Indirect Resource偏印
The element that supports you, same polarity. Tradition links it with unusual skills and solitary study.
- For a 甲 day
- 壬
- Also called
- 倒食、梟神
見壬：為倒食、偏印、梟神，剋女。
Meeting 壬: this is Reversed Food, also Indirect Resource and the Owl Spirit, harsh on daughters.
Yuan Hai Zi Ping
凡命中犯此者，猶尊長之制我身，不得自由也。
Whoever has this in the chart is like someone held down by an elder, not free to act.
Yuan Hai Zi Ping
In plain words
The element that supports you, same polarity. The old name Reversed Food explains it: it attacks your Eating God, so it cuts the line that feeds you. For that reason the book is much colder on it than on Direct Resource.
The book’s chapter is about this harmful side, with plans that start well and do not finish. Later teachers often read it more gently, as odd skills and solitary study, which is how our tools describe it.
What it is
With 甲 (Jia) as the day stem, this is 壬.
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.