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课程 curriculum

fifteen modules, adept depth — the full technical system, taught as if you were going to read charts for real: not a folk simplification, but the machinery serious readers use, with honest notes on where schools disagree and where the app does not yet compute what a book teaches. read the map, follow the Lion

click any underlined Chinese term for its pinyin and gloss

foundations

polarity, phases, the two alphabets, the sexagenary clock

polarity — the first distinction

five phases — verbs, not substances

ten heavenly stems — the visible layer

twelve earthly branches — the hidden layer

the sexagenary cycle — the clock of the chart

reading the chart

how a chart is computed, the ten relations, the branch geometry

four pillars — how a chart is actually computed

ten gods — the day master's ten relations

interactions — how branches talk to each other

the adept core

strength, pattern, favorable-god selection, named stars, pair reading — the technical machinery a real reader needs

day-master strength — the first judgment call

pattern — classifying the whole chart

the favorable god — five ways to choose it

the named stars, in depth

pair reading, in depth

the moving layer & the frame

decades, years, and the sentence that holds the whole map still

decades and years — the moving layer

善人不为命所缚 — the good are not bound by fate