How Annual Influences Work
Understand how an annual stem and branch interact with the natal chart and active Luck Pillar through auditable roles and relations.
Overview
Annual influences work by adding one dated Jiazi to the existing natal and Luck-Pillar layers. The annual stem receives a Ten-God role relative to the Day Master; the branch contributes hidden stems, roots, and branch relations. Read exact contacts, formation conditions, and competing evidence, then limit the conclusion to the defined year interval.
At a glance
- Input
- Annual stem and branch
- Stem role
- Ten God relative to Day Master
- Branch data
- Hidden stems, roots, and relations
- Comparison layers
- Natal chart and active Luck Pillar
- Required
- Exact rules and counterevidence
- Scope
- Defined annual interval
Build the complete annual layer
Calculate the year Jiazi under the selected year-boundary policy and retain both characters.
Derive the stem role, branch hidden stems, roots, and relation candidates without collapsing them into one favorable or unfavorable label.
- Use deterministic calendar output.
- Preserve all annual components.
Test contacts with both longer layers
Compare the annual symbols with each natal pillar and the active Luck Pillar using registered generation, control, combination, clash, punishment, harm, and break rules.
Name the participants, completeness, distance, season, roots, and competing relations where the selected rule requires them.
- Trace every claimed relation.
- Separate candidate contact from formation.
Explain what the year reinforces or interrupts
A year can repeat a symbol, complete a longer relation, supply root, expose conflict, or redirect an existing pathway.
State the mechanism, affected layer, duration, confidence, and counterevidence rather than converting the analysis into a fixed event.
- Keep provenance visible.
- Publish uncertainty and limits.
Symbol interaction is not event causation
An annual relation cannot establish medical, legal, financial, relationship, employment, or safety outcomes.
Use contemporary evidence and appropriate professionals for consequential decisions and never use a chart to blame a person for harm.
- Avoid causal claims.
- Keep high-stakes domains outside prediction.
Sources and editorial basis
- 《三命通會》 (Sanming Tonghui)《三命通會》歲運諸論逐項考察歲干歲支與日主、原局、大運的生剋合沖及成立條件A historical compilation covering stems and branches, Ten Gods, Nayin, Shen Sha, and multiple classical pattern systems.
- 《滴天髓》 (Dripping Heavenly Marrow)《滴天髓闡微》干支、地支與歲運章支持將年干十神、年支藏干根氣和跨層關係分開後再統合A core later text on Bazi balance, seasonal strength, and relational reading.
- OpenFate Editorial Methodology流年作用頁要求完整年度甲子、具名參與者、候選與成立分離、反證及日期，排除事件因果OpenFate separates deterministic chart calculation, traditional interpretation, and modern editorial explanation.