on you and somebody is watching.

Calm土

You play the long game, quietly outlasting noisy competitors who burn themselves out trying to keep up.

Logic金

You take an abandoned, half-baked idea and make it ten times sharper than before.

Flow水

You walk into a room of complete strangers and leave with three direct connections saved.

03Finding it in a chart

Which stem is Rival 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−乙

BuildWo−乙→Wo+甲

BuildFi+丙→Fi−丁

BuildFi−丁→Fi+丙

BuildEa+戊→Ea−己

BuildEa−己→Ea+戊

BuildMe+庚→Me−辛

BuildMe−辛→Me+庚

BuildWa+壬→Wa−癸

BuildWa−癸→Wa+壬

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 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