Rival劫財

Rival shares the Day Master's element but flips its polarity. It stands on your side and runs the same race, yet it keeps measuring itself against you, much like a competitor you train with. In the old theory, characters of your own element sit in the seat that controls Wealth, the things you handle. Rival matches Direct Wealth in polarity and controls it head-on, hence the blunt name English books often render as Rob Wealth. This service looks past the harsh label to the trait itself: enjoying a contest and gathering people to get something started.

• 劫to seize by threat (Korean reading: geop)
• 財wealth, goods (Korean reading: jae)

Taking goods by threat: a name that calls up someone contending with you over your share.

A character is a Rival when it matches the Day Master's element while one of the pair is yang and the other yin. For a Wood Day Master, yang Wood and yin Wood are Rivals to each other. Branches are sorted by the polarity of their main hidden stem, so the result can differ from the polarity a branch shows on the surface. Each Day Master has a single Rival stem, and an Earth Day Master has two Rival branches.

When Rivals stand out in number, the reading is someone who gets stronger in competitive settings. It is seen as a knack for growing a shared project, and agreeing early on how the gains are split helps that drive pay off. Without Rivals, the leaning is toward holding your own ground rather than jostling for it. A Rival in the stem of a Luck Pillar marks a stretch when competition between people becomes a theme.

Take a 庚 (Geng) Day Master: its Rivals are the stem 辛 (Xin) and the branch 酉 (You). That 酉 is also the Blade seat for a 庚 Day Master, so both names land on the same character.

• A common idea

  Having a Rival means losing money.

  How we read it

  The worry comes from the tradition that reads this character as a contest over wealth. This service does not read it as money coming or going; it describes the trait of finding drive through competing.

• A common idea

  Rival and Companion are the same thing.

  How we read it

  Both share your element, so they are counted together as one group. Matching polarity makes a Companion and differing polarity makes a Rival; the result screen counts both as the Companion group.

Many books place the Blade in the same seat as Rival. For 甲 (Jia), 丙 (Bing), 庚 (Geng), and 壬 (Ren) Day Masters, the main hidden stem of the Blade branch (卯 (Mao), 午 (Wu), 酉 (You), 子 (Zi)) is indeed a Rival. For a 戊 (Wu) Day Master, though, the Blade branch 午 holds 丁 (Ding) as its main stem, which this service reads as Direct Resource.