The Ten Gods in Bazi (十神)
Understand how the Day Master, Five-Phase direction, and polarity produce the ten Bazi relationship roles and why their names are not literal outcomes.
Overview
The Ten Gods classify every other stem or hidden stem by its Five-Phase and polarity relationship to the Day Master. The ten roles form five paired families: Companions, Output, Wealth, Authority, and Resource. They describe chart functions. Their strength, position, combination, structure, and timing must be evaluated before any life-domain interpretation.
At a glance
- Reference
- Day Master
- Companions
- Friend and Rob Wealth
- Output
- Eating God and Hurting Officer
- Wealth
- Direct and Indirect Wealth
- Authority and Resource
- Direct Officer, Seven Killings, Direct Resource, Indirect Resource
- Boundary
- Relationship labels, not literal people or events
Derive every role from the Day Master
First determine whether another phase is the same as, produced by, controlled by, controlling, or producing the Day Master.
Then compare polarity to choose the paired name. The role must be recalculated when the Day Master changes.
- Use phase direction before polarity.
- Include visible and hidden stems with their source labels.
Read five functional families before ten stories
Companion, Output, Wealth, Authority, and Resource describe broad structural functions and generation-control paths.
The paired names refine polarity. They do not give each symbol a fixed occupation, relative, virtue, or personality.
- Start with the functional path.
- Treat family analogies as bounded conventions.
Presence, strength, usefulness, and activation differ
A hidden, rootless, or seasonally weak Ten God is not equivalent to a visible, rooted, supported one. Interactions may bind, control, or redirect it.
Patterns and timing show how roles operate together. A count of labels cannot replace the whole-chart evidence.
- Report visibility and roots.
- Separate natal presence from timed activation.
Names are not biographical facts
Wealth does not prove money, Officer does not prove a job title, Resource does not prove education, and spouse or parent analogies do not identify real people.
Do not use Ten Gods for financial guarantees, employment screening, relationship accusation, diagnosis, or moral judgment.
- Translate roles conditionally.
- Use direct evidence for high-stakes claims.
Sources and editorial basis
- 《淵海子平》 (Yuanhai Ziping)《淵海子平》「論日為主」：以日干和五行陰陽關係推導十神A foundational Ziping reference for branch months, hidden stems, roots, and stem-branch relationships.
- 《三命通會》 (Sanming Tonghui)《三命通會》卷六官、財、印、食傷諸論：十神須以旺衰格局合參A historical compilation covering stems and branches, Ten Gods, Nayin, Shen Sha, and multiple classical pattern systems.
- OpenFate Editorial Methodology十神入門頁將關係名稱、實際力量、結構功能與現實事件分開OpenFate separates deterministic chart calculation, traditional interpretation, and modern editorial explanation.