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Time of divination: January 27, 2026, at 10:30 PM.
Stem and branch time: II F year, VI B month, VIII B day (void: E and F).
A querent asked when her father’s health would recover. The background was that her father had been hospitalized after an accident. Although he had undergone several surgeries, there had been no obvious improvement. She wanted to know whether, after this surgery, he could fully recover. She obtained Feng to Da Zhuang.
Judgment: In judging the illness of one’s father, the parents line is taken as the significator. In this hexagram, the parents line, J metal, in the fifth line is taken as the significator. This line receives generation from both the monthly branch, B earth, and the daily branch, B earth. It is in the states of prosperous and supportive. This shows that the father’s own bodily foundation and underlying constitution were still fairly good.
- The nature of the illness: In the hexagram, the officials and ghosts line, B earth, in the second line is active and generates the significator, with earth generating metal. Officials and ghosts represent illness, and when it is active and generates the body, this shows that the illness was indeed rather serious at present. But the turning point lay in the fact that the officials and ghosts line, B earth, was active and transformed into the descendants line, C wood, forming return overcoming. The descendants line represents medicine and the force that resolves illness, and C wood in turn overcomes B earth. Since the illness was overcome by the force that resolves it, it was judged that recovery would ultimately be possible.
- Urgent illness and the Six Clashes hexagram: The father’s hospitalization due to an accident belonged to an urgent illness. For urgent illness, encountering a Six Clashes hexagram indicates recovery. But for a chronic illness, encountering a Six Clashes hexagram is inauspicious.
- Timing of recovery: Although the transformed descendants line, C wood, represented the force that resolves the illness, in the B month and on the B day it was overcome by both the monthly and the daily branches. Its present strength was weak, which shows that the power of recovery was relatively weak at the beginning, and that a longer period of time would be needed before full recovery could occur.
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