Day Master (日主) 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.
偏正印之能力生身，泄官杀，御伤，挫食偏正印之利生身：日干弱，当赖印绶滋扶身旺。甲戌丙寅戊寅丙辰丁卯戊辰己巳庚午辛未壬申戊寅日元，生于立春十五日后，正当甲木司令，地支两寅紧克辰戌之土，天干甲木，又制日干之戊，似乎煞旺身弱。日主譬如吾身，局中之神譬如舟马引从，大运譬如所历之地，故重地支，未尝无天干，太岁譬如所遇之人，故重天干，未尝无地支。曲直仁寿格癸亥乙卯乙未壬午甲寅癸丑壬子辛亥庚戌己酉甲乙日主，支全亥卯未或寅卯辰，乃曲直仁寿格也。化气五行生克名词表日主横推甲作戊，乙作辛，丙作壬，丁作乙，戊作丙，己作己，庚作庚，辛作癸，壬作甲，癸作丁化劫财己庚辛壬癸甲乙丙丁戊化食神庚辛壬癸甲乙丙丁戊己化正财辛壬癸甲乙丙丁戊己庚化七煞壬癸甲乙丙丁戊己庚辛化正印癸甲乙丙丁戊己庚辛壬化比肩甲乙丙丁戊己庚辛壬癸化伤官乙丙丁戊己庚辛壬癸甲化偏财丙丁戊己庚辛壬癸甲乙化正官丁戊己庚辛壬癸甲乙丙化偏印戊己庚辛壬癸甲乙丙丁凡遇化气之命，先将日主化出正五行，如日主为甲，与己作合，则甲旁书作戊字，盖甲己化土，甲属阳，当为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