🌿 Learn Saju — Intermediate
Lessons 1–20 · The eye for relationships — the Ten Gods and the combinations and clashes, plus calculating your own yearly, monthly and daily luck.
- Lesson 1 · The sexagenary cycle — the great wheel of sixty yearsThe Imjin War, the Gabo Reform, the Byeongja invasion — Korean history is written in Stem-and-Branch
- Lesson 2 · The solar-term calendar — Saju’s real calendarWhy the Saju new year falls on 4 February
- Lesson 3 · The month Branch — the most powerful character in a chartA midsummer sun and a midwinter sun are not the same sun
- Lesson 4 · Introducing the Ten Gods — putting names on relationshipsSeven characters, five kinds of role toward you
- Lesson 5 · Friend and Rival — versions of meThe sibling who puts an arm round you, and the one eyeing your dinner
- Lesson 6 · Eating God and Hurting Officer — my expressionThe master of one well versus the innovator of ten
- Lesson 7 · Indirect and Direct Wealth — my moneyNot a chart with more money, but a chart that handles money differently
- Lesson 8 · Seven Killings and Direct Officer — my officeThe force that presses you down is the force that stands you up
- Lesson 9 · Indirect and Direct Resource — my supportThe seal — the star of the certificate and of the mother
- Lesson 10 · The spread of the Ten Gods — my energy profileWhat you have plenty of is talent and assignment; what you lack is freedom and homework
- Lesson 11 · Hidden Stems — the Stems concealed inside the BranchesOutward face and inner mind: an earth character is a drawer
- Lesson 12 · Stem combinations — the five couples of the skyFive couples where opposites attract
- Lesson 13 · Six combinations of the Branches — the six pairs of earthWhy the rat and the ox are a pair
- Lesson 14 · Three-way and directional combinations — three characters as a teamA dream team of planner, ace and closer
- Lesson 15 · Clash — the characters that meet head-onThe signal flare of change: a clash isn’t misfortune, it is motion
- Lesson 16 · Punishment, destruction and harm — the quieter frictionsThe surgeon’s blade and the art of adjustment: turning friction into a profession
- Lesson 17 · Elemental balance in practice — reading two charts side by sideA chart in flames and a chart with no water — how the prescriptions differ
- Lesson 18 · Strong or weak — measuring your chart’s weight classStrong isn’t good; knowing is good
- Lesson 19 · Reading the annual luck — calculating this yearNow you can write a “this year’s fortune” yourself
- Lesson 20 · Monthly and daily luck — and the “day without the spirit”Intermediate graduation: completing the three-tier read