Ten Gods in the Year Pillar (年柱十神)
Read year-pillar Ten Gods through stem, hidden stems, roots, relations, and whole-chart evidence without turning the year pillar into a fixed ancestry story.
Overview
Year-pillar Ten Gods are the labels of the year stem and the hidden stems within the year branch, all derived relative to the Day Master. The year pillar can frame inherited context, early environment, public background, or wider networks in some traditions, but it does not independently prove ancestry, social class, parental events, nationality, or childhood outcomes.
At a glance
- Visible item
- Year-stem Ten God
- Hidden items
- Ten Gods of year-branch hidden stems
- Traditional scope
- Inherited and wider background
- Required evidence
- Month command, roots, relations, whole chart
- Separate layer
- Annual influences are not the natal year pillar
- Boundary
- No ancestry or childhood fact is guaranteed
Map every stem in the year pillar
Derive the year stem directly and expand the year branch into its individual hidden stems.
Keep visible and hidden labels distinct so one branch does not collapse into a single family-role word.
- Name the visible year-stem label.
- List each hidden-stem label separately.
Treat pillar meaning as a reading lens, not a fact
Traditional readings may associate the year pillar with ancestors, early setting, collective identity, or the outer social field.
Those associations require confirmation from other pillars and lived evidence; they are not records of family history.
- Label the interpretive convention.
- Seek corroboration across the chart.
Follow relations into the rest of the chart
The year symbols may be rooted, controlled, combined, clashed, or repeated elsewhere, changing their structural availability.
Luck cycles and annual influences are later overlays and must not be confused with the natal year-pillar data.
- Trace exact relation participants.
- Keep natal and timing layers separate.
Do not infer protected background traits
Year-pillar labels cannot establish ethnicity, nationality, inherited wealth, trauma, adoption, parental morality, or social status.
Family history and identity should come from the person and reliable records, not symbolic assumptions.
- Avoid ancestry and class stereotypes.
- Respect privacy and self-identification.
Sources and editorial basis
- 《三命通會》 (Sanming Tonghui)《三命通會》四柱宮位與六親諸論：年柱十神仍須連同根氣、月令及全局解讀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》論年柱與日主：柱位提供傳統閱讀座標，不改變十神推導規則A foundational Ziping reference for branch months, hidden stems, roots, and stem-branch relationships.
- OpenFate Editorial Methodology年柱十神頁把位置、十神功能與可驗證家族史分層，禁止由一柱推斷祖輩或童年事實OpenFate separates deterministic chart calculation, traditional interpretation, and modern editorial explanation.