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Xiu Fraud (休诈)

Special patterns · Tendency: Neutral

What it means

Xiu Fraud (休诈) is the Three Wonders meeting the Three Auspicious Doors and Liu He (六合): Heaven Plate Yi, Bing, Ding (乙、丙、丁) with Open, Rest, and Life Doors (开门、休门、生门), plus Liu He.

Favorable for fraud via a third party or middleman, fraud through partnership, schemes that break the other side's alliances (e.g. sowing discord), and deceptive cover while escaping.

Also good for compounding medicine, treating epidemics, exorcism and prayer, disaster relief, marriage, and trade.

If the other party has a Three-Fraud pattern, they may be insincere, slippery, manipulative, or even fraudulent—stay on guard.

If our side has it, we may need deceptive tactics to succeed; the pattern favors stratagem.

In marriage readings the Three-Fraud pattern is also a "fill-the-room" pattern: if the woman has it, she may become a secondary wife or concubine.

For a woman asking about marriage, the man may already have a household or have been married.

In practice: avoid becoming the other woman; or prefer a previously married man, which can be more favorable.

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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