Si-Wu-Wei Fire Directional Meeting (巳午未火局)
Understand the complete summer Fire Directional Meeting, its heat and root requirements, and how clashes, dryness, Earth production, and timing affect it.
Overview
Si–Wu–Wei is the complete summer Directional Meeting associated with Fire. Membership requires all three actual branches; effective Fire depends on season, temperature, exposed Fire, roots, and the chart’s ability to carry heat. Earth production, Water counterforce, clashes, and competing groups must be assessed rather than hidden by the group label.
At a glance
- Members
- Si, Wu, and Wei
- Seasonal direction
- Summer and Fire
- Full-status rule
- Three actual, distinct branches
- Primary support
- Summer command, heat, Fire roots, and exposure
- Competing evidence
- Hai, Zi, or Chou clashes plus Water and dryness
- Boundary
- Strong Fire is not automatically useful Fire
Confirm the complete southern sequence
Record Si, Wu, and Wei with their pillars and chart layers.
Two members may indicate seasonal continuity, but they do not constitute the complete Directional Meeting.
- Require all three branches.
- Do not substitute repeated members.
Assess heat, roots, and carrying capacity
Summer command, Bing or Ding exposure, and Fire roots strengthen the assembly.
Excessive dryness can exhaust useful resources, while strong Water or damaged roots can limit effective Fire.
- Measure usable Fire.
- Separate strength from usefulness.
Account for production and branch conflict
Fire may produce Earth through Wei without converting every branch into one undifferentiated phase.
Si–Hai, Wu–Zi, and Wei–Chou clashes and other trines or harmonies remain part of the relation graph.
- Preserve hidden stems.
- Resolve overlaps explicitly.
Do not turn heat into a life verdict
巳午未火局 cannot alone prove fame, passion, conflict, cardiovascular illness, or a Fire-related event.
Judge roles, balance, timing, and external facts before making any practical statement.
- No medical inference.
- No success or conflict promise.
Sources and editorial basis
- 《三命通會》 (Sanming Tonghui)《三命通會》卷二南方一氣與地支會局：巳午未為夏季火方，並須合看炎燥、水制與支沖A historical compilation covering stems and branches, Ten Gods, Nayin, Shen Sha, and multiple classical pattern systems.
- 《滴天髓》 (Dripping Heavenly Marrow)《滴天髓》「方局」及寒暖燥濕評註：火勢得令不等於必為喜用，仍要衡量全局承載A core later text on Bazi balance, seasonal strength, and relational reading.
- OpenFate Editorial Methodology巳午未火局頁保留火生土、藏干和其他支關係，不由火旺推定名氣、健康或衝突事件OpenFate separates deterministic chart calculation, traditional interpretation, and modern editorial explanation.