Useful God Entering Storage (用神入墓)
Distinguish storage from literal burial by identifying the phase, storage branch, hidden qi, season, opening conditions, and actual access of the Useful God.
Overview
A Useful God Entering Storage (用神入墓) describes a selected role associated with one of the storage branches and treated as contained, stored, or difficult to access under an adopted rule. “Entering storage” is not literal death or disappearance. The branch’s hidden stems, season, roots, exposure, combinations, clashes, and whether a relevant qi is released or further sealed determine the role’s availability. Schools differ, so the exact mapping and opening rule must be disclosed.
At a glance
- Storage branches
- Chen, Xu, Chou, and Wei under a declared mapping
- Meaning
- Containment or reduced access, not literal burial
- Required context
- Hidden qi, season, exposure, roots, and interactions
- Opening rules
- Clash or combination is not automatically beneficial
- School variance
- Mappings and thresholds must be disclosed
- Boundary
- No death, loss, or confinement prediction
Identify the phase and adopted storage mapping
Name the storage branch, relevant hidden stem, reference phase, and why the selected role is considered to enter or reside there.
Do not combine conflicting tomb and storehouse rules without attribution.
- Publish the exact mapping.
- Name the hidden qi.
Assess current access to the stored role
Check season, root quality, stem exposure, generating source, distance, and whether the branch remains structurally intact.
A stored role may be latent, partly accessible, or strongly available through another path.
- Grade access.
- Map alternative routes.
Evaluate opening and damage as separate possibilities
A clash can release, disturb, weaken, or damage the stored qi depending on relative strength and the whole chart; a combination can bind or redirect it.
State the mechanism and counterevidence rather than applying “clash opens storage” as a universal slogan.
- No automatic opening rule.
- Calculate net function after interaction.
Reject literal tomb narratives
用神入墓 does not prove death, hospitalization, imprisonment, inheritance, hidden wealth, emotional repression, or inevitable delay.
Such claims require independent evidence and should not be inferred from the technical term.
- No literal burial claim.
- No crisis forecast.
Sources and editorial basis
- 《三命通會》 (Sanming Tonghui)《三命通會》辰戌丑未墓庫諸論須辨五行所屬、旺衰、透藏及沖開閉藏條件，入墓不等於消失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》氣勢與根源論支持墓庫可表承載、收束或阻滯，實際效力取決於全局流通與引動A core later text on Bazi balance, seasonal strength, and relational reading.
- OpenFate Editorial Methodology用神入墓頁分開墓與庫、靜態位置與歲運開合，禁止以入墓單詞直接斷健康、死亡或失去OpenFate separates deterministic chart calculation, traditional interpretation, and modern editorial explanation.