What Is the Hai-Mao-Wei Wood Bureau in BaZi?
Hai-Mao-Wei combine and transform into Wood: Hai is Wood’s start, Mao its peak, Wei its store. With all three the Wood force becomes a forest, tending toward growth, benevolence, and the power to plan.
- Type
- a three-Branch bureau (to Wood)
- The three
- Hai (birth), Mao (peak), Wei (grave)
- Transforms to
- Wood
- Tendency
- Wood grown to forest (benevolence, growth, learning)
1. What is a bureau?
A three-Branch bureau is three characters from different seats, allied for one aim, standing at that element’s birth, peak, and grave-vault. Hai-Mao-Wei are Wood’s birth, peak, and grave; together they fuse into one lush body of Wood.
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2. What a Wood bureau means
Wood governs benevolence, growth, vitality, and planning. If Wood is your favorable element, a Hai-Mao-Wei Wood bureau boosts vitality, planning, and ties to learning and charity, with a steady upward staying-power; if Wood is unfavorable, too much brings stubbornness, over-expansion, and tangled thinking. Of the three, Mao (the peak) is the core.
3. Only two? — the half-combination
With Hai-Mao or Mao-Wei (carrying the peak, Mao), it half-combines into Wood: reduced but real; missing Mao, with only Hai and Wei, it is an “Arch,” real only once a Luck Pillar or year fills it in.
4. When does it form? — filling in
With two of Hai-Mao-Wei present, a Luck Pillar or year supplies the third and the Wood bureau forms for that stretch, flooding the chart. With a bureau, the key is which year completes it.
5. Good or bad?
It depends on your chart’s needs. Favor Wood and it is a tree in rain with staying power; fear Wood and it is tangled and stubborn. The greater the force, the more pronounced either way.
6. Example: Hai in the Month, Wei in the Day, a Luck Pillar supplies Mao
This is a made-up example for illustration, not a real person’s chart. Picture a man’s chart: Year Ren-Xu (壬戌), Month Xin-Hai (辛亥), Day Yi-Wei (乙未), Hour Wu-Yin (戊寅). The Month Branch Hai and Day Branch Wei sit side by side; the Wood bureau is missing its peak, Mao. The Day Master is Yi Wood; Wood is the self’s Peers, and the Ren Water inside Hai is Resource. This chart’s fourth Luck Pillar is Yi-Mao (roughly ages 41 to 51); once Mao arrives, the Hai-Mao-Wei Wood bureau forms and the Day Master’s strength jumps. On favorability: Yi Wood born in a Hai month has strong Resource, and the Hour Branch Yin supports it too, so the Day Master is not necessarily weak; if the self is judged already strong, the Wood bureau adds a crowd of Peers, often showing as tugs over cooperation and sharing, and more spending; if the Day Master is judged to need support, these ten years are a stretch when energy, confidence, and connections hold up better, a good time to put long-planned projects into action.
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FAQ
What do Hai-Mao-Wei form?
A Wood bureau. Hai is Wood’s birth, Mao its peak, Wei its grave, combining to Wood.
Must all three be present?
All three is fullest; two with the peak Mao is a half-combination; missing Mao (only Hai-Wei) is an “Arch,” awaiting fill-in.
Is a Wood bureau good or bad?
Favor Wood: vitality, planning, and ties to learning; fear Wood: stubbornness and over-expansion.
Can Luck Pillars and years complete a bureau?
Yes. With two present, a Luck Pillar or year adds the third and the Wood bureau forms that year, flooding the chart.
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