False Transformation (Jia Hua)

Half a transformation, still a life

Where the previous chapters praised the true form, this one speaks up for the approximate one. A combination that only partly transforms still changes how the chart must be read, and people whose charts sit in that in-between state are often the ones who rise from an unusual start — the orphan or the outsider whose path does not follow the ordinary mould. The instruction is not to discard such a chart for failing to be pure.