Chen-You Harmony into Metal (辰酉合金)
Understand the Chen-You harmony pair, how Metal season and roots affect it, and how storage, clashes, meetings, and trines compete for both branches.
Overview
Chen–You Harmony (辰酉合金) joins the moist Chen Earth storage branch with You Metal under a conventional Metal tendency. Autumn command, Metal roots, exposure, dryness, and continuity can strengthen the route. Chen–Xu clash, Mao–You clash, Water trines, spring meetings, and other structures may preserve or redirect the original branches.
At a glance
- Pair
- Chen and You
- Conventional tendency
- Metal
- Support
- Autumn command, Metal roots, exposure, and suitable dryness
- Boundary
- Chen is not converted by name alone
- Original evidence
- Chen Earth, You Metal, and hidden stems remain visible
- Reported status
- Harmony only, Metal tendency, damaged pair, or supported transformation
Confirm the pair and storage context
Record Chen and You with their pillars and chart layers.
Chen retains its mixed hidden stems and storage role unless conversion evidence overrides them.
- Locate both branches.
- Preserve Chen’s composition.
Test Metal support and climate
Autumn, rooted or exposed Metal, and a continuous route favor the conventional tendency.
Excess moisture, strong Wood or Fire, and weak Metal evidence may limit the pair to harmony only.
- Assess season and roots.
- Publish counter-elements.
Resolve surrounding branch structures
Chen can enter a Water trine or spring meeting and clashes Xu; You can enter a Metal trine and clashes Mao.
Compare actual membership and force instead of assuming 六合 takes universal priority.
- Map trines, meetings, and clashes.
- State the resolution rule.
Do not infer wealth or status from Metal
辰酉合金 does not prove money, authority, surgery, legal matters, or a successful partnership.
Real outcomes require the rest of the chart, timing, and external evidence.
- No phase stereotype.
- No high-stakes prediction.
Sources and editorial basis
- 《三命通會》 (Sanming Tonghui)《三命通會》卷二支元六合：列辰酉合金及其位置、月令、金根與沖破條件A historical compilation covering stems and branches, Ten Gods, Nayin, Shen Sha, and multiple classical pattern systems.
- 《淵海子平》 (Yuanhai Ziping)《淵海子平》地支六合諸論：辰酉配對、合金稱名及是否成化的全局判斷A foundational Ziping reference for branch months, hidden stems, roots, and stem-branch relationships.
- OpenFate Editorial Methodology辰酉合金頁將接觸、相合強度和化金分層，保留辰酉藏干及濕土、生金、沖破等反證OpenFate separates deterministic chart calculation, traditional interpretation, and modern editorial explanation.