Ten Gods十星

The Ten Gods are a framework that gives each other character in the chart one of ten names according to how it relates to the Day Master. Two elements can relate in five ways, and splitting each way by whether polarity matches yields ten slots. These gather into five groups: Companion shares your element, Output is what you produce, Wealth is what you control, Officer controls you, and Resource produces you. Older readings also matched the groups to family members such as parents and siblings, while this service uses them to see where your leanings and interests point.

• 十ten (Korean reading: sip)
• 星star (Korean reading: seong)

Ten stars: a set of ten role names for the characters that surround the Day Master.

First the two elements are compared and placed in one of five relations: same, produced by the Day Master, controlled by it, controlling it, or producing it. Matching polarity then gives the indirect name and differing polarity the direct name. Within the same element the pair splits into Companion and Rival, and within the produced element into Eating God and Hurting Officer. A branch is compared through its main hidden stem. The Day Master's own seat is left out, so an eight-character chart has seven characters to count, and five without the Hour Pillar.

Where each Ten God sits counts for as much as how many there are. Tradition reads the role on the month branch as the strength you bring to society, and the one on the day branch as how you show up in close relationships. Your results count the five groups, and a group at zero is read as a role handled by other means, not one left unfilled. Luck Pillar and Annual Luck stems carry a Ten Gods label too, for reading the theme of each period.

With a 丙 (Bing) Day Master, another 丙 elsewhere is Companion, 壬 (Ren) is Indirect Officer, and 甲 (Jia) is Indirect Resource. The branch 酉 (You) follows its main hidden stem 辛 (Xin) and is counted as Direct Wealth.

• A common idea

  Some Ten Gods are welcome and others are to be avoided, as a fixed rule.

  How we read it

  The idea grew out of classical readings that welcomed Wealth, Direct Officer, Resource, and Eating God while approaching Indirect Officer, Hurting Officer, Rival, and the Blade with caution. Some books put Indirect Resource in place of Rival. This service ranks none of the ten above another.

Many books name the set with a word meaning ten spirits, the source of the English Ten Gods, and single roles have other names too. Direct Resource is also known as insu, Indirect Officer as chilsal, and Indirect Resource as hyosin. This service uses the ten basic names.