Why do Bazi family-role mappings differ by school?
Compare school differences in family-role stars, palaces, gendered rules, and timing, with a reproducible version record and conflict-handling method.
Overview
Bazi has no single family-role table shared unchanged across every era and lineage. Differences can involve which Ten Gods represent relatives, historical male-chart and female-chart rules, yin-yang subdivisions, pillar palaces, age ranges, and timing activation. A reliable page does not silently mix tables. It records the source, version, effective date, and rules used for the reading, then shows competing results and limits when sources conflict. These mappings are traditional analytical language, not proof of modern identity, kinship, family quality, or another person’s fate.
At a glance
- Difference one
- Ten-God assignment to family roles
- Difference two
- Historical chart-sex and polarity rules
- Difference three
- Pillar palaces and age ranges
- Required record
- Source, version, date, and rule table
- Conflict output
- Alternatives, evidence, and limitations
- Modern boundary
- Old tables do not define identity or family worth
Identify the exact layer where schools differ
One dispute may concern the Ten Gods assigned to parents, partners, or children; another may concern direct-versus-indirect, polarity, or historical male-chart and female-chart subdivisions.
Pillar-palace assignments, age periods, treatment of an absent role star, and timing activation are separate method layers. “Schools differ” is not enough documentation.
- Separate Ten Gods, palaces, and timing into fields.
- Mark agreement and disagreement rule by rule.
Leave a reproducible version record for every reading
At minimum, save the source or lineage, role-star table, chart-sex and polarity policy, palace table, timing method, version number, and effective date.
A frozen report must preserve the rules used at creation instead of silently recalculating after an editorial update. New versions need an explicit change note.
- Store the rule table with the result.
- Keep historical reports reproducible.
Show conflicts instead of choosing the most dramatic answer
When sourced methods assign a different role star or palace weight, show each premise, evidence path, and result, then state which default OpenFate uses and why.
Return unknown or low confidence when evidence is insufficient. Do not assemble favorable fragments from several tables into an artificially certain story.
- Retain alternatives and counterevidence.
- Avoid selective weighting across rule sets.
Users define modern relationships; old tables remain cultural context
Historical role labels cannot automatically cover nonbinary identities, same-gender partners, single-parent families, adoption, stepfamilies, chosen family, or child-free lives.
No school table can prove kinship, number of relatives, fidelity, health, violence, property, quality of care, or future events. Real-world evidence takes priority.
- Ask for the user’s own role labels first.
- Ban sensitive third-party and fate inferences.
Sources and editorial basis
- 《淵海子平》 (Yuanhai Ziping)《淵海子平》六親十神與四柱定位呈現早期子平法的對應框架，後續傳承對命別、陰陽與宮位細分並非完全一致A foundational Ziping reference for branch months, hidden stems, roots, and stem-branch relationships.
- 《三命通會》 (Sanming Tonghui)《三命通會》彙集多種六親、男女命與柱位論法，顯示角色星、宮位和使用條件必須連同原文方法記錄A historical compilation covering stems and branches, Ten Gods, Nayin, Shen Sha, and multiple classical pattern systems.
- OpenFate Editorial Methodology六親流派差異頁要求保存來源、角色星表、命別陰陽、宮位、歲運、版本與生效日，衝突並列且凍結報告不追溯重算OpenFate separates deterministic chart calculation, traditional interpretation, and modern editorial explanation.