六害

Branch six harms (六害), also called 相穿, are the six pairs 子未, 丑午, 寅巳, 卯辰, 申亥 and 酉戌. A harm is generally read as friction between two branches, milder in effect than a clash, and it is used in support of a reading rather than as the basis of one. The pairs are not the same as the clash pairs: no two branches both clash and harm. The table is engine-derived.

⚠️ On provenance this entry is deliberately thin. The full Ziping Zhenquan held on file does not contain a chapter on the harms; where it enumerates branch relations it uses punishment, clash, trinity and harmony, and does not include harm among them. The lookup circulates chiefly as a mnemonic verse, and there is no chapter here that can be cited for it. So this page gives the pairs and how to find them, and does not attribute verdicts about the harms to a source it cannot show.

Worked example. The example chart below has 子 in the month and 未 in the hour, one of the six harm pairs.

Worked example (solar 1975-01-05 14:00, male, computed by this site's engine):

Pattern: 食神格 · Strength: 从弱 (engine verdicts)