One of twenty crossings
The Felling Axe
A felling axe. Cold iron on a wooden handle, ending in an afternoon what took the hillside eighty years.
You end things. Cleanly, quickly, and long before other people have finished discussing them.
Who lands here
This crossing belongs to anyone whose BaZi day master is metal and whose Sun stands in a sign of air. 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
- air → wood
What the two skies do to each other
Your metal breaks the wood it stands next to. You win that argument, and winning costs something.
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 Felling Axe
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 the felling axe as it is usually pictured — one clean swing and the argument is over. You end things at full weight.
Yin Metal (辛) ends them with a smaller edge and better aim. Not the tree: the one branch that was going to bring the whole crown down.
Which door you came through
Three Sun signs carry air across the bridge, and they do not arrive the same way.
Gemini Sun
A Gemini Sun makes many small cuts — fast, accurate, and easy to mistake for indecision until you count what is on the ground.
Libra Sun
A Libra Sun weighs the tree first. The swing arrives late and lands once, and the delay is not hesitation. It is the aim.
Aquarius Sun
An Aquarius Sun fells on principle. You end the thing because it should end, which is colder and more exact than ending it because it hurt you.
Asked about the Felling Axe
- Is the Felling Axe a cruel crossing?
- Metal breaks wood and your air Sun bridges to wood, so the disagreement is you ending something. Cleanly and early is not the same as cruelly, though it lands that way on the tree.
- Why do endings come so fast for me?
- Because the axe finishes in an afternoon what took the hillside eighty years. The speed is the tool working, and the chart notes that the discussion is usually not over when you are.
The other metal crossings
Where else a air Sun lands
The Sun is only half of it. The same air 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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