Ten Gods (Shi Shen)十神
Direct Officer, Seven Killings, Wealth, Resource, Output and Peer stars in full
What is Ten Gods (Shi Shen)?
The Ten Gods take the Day Master as the reference point and sort every other stem's generation, control and likeness relation to it into ten symbols: Friend, Rob Wealth, Eating God, Hurting Officer, Direct Wealth, Indirect Wealth, Direct Officer, Seven Killings, Direct Resource and Indirect Resource. Matching polarity gives the indirect form, opposing polarity the direct one.
How it is used in a BaZi reading
The Ten Gods translate abstract elemental interaction into readable human terms — Direct Officer for rules and office, Direct and Indirect Wealth for how income arrives, Eating God and Hurting Officer for expression and creativity, the Resource stars for support and study, Friend and Rob Wealth for peers and competition. Almost every statement about career, money and family runs through them.
Interpretive limits
The Ten Gods describe tendency and structure; they do not predict specific events. A classical combination such as "Hurting Officer meets Officer" marks a tension worth watching, not an outcome bound to occur.
All articles in this topic
Knowledge-base articles are written in Chinese, the source language of these classical texts.
- Core of BaZi Destiny Analysis: The Day Master
- An Analysis of Direct Officer in BaZi
- BaZi Analysis of Seven Killings
- BaZi Analysis of Direct Wealth
- An Analysis of Indirect Wealth in BaZi
- Direct Resource (Zheng Yin) BaZi Analysis
- Indirect Resource (Pian Yin) BaZi Analysis
- Welcome to the World of Destiny
- An Analysis of the Hurting Officer Structure in BaZi
- Analysis of Friend in BaZi
- An Analysis of Rob Wealth in BaZi
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