One of twenty crossings
The Windcut Stone
Rock carved by wind it never agreed to. The shape everyone admires is the record of what wore it down.
What wears at you is what shapes you. The part of you that people call beautiful is the eroded part.
Who lands here
This crossing belongs to anyone whose BaZi day master is earth 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
- 戊 Yang Earth · 己 Yin Earth
- Crossing the bridge
- air → wood
What the two skies do to each other
The wood breaks your earth. 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 Windcut Stone
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 Earth (戊) is the cliff face taking the wind. You lose a great deal, it takes centuries, and the shape people photograph is the shape of the loss.
Yin Earth (己) is topsoil in the same wind, which is a harder position. What carves stone carries soil away — you have to hold on in order to be worn beautifully.
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 takes wind from every direction. You are carved on all faces, and the shape changes depending on where people stand.
Libra Sun
A Libra Sun is worn by other people's weather. The beautiful part of you was made by company you did not choose.
Aquarius Sun
An Aquarius Sun faces one prevailing wind for a lifetime. The erosion is deep, one-sided, and it made a landmark out of you.
Asked about the Windcut Stone
- Why does Windcut Stone disagree?
- Your air Sun bridges to wood, and wood breaks earth. The wind did not ask first. What you are looking at is a shape made by something you never agreed to.
- Is erosion a bad reading?
- It is a true one. The part of you people call beautiful is the eroded part — that sentence is doing double duty, and both halves are meant.
The other earth 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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