Ju Feng Si Sha (Gate Meets Four Malefics)
Ju Men at the Life Palace with Qing Yang, Tuo Luo, Huo Xing, and Ling Xing all arriving — the dark star provoked. Disputes that will not let go; speak with care.
🔑 How It Forms
Ju Men guards the Life Palace, and the Life Palace's trinity (the palace itself + the opposite palace + the two trine palaces, four in all) shows any one of the four malefics Qing Yang, Tuo Luo, Huo Xing and Ling Xing. That forms the pattern. The test accepts any one of them and does not require all four to gather.
📜 Classical Verse
Ju Men with the four malefics: a rope at the end of the road.
—— The Complete Book of Zi Wei Dou Shu
📖 In Depth
🔬 A Worked Example, Step by Step
The chart below is cast by our own engine, and the steps come from the pattern detector in that same pass — the explanation is the judgement, not a separate write-up.
- 1
Locate the Life Palace (branch Xu) as the basis for judgement.
- 2
Found Ju Men in the Life Palace.
- 3
Looking for Qing Yang, Tuo Luo, Huo Xing and Ling Xing across the trinity of the Life Palace: found Huo Xing, Tuo Luo and Qing Yang (any one suffices).
- 4
All 2 conditions above are met, so the pattern forms.
- 5
Finally the tier: no benefics or wealth stars temper the trinity of the Life Palace, so the risk structure stands in full.
✓ Result: the pattern forms and no benefic or Lu star tempers it — the affliction stands at full strength
The name says four malefics, yet the detector takes any one of the four as sufficient — the step readers most often misread. The four malefics names the group of stars being checked (Qing Yang, Tuo Luo, Huo Xing, Ling Xing), not a requirement that all four arrive. The reason for setting it that way is that Ju Men is already the dark star, governing speech and friction, and its edge needs very little fuse: any single malefic shining in from the trinity is enough to turn talk from insight into something that cuts. Whether the malefic sits in the Life Palace itself or shines in from a trine or the opposite palace, the detector treats them alike — all of it counts as inside the trinity. What the structure flags is risk in situations of expression: having seen through something, do you say so, and how bluntly. The remedy is not silence but a change of venue — put that critical faculty into a profession that requires criticism, and the same mouth turns friction into authority.
🎯 Readings by Topic
Law, audit, criticism, quality control — fields where finding fault is the job, giving the sharpness a legitimate outlet.
Guard against verbal disputes damaging partnerships and reputation, since the reputation is the revenue. Contract detail, on the other hand, is this pattern's strength.
Never relitigate old grievances and never wound with words. One cutting sentence takes ten kindnesses to repair here.
⚠️ When It Breaks
Ju Men in temple carrying Hua Quan or Hua Lu turns the four malefics into edge instead, and the reading becomes professional authority. Stay out of feuds and away from commentary on other people's private lives. Leaving a margin in what you say is leaving yourself a way back.
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