Order for Assessing Strength in Bazi (旺衰判斷順序)
Follow a reproducible Bazi strength assessment order from chart calculation and Month Command through roots, support, drain, interactions, and extreme-pattern checks.
Overview
A reliable strength assessment follows a fixed evidence order: verify the chart, establish the Month Command and seasonal depth, map roots, inspect exposed and hidden support, compare drain and control, evaluate combinations and branch interactions, then test ordinary versus extreme classifications. The order reduces anchoring bias; it does not mean later evidence is less important.
At a glance
- Step 1
- Verify pillars, time policy, and term boundaries
- Step 2
- Establish Month Command and seasonal state
- Step 3
- Map roots, exposure, generation, and peers
- Step 4
- Compare output, wealth, officer, and climate
- Step 5
- Resolve combinations and branch interactions
- Step 6
- Test ordinary, extreme, and following classes
Begin with a trustworthy chart
Confirm birth data, time zone, daylight-saving history, solar-term boundaries, and any true-solar-time policy before interpreting strength.
A one-pillar shift can change season, roots, Ten Gods, and interactions. Interpretation cannot repair incorrect inputs.
- Preserve calculation provenance.
- Stop when boundary uncertainty is material.
Audit season, ground, generation, and assistance
Read Month Command first, then list primary and secondary roots, Resource generation, Companion support, and whole-chart momentum as distinct channels.
Grade quality by season, position, exposure, and integrity. Do not reduce the audit to a count of supportive characters.
- Separate support channels.
- Grade quality before quantity.
Compare drain, control, and structural change
Map Output, Wealth, and Officer forces, then resolve valid combinations, transformations, clashes, punishments, harms, and breaks.
Recalculate affected pathways instead of attaching interaction labels after the strength verdict.
- Apply interactions before classification.
- Keep contested effects conditional.
Classify last and explain the evidence chain
Choose strong, weak, balanced, extremely strong, extremely weak, or following only after ordinary support and opposition have been compared.
Publish counterevidence and confidence. Strength is a chart relation, not a judgment of physical or moral strength.
- Delay the label until the end.
- No character judgment from strength.
Sources and editorial basis
- 《三命通會》 (Sanming Tonghui)《三命通會》旺衰論先月令節候，再察干支根透、制化與全局成敗，提供可重現的證據順序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》旺衰、體用與源流諸章要求辨全局氣勢及反常情形，不能見一象即提前定格A core later text on Bazi balance, seasonal strength, and relational reading.
- OpenFate Editorial Methodology旺衰判斷順序頁固定計算、月令、根助、洩耗制、互動及極端分類六步並要求主動找反證OpenFate separates deterministic chart calculation, traditional interpretation, and modern editorial explanation.