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Rival (JieCai 劫财) in the Hour Pillar

Rival is number 2 of the ten gods, in the Self & Peers group — the the same element as the day master. This page gives the derivation facts for Rival landing on the hour 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 Rival.

Computed facts (engine-verified)

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

GodRival · 劫财 (JieCai)
GroupSelf & Peers (比劫)
Relation to the day masterthe same element as 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)
PillarHour Pillar (时柱)
Palacechildren & later life (子女与晚景宫)

Which stem gives Rival 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 hour pillarIts elementPolarityBack-substitution
甲 Jia · 阳木Wood乙 YiWoodoppositeRival
乙 Yi · 阴木Wood甲 JiaWoodoppositeRival
丙 Bing · 阳火Fire丁 DingFireoppositeRival
丁 Ding · 阴火Fire丙 BingFireoppositeRival
戊 Wu · 阳土Earth己 JiEarthoppositeRival
己 Ji · 阴土Earth戊 WuEarthoppositeRival
庚 Geng · 阳金Metal辛 XinMetaloppositeRival
辛 Xin · 阴金Metal庚 GengMetaloppositeRival
壬 Ren · 阳水Water癸 GuiWateroppositeRival
癸 Gui · 阴水Water壬 RenWateroppositeRival

← Rival 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 hour 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 Rival?
Rival (劫财) is one of the ten gods, in the Self & Peers group — the same element as 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 hour pillar.
How is Rival on the hour 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 乙. All ten pairs are in the table and every row can be back-substituted.
What does the hour pillar stand for?
In the tradition the hour pillar is the children & later life 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 Rival on the hour 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.