偏财 · Indirect Wealth

piāncái · the element your Day Master controls, of the same polarity

偏财 Indirect Wealth, piāncái, is one of the Ten Gods of BaZi: the name for a stem of the element your Day Master controls, with the same polarity. For a 辛 Yin Metal Day Master, that stem is 乙 Yin Wood.

The Ten Gods are not deities. They are the ten possible relationships between your Day Master and any other stem, named for what that relationship does.

Traditionally read as opportunity, and money that comes through ventures, deals and side paths rather than a fixed wage.

How it is worked out

Metal controls Wood, and 乙 is Yin against a Yin Day Master, so the relationship is Indirect Wealth. Had the stem been 甲 Yang Wood, the same relation with opposite polarity would be 正财 Direct Wealth instead.

Where you meet it

• Above each pillar in the Pro chart view, naming that stem’s relationship to you.
• On Luck Pillars and annual years, where each decade and year brings its own stem.
• Inside branches, through their hidden stems.

No Ten God is good or bad on its own. What matters is whether the element it brings is one your chart wants, which is a question about the whole chart and not about the label.