One of twenty crossings
The Deep Well
A deep well. Water made useful by stone walls — depth that stays drinkable because something holds it in.
Depth that stays useful because something holds it in. Without the walls it is just wet ground.
Who lands here
This crossing belongs to anyone whose BaZi day master is water 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
- 壬 Yang Water · 癸 Yin Water
- Crossing the bridge
- earth → earth
What the two skies do to each other
The earth breaks your water. That sky argues with you, and it does not lose.
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 Deep Well
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 Water (壬) is a well sunk into a river. The depth was always there and the stone only made it drinkable — your walls are a courtesy to other people.
Yin Water (癸) is the well that fills drop by drop from the rock itself. Slow to draw and never empty, and the water is cleaner than anything that moves — which is a fair description of how you arrive at what you know.
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 a stone well that has never run dry. People come to you the way they come to a landmark — assuming you will be there.
Virgo Sun
A Virgo Sun keeps the well clean. The water is drinkable because someone checks it, and that someone is you.
Capricorn Sun
A Capricorn Sun dug deeper than the water table required. You built for a drought that has not happened yet, and you will keep building for it whether or not anyone else believes the season is coming.
Asked about the Deep Well
- Why does the Deep Well disagree?
- Earth controls water — the stone tells your depth where to stay. That is a disagreement you benefit from, which is unusual enough to be worth saying plainly.
- What happens to a Deep Well without walls?
- Wet ground. The chart is blunt about it: the depth is yours, but the usefulness comes from the thing holding it in. That is worth knowing before you resent the walls — a well without them is not freer, it is just a marsh nobody drinks from.
The other water 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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