One of twenty crossings
The Rising Mist
Mist coming off water at dawn. It travels as air and feeds hillsides it never touches.
You feed things you never touch. Most of your effect on people happens somewhere you are not.
Who lands here
This crossing belongs to anyone whose BaZi day master is water 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
- 壬 Yang Water · 癸 Yin Water
- Crossing the bridge
- air → wood
What the two skies do to each other
Your water feeds the wood it stands next to. You spend yourself on it.
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 Rising Mist
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) rises as river fog — a whole valley's worth, arriving where you have never stood. Your effect at distance is larger than your effect in the room.
Yin Water (癸) is dew, which is mist that has already landed. You feed the specific hillside in front of you rather than the whole watershed, and the hillside usually credits the morning rather than the water.
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 rises as fast-moving mist. You reach a great many hillsides and stay on none of them.
Libra Sun
A Libra Sun drifts toward people. Your mist settles where there is company, and the hills you feed are the ones you like.
Aquarius Sun
An Aquarius Sun rises high and travels far before it falls. What you feed is distant, general, and unlikely to know your name.
Asked about the Rising Mist
- Why does Rising Mist affect people at a distance?
- Water feeds wood and your air Sun bridges to wood, so you are the one giving. Mist travels as air and lands on hillsides it never touched — most of your effect happens where you are not.
- Is Rising Mist a passive crossing?
- No. It is generative and the direction is outward — you are spending rather than receiving. It simply does not look like effort from where you are standing, because the part that costs you happens as evaporation and the part that counts happens somewhere else entirely.
The other water 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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