Case Study-2026-004 Investment: Could He Profit From the Project?

What the hexagram revealed about cooperative profit, strong siblings lines, and why a project expected to make more than 1 million yuan left the querent with only a small share

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Date: October 1, 2021
Year VIII B, Month IV K, Day IX G (Void: J and K)

A man invested in a project that was scheduled to begin next month. The total expected profit was more than 1 million yuan, and he wanted to ask whether he himself could make money from it, and approximately how much. The hexagram obtained was Sun to Xu.

Judgment: When asking about financial fortune, the wife and wealth line is taken as the significator line. Combined with the host line and the overall structure of the hexagram, the following analysis was made:

The host siblings line, B earth, is in the state of rest at the monthly branch, receives generation from the daily branch, and is active, transforming into the advancing god, that is, the siblings line, E earth. It is in a strong state and indicates an image of actively pushing forward. The host line coincides with the siblings line, indicating seeking wealth through cooperation.
The significator wife and wealth line, A water, receives generation from the monthly branch and is clashed by the daily branch. Although it is active and transforms into the siblings line, L earth, forming return overcoming, the generation from the monthly branch is strong, so the wife and wealth line here still has qi, that is, there is still wealth to be sought. The wife and wealth line is also in the states of prosperous and supportive, especially in the coming months. In the month of A and the month of M, water becomes even more prosperous, so obtaining wealth becomes more forceful.
The overall situation:
- The officials and ghosts line, C wood, representing the official side, is active and transforms into the wife and wealth line, A water, forming return generation, while the wife and wealth line, A water, in turn transforms into the siblings line, L earth.
- The officials and ghosts line holds the “money,” indicating that the project was initiated by the official side, and that the larger share of the project was authorized to the cooperating party represented by the siblings line, L earth, and forcefully taken by it.
- At the same time, although the host line, B earth, is strong in its transformation into advance, it also transforms into the siblings line, E earth. This shows that it was a project involving multiple cooperating parties.
The logic of obtaining wealth: Although the fifth-line wife and wealth line, A water, is forcefully “taken” by L earth and also has its energy drained by the officials and ghosts line, C wood, the wealth itself still has qi. Moreover, the host line, B earth, is strong and forceful, and when active it is compatible with the wife and wealth line, A water. The transformed E earth is also a water storehouse/tomb. Therefore, the querent could obtain wealth, but after layer upon layer of profit-sharing, not much remained. In addition, the image of the primary hexagram, Mountain over Lake, Sun, itself also carries an image of loss.

Conclusion: This was a project involving multiple cooperating parties. He could make money, but not much. It appears that the profit would pass through at least three layers of profit-sharing, and was unlikely to exceed 150,000 yuan.

Feedback: The official side did in fact give the project to a major contractor. The querent himself took over part of it from someone else, and then subcontracted part of it out again. In the end, he made a total of a little over 80,000 yuan.

The principles of the I Ching and life are interconnected, and the imagery in this case was very vivid. When judging a hexagram, one must first pay attention to the overall image and the structure within the hexagram. In this case, the primary hexagram image, Mountain over Lake, Sun, together with the many strong siblings lines, necessarily showed an image of seeking wealth through cooperation and of siblings taking the wealth, so the profit share was bound to be small. This requires the diviner to have rich life experience and accumulated understanding in order to derive the image accurately.

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