What Is Turning Away from Lu and Chasing Horse (背祿逐馬) in BaZi?
Learn the separate Officer-loss and Wealth-loss conditions of Turning Away from Lu and Chasing Horse, its Jia and Ding routes, source variants and limits.
Overview
Turning Away from Lu and Chasing Horse is the workbook’s English name for 背祿逐馬. In this entry, Lu refers to Officer and Horse refers to Wealth. For Jia, Xin Officer is extinct when Jia is born in spring or summer, while Ji Wealth can be contested by Yi or a strong Hai-Mao-Wei Wood grouping. Both losses must be demonstrated; one weak Officer or one Rob Wealth marker is not enough. Ren-Zi, Ren-Zi, Ding-Wei, Yi-Si is presented as a Ding-Day example in which Ren Officer has passed its Lu phase and Geng Wealth is dead in Zi month, with Killing and Rob-Wealth luck as further blockers. The source itself notes that another classic explains the phrase differently, so the variants must remain separate. OpenFate does not declare the pattern or inevitable poverty.
At a glance
- Lu in this entry
- Officer is out of season or unavailable
- Horse in this entry
- Wealth is robbed, dead or unsupported
- Jia route
- Xin Officer extinct; Ji Wealth contested by Wood
- Worked chart
- Ren-Zi, Ren-Zi, Ding-Wei, Yi-Si
- Textual caution
- Another classic uses a different explanation
- Product boundary
- No OpenFate pattern or poverty verdict
Officer loss and Wealth loss are two separate required claims
The source defines turning from Lu through an Officer that has no seasonal function and chasing Horse through Wealth that is contested or exhausted.
Lu and Horse are contextual metaphors here. They must be mapped back to the Day Stem’s actual Officer and Wealth, not confused with every other Lu or Post Horse system.
- Derive Officer and Wealth independently.
- Keep this definition separate from other Lu and Horse conventions.
Season, robbery, Killing and luck determine whether both routes fail
For Jia, the text pairs an extinct Xin Officer with Ji Wealth contested by Yi or the Hai-Mao-Wei Wood force. Each relation needs its own seasonal and structural evidence.
The Ding-Day example combines a passed Officer phase, dead Metal Wealth in Zi month, Killing and Rob-Wealth luck. It does not create a general list for every Day Stem, and the cited alternative interpretation must remain labelled.
- Show the precise failure evidence for both Officer and Wealth.
- Separate natal failure, later luck and textual variants.
OpenFate preserves Officer and Wealth without collapsing them into a verdict
The engine can calculate Ten Gods, season, roots, hidden stems, combinations, strength and luck cycles.
There is no Turning Away from Lu and Chasing Horse detector. Weak relations remain visible and do not change reports, saved charts or financial data.
- Keep each relation and its evidence auditable.
- No composite poverty flag or report mutation.
Missing Officer and Wealth function does not prove lifelong poverty
The historical verse describes a person guarding a poor road in distress. It is rhetoric, not an economic measurement.
Do not predict lifetime poverty, unemployment, debt, homelessness, status, disaster or personal harm. Financial and career decisions require current evidence.
- No lifelong poverty, debt or unemployment prediction.
- No status, disaster, health or harm prediction.
Sources and editorial basis
- 《三命通會》 (Sanming Tonghui)《古今圖書集成》藝術典第608卷「背祿逐馬」：本條以祿為官、馬為財，甲日春夏辛官絕與己財受乙或亥卯未木局爭奪兩條件，壬子壬子丁未乙巳命例及別典異說A historical compilation covering stems and branches, Ten Gods, Nayin, Shen Sha, and multiple classical pattern systems.
- OpenFate Editorial Methodology官失用與財失用分開驗證，原局季節爭奪與後運七殺劫地分層並保留不同文獻定義；未實作則不判並排除終身貧困失業負債無家地位災害健康傷害預測OpenFate separates deterministic chart calculation, traditional interpretation, and modern editorial explanation.