Common Mistakes in Fate-Star Analysis (神煞誤區)
Avoid wrong anchors, mixed tables, duplicate counting, literal names, score arithmetic, missing timing boundaries, and Shen Sha-first readings.
Overview
The most common Fate-Star errors are procedural: using the wrong pillar, mixing schools without attribution, dropping target placement, counting one match repeatedly, reading a name as an event, adding auspicious and adverse scores, ignoring expiry dates, or letting auxiliary markers override core structure. A fixed evidence record and publication boundary prevents each error.
At a glance
- Calculation error
- Wrong anchor or target scope
- Source error
- Mixed unattributed tables
- Counting error
- Duplicated label or carrier
- Interpretive error
- Literalizing a historical name
- Priority error
- Shen Sha before core structure
- Timing error
- Temporary marker treated as permanent
Do not use the wrong anchor or partial table
Confirm whether the rule begins from the Day Stem, Year Stem, Day Branch, or Year Branch and which positions may be scanned.
A plausible-looking match outside that scope is still a false positive.
- Validate the full rule tuple.
- Test boundary and alternate-anchor cases.
Do not merge schools or count one fact twice
Keep each table version attributed and preserve separate evidence paths when variants overlap.
Deduplicate a shared carrier or label at the narrative layer so catalog volume does not inflate certainty.
- Version every rule set.
- Deduplicate without discarding provenance.
Do not translate the name into biography
Peach Blossom is not proof of an affair, Travelling Horse is not a guaranteed move, and an adverse name is not a diagnosis or disaster notice.
Read only the bounded context supported by placement, structure, timing, and actual facts.
- Remove fear and flattery shortcuts.
- No sensitive-person inference.
Do not let auxiliary markers lead the chart
Complete the deterministic chart, Month Command, strength, Ten Gods, structure, useful functions, and stem-branch relations first.
Then retain only Shen Sha clues that are sourced, relevant, time-bounded, and consistent with the evidence hierarchy.
- Use a fixed reading order.
- No decorative marker dumping.
Sources and editorial basis
- 《三命通會》 (Sanming Tonghui)《三命通會》神煞逐條起例與總論：不可換錯基準、漏掉條件或脫離命局旺衰獨斷A historical compilation covering stems and branches, Ten Gods, Nayin, Shen Sha, and multiple classical pattern systems.
- 《御定星曆考原》卷一《御定星曆考原》神煞表列：異表與異名須依各自來源核對，不可任意拼接A historical source for stem and branch Yin-Yang, Five Phase, direction, seasonal, and calendrical correspondences.
- OpenFate Editorial Methodology神煞常見錯誤頁修正錯基準、混表、漏柱、重複、字面化、加總、永久化與神煞先行八類問題OpenFate separates deterministic chart calculation, traditional interpretation, and modern editorial explanation.