Spouse-Star Matching in Bazi Compatibility
Define the spouse-star convention for each chart, compare roles without equating symbols to people, and avoid gender, identity, fidelity, and marriage predictions.
Overview
Spouse-star matching in Bazi compatibility (合婚中的配偶星匹配, Hé Hūn Zhōng De Pèi Ǒu Xīng Pǐ Pèi) compares role-star evidence only after the convention is declared for each chart. Classical systems often assign Wealth to a man’s spouse role and Officer or Seven Killings to a woman’s spouse role; contemporary readings may use question-specific or role-neutral conventions. These are interpretive policies, not biological facts. Locate the selected star, assess its strength, position, structure, useful function, and natal contacts, then compare it with the other chart without claiming that the other person literally is that star. A match cannot establish gender, orientation, attraction, character, fidelity, marriage, or outcome.
At a glance
- Policy first
- Declare the spouse-role convention for each chart
- Classical roles
- Wealth for wife role; Officer/Killing for husband role
- Natal review
- Presence, strength, position, structure, contacts, function
- Cross-chart rule
- Compare symbols without replacing them with a person
- Identity boundary
- Roles are not biological sex or orientation tests
- Cannot prove
- Attraction, character, fidelity, marriage, outcome
Declare the spouse-star policy before locating any match
State whether the reading uses the classical gendered convention, a role-neutral convention, or a question-specific star. Apply the same declared policy consistently rather than switching after seeing the charts.
Record when a convention does not fit the person or question. Traditional role labels describe a symbolic method and must not overwrite self-identified gender, orientation, or relationship structure.
- Make the interpretive policy visible.
- Do not infer identity from a Ten-God label.
Assess each role star inside its own natal chart
Identify the relevant element and polarity from the Day Master, then inspect revealed and hidden occurrences, strength, placement, structure, combinations, control, useful function, and counterevidence.
Absence, multiplicity, mixture, or damage is not a count of partners or a moral judgment. First describe what the symbolic role can and cannot support in that chart.
- Derive the role independently in both charts.
- Never convert star count into partner count.
Compare the other chart without personifying the star
A comparison may ask whether the other Day Master or recurring elements form a named relation with the selected role star. List the exact participants and keep natal evidence separate from cross-chart evidence.
Elemental resemblance does not mean that the other person is the star, supplies it, or fulfills its promise. Check the complete charts, spouse palaces, timing, and observed relationship behavior separately.
- Show the exact relation rather than a “matching type.”
- Keep people distinct from symbolic roles.
Reject identity, fidelity, and marriage claims
Spouse-star matching cannot determine attraction, gender, orientation, personality, loyalty, number of partners, legal marriage, abuse, fertility, or duration. It cannot diagnose someone who did not provide data.
Use the method only to form conditional questions about role expectations. Consent, behavior, communication, agreements, and safety evidence must govern real decisions.
- Do not publish a spouse-star match score.
- Direct evidence outranks symbolic resemblance.
Sources and editorial basis
- 《淵海子平》 (Yuanhai Ziping)《淵海子平·論日為主》十神由每張命盤的日干及陰陽生剋獨立定位，支持先聲明妻星、夫星或角色中性規約再尋找對應十神A foundational Ziping reference for branch months, hidden stems, roots, and stem-branch relationships.
- 《三命通會》 (Sanming Tonghui)《三命通會》財星、官殺、婚姻與宮位材料提供傳統配偶角色規約，但星數、混雜、透藏與受制不是人數或道德判斷A historical compilation covering stems and branches, Ten Gods, Nayin, Shen Sha, and multiple classical pattern systems.
- OpenFate Editorial Methodology配偶星匹配頁先公開傳統或角色中性政策，再分開真人與符號，禁止性別、性傾向、吸引、品格、忠誠、伴侶數、婚姻與結果推論OpenFate separates deterministic chart calculation, traditional interpretation, and modern editorial explanation.