Introduction: The Underlying Logic of Wealth Prediction —— The Dialectic of "Wealth" and "Source"
In the prediction system of Zeng Shan Bu Yi, seeking wealth is viewed as a dynamic exchange of energy. The records clearly state that the two most core elements in wealth prediction are: the "Wife/Wealth Line" (the property itself) and the "Children Line" (the source of wealth).
Wild Crane Elder believed that one should not merely stare at the Wealth line. If the Wealth line is prosperous but the Children line is void or broken, this is called "Prosperous Wealth with Void Fortune" (Cai Wang Fu Kong). It represents having money for now, but lacking stamina—like water without a source, it will eventually dry up. Conversely, if the Wealth line is temporarily weak but the Children line moves to generate and assist it, it represents current hardship but future rolling profits. This chapter will combine the "General Discourse on Seeking Wealth" from the records with specific thematic categories to teach you how to see through the mists of fortune.
Section 1: Functional Definitions of the Six Relatives in Wealth
To accurately predict wealth, one must first define the modern roles of the five characters in a business context:
Wife/Wealth Line (Functional Spirit): Represents profit, capital, and the actual assets obtained. It is the center of judgment.
Children Line (Original Spirit): Represents customers, market demand, productivity, and the path to generating wealth. In modern business, it represents "traffic" and "technology."
Brothers Line (Restricting Spirit): Represents costs, competitors, those who share the profits, and financial depletion. It is the greatest obstacle to seeking wealth.
Officials/Ghosts Line (Leakage/Guard): Represents official regulation, pressure, and malicious people. On one hand, it "leaks" the energy of wealth; on the other, if it moves, it can restrict the Brothers line (striking at competitors), making its role double-edged.
Parents Line (Consumption): Represents contracts, shop rent, tedious affairs, and hard labor. If the Parents line moves, it restricts the Children line (eliminating the customer base), usually indicating that wealth is hard to obtain and profits are meager.
Section 2: Basic Patterns and the Mystery of "Holding the World"
According to the records, the first step in judging wealth is to observe the relationship between the Functional Spirit and the World line (Shi).
1. Wife/Wealth Holding the World: Wealth Comes to Me
"If the Wealth line holds the World, it will definitely be obtained." It represents money being right by your side or being actively delivered to you. However, the commentary reminds: "Wealth restricting the World must be obtained." In daily wealth seeking, Wealth restricting the World means wealth can be controlled by me, which is auspicious; but in lifelong wealth prediction, it might represent being burdened by wealth or inviting disaster due to riches.
2. Children Holding the World: Sitting and Enjoying the Fruits
"If Children hold the World, interest and profit will be abundant." Children is the God of Fortune; holding the World represents having the means to generate wealth or possessing excellent market resources. As long as the Wealth line is not void or broken, this pattern usually represents very easy wealth acquisition.
3. Brothers Holding the World: Seeking Wealth amidst Hardship
The traditional view is that Brothers holding the World inevitably means losing money. However, the commentary provides a crucial correction: "Combined/Hidden Wealth seeking." If Brothers holds the World but transforms into Wealth, or if the Children and Wealth lines in the hexagram are extremely prosperous, it represents profit gained through "partnerships" or "within competition." This reflects the practical style of Zeng Shan—not being constrained by rigid dogmas.
Section 3: Thematic Prediction (I): Opening Shops and Trade
The records in "Opening Shops and Various Stores Chapter 71" provide precise guidance for modern commercial behavior.
1. The "World-Response" Logic of Opening a Shop
World is Self; Response is Others (Customers): If the World and Response generate or combine with each other, it represents a harmonious relationship between the owner and customers, leading to a thriving business.
Response Restricting World: Represents picky customers or suppression from competitors.
Response on Black Tortoise or Brothers: The records warn that this represents a need to guard against internal theft or partners embezzling assets.
2. Inventory Accumulation and Selling Goods (Chapter 73)
How do you judge when to sell?
Weak Wealth—Consolidate; Prosperous Wealth—Sell: When goods (Wealth line) are prosperous in the current season, they should be sold quickly for profit; if current prices are low (Restricting/Trapped), one should stockpile and wait.
Wealth Transforming into Retreat Spirit: Predicts that prices are about to fall; one must clear inventory quickly and not hold on.
Wealth Transforming into Advance Spirit: Predicts that prices will continue to rise; the real profit is yet to come.
Section Ten: Thematic Prediction (II): Lending, Debt Collection, and Economic Disputes
This is the most valuable section in a modern financial environment.
1. Lending and Debt Collection (Chapter 78)
Lending: The most ominous signs are "World and Response Clashing" or "Response Line Void/Broken." This represents a borrower who is untrustworthy or has no ability to repay. If "Officials/Ghosts hold the World," it may eventually lead to a legal lawsuit.
Debt Collection: Observe if the Wealth line has a generation/restriction relationship with the World line. If "Wealth restricts World" or "Wealth combines with World," the money can be recovered. If "Wealth generates Response," it means the money has gone into someone else's pocket, and there is no way to recover it.
2. Deep Analysis: The "Trigger" Mechanism in Debt
The records mention a case: Divining debt collection on a Ding-Hai Day in the Chen Month. The Wealth line "Wu Fire" was void, but the next day was a "Zi Day," and Zi Water clashed the void to make it real.
Analysis: This represents the "triggering nature" of debt fulfillment. Although the other party currently says they have no money (Void), once the specific time arrives (the day of clashing the void), the energy is stimulated, and the debt can be partially or fully repaid.
Section 5: Deep Analysis —— Special Energy States in Seeking Wealth
I have提炼 the following three subtle judgment techniques from the "Wealth Chapter":
1. Extremely Prosperous Wealth May Not Result in Gain
This is a seemingly contradictory logic. The records say: "If Wealth is extremely prosperous, wait for the day it enters the tomb to obtain it."
Modern Interpretation: If profit is too high or the market is too hot (like a stock bubble), the Wealth line is overly excited. One must wait for "Entering the Tomb" (energy contraction/cooling) or "Encountering a Clash" before the profit can be pocketed. Otherwise, over-prosperity leads to collapse.
2. Brothers Moving and Transforming into Wealth: Scattering First, Gathering Later
If a Brothers line moves, it usually means losing money. However, if Brothers transforms into Wife/Wealth, it is called "Transforming into Wealth."
Practical Significance: Represents that this money requires an initial investment (spending, scattering wealth), but eventually, it will return with doubled profits. This is often used to predict "advertising spend" or "equipment investment."
3. Greed for Birth and Forgetting Restriction: The Mystery of Turning Points
This is a brilliant logic in the records. If the Restricting Spirit (Brothers) moves to restrict wealth, but the Original Spirit (Children) also moves in the hexagram.
Analysis: The Brothers line will go to generate the Children line (Greed for Birth) and forget to restrict the Wealth line (Forgetting Restriction). This transfer of the energy chain represents resolving a commercial crisis through "technological innovation" or "introducing a middleman."
Section 6: Practical Case Analysis
Case 1: Wealth has Roots; Recovered after Loss (Price Prediction)
Background: Zi Month, Ji-Chou Day. Divining "When will the price rise?" Hexagram Gui Mei to Kui.
Analysis: Wealth Mao Wood is generated in the Zi month; this is called "Wealth having roots." Although it is currently restricted by the moving Brothers Shen Metal, causing low prices.
Logic: Wild Crane Elder judged: One must wait for the "Yin Month" to clash away Shen Metal, and the price will definitely rise.
Result: Prices indeed soared in the first month.
Case 2: Prosperous Wealth, Void Fortune; Glory does not Last (Lifelong Wealth)
Background: Yin Month, Bing-Zi Day. A woman divines her lifelong luck. Hexagram Xu to Gou.
Analysis: Wealth Zi Water is assisted by the Day Master and looks wealthy. However, the key lies in the "Children line (the source) being Void and injured."
Logic: This is classic "Prosperous Wealth, Void Fortune." Although she has some cash, because the source is cut off, she will be poor for life. And the World line is void and restricted, representing a weak and sickly constitution.
Conclusion: Proves the decisive status of the Children line as the "source of wealth" in long-term predictions.
Case 3: Brothers Holding the World Gaining Great Profit (Special Hidden Pattern)
Background: Ding-Chou Year, Yi-Si Month. A lady divines for wealth. Hexagram Tai to Lin.
Analysis: Brothers holds the World and moves. Most would predict a loss.
Logic: The commentator observed that although Brothers holds the World, "the Children lines all move to generate Wealth," and the World line itself is the "Tomb of Wealth" (Cai Ku).
Conclusion: Judged her as a "Spirit Money Hand," capable of collecting the wealth of many people (Brothers) into her own vault. Later, this person earned two to three million annually. This overturns the rigid dogma that "Brothers holding the World means poverty."
Section 7: Unrighteous Wealth and the Principle of Divine Reporting
This reflects the high moral standards and boundaries of prediction in "Seeking Unrighteous Wealth Chapter 82." Wild Crane Elder and the commentator both emphasized: "If wealth is obtained righteously, the divine report is clear; if wealth is unrighteous, the gods do not report."
Core View: For illegal acts like robbery, theft, or fraud, the hexagram often does not show the true fortune, or it shows "the net of heaven is vast."
Practical Case: A person divines about going southwest to "take wealth" (actually robbery). The hexagram showed prosperous wealth generating the World, looking obtainable. But the commentator noted the World line moved to a break and entered the tomb, representing that behind this wealth was imprisonment. He was indeed arrested that month.
Warning: Liu Yao is a tool for seeking auspiciousness, not an accomplice for evil.
Section 8: Ten Practical Golden Rules for Wealth (Summary)
Wealth without a source does not last: Prosperous wealth must have an active Children line.
Brothers is not always ominous: Holding the World and transforming into Wealth means commission or partnership profit.
Officials is a double-edged sword: It leaks wealth but can restrict Brothers (guarding wealth).
Parents signifies labor and hardship: Movement means the money is earned through sweat and blood.
Void awaits Clashing: Void wealth is obtained on the day it is clashed or filled.
Monthly Break needs Roots: If broken but supported, it can be gained after the month passes.
Entering the Tomb needs Clashing: Money is in someone else's pocket; wait for the day the tomb is clashed.
Transforming to Retreat Spirit means sell fast: Prices are about to fall.
Transforming to Advance Spirit means hold long: Profits lie in the long term.
Sincerity brings the way: A single sincere thought reveals the path to wealth.
Conclusion of Chapter 10
In the wisdom of Zeng Shan Bu Yi, wealth is not a static number but a flowing relationship of generation and restriction. The core of wealth prediction lies in clarifying the dynamic balance between "Me, Profit, Source, and Obstacle." Once you learn to observe the momentum of the Children line and the constraints of the Brothers line, you can master the opportunities for commercial decision-making.
Next Chapter Preview: "Chapter 11: The Path to the Clouds: Thematic Predictions for Career Promotion, Official Luck, Exams, and Workplace Games." We will analyze why "Officials holding the World" doesn't always mean promotion, and why "Children moving" might be a sign of demotion!
