Day Pattern (日格)

Special patterns · Tendency: Inauspicious

From the classics

伏干格，天盘日干加地盘六庚，主客皆伤。——《奇门宝鉴》

——《奇门遁甲秘笈大全》

What it means

Day Pattern (伏幹格), also known as Hidden Stem Pattern. Heavenly Stem 庚 on the Sky Plate overlaid on the Day Stem on the Ground Plate. Since the Day's Heavenly Stem is hidden beneath 庚金, it's also called Hidden Stem Pattern.

Both attacker and defender sustain injuries; especially unfavorable for the defender; any action taken will be greatly unfavorable.

Unfavorable. Most 庚 Patterns are used for determining timing. When encountering Year Pattern, Month Pattern, Day Pattern, or Hour Pattern, the response will occur within the respective year, month, day, or hour.

Major disaster; if going to battle, capture is inevitable; both attacker and defender injured; travel is especially taboo.

Signifies encountering external disasters; constrained freedom of movement.

The Chinese source texts are in the public domain. The English readings on this page were written for this library, not machine-translated from the Chinese commentary.

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