Volume 2: The Six Relations (Liu Qin Lun) · Chapter 41
Children's Charts (Xiao Er)
Attributed to Jing Tu (Song); commentary tradition by Liu Bowen (Ming)
Even and unhurried beats strong and striking
For a young chart the text trusts the same three things it trusts anywhere — wealth, killing, and vitality — but sets the bar differently: an even four pillars raise a child more easily than a spectacular one. What matters is whether the momentum is sustained without being shaved away, and whether the killer spirit, even when it appears, is so arranged that it does not injure the self. This is a reading of constitution and trajectory, not a prophecy.