Useful God Affected by Combination (用神被合)
Assess whether a Useful God is linked, bound, redirected, or transformed by combination instead of assuming every combination helps or removes it.
Overview
A Useful God Affected by Combination (用神被合) enters a valid stem or branch combination relation. The effect may be simple linkage, binding, redirection, competition, or genuine transformation, and those outcomes require different evidence. The role is not automatically lost or improved: formation conditions, partner strength, season, roots, competing claims, transformation support, and the original task determine the net effect.
At a glance
- Relation
- A valid combination pair or formation must exist
- Possible effects
- Linkage, binding, diversion, competition, or transformation
- Transformation
- Requires separate seasonal and structural evidence
- Task test
- Measure whether the original function remains available
- Timing
- Luck cycles can complete or break a latent relation
- Boundary
- Combination does not predict partnership events
Identify the exact combination and chart layer
Name both participants, their locations, and whether the relation is natal or introduced by timing.
Reject apparent pairs that fail distance, competition, or other adopted formation rules.
- Name both participants.
- Publish the relation rule.
Distinguish binding from transformation
A combination can occupy or redirect a Useful God without changing its phase; genuine transformation needs its own support and absence of decisive obstruction.
State which mechanism is claimed and what evidence would falsify it.
- Do not equate combination with transformation.
- Expose counterevidence.
Recalculate the selected function after the relation
Check whether the Useful God still reaches the target, is delayed, gains support, changes route, or becomes unavailable.
Count the combination partner’s other roles so the same evidence is not credited twice.
- Measure net function.
- Avoid double counting.
Do not convert combination into relationship prediction
用神被合 does not by itself prove marriage, cooperation, attachment, betrayal, contracts, or social harmony.
It describes a chart relation only; event claims need independent timing and real-world evidence.
- No literal relationship forecast.
- No guaranteed event.
Sources and editorial basis
- 《子平真詮》 (True Explanations of Ziping)《子平真詮》成敗救應論須分合而能化、合而受絆與合後仍可作用，支持用神被合不得一律判失效A major reference for month-command, structure, and contextual Bazi interpretation.
- 《三命通會》 (Sanming Tonghui)《三命通會》天干五合與地支合局諸論要求檢查位置、月令、化神與爭合妒合等成立條件A historical compilation covering stems and branches, Ten Gods, Nayin, Shen Sha, and multiple classical pattern systems.
- OpenFate Editorial Methodology用神被合頁分列合的種類、是否成化、作用方向與反證，不把關係詞直接翻譯成人事吉凶OpenFate separates deterministic chart calculation, traditional interpretation, and modern editorial explanation.