Si-Shen Harmony into Water (巳申合水)
Learn how Si and Shen can harmonize toward Water, why heat, roots, hidden stems, punishment, break, clash, and trines make this pair especially conditional.
Overview
Si–Shen Harmony (巳申合水) is a complex pair because Si Fire and Shen Metal also carry hidden-stem interactions and appear together in punishment and break conventions. Water transformation requires more than the pair: season, Water roots or exposure, cooling, distance, and cleared interference must support the route.
At a glance
- Pair
- Si and Shen
- Conventional tendency
- Water
- Complexity
- Harmony overlaps with punishment and break conventions
- Boundary
- The Water result needs explicit support
- Original evidence
- Si Fire, Shen Metal, and hidden stems cannot be silently erased
- Reported status
- Harmony only, Water tendency, damaged pair, or supported transformation
Register harmony and overlap together
Locate Si and Shen and record their positions.
Do not suppress punishment or break labels merely because the same pair also appears in 六合.
- Confirm both branches.
- Retain simultaneous relations.
Demand a viable Water environment
Water season, Water roots, exposure, cooling, and continuity may support conversion.
Strong Fire, dryness, damaged Water, or competing groups can keep the pair untransformed.
- Test climate and Water support.
- List preserving forces.
Compare trines, clashes, and hidden stems
Si can join a Metal trine or clash Hai; Shen can join a Water trine or clash Yin.
Hidden stems create additional production and control routes that must not be reduced to one slogan.
- Map the entire branch network.
- Avoid double-counting.
Do not read contradiction as fate
巳申合水 cannot prove a love-hate relationship, betrayal, injury, travel, or sudden wealth.
The page describes competing technical structures and their evidence, not human motives.
- No relationship metaphor as fact.
- No event certainty.
Sources and editorial basis
- 《三命通會》 (Sanming Tonghui)《三命通會》卷二支元六合：列巳申合水，並考察季節、水根、原支火金及刑破干擾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：巳申配對與水氣成化須服從月令和全局制化A foundational Ziping reference for branch months, hidden stems, roots, and stem-branch relationships.
- OpenFate Editorial Methodology巳申合水頁同時保留巳申相合與寅巳申三刑等重疊可能，不以單一關係覆蓋其他有效證據OpenFate separates deterministic chart calculation, traditional interpretation, and modern editorial explanation.