On Taking Luck in the Food God Structure (Shi Shen Qu Yun)

Matching the Luck to the Form of the Food Structure

The food god takes luck by the forms it completes, and all of them turn on the balance between the food and what it is paired with. Shen gives the short list: food generating wealth, food using killings and seal, food or wounding carrying killings, an over-prosperous food carrying the seal, and food carrying the seal dissolved by revealed wealth — each with the directions that help and the one that ruins.