Bazi Fate-Star Methodology Overview (神煞方法總覽)
Learn the evidence order for calculating, recording, weighting, and safely interpreting Shen Sha after the chart’s core structure is established.
Overview
Bazi Fate-Star methodology treats Shen Sha as source-specific lookup records rather than literal predictions. It fixes the table version, reference stem or branch, target symbol, pillar placement, and time layer before interpretation, then ranks any relevant clue below Month Command, strength, structure, Ten Gods, and direct stem-branch relations.
At a glance
- Form
- Rule-based symbolic marker
- Inputs
- Reference stem or branch plus target position
- Primary use
- Secondary placement and timing context
- Source issue
- Tables differ by text and school
- Priority
- After core chart structure
- Boundary
- No literal event prediction
Treat every Fate Star as a lookup result
A marker exists only when a named source rule connects a specific reference stem or branch with a matching target symbol.
The output should preserve the table version, anchor, target, and pillar rather than displaying an unexplained auspicious or adverse label.
- Show the complete lookup path.
- Do not infer a marker from its poetic name.
Use markers to add bounded context
Pillar position, repetition, and contact with a timing layer can make a marker more relevant to the question being studied.
That relevance remains interpretive and must be cross-checked against direct chart relations and the topic’s real evidence.
- Separate presence from relevance.
- Keep the claim conditional.
Read the structural map first
Month Command, Day Master strength, Ten Gods, roots, patterns, and stem-branch interactions supply the primary chart evidence.
A Shen Sha label may refine that map but cannot overturn it merely because the traditional name sounds favorable or severe.
- Core structure has higher evidential weight.
- Explain conflicts instead of hiding them.
Keep historical names away from sensitive claims
Names involving romance, illness, robbery, mourning, nobility, or disaster do not prove affairs, diagnoses, crimes, deaths, status, or accidents.
Health, legal, financial, safety, and relationship decisions require current facts and qualified support.
- No fear-based literalization.
- No sensitive-trait inference.
Sources and editorial basis
- 《御定星曆考原》卷一《御定星曆考原》神煞諸篇：神煞以指定干支基準及對照條件建立，並非星體物件A historical source for stem and branch Yin-Yang, Five Phase, direction, seasonal, and calendrical correspondences.
- 《三命通會》 (Sanming Tonghui)《三命通會》卷三神煞諸例：不同神煞各有取干、取支與柱位條件A historical compilation covering stems and branches, Ten Gods, Nayin, Shen Sha, and multiple classical pattern systems.
- OpenFate Editorial Methodology神煞方法總覽頁將來源、基準、目標、柱位、時間層與證據排序串成工作流，名稱不得事件化OpenFate separates deterministic chart calculation, traditional interpretation, and modern editorial explanation.