One of twenty crossings
The Geyser
A geyser. Water and fire arguing underground for years, and the argument comes up as a column you can see from the next valley.
Calm on the surface, an argument underneath, and every so often the argument comes up where everyone can see it.
Who lands here
This crossing belongs to anyone whose BaZi day master is water and whose Sun stands in a sign of fire. 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
- fire → fire
What the two skies do to each other
Your water breaks the fire 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 Geyser
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 the geyser at full column. The argument underground is large, and when it surfaces the next valley knows — you do not get small eruptions.
Yin Water (癸) is the same heat coming up as steam through a hundred vents. Nothing spectacular, constant pressure, and the ground always warm to the touch.
Which door you came through
Three Sun signs carry fire across the bridge, and they do not arrive the same way.
Aries Sun
An Aries Sun erupts on a short cycle. The argument underground never gets old enough to become a secret.
Leo Sun
A Leo Sun erupts where there is an audience. The column is real and so is the timing, and both are true at once.
Sagittarius Sun
A Sagittarius Sun sends it high rather than often. Years of quiet, then something visible from a very long way off.
Asked about the Geyser
- Why does the Geyser erupt?
- Water breaks fire, so the argument is structural and it is underground. Pressure with nowhere to go does not stay nowhere. The column is the argument becoming visible.
- Can a Geyser stop erupting?
- Only by dealing with the heat, not the water. The chart locates the disagreement below the surface, which is where anything that changes it has to happen.
The other water crossings
Where else a fire Sun lands
The Sun is only half of it. The same fire 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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