Children Stars in Bazi (子女星)
Learn how Bazi schools map children roles through Output or Officer stars, how the Hour Pillar is cross-checked, and which claims are unsafe.
Overview
Children Stars are school-defined Ten-God correspondences used to organize questions about parenting and descendants. Some older tables use the Officer and Seven Killings family in male charts and the Output family in female charts; other lineages apply different polarity or sex rules. The Hour Pillar is a separate positional reference, not a substitute for the selected star. None of these symbols can establish fertility, pregnancy, a child's sex, number, health, character, or future.
At a glance
- Common mappings
- Output or Officer-family stars
- Required disclosure
- School, chart-sex, and polarity rules
- Separate reference
- Hour Pillar or adopted children palace
- Reading scope
- Parenting-role themes and chart function
- Not measured
- Fertility, number, sex, or parentage
- Boundary
- No profile or forecast for a child
Name the children-star table before interpreting it
Historical tables do not use one universal child-role correspondence. A common convention assigns Officer and Seven Killings to children in a male chart and Food God and Hurting Officer to children in a female chart.
Other lineages reverse or refine the polarities used for sons and daughters. Record the exact table without treating its binary categories as biological facts or modern identity rules.
- Publish the adopted Ten-God mapping.
- Treat sex-based tables as historical conventions.
Keep the role star and Hour Pillar separate
The mapped Ten God is a relational symbol; the Hour Pillar is a positional layer often associated with descendants, later projects, and later life. Each needs its own evidence trail.
Assess visibility, hidden stems, season, roots, strength, combinations, clashes, and timing before comparing the two layers. Do not count the same contact twice.
- Preserve star-and-palace provenance.
- Synthesize only after separate assessment.
Ask which parenting or care relationship matters
Biological children, adopted or foster children, stepchildren, dependants, students, creative work, and caregiving responsibilities are not interchangeable. The user must define the question.
A traditional descendant label may be used for symbolic reflection, but it must not erase child-free lives, fertility choices, guardianship, or diverse family structures.
- Let the user define the relationship.
- Do not assume parenthood or family form.
Never turn a parent's chart into a child profile
Children Stars cannot prove conception, pregnancy, miscarriage, infertility, parentage, child count, sex, disability, health, temperament, school results, safety, or lifespan.
Use consent, direct observation, medical or legal records, and qualified support for reproductive, custody, health, education, or safeguarding decisions.
- No reproductive or child-outcome prediction.
- Protect minors and third-party privacy.
Sources and editorial basis
- 《淵海子平》 (Yuanhai Ziping)《淵海子平》六親論把子女角色放入日主生剋與十神對應中，顯示它是關係分類而非子女數量或性別的生物判定A foundational Ziping reference for branch months, hidden stems, roots, and stem-branch relationships.
- 《三命通會》 (Sanming Tonghui)《三命通會》卷七記載男命以剋我者、女命以我生者取子息等舊制，並另有陰陽細分，反映來源與流派差異A historical compilation covering stems and branches, Ten Gods, Nayin, Shen Sha, and multiple classical pattern systems.
- OpenFate Editorial Methodology子女星頁要求公開命別與陰陽映射、分開評估星與時柱，並排除生育、親子身分、數量、性別、健康及孩子結果推論OpenFate separates deterministic chart calculation, traditional interpretation, and modern editorial explanation.