One of twenty crossings
The River Willow
A willow standing in the current. It drinks what passes and bends where an oak would snap, which is why it is still there.
You take what flows past everyone else and turn it into growth. Bending is not the same as yielding.
Who lands here
This crossing belongs to anyone whose BaZi day master is wood and whose Sun stands in a sign of water. 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
- 甲 Yang Wood · 乙 Yin Wood
- Crossing the bridge
- water → water
What the two skies do to each other
The water feeds your wood. 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 River Willow
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 Wood (甲) in the current is a tree on the bank: roots in the water, crown in the wind. You take the river without moving for it.
Yin Wood (乙) is the willow itself. Bending is not a concession you make, it is the whole method, and it is why you outlast the bank.
Which door you came through
Three Sun signs carry water across the bridge, and they do not arrive the same way.
Cancer Sun
A Cancer Sun drinks and holds. This is the willow that stores what the current gave it, and lets the dry month find you already full.
Scorpio Sun
A Scorpio Sun takes the current at depth. You bend at the surface and do not move at all where it counts.
Pisces Sun
A Pisces Sun does not decide where the water ends and the roots begin. Everything gets in, and everything grows.
Asked about the River Willow
- What feeds a River Willow?
- Water feeds wood, so that sky is on your side without being asked. Your job is not to go looking for support. It is to notice you are already standing in it.
- Is bending a weakness in this crossing?
- The willow is still there and the oak is not. Bending is the mechanism rather than the compromise, and it is the only reason the roots got a second century.
The other wood crossings
Where else a water Sun lands
The Sun is only half of it. The same water 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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