Patterns
Why you keep getting stuck in the same place
Nobody wakes up wanting to learn about hidden stems. People wake up stuck. These pages are indexed by the problem you actually have rather than by the concept you would have to look up first.
How these are written
Two rules govern every page here. The first: the mechanism has to trace back to a specific line of the model — if a sentence cannot be traced, it gets deleted, however good it sounds. That is what keeps this from drifting into the horoscope-column voice where any pleasant claim will do.
The second: strip the BaZi vocabulary out of a claim and see whether it still applies to everybody. “You are sometimes hard on yourself” fits every reader alive and therefore says nothing. A claim has to be narrow enough that you can read it and say that is not me.
What these pages will not do
They will not tell you what any particular year holds. They describe the shape of a pattern, not your timeline. And naming a pattern is not treatment: it lets you look at something and talk about it without treating it as a defect in your character. We do not claim to change anyone’s fate or fortune, and we sell no remedies.
If you would rather start from the concepts than from the problem, the reading room covers them in order. To read any of this against your own chart, cast it free.