One of twenty crossings
The Buried Ore
Ore still in the mountain. Worth that has to be dug for, by someone who believed it was in there before there was proof.
Worth that has to be dug for. It makes you hard to discover and impossible to fake.
Who lands here
This crossing belongs to anyone whose BaZi day master is metal and whose Sun stands in a sign of earth. That is two day masters and three Sun signs — a narrow enough door that most people never walk through it, and a wide enough one that you are not alone in here.
- Day master
- 庚 Yang Metal · 辛 Yin Metal
- Crossing the bridge
- earth → earth
What the two skies do to each other
The earth feeds your metal. That sky is on your side without being asked.
That is two skies out of four. The other two — the main star of your Purple Star life palace, and the planet-star of the Thai day you were born into — are decided by the hour you were born, so neither is fixed by this crossing. They can nod, and they can argue. Most of the time at least one argues, and that is the part of a reading worth paying for.
How the crossing is decidedTwo ways to be the Buried Ore
The crossing is decided by your day master's element, and that element arrives as one of two stems. Same device, two ways to stand in it.
Yang Metal (庚) is a seam of iron in the mountain — obviously valuable once found, and enormous work to reach. People give up on you at three metres.
Yin Metal (辛) is silver in the rock: worth more per gram, easier to walk past. You are refined before anyone has confirmed you were there.
Which door you came through
Three Sun signs carry earth across the bridge, and they do not arrive the same way.
Taurus Sun
A Taurus Sun is ore in deep, settled rock. Nothing about you is going anywhere, and the dig is worth it to whoever starts it.
Virgo Sun
A Virgo Sun is the seam that assays higher than it looks. You are undervalued by everyone who checked quickly.
Capricorn Sun
A Capricorn Sun is the mine, not just the ore. You dug yourself out, and you have opinions about people who wait to be found.
Asked about the Buried Ore
- Why does Buried Ore feel unrecognised?
- Earth feeds metal, so the support is real — it is just underground. Worth that has to be dug for is hard to discover and impossible to fake, and this crossing gives you both halves.
- Who does the digging?
- Someone who believed it was in there before there was proof. Sometimes that is another person. Often, in this crossing, it has to be you.
The other metal crossings
Where else a earth Sun lands
The Sun is only half of it. The same earth Sun meets a different day master in each of these, and the device changes with it.
This is two skies. You have four.
Your birth date and place decide this much for free. The other two need your hour — the Purple Star chart and the day you were born into — and what all four of them add up to is the reading.
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