basic knowledge 5: the strength level of elements

You must have this question in your mind: how do we tell if a character serves as favor or foe? Generally, there are enhancing characters and weakening characters. The enhancing characters are Comrade, Pirate, Owl and Guardian, or we can say Strength and Shield. The weakening characters are Talent, Money and Authority.

The reason is: if the two codes have the same element, for example: code A is Wood, code B is also Wood, what is the strongest element between the two codes? Wood, of course. So that is why Strength is enhancing.

If code A is being supported by code B, A will have a power up, and that is why Shield is enhancing.

If code A is supporting code B, A will lose some of its own power, because it’s been discharged, and that is why Talent is weakening.

If code A is overcoming code B, A will lose more of its own power, because it’s getting consumed, and that is why Money is weakening.

If code A is being overcome by B, A will lose most of its power, because it’s getting beat up, and that is why Authority is weakening.

The other rule is: same sex reaction is more powerful than opposite sex reaction. For example: Talent overcomes Authority, Gourmet overcomes Slaughter is harder than Gourmet overcomes Judge, because Gourmet and Slaughter have the same Yin Yang property.

Combine the two rules, the power rank of the 10 characters is: Comrade > Pirate > Owl > Guardian > Rebel > Gourmet > Collector > Gambler > Judge > Slaughter. From Comrade to Guardian are the enhancing characters; from Rebel to Slaughter are the weakening characters.

The basic principle of finding favor and foe is balancing. If you have too much enhancing characters, in another word, if you are too strong, you need weakening characters, in another word, weakening characters serve as favor, and vice versa.

Correspondingly, there is the yielding principle for extreme cases. Usually if one force is being too strong, we need to repress it and balance the structure. However, when one force is being unstoppable, the rule reverses. We let it the stronger the better, and that is called the yielding principle.

Usually in a life code, there is some of this and some of that, how do you know which side has the final advantage? Let me show you.

The rule is: basal (zodiac) codes are stronger than front line (decimal) codes, and zodiac month code is the strongest. We call it the commend code, and zodiac month position is called commander position. If a front line code has no root from the basal or hidden line, it became even weaker.

This is what the fortune telling softwares do: front line codes count for 60, basal codes count for 100, if the basal code has 1 or 2 residual properties, the ratio will be 70-30 or 60-30-10. If a code took the commander position, the power doubles and counts for 200. If a front line code has no root, for example: if the code is Water, no Water at all in the basal and hidden line, we’d say it has no root or floating. The power halved and count for 30. So you can actually calculate the strength level of enhancing characters and weakening characters, and see which side is stronger.

The calculation is not 100 percent accountable; I wrote the reason in my book. But you can use it in most occasions.