Clashes Affecting the Spouse Palace
Verify a canonical clash involving the Day Branch, distinguish natal and timed contact, and avoid converting movement imagery into divorce or danger predictions.
Overview
Clashes affecting the spouse palace means that the natal Day Branch participates in one of the canonical six Earthly Branch clash pairs. A clash establishes a directional structural contact; it does not erase the Day Branch, identify a partner, or automatically produce conflict. Display both branches, their positions, natal or dated layer, repetition, season, strength, other interactions, and what actually changes in the chart. Movement, separation, reorganization, or tension may be useful conditional prompts, but a clash cannot prove divorce, breakup, abuse, relocation, infidelity, incompatibility, or an event date.
At a glance
- Fixed palace
- Natal Day Branch
- Canonical rule
- One of six opposing Earthly Branch pairs
- Required output
- Both branches, positions, layer, repetition, and conditions
- Possible prompt
- Movement, reorganization, tension, or changed emphasis
- Time boundary
- Temporary clashes expire with the dated layer
- Cannot prove
- Divorce, breakup, abuse, relocation, infidelity, or incompatibility
Confirm a canonical clash with the Day Branch
Take the spouse palace from the calculated Day Branch and match it against the canonical six clash pairs. Name the opposing branch and its natal or timing position.
Do not infer a clash from element opposition, dislike, zodiac folklore, or narrative tone. Without the required branch pair, this relation is absent.
- Show the exact branch pair.
- Reject non-canonical similarity rules.
Assess strength, repetition, and simultaneous relations
Check season, roots, repeated branches, adjacency, combinations, punishments, harms, and which hidden-stem functions are affected. A clash is not a complete interpretation.
When several relations coexist, list them rather than declaring that a clash always “breaks” a combination or marriage. Rule precedence needs explicit evidence.
- Describe the affected chart functions.
- Preserve concurrent and countervailing evidence.
Keep natal structure and dated activation distinct
A natal clash is part of the base configuration. A luck pillar, year, month, or day may introduce a temporary opposing branch, which needs a bounded date label.
Timed contact can prompt review of change or pressure, but it cannot predict a breakup, court filing, move, argument, or injury. Real events require direct evidence.
- Do not rewrite the natal chart with a transit.
- No event date from a clash alone.
A clash is not proof of divorce or harm
The character for clash does not diagnose hostility, abuse, incompatibility, trauma, or an unsafe partner. It also does not require separation or relocation.
Relationship and safety choices belong to the people involved and to present conduct, consent, records, and qualified help. Never use a clash to frighten or pressure a reader.
- No divorce or danger prediction.
- Use direct behavior and safety evidence.
Sources and editorial basis
- 《三命通會》 (Sanming Tonghui)《三命通會》地支六沖材料支持以子午、丑未、寅申、卯酉、辰戌、巳亥六組標準配對核驗日支受沖，不能把一般相剋或生肖不合改稱六沖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》干支作用須回到旺衰、體用、源流與制化判斷，沖的出現不等於固定事件，原局與歲運接觸亦須分開A core later text on Bazi balance, seasonal strength, and relational reading.
- OpenFate Editorial Methodology婚姻宮逢沖頁要求列出沖對、位置、強弱、反證及運期，只作變動與再檢視提示，禁止自動預測衝突、分居、離婚、暴力、外遇或生育結果OpenFate separates deterministic chart calculation, traditional interpretation, and modern editorial explanation.