Child’s illness: You month, Bing-Chen day

Child’s illness: You month, Bing-Chen day. Question: A child’s illness. Read the source locator, reproducible chart, historical author's interpretation, reported outcome and site review boundaries separately.

Entry

A child’s illness

Month 酉 · Day 丙辰

Source location

Author: Yehe Laoren (野鶴老人)

Zengshan Buyi (增刪卜易)

Chapter 28: Visible and hidden lines (飛伏神章第二十八)

Edition: Wikisource transcription (維基文庫校錄本)

「酉月丙辰日占子病，得地風升」條

Open public source

Reproducible chart

Hexagram 46 升

Static hexagram, no changing lines

8 7 7 8 8 8

Original author’s interpretation summary

The original chart has no Descendants line. The author takes fourth-line Wu Fire Descendants from the Zhen palace’s pure hexagram, hidden beneath fourth-line Chou Earth. Bing-Chen belongs to the Jia-Yin cycle, with Zi and Chou void; the text therefore describes the visible Chou Earth line as void.

Outcome reported in the book

The author predicts improvement on a Wu day, and the text reports that the child got out of bed that day. This is a historical medical-related author report, without medical records or other historical evidence for independent verification by the site.

Site review boundaries

  1. This is static Earth-over-Wind Sheng, matching the source pattern, with no changing lines and no resulting hexagram.
  2. The site can recalculate fourth-line Geng-Wu Fire Descendants hidden beneath visible Chou Earth and separately check Zi–Chou void for Bing-Chen.
  3. This case is only a structural review of a classical text. Any real childhood illness requires assessment by qualified medical professionals; a divination case must not delay care.

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.

Hidden lines

Limited implementation

The site follows Bushi Zhengzong: search for a hidden line only when a Six Relations category is entirely absent from the original hexagram, taking the matching position in the pure hexagram of its palace. Yilin Buyi instead uses a yin–yang interchange system in which every line has hidden and visible counterparts; that is a separate method.

The adopted convention must be stated. The two systems’ hidden-line positions must not be combined, and their generating or controlling relations do not automatically produce fortune judgments.

Ten-day-cycle void

Structural implementation

The day’s ten-day cycle determines two void branches. Both works discuss further conditions involving phase strength, changing or unchanging lines, and clashes that fill the void. This site calculates only the day pillar’s cycle and void branches and lists the relevant line positions; it does not apply subsequent judgments such as being void yet not void.

Cycle void is a calendrical structure, not a statement that an undertaking is ineffective. It does not automatically determine outcomes or timing.