On Matching the Six Relations by Palace and by Useful God (Gong Fen Pei Liu Qin)

Two Ways to Read the Family

The six relations are read from the chart in two ways at once. By palace, the year, month, day and hour run downward as grandfather, father, wife and children. By useful god, the proper seal is the mother because it generates me, oblique wealth is the father because it is the mother's proper husband, proper wealth is the wife, and officer or killings are the children because wealth generates them. Shen's closing instruction is that neither layer answers alone: first see what sits in the palace, then read it against the chart's likes and dislikes.