How should family-role mappings be used for modern families?
Adapt traditional Bazi family-role mappings to adoptive, blended, single-parent, same-gender, chosen-family, and other modern contexts without inventing identity facts.
Overview
Traditional Six Family Role mappings classify symbolic relationships around the Day Master; they do not discover a person’s biological, legal, social, or chosen family. For a modern reading, first record the source table and its historical assumptions. Then let the user define the people and roles relevant to the question, keep role stars separate from pillar palaces, and compare symbolism with consented real-world information. When an old label does not fit, preserve the traditional term for method transparency and use neutral language in the interpretation. A chart cannot establish parentage, gender, sexuality, family legitimacy, care quality, or another person’s fate.
At a glance
- Traditional input
- A declared role-star and palace table
- Modern input
- Roles named by the user
- Separate layers
- Role star, palace, and lived evidence
- Unknown handling
- Keep unknown instead of assigning a person
- Language rule
- Historical label plus neutral interpretation
- Cannot establish
- Kinship, identity, legitimacy, or family quality
Declare the historical mapping before adapting it
Record which Ten Gods represent parents, partners, siblings, and children, whether the table changes by chart sex or polarity, and which pillar-palace system is being used.
These are method settings, not facts about the user. A reproducible reading keeps the original label visible even when the explanatory language is updated.
- Save the source and version of the mapping.
- Do not silently combine incompatible tables.
Let the user define actual family roles
Ask which biological, adoptive, foster, step, guardian, co-parent, same-gender partner, chosen-family, or other relationships matter to the question. One person may occupy several functions, and one function may be shared.
Map the question to a symbolic role only after this clarification. Do not infer an undisclosed relationship or force a person into a historical male-versus-female label.
- Use the user’s names and pronouns.
- Allow multiple people, no person, or an unknown role.
Keep symbolism, records, and lived experience separate
A role star describes a Ten-God relation; a palace supplies positional context. Legal kinship, caregiving, residence, support, conflict, and attachment come from records and consented lived information.
If the layers disagree, report the disagreement. Real relationships and current behavior take priority over symbolic expectations, and missing information remains unknown.
- Label the source of every claim.
- Never use symbolism to overwrite lived evidence.
Do not use Bazi to police family legitimacy
A chart cannot determine biological parentage, adoption status, gender identity, sexual orientation, fidelity, fertility, custody, abuse, inheritance, or whether a family is valid or complete.
Questions involving safety, parentage, law, health, or money require direct evidence and qualified support. Protect the privacy of relatives and partners who did not consent to a reading.
- Ban sensitive identity and third-party inference.
- Use cultural symbolism only as an optional reflection framework.
Sources and editorial basis
- 《淵海子平》 (Yuanhai Ziping)《淵海子平·六親總篇》保存傳統六親角色星對應，屬歷史解釋框架，不能直接取代現代家庭成員與照顧關係A foundational Ziping reference for branch months, hidden stems, roots, and stem-branch relationships.
- 《三命通會》 (Sanming Tonghui)《三命通會》六親諸論同時使用角色星、柱位與全局條件，顯示角色名稱須連同原方法和適用前提記錄A historical compilation covering stems and branches, Ten Gods, Nayin, Shen Sha, and multiple classical pattern systems.
- OpenFate Editorial Methodology現代家庭頁由使用者自行定義要分析的角色與關係，採中性語言，禁止推斷血緣、身分、性別、收養狀態或第三人事實OpenFate separates deterministic chart calculation, traditional interpretation, and modern editorial explanation.