Qi Sha Yang Ling (Killings with Blades)
Qi Sha conjunct or meeting Qing Yang and Ling Xing — the general star carrying malefics. Fierce and easily hurt, with accidents to guard against; discipline is what steers the courage.
🔑 How It Forms
Qi Sha guards the Life Palace, and at least one of Qing Yang or Ling Xing meets it: either sitting in the Life Palace itself (in the same palace), or appearing inside the Life Palace's trinity (the palace itself + the opposite palace + the two trine palaces, four in all) and shining in from the side. Either case alone is enough.
📜 Classical Verse
Qi Sha with blade and bell, the White Tiger in the annual chart: injury and calamity.
—— 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 Yin) as the basis for judgement.
- 2
Found Qi Sha in the Life Palace.
- 3
Looking for Qing Yang and Ling Xing in the Life Palace: none of them is present.
- 4
Looking for Qing Yang and Ling Xing across the trinity of the Life Palace: found Qing Yang (any one suffices).
- 5
This pattern can form along 2 different routes; this chart satisfies 1 of them, so it forms — the unmet route above is simply the other path, not a failure.
- 6
All 2 conditions above are met, so the pattern forms.
- 7
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
Qi Sha is the general of the killing season and carries drive of its own, so what this pattern confirms is whether a blade and a fire have been issued to it as well — Qing Yang is the edge, governing speed and contention, Ling Xing is hidden fire, governing agitation and fixation, and one of them arriving is enough; the detector does not require both. Sharing the palace and being met across the trinity both count, differing only in force: at the Life Palace it is at close quarters, from the trinity one remove away, the detector does not grade this — the tier shown on the page tracks only whether benefics and Lu stars temper it (this is an inauspicious pattern), so weigh the two positions yourself when reading a chart. The combination marks drive opened wide with too little braking, and the risk concentrates on rivalry and accidental knocks, taking concrete shape in the years a major or annual cycle sets it off. This is not an unusable structure; the only thing missing is discipline. Put it on a battlefield with rules — competition, the military or police, surgery, engineering — and every bit of that killing force converts into a record of achievement.
🎯 Readings by Topic
High-intensity fields with strict discipline, where regulations are the protective gear. A loose environment is where this pattern gets out of control.
Avoid gambling-style investments and heavy leverage; this account cannot survive an all-in. Set the risk line before entering.
Arguments escalate into conflict easily, and both temper and hands are minefields. Walking away to cool down is a required skill.
⚠️ When It Breaks
In a cycle, guard against traffic accidents and sports injuries — protective equipment and check-ups are not optional. Qi Sha in temple with favorable transformations turns Qing Yang and Ling Xing into fine weapons and reads as martial authority. Courage needs discipline, and that sentence is the whole curriculum.
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