📖 Myeongri glossary
The words that keep coming up in a reading, one page each
A reading throws out phrases like “Jangsaeng sits there” or “this is a Jeonggwan structure”. Without the meanings they wash over you — but they are the skeleton of the whole reading.
🌀 The Twelve Life Stages
A cycle of birth, growth, decline, disappearance and return, mapped onto twelve stages. The same character carries different force depending on which stage it sits in.
- 🌱 장생 (長生)The Twelve Stages map one full turn in which a single Heavenly Stem pa…
- 💦 목욕 (沐浴)Bathing is where the energy born at the previous stage is washed clean…
- 🎓 관대 (冠帶)Coming of Age means putting on the cap and tying the belt: the traditi…
- 🏛️ 건록 (建祿)Prime means establishing your stipend. Learning is finished and you be…
- 👑 제왕 (帝旺)The Peak is where the energy reaches maximum output.…
- 🍂 쇠 (衰)Decline sits directly after the Peak, one step past the highest point.…
- 🌡️ 병 (病)Illness is past Decline, where the energy has visibly weakened.…
- 🕯️ 사 (死)Death is where the energy of activity has stopped entirely.…
- 🗝️ 묘 (墓)Tomb is where the energy goes into the ground and is stored.…
- 🌑 절 (絕)Severing is where the energy has been cut completely.…
- 🫧 태 (胎)Conception is where new energy has just taken hold in the place that w…
- 🍼 양 (養)Nurture is where the energy conceived at the previous stage grows unde…
🏛 Chart structures
The structure is read from what emerges out of the month branch. Knowing it shows you the grain along which a person makes their living.
- 🏛️ 정관격 (正官格)A vessel recognised from inside the rules
- ⚔️ 편관격 (偏官格)A vessel that gets stronger at the cliff edge
- 💰 정재격 (正財格)A vessel that stacks and protects, one step at a time
- 🎲 편재격 (偏財格)A vessel that reads the current and turns it over at scale
- 🍚 식신격 (食神格)A vessel that makes with pleasure and shares it
- 🎤 상관격 (傷官格)A vessel that shakes the board and redraws it
- 📚 정인격 (正印格)A vessel that learns, shelters, and gives out
- 🔮 편인격 (偏印格)A vessel that digs deep with an unusual eye
- 🌳 건록격 (建祿格)A vessel that stands on its own and makes its own share
- ⚡ 양인격 (陽刃格)A vessel of force, forged like a blade
- 🌊 월겁격 (月劫格)A vessel that seeps in quietly and widens its ground