How Earthly-Branch Assemblies Affect Strength (地支會局對旺衰的影響)
Learn how three meetings, three harmonies, and branch assemblies can concentrate elemental momentum without automatically transforming or erasing every branch.
Overview
Earthly-Branch assemblies (地支會局) can connect several branches into a concentrated seasonal or elemental tendency. Their effect on strength depends on the exact members present, season, missing positions, transformation conditions, exposure, conflicts, and the target being assessed. A complete assembly may carry major momentum, but the original branches and their roots should not be silently deleted unless the declared method supports that change.
At a glance
- Assemblies
- Declared three-meeting, three-harmony, or related sets
- First check
- Exact members and completeness
- Modifiers
- Season, exposure, conflicts, and missing members
- Possible effect
- Concentrated elemental or seasonal momentum
- Recalculation
- Update support and opposition networks
- Limit
- Assembly does not always equal transformation
Detect the exact assembly before scoring it
Name the participating branches and the rule set: Three Meetings, Three Harmonies, half combination, directional set, or another declared relation.
Do not promote partial adjacency into a complete formation. Missing members and competing relations should remain visible.
- Match the exact branch set.
- Label complete and partial states.
Test season, exposure, and interference
Seasonal support and a visible resulting element may strengthen the case for transformation or concentration. Clashes, punishments, or another dominant route can weaken it.
Different schools set different gates. Store the adopted conditions rather than deciding from the name alone.
- Apply explicit formation gates.
- Report interference.
Recalculate the strength network after a valid assembly
Determine whether the resulting tendency supports, drains, or controls the Day Master. It can strengthen either side of the balance.
Retain source branches and roots unless the method explicitly transforms them. This avoids double-counting the result while also counting all original forces unchanged.
- Recompute the target relation.
- Avoid both deletion and double-counting.
Do not predict group events from an assembly alone
A branch assembly does not guarantee alliances, marriage, teamwork, migration, or collective success.
Use it as structural evidence and require timing and real-world context for event narratives.
- No event certainty from 會局.
- Keep interpretation conditional.
Sources and editorial basis
- 《三命通會》 (Sanming Tonghui)《三命通會》三會三合等支局須察成員、得時、透出及沖破，聚勢與成化不是同一層判斷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》氣勢與源流論支持完整支局可集中一方之氣，但仍須辨順逆、阻隔與全局所向A core later text on Bazi balance, seasonal strength, and relational reading.
- OpenFate Editorial Methodology地支會局頁分離完整與缺位結構、聚勢與合化，並禁止無條件刪除原支及其根氣OpenFate separates deterministic chart calculation, traditional interpretation, and modern editorial explanation.