Indirect Wealth structure

Meaning

The Indirect Wealth structure is the frame of a chart whose month brings Indirect Wealth, the phase the Day Master controls, of the same polarity. Ulune’s reading puts it in a sentence: it frames a life around opportunity, enterprise, generosity, an eye for openings, and resources that come and go freely. Where Direct Wealth builds patiently, Indirect Wealth moves: trade, ventures, contacts, timing.

The tradition reads an open hand and a quick eye: someone at ease with risk and with people, who spots what others overlook, enjoys making things happen and shares what comes in. Such a chart often has a gift for networks, for negotiation and for turning a meeting into a project.

Its difficulty is the flow itself: resources that leave as easily as they arrive, plans that multiply faster than they are finished. The tradition values a steady hand on the openings, and Ulune reads the structure as a temperament, never as a windfall promised.

In practice

• When Ulune names it: the month branch holds the Day Master’s Indirect Wealth and it comes first, shown among the stems before the month’s other hidden stems, or as the month’s main qi, peers aside, when nothing else shows.
• Its months, by main qi: Jia in Chen or Xu, Yi in Chou or Wei, Bing in Shen, Ding in You, Wu in Hai, Ji in Zi or Chou, Geng in Yin, Xin in Mao, Ren in Si, Gui in Wu.
• What the classics look for: as for all Wealth, a Day Master strong enough to carry it, the Eating God that produces it and the Officer it produces, which protects it; and they watch the peers, Rob Wealth first, who would share it out too freely.
• With strength: a strong Day Master makes the most of its openings; a weak one is read with the peers and the Resource that help it carry them. Ulune shows the strength beside the structure.
• In time, a decade of Indirect Wealth is one of opportunity, ventures, travel and contacts, as the luck pillars’ readings say: a time to take openings with a steady hand.

Across traditions

• In Japan and Korea the structure is the hensai-kaku of Shichū Suimei and the pyeonjae-gyeok of saju.
• In Western astrology the closest theme is Jupiter in the second or the eleventh house, generosity and the gains that come through others, with Mercury for trade: opportunity read from planets and places rather than from the month.

Origin and history

The classics distinguish two wealths as they distinguish two officers: the Direct Wealth, one’s own, earned and kept, and the Indirect, shared with many, which comes through trade and fortune. The Yuanhai Ziping of the Song names both structures, and the San Ming Tong Hui records how generous and open-handed the old books found an Indirect Wealth chart. Shen Xiaozhan’s Ziping Zhenquan, in the 18th century, counts all Wealth among the four gods to be supported, with the same helpers, the Eating God and the Officer, and the same care against the peers; Xu Lewu’s commentary of 1936 kept that reading.

How Ulune calculates it

Ulune names the Indirect Wealth structure when, after the Prosperity and Sword Edge tests, the first of the month branch’s non-peer hidden stems to show among the stems of the year, month and hour is the Day Master’s Indirect Wealth, or, if none shows, when that stem is the first of them. Indirect Wealth is the stem of the phase the Day Master controls, of the same polarity: Wu for Jia, Ji for Yi, Geng for Bing, Xin for Ding, Ren for Wu, Gui for Ji, Jia for Geng, Yi for Xin, Bing for Ren and Ding for Gui.

Correspondences