伤官 · Hurting Officer

shāngguān · the element your Day Master produces, of the opposite polarity

伤官 Hurting Officer, shāngguān, is one of the Ten Gods of BaZi: the name for a stem of the element your Day Master produces, with the opposite polarity. For a 辛 Yin Metal Day Master, that stem is 壬 Yang Water.

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.

Output with an edge. Traditionally read as talent, performance and a readiness to challenge rules, since this element weakens the one that controls you.

How it is worked out

Metal produces Water, and 壬 is Yang against a Yin Day Master, so the relationship is Hurting Officer. Had the stem been 癸 Yin Water, the same relation with matching polarity would be 食神 Eating God 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.