Combinations Affecting the Spouse Palace
Identify a valid combination involving the Day Branch, separate contact from transformation, and avoid treating harmony language as proof of marriage or fidelity.
Overview
Combinations affecting the spouse palace means that the Day Branch participates in a verified stem-branch relation classified as a combination. The palace remains the Day Branch; the relation does not move it or turn another branch into a spouse. First name every participant and the exact rule—Six Harmony, Three Combination, Half Combination, Three Meeting, hidden combination, or a dated contact—then test adjacency, completeness, season, support, obstruction, transformation, and duration. A combination can describe structural contact or redirection, but it cannot prove attraction, compatibility, marriage, fidelity, reconciliation, or a specific partner.
At a glance
- Fixed palace
- The spouse palace remains the natal Day Branch
- Required input
- Named participant branches or stems and relation type
- Rule families
- Six Harmony, Three Combination, Half Combination, Meeting, or hidden relation
- Separate question
- Contact does not automatically become transformation
- Time layer
- Natal, luck-pillar, annual, monthly, or daily contact must be labelled
- Cannot prove
- Attraction, marriage, fidelity, compatibility, or reconciliation
Detect the exact relation involving the Day Branch
Anchor the spouse palace to the calculated natal Day Branch. List the other participant, its chart or timing position, and the canonical relation returned by the interaction rules.
Do not write “the marriage palace is combined” without identifying which combination exists. Pair, triad, half-combination, meeting, and hidden relation have different participants and conditions.
- Show both participants and their positions.
- Name one canonical relation rather than a generic harmony.
Separate contact, binding, and transformation
A valid pair establishes structural contact. Transformation requires its own seasonal, support, obstruction, and competing-force evidence and must not be assumed from the pair alone.
Check whether another clash, punishment, harm, repetition, or competing combination changes the relation. Preserve simultaneous evidence instead of choosing the most favorable label.
- Do not equate combination with transformation.
- Report supporting, blocking, and competing relations.
Label natal and temporary combinations separately
A natal relation belongs to the base chart. A luck pillar, year, month, or day can introduce a temporary participant; record the start, end, and exact layer.
A temporary contact can mark a review window but cannot schedule a meeting, proposal, wedding, reunion, or breakup. It expires with the dated layer unless another relation remains.
- Keep the natal structure immutable.
- Attach an expiry to every temporary contact.
A combination is not relationship harmony
The word “combine” does not prove affection, compatibility, consent, commitment, fidelity, or safety. It can also describe constraint, redirection, competition, or a neutral structural link.
Use communication, observed conduct, shared decisions, and safety evidence for real relationships. Never pressure someone to stay, marry, reconcile, or trust because the Day Branch combines.
- No harmony or marriage guarantee.
- Consent and conduct outrank symbolic contact.
Sources and editorial basis
- 《三命通會》 (Sanming Tonghui)《三命通會》干支合會諸論提供六合、三合、會局及相關成立條件，支持先辨合的種類、參與字、完整度與得時得勢，而非按「合」字直接建立婚姻結論A historical compilation covering stems and branches, Ten Gods, Nayin, Shen Sha, and multiple classical pattern systems.
- 《子平真詮》 (True Explanations of Ziping)《子平真詮》以月令、根氣、格局、喜忌、成敗與救應判斷干支關係是否實際起用，合的存在、作用與合化須分層處理A major reference for month-command, structure, and contextual Bazi interpretation.
- OpenFate Editorial Methodology婚姻宮逢合頁固定夫妻宮為日支，分開接觸、成立與合化並標示歲運期間，禁止由合推論吸引、相容、婚姻、忠誠、復合或特定伴侶OpenFate separates deterministic chart calculation, traditional interpretation, and modern editorial explanation.