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Hurting Officer (ShangGuan 伤官) in the Month Pillar

Hurting Officer is number 4 of the ten gods, in the Output group — the generated by the day master. This page gives the derivation facts for Hurting Officer landing on the month pillar: which stem produces it for each of the ten day masters (this god always takes the opposite polarity), what the palace covers in the tradition, and how the other nine gods on the same pillar compare. Every row can be checked by back-substitution: day master plus this stem always yields Hurting Officer.

Computed facts (engine-verified)

This page is generated from the engine v0.14.0, not hand-written; structural facts reconcile against the methodology page.

GodHurting Officer · 伤官 (ShangGuan)
GroupOutput (食伤)
Relation to the day mastergenerated by the day master — step one of the derivation: is the target element generated by, controlled by, controlling, or identical to the day master]
Polarity rulewithin this pair the two gods split by polarity, so this one is always opposite-polarity (step two)
PillarMonth Pillar (月柱)
Palacecareer environment & upbringing (父母与事业环境宫)

Which stem gives Hurting Officer for each of the ten day masters

For a fixed day master the ten stems take the ten gods exactly once each, so "this god on this pillar" maps to one definite stem per day master. All ten rows are computed — back-substitute any row and you get the same god.

Day masterIts elementStem on the month pillarIts elementPolarityBack-substitution
甲 Jia · 阳木Wood丁 DingFireoppositeHurting Officer
乙 Yi · 阴木Wood丙 BingFireoppositeHurting Officer
丙 Bing · 阳火Fire己 JiEarthoppositeHurting Officer
丁 Ding · 阴火Fire戊 WuEarthoppositeHurting Officer
戊 Wu · 阳土Earth辛 XinMetaloppositeHurting Officer
己 Ji · 阴土Earth庚 GengMetaloppositeHurting Officer
庚 Geng · 阳金Metal癸 GuiWateroppositeHurting Officer
辛 Xin · 阴金Metal壬 RenWateroppositeHurting Officer
壬 Ren · 阳水Water乙 YiWoodoppositeHurting Officer
癸 Gui · 阴水Water甲 JiaWoodoppositeHurting Officer

← Hurting Officer overview (no pillar attached)

The other nine gods on the same pillar

Ten stems against a given day master produce the ten gods; on the month pillar each of them lands somewhere different:

The same god on the other pillars

A god does not change with position — what changes is the palace it lands in. Two pages for this god on the other pillars:

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.

Frequently asked

What is Hurting Officer?
Hurting Officer (伤官) is one of the ten gods, in the Output group — generated by the day master. The derivation has two steps: the generating/controlling relation between the day master's element and the target element sets the group, then polarity splits the pair. This page lists all ten stem correspondences for the month pillar.
How is Hurting Officer on the month pillar derived?
Take the day master as the reference and find the one stem that stands in this relation to it: this god always takes the opposite polarity. For a 甲 day master the stem is 丁. All ten pairs are in the table and every row can be back-substituted.
What does the month pillar stand for?
In the tradition the month pillar is the career environment & upbringing palace. The pillar marks where something plays out; the god marks in what manner. The two multiply into a combination, and this site lists them separately rather than translating the combination straight into a fortune verdict.
Is Hurting Officer on the month pillar good or bad?
A god is not a good-or-bad label. The same god acts in opposite directions under different strength structures: when the day master is weak, resource and peers support it, but when it is already strong the same elements worsen the imbalance. Judging needs the month command, rooting, transparency and overall weighting — any claim that a god on a pillar is simply good or bad oversimplifies past what the system claims.

Reference index

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.