Hurting Officer傷官
The element you produce, opposite polarity. Tradition links it with expression and talent, and with chafing against rules.
- For a 甲 day
- 丁
- Also called
- 退財、耗氣
見丁：為傷官、退財、耗氣，子甥。
Meeting 丁: this is the Hurting Officer, also Lost Wealth and Spent Energy, a son or nephew.
Yuan Hai Zi Ping
傷官主人多才藝、傲物氣高，常以天下之人不如己。
The Hurting Officer makes a person gifted and proud, always feeling the rest of the world falls short.
Yuan Hai Zi Ping
In plain words
The element you produce, opposite polarity. It attacks your Direct Officer, the star of rules and rank, and that is where the name comes from. So the person is gifted, and also hard to govern.
The book treats it with care: it is worst when it meets the Officer, and it wants wealth nearby to turn that energy to use. A verse warns that it should not always be read as bad.
What it is
With 甲 (Jia) as the day stem, this is 丁.
Named against your own day stem.
Sources Yuan Hai Zi Ping, from an online transcription, not yet checked against a printed edition. The plain text is ours.