Peach Blossom桃花

Peach Blossom takes its name from the flower and points to a brightness that draws the eye. Old books also call the seat Salty Pool and describe fine looks and a taste for lively gatherings, and modern commentary says people gather around it the way bees find open flowers. The name ties it to romance first, yet what it really looks at is how you come across and the goodwill that brings. This service reads it as expressiveness, a knack for lifting the mood, and care for how you present yourself.

• 桃peach (Korean reading: do)
• 花flower, blossom (Korean reading: hwa)

Peach blossom: the bright bloom that stands out first in spring, a picture of radiant charm.

The year branch and the day branch each serve as a base, and the triple combination group of that base comes first. Each group owns one Peach Blossom branch, which counts when it turns up in a seat other than the base. It is in every case the Rat, Horse, Rabbit, or Rooster branch, the seat where the yang stem of the group's element reaches Bathing. If both bases hit, the name appears once with the seats gathered under it.

Peach Blossom is taken as a sign that you shine in front of people. You are read as putting care into what shows, like your way of speaking, your clothes, and your expressions, which helps you grow close even to new faces. Without it, you might earn trust through substance and steadiness rather than polish. Spread over several seats, it can suggest a draw toward people across many corners of daily life.

In a chart of 丙辰 (Bing Chen) year, 丁酉 (Ding You) month, 乙丑 (Yi Chou) day, and 癸未 (Gui Wei) hour, the year branch 辰 (Chen) sits in the 申子辰 (Shen Zi Chen) group. That makes 酉 (You) the Peach Blossom branch, found in the month. 午 (Wu), the one for the day branch 丑 (Chou), is not among the four branches.

• A common idea

  Peach Blossom stirs up a turbulent love life.

  How we read it

  The worry comes from old readings that linked it with drink and romance and urged restraint. This service does not use it to point to events in love or relationships; it explains it as charm that wins goodwill.

• A common idea

  Peach Blossom means striking good looks.

  How we read it

  It does not measure a face. This service takes it as the whole way you come across, from tone of voice to clothing and mood, that puts people at ease.

In the twelve-mark system the same seat is called yeonsal. Many readings explain why the branch falls only on 子 (Zi), 午 (Wu), 卯 (Mao), and 酉 (You) through the Bathing seats of the triple combination elements, which is why the name mokyoksal is used too.