Ten Evils Great Defeat Day (十恶大败日): A BaZi Spirit-Star

Definition

Shi E Da Bai Ri (the Ten Evils Great Defeat Day) is an inauspicious **day-pillar** [spirit-star](/bazi/glossary/shen-sha) — ten specific day pillars whose distinguishing feature is that the Day Master's "Salary" falls into [void-emptiness](/bazi/glossary/kong-wang) (the Salary star is voided) — hence "great defeat" — traditionally signifying easily-damaged fortune needing auspicious stars to resolve.

Derivation

The Ten Evils are ten specific [day pillars](/bazi/glossary/gan-zhi): Jia-Chen, Yi-Si, Bing-Shen, Ding-Hai, Wu-Xu, Ji-Chou, Geng-Chen, Xin-Si, Ren-Shen, Gui-Hai. Their common trait: the day stem's Salary meets void-emptiness. This site judges it by the engine's rule.

Meaning and Use

- "Great defeat" signifies an easily-damaged base of fortune — effort outrunning result, a sense of coming up empty at the crucial point. - But it is only a day-pillar marker, **never fated poverty** — a chart with a usable [Noble](/bazi/glossary/tian-yi-gui-ren), [Salary star](/bazi/glossary/lu-shen), or a formed pattern can resolve it. - Modern practice mostly reads it as a cue to "build steadily, avoid all-or-nothing bets."

Common Misconception

**"Those born on a Ten Evils day are doomed to fail."** History has many achievers born on these days. It is a tendency-cue; the main axis is the [pattern](/bazi/glossary/ge-ju) and useful god — never a single-factor veto.

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