Shen sha 29 / 36 · Heavenly Net & Earth Snare
The Heavenly Net & Earth Snare is one of the 36 shen sha, anchored on the day-pillar nayin element (fire → Xu-Hai, water/earth → Chen-Si). Net and Snare depend on the day pillar’s nayin element: fire charts meet Xu-Hai, water and earth meet Chen-Si. The table below is the complete lookup — every row links to the branch or pillar page so you can verify it — and the picker repeats the same engine data for whichever anchor you choose.
This page is generated by engine v0.14.0, not hand-written; the table was cross-checked against external sources and against its own derivation (see methodology R32).
| Star | 天罗地网 Tian Luo Di Wang · Heavenly Net & Earth Snare |
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| Anchor | day-pillar nayin element (fire → Xu-Hai, water/earth → Chen-Si) |
| Table rows | 0 |
| Anchor | Result |
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The core is agreed (Chen as heaven’s net, Xu as earth’s snare) but the scope differs by school: nayin-element conditions vs plain branch pairs, and which pillar to anchor on. This page prints the common nayin-day-pillar reading and notes the rest.
A note on what this page deliberately does not do: the popular versions of this material assign a fixed personality to each term — one character per branch, one destiny per stage. This site rejects that framing. What is published here is a structural position: which element sits where, on what kind of ground, with which tenants inside. The same term reads differently under a different month command, and no meaningful judgement exists without the other characters of the chart. Where the tradition offers a reading it is labelled as the tradition's; this site's own contribution is that every number and term on this page is computed, versioned and checkable against the methodology page.
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Every enumerable component of ba zi has its own page here. Each page is computed by the same engine and can be checked item by item — none of it is a personality table.