Chart pattern (ge ju) (格局) in the classical texts
What the classics say
Verbatim passages retrieved from public-domain editions of the source texts. They are shown in the original Chinese; the gloss above is ours.
论四吉神能破格沈孝瞻曰：财官印食，四吉神也，然用之不当，亦能破格。如官最忌冲，而癸生辰月，透戊为官，与戌相冲，不见破格，四库喜冲，不为不足。先看提纲为重，次用年日时支，合成格局，方可断之；又曰：壬辰为魁罡日，宜身旺，怕见财官，休否以运参详，若柱中全见申子，当以润下格论，运戊己，辰戌又冲，岁运并临，吉中反祸，此为骑龙走冲，不成格也。任氏曰：有用神必有喜神，喜神者，辅格助用之神也，然有喜神，亦必有忌神忌神者，破格损用之神也。Sources: 殆知阁 (Daizhige) corpus, Chinese Wikisource and transcribed editions; see the manifest for each book's provenance. Classical readings are cultural references, not predictions. Methods and review