Case Method for Jian Lu Structures
Test Jian Lu structure through Month-Branch Lu placement, Day-Master strength, functional stars, damage, timing, and translation boundaries.
Overview
A Jian Lu case starts by confirming that the Day Master’s Lu position occupies the Month Branch under the adopted stem-branch table and school rule. Because this usually strengthens the Day Master, the analysis then tests output, Wealth, Officer or Seven Killings, Resource excess, companion competition, structure damage, and useful functions. Jian Lu is not simply “having Lu” elsewhere in the chart. It does not guarantee salary, office, independence, leadership, or prosperity.
At a glance
- Entry rule
- The Day Master’s Lu branch occupies the Month Branch
- Baseline
- Usually strong support, still tested through the whole chart
- Functional candidates
- Output, Wealth, Officer, Seven Killings, or sourced alternatives
- Damage
- Excess Resource, companion competition, broken function, or mixed structure
- Timing
- Periods modify functional access, not the natal Month Branch
- Not implied
- Salary, office, independence, leadership, or prosperity
Confirm the exact Jian Lu entry rule
Map the Day Stem to its Lu branch and verify that branch is the Month Branch under the adopted table and calendar boundary.
Do not call any Lu star or Lu in another pillar Jian Lu structure. Record schools that classify the chart differently.
- Verify stem-to-Lu mapping.
- Require Month-Branch placement.
Find how the strong base is used
Assess output, Wealth, Officer, Seven Killings, Resource, companions, roots, and circulation to identify a functioning route.
Do not automatically prescribe Wealth or authority. Test availability, damage, rescue, climate, and structural priority.
- Prove the selected function.
- Report competing routes.
Track access to functional stars
Apply Luck Pillars and years to the fixed Jian Lu baseline, showing whether they open output, Wealth, authority, competition, or congestion.
Do not convert Lu activation into a salary, promotion, property, or business prediction.
- Name the contacted function.
- No income or office guarantee.
Avoid prosperity literalism
The historical Lu term does not prove wages, official rank, self-employment, leadership, confidence, or wealth in modern life.
Career and financial choices require skills, opportunities, records, and risk analysis.
- No status translation.
- No career prescription.
Sources and editorial basis
- 《淵海子平》 (Yuanhai Ziping)《淵海子平》的建祿、月令、日主根氣與財官食傷材料提供建祿格位置和功能的文本依據A foundational Ziping reference for branch months, hidden stems, roots, and stem-branch relationships.
- 《子平真詮》 (True Explanations of Ziping)《子平真詮》的月令、旺衰、格局與喜忌材料支持建祿名目、日主強弱及用神必須分開判定A major reference for month-command, structure, and contextual Bazi interpretation.
- OpenFate Editorial Methodology建祿格案例頁校驗月支定位並比較羊刃、專旺和一般身強，禁止保證公職、穩定、自立、健康、財富或長壽OpenFate separates deterministic chart calculation, traditional interpretation, and modern editorial explanation.