Reading Punishments, Harms, and Breaks (刑害破順序)
Distinguish punishment, harm, and break relations, disclose school variants, and test exact participants, repetition, strength, competition, and timing.
Overview
Punishments, harms, and breaks are separate traditional branch-relation families with different fixed pair or group tables. A reliable reading names the adopted table, confirms every participant, handles repetitions and school variants, and then evaluates season, position, overlapping combinations or clashes, and timing. None of the three labels is proof of abuse, crime, illness, betrayal, or misfortune.
At a glance
- Punishment
- Fixed pairs, groups, and self-punishment rules by adopted school
- Harm
- Six fixed harm pairings
- Break
- Six fixed break pairings
- Variant control
- Self-punishment and precedence rules must be disclosed
- Modifiers
- Position, repetition, season, overlap, and timing
- Boundary
- Relation names do not prove harmful conduct or events
Keep the three relation families separate
Punishment, harm, and break have different tables and should remain separate relation types in data and prose.
Combining them into one generic “bad interaction” removes the exact rule and prevents readers from checking the calculation.
- Store relation type and participants.
- Never substitute one family for another.
Declare disputed and school-specific rules
Self-punishment counts, group completion, and precedence can differ among traditions and modern implementations.
A product should identify its convention and version, and show uncertainty rather than quietly presenting a disputed rule as universal.
- Document the adopted table.
- Flag variant-dependent results.
Evaluate overlap and activation after identification
The same branch may also join a combination or clash, so all candidates, strengths, and competing claims must be visible.
Luck or annual repetition can activate a relation temporarily, but the overlay should not be written back into the natal chart.
- Resolve all overlapping relations.
- Keep timing provenance and duration.
Adverse terminology is not evidence of harm
These labels cannot prove violence, abuse, crime, infidelity, illness, injury, self-harm, or another person’s intent.
If real safety concerns exist, use direct evidence and appropriate professional or emergency support—not symbolic inference.
- Do not accuse or diagnose.
- Escalate real risk through real-world channels.
Sources and editorial basis
- 《三命通會》 (Sanming Tonghui)《三命通會》地支三刑、自刑、六害與六破諸論：各類關係有不同固定參與條件A historical compilation covering stems and branches, Ten Gods, Nayin, Shen Sha, and multiple classical pattern systems.
- 《淵海子平》 (Yuanhai Ziping)《淵海子平》刑沖破害與歲運諸論：原局及行運關係須分層並參照旺衰A foundational Ziping reference for branch months, hidden stems, roots, and stem-branch relationships.
- OpenFate Editorial Methodology刑害破頁分離關係身份、有效程度與事實結果，禁止由負面名稱推斷犯罪、疾病或傷害OpenFate separates deterministic chart calculation, traditional interpretation, and modern editorial explanation.