Conditions for the Six Harmonies (六合成立條件)
Use a reproducible order for Six-Harmony pairs: exact branches, chart layer, proximity, season, roots, competing groups, damage, and transformation evidence.
Overview
Six-Harmony conditions begin with one of six exact Earthly Branch pairs. Detection, effective contact, binding, structural priority, and phase transformation are separate questions. A sound reading records position and timing layer, checks Month Command and hidden stems, maps clashes and other groups, and returns the narrowest supported status.
At a glance
- Pair gate
- One of six exact branch pairs
- Force evidence
- Layer, distance, season, roots, and hidden stems
- Interference
- Clash, punishment, harm, break, trine, and meeting
- Boundary
- Presence and transformation are separate verdicts
- Decision order
- Pair, layer, distance, support, overlap, damage, then transformation
- Report
- Publish the surviving relation and all material blockers
Confirm the pair and chart layer
Match the branches to the fixed 六合 table and record their pillars.
A Luck Pillar or annual branch can create a temporary pair without changing the natal inventory.
- Require an exact pair.
- Separate natal and timing evidence.
Measure access and seasonal support
Adjacent branches generally interact more directly than remote branches.
Month Command, roots, hidden stems, and phase continuity show whether the relation can operate.
- Publish topology.
- Assess season and support.
Resolve the complete relation network
Either branch may also enter clash, punishment, harm, break, trine, half-trine, or meeting.
Retain each detected relation and explain how stronger evidence damages, absorbs, or redirects another.
- Do not erase overlaps.
- State the resolution mechanism.
Return presence, force, and transformation separately
A pair may be nominal, active, damaged, binding, or broken without phase conversion.
Transformation requires a separately declared target phase, viable season, roots, continuity, and dominance.
- Use a bounded status.
- No outcome follows from harmony alone.
Sources and editorial basis
- 《三命通會》 (Sanming Tonghui)《三命通會》卷二支元六合：六組固定配對仍須按位置、得令、得地及沖刑破害判實際效力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》六合諸論：六合配對、合化和被沖破的條件不能混為單一結論A foundational Ziping reference for branch months, hidden stems, roots, and stem-branch relationships.
- OpenFate Editorial Methodology六合成立條件頁依序查固定配對、共現、距離、月令、根氣、重疊關係和合化門檻OpenFate separates deterministic chart calculation, traditional interpretation, and modern editorial explanation.