Meeting an official: Chou month, Xin-Chou day
Meeting an official: Chou month, Xin-Chou day. Question: The outcome of meeting an official. Read the source locator, reproducible chart, historical author's interpretation, reported outcome and site review boundaries separately.
Entry
The outcome of meeting an official
Month 丑 · Day 辛丑
Source location
Author: Zhang Shibao (張世寶)
Yilin Buyi (易林補遺)
Chapter 1: General judgments of Yilin (易林總斷章第一)
Edition: Wikisource transcription (維基文庫校錄本)
「丑月辛丑日來問見官，卜得坤之剝卦」條
Reproducible chart
Hexagram 2 坤 → Hexagram 23 剝
Changing lines: 6
8 8 8 8 8 6
Original author’s interpretation summary
The author sees favorable conditions in a changing Descendants line at the host position receiving support from the day and month. Yet the book’s single-line Six Relations transformation method treats Descendants changing to Officials/Ghosts as adversity hidden within good conditions. The site checks Kun changing to Bo and the changing line only, without making this historical judgment automatic.
Outcome reported in the book
The text only reports subsequent entanglement after meeting the official. Person, year, matter and timing are absent. The report is incomplete and has no independent record for verification.
Site review boundaries
- Old yin at line six changes Kun to Bo, matching the text.
- Descendants changing to Officials/Ghosts is the author’s Six Relations interpretation. Recalculated line patterns and source judgments remain separate; no fortune judgment is generated.
- This official-audience and entanglement case is not modern administrative, workplace or legal-risk assessment.
Reading boundaries
Reported outcomes represent the original author’s account, not independent historical verification. This case is not an automatic interpretation template for a user’s present result.
Topic tags identify structures involved in this case, not divinatory efficacy verified by the site.
Working translation of the site’s Chinese editorial case review, not a translation of the classical source. Native-language review is pending; original source names and locators remain in Chinese.
Month and day branches
Calendrical structure implementation
The month reference uses the branch of the solar-term month; the day reference uses the day branch for the selected time-zone date. Zengshan Buyi and Yilin Buyi both use these references in subsequent discussions of strength, generation, control, clashes and combinations. The site calculates them with its calendar engine and cross-checks the month and day recorded in each case.
Month and day are chart references, not independent fortune judgments. A classical case without a year cannot identify a unique Gregorian date.
Five-phase generation / control
Basic relation implementation
Five-phase generation and control underlie Najia Six Relations, returning generation/control, and Yuanshen/Jishen relationships. Cases may use several generation/control chains together with void, break, combinations and clashes. The site preserves each fact instead of reducing complex conditions to a score.
Basic generating and controlling relations are calculable. A historical author’s interpretation remains a separate layer, not a uniquely authoritative conclusion.