One of the ten forces

七殺

Seven Killings

BAAK calls it Pressure: what pushes on you without asking.

A stem of the element that controls your Build, with your own polarity. It is one half of the Authority pair 官殺; the other half is Duty 正官.

01When it is loudest

You are completely useless in boring status update meetings, and an absolute god when everything is on fire

What arrives without being worked for

Your capacity goes up with the stakes. The moment the room panics is the moment you become useful, and you make the call while everyone else is still establishing what happened. This is not composure. It is that pressure is the condition you run best in.

What the same wiring costs

You are so good when everything is on fire that you go looking for the next fire. Your nervous system reads a quiet week as a bug.

02By the element it arrives as

The same force, five ways.

Pressure 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 it with zero preparation, because you only move when something is at stake.

Emotion火

Your head gets clearer the worse it gets.

Calm土

You take the hit without flinching and you are still there after.

Logic金

You kill the project in one cold second when the numbers say so.

Flow水

You reshape things quietly until the threat neutralises itself.

03Finding it in a chart

Which stem is Pressure 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→Me+庚

BuildWo−乙→Me−辛

BuildFi+丙→Wa+壬

BuildFi−丁→Wa−癸

BuildEa+戊→Wo+甲

BuildEa−己→Wo−乙

BuildMe+庚→Fi+丙

BuildMe−辛→Fi−丁

BuildWa+壬→Ea+戊

BuildWa−癸→Ea−己

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 Craft 食神 Challenge 傷官 Opportunity 偏財 Income 正財 Duty 正官 Insight 偏印 Backing 正印

The whole notation, on one page