Timing: the months
you should not move
If you can read weather, you don't need to change your fate.
The most practical part of this discipline is not who you are. It is when. A decade is ten years of weather, a year is one year of weather, a month is the wind for a day. If you can read weather, you can avoid a lot of road without changing your fate at all.
Ten-year weather, one-year weather
The decade pillar sets the tone for ten years; the annual pillar sets what actually happens this year. Inside one decade, a good year and a bad year can be ten years apart in outcome. So “these two years have been rough” is usually not bad fate — it is a year clashing with the decade it sits in.
Changing luck: only a few real turnings in a life
The year before and after a luck cycle changes is when people actually switch tracks — city, industry, partner. It is not a misfortune, but it means your old solution suddenly stops working. If you know it in advance you won't misread “time to change track” as “I am finished”.
Clash, combine, punish: three signals that something happens
A clash moves things. A combination binds them. A punishment entangles them. A year clashing your day branch usually moves a relationship or a home. A combination holding your wealth star fixes money in place. A punishment shows up as the same problem grinding on. The year all three appear is what people call a big year.
The next 12 months —
which three are windows
Unlock: month by month · move, hold or avoid · one word for the year
- The next 12 months marked one by one: move / hold / avoid
- The three real windows, and how long each stays open
- One word for this year, and the action it implies
- When the next luck cycle turns, and how early to prepare