What Are the Six Family Roles in Bazi? (六親)
Learn how Bazi maps family-role questions through Ten Gods and pillar palaces, why schools differ, and why chart symbols never prove facts about relatives.
Overview
The Six Family Roles are a traditional Bazi framework for discussing parents, siblings, partners, children, and related social roles. The method normally combines a Ten-God correspondence derived from the Day Master with a separate pillar or palace reference. Correspondence tables vary by school and older sex-based conventions, so the adopted rules must be declared. These symbols organize questions; they are not a registry of real people or proof about a relative’s life.
At a glance
- Core reference
- Day Master and Ten-God relation
- Second reference
- Pillar or palace position
- Method rule
- Declare the adopted correspondence table
- School variance
- Role and sex conventions differ
- Modern use
- User-defined family and care roles
- Boundary
- No facts about another person are proven
Treat Liu Qin as a role-mapping framework
Classical Bazi extends the Five-Phase and Ten-God relationships into labels for family and close social roles. The map begins with a fixed Day Master rather than with a person’s name.
A role label identifies a symbolic chart function. It does not identify which real person occupies that role or describe that person’s character, health, choices, or future.
- Derive the Ten God before applying a role.
- Keep chart labels separate from people.
Read the role star and palace as separate evidence
A family-role star is the adopted Ten-God correspondence; a palace is a positional reference such as a pillar or the natal Day Branch. One cannot silently replace the other.
Record visibility, hidden stems, season, roots, strength, relations, and timing for the star, then examine the palace through its own stems, branches, and contacts.
- Use star-and-palace synthesis.
- Do not double-count the same symbol.
Declare school rules and let the user define roles
Lineages differ over some parent, spouse, and child correspondences, especially where older tables depend on a binary sex convention. Publish the table and reference rule before interpreting it.
For adoptive, foster, blended, same-sex, nonbinary, guardian, and chosen-family structures, ask which relationship is relevant instead of forcing an inherited label onto the user.
- Name the school and mapping version.
- Respect lived family structure and identity.
Do not profile relatives from one person’s chart
An absent, weak, combined, clashed, or tombed family star does not mean a relative is absent, harmful, ill, infertile, unfaithful, abusive, or destined for an event.
Use consent, conversation, records, and qualified medical, legal, financial, or safety support for real family decisions. Preserve the privacy of people who did not request a reading.
- Reject literal and sensitive inferences.
- Let direct evidence outrank symbolism.
Sources and editorial basis
- 《淵海子平》 (Yuanhai Ziping)《淵海子平》以日主為中心推十神與六親，親屬角色屬關係映射，須和柱位、旺衰及全局條件同看A foundational Ziping reference for branch months, hidden stems, roots, and stem-branch relationships.
- 《三命通會》 (Sanming Tonghui)《三命通會》六親與四柱相關論述顯示星與宮位為不同取證層，且各家親屬對應並非完全一致A historical compilation covering stems and branches, Ten Gods, Nayin, Shen Sha, and multiple classical pattern systems.
- OpenFate Editorial Methodology六親總論頁聲明採用的十神與宮位表，支援現代家庭角色，並排除由命主命盤推斷第三者敏感事實OpenFate separates deterministic chart calculation, traditional interpretation, and modern editorial explanation.