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Bound and Strike

Bondages

t bounds to c. They become soil.

y bounds to h. They become wood.

m bounds to sh. They become fire.

cn  bounds to yo. They become metal.

e bounds to  s. They become water.

w bounds to wa. They become soil.

The element of the month or date can bound to a line. A moving line can bound to another moving line. A moving line can bound to the element which it turns into. Few hexagrams are the 6 match hexagrams. Take a look at a 6 match hexagram and you will see that all of its lines are bounded to each other.

If a moving line is bounding to the month or the date, it is tied up and cannot move.   Therefore the moving line is inactive until the bondage is broken. You must wait for the bondage to be broken up in order to see the moving line move.  The bondage can be broken when a future year, month, date, or hour strikes with one of the element of the bondage. For example, if a moving line s is bounding to the month e, you must wait for y element or h element to break this bondage. ( a future y or h year, month, date, or hour)

If a moving line is bounding to the element which it has turned into, you must wait for the bondage to be broken in order to see the moving line's effectiveness.  For example, if line w moves and turns into wa, they would bound to each other.    Then you must wait for year t to break open the bondage.  (Year c will also break the bondage.  Month t, day t, month c, and day c will also break the bondage.)

Bounding is good. In most questions, if you get matching or bounding, it's probably a good sign. Bounding and matching means that things will work out.  If one is asking for fame or for title, he gets the fame or the title. If one concerns about profit, he will earn money. If one throws the coins for marriage, he will be successful in his marriage. If one asks about his home, his home must be safe. If one asks about his house's feng shui, his house must be a lucky house.  But you cannot put the bounding law before the killing and producing law. If the appointed is weak like hell, what good is the bounding and matching?  For example, if your appointed is a weak t water, a soil c month which bounds to your weak appointed will only damage your appointed.  If you are asking stuff like, "When can I get out of jail?" or "When can I leave this town?", a bounding at the self line means that you are tied up! You cannot get out of jail before the bounding can be struck open. You cannot leave town before the bondage is broken.

Here's an example:  An author threw the coins asking if he can become famous one day.  He got [Break] and [Touch].

The person who threw the coins is represented by the Self line.  The self line is c, and the 5th line t Money star moves.   c and t bound together.  So the 5th line t (Money) moves to bound to the self line c.  This means that the author will earn lots of money in the future.  But his question was can he become famous.  Let's then look at the Fame and the Power star.  Both Fame and Power star moved.  The Power star (wood) moves and produces the Fame star (fire).  The Money star (water) is healthy in the water month and is being produced by the date yo (metal).  Money star t moves and bounds the self line c.  The Fame star is being produced by the moving Power Star.  I told him that he will definitely become famous.  The 5th line is the Money star, which is the element t.  Next year is the t year.  I concluded that his book will sell next year in major book stores. 

Result:  His book was published and sold in book stores nationwide in t year.   Why in the year t?  Because the 5th line is the t line, and it represents money.  When I did the reading for the author, I knew that his main concern was money.  So although he asked for fame, I decided to treat the money star t as the main character.  So if the t money star moves, it must mean that in t year something good will happen.

According to the ancient text, t and c bound together.  c is soil, and c kills the water t.  This is called "bound and kill".  Because c is considered a wet soil, thus this is 70% of bounding and 30% of killing.  e bounds to s.  e kills s.   e and s are considered to be 70% killing and 30% matching.  But based on my experience, the above is not quite true.  In the case of t bounding to c, if you threw the coins in a soil month or a soil date, the water t is totally buried by the soil. Therefore, there is no bounding at all.  The water t is being completely killed by the soil.   If the water t is being produced by the month or by the date and is also being bounded by c, then we can say that the bounding of t and c exists. So if the appointed is being bound by an element which kills it, (for example: appointed sh is being bound and killed by m: the appointed s is bounded and killed by e.) and the appointed is also being killed by other moving lines or by the month or by the date, there is no bondage at all because the appointed is dead.  How can a dead woman match with a living man?

Sometimes, the same element could bound to itself.   For example, day t could bound to the t line.  Day s could bound to the s line.  In some cases, day t can bound to both the c and the t lines.

This one is interesting.  Sam's stock went down.  So Sam tossed the coins asking when will he break even.  He got [Trapped].

Take a closer look at the hexagram.  The U line is bounding to the month, and it is very weak.  U water has been sucked dry by the month y (wood) and is struck by the date e.  The self line J y could also be bounding to the month y because they are the same element.  Based on my experience, sometimes when both the U and the J are bounding to the date or to the month, things will not be successful.  I don't care how strong my money star is.  If I see that both the J and the U are bounding to the date, I would just throw the coins again to get another sign.

Result:  The stock market kept going down.

Strikes

t and w strike.             m and yo strike.

c and wa strike.             cn and sh strike.

y and s strike.              e and h strike.

What's all this stuff about elements striking each other?  Well, let's see an example:

I threw the coins asking when will my friend Christian return all of my money to me.   I got [Travel] and [Gen].

Since I am asking about money, the appointed star must be G.  (G represents money)  On the 4th line, the money star yo moves and bounds to the self line cn.   That means the money will come to me.  The month is a metal month, and the date is a soil date which produces the money star (metal).  My money star is looking very healthy.  I concluded that I shall receive the money in the month of yo because the money star that moves and bounds to the self line is yo.  The moving line yo should move in month yo. 

Result:  I was close.  I got the money in month sh instead of month yo.   Why?  Because sh strikes with cn (self line).  Thus cn also moves and bounds to the money star yo. 

So if a month or a day strikes a non-moving line, that line could move! 

Bound and Strike

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