Stage 3 · Term 30 of 34
Harms 害
Hài
Six pairs whose relationship quietly frustrates: 子未, 丑午, 寅巳, 卯辰, 申亥, 酉戌. Each harm is the shadow of a nearby combination — support that curdles into friction. A minor interaction, read in context, never in isolation.
In the classics
Each of the six harms (子未, 丑午, 寅巳, 卯辰, 申亥, 酉戌) is derived mechanically: the branch that clashes your combination partner harms you — the shadow a nearby attraction casts. 《三命通会》 records the set; the derivation is why every harm sits adjacent to a combination.
In a chart
Harm is the quietest relation: support that curdles, alliances that cost, the friend whose help reliably arrives with a bill. It rarely headlines a reading — classical weighting puts it below combination, clash and punishment — but it colours palace interpretation: a harmed spouse palace or parental palace adds a note of chronic low-grade friction to whatever else is true. Read it in context, never in isolation, and never let it outvote the heavier relations.
Worked example
子丑 combine; 未 clashes 丑 — so 子未 harm: the very branch that would take your partner away is the one that harms you. The table's poetry is that mechanical.
Where beginners misread it
Elevating harms to clash-level severity because the name sounds dire. It is a minor relation by explicit classical weighting.
Spotting it is Stage-3 work; weighing it against everything else in a real chart is what a teacher trains you to do — that layer lives at Yixin Academy.
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Six pairs whose relationship quietly frustrates: 子未, 丑午, 寅巳, 卯辰, 申亥, 酉戌. Each harm is the shadow of a nearby combination — support that curdles into friction. A minor interaction, read in context, never in isolation.