What Is the Yin–Si Harm?
The Yin–Si Harm is, in zodiac terms, the Tiger–Snake harm (“the snake meets the tiger and it cuts like a blade”) — Yin Wood and Si Fire, a bond of Wood-feeding-Fire that yet harms. And Yin-Si also sits in the Yin-Si-Shen Punishment, so this pair usually wounds harder than other harms, with a color of grudge and injury.
- Type
- a Branch Harm (also called piercing)
- The pair
- Yin (Wood) ↔ Si (Fire) · Tiger-Snake
- Origin
- Yin-Hai combine, Si clashes Hai; also stacks with the Yin-Si-Shen Punishment
- Tendency
- kindness turning to grudge, injury, disputes (heavier, with a Punishment)
1. Why do Yin and Si harm?
Yin normally combines with Hai (the Yin-Hai combination); but Si clashes Hai away (the Si-Hai clash), breaking Yin’s alliance, so Yin and Si harm. In the zodiac it is “the snake meets the tiger, cut like a blade.” More to the point — Yin-Si also sits in the Yin-Si-Shen Punishment, so add a Shen and this pair carries both Harm and Punishment, wounding harder.
2. Where it sits, what it touches
A Yin-Si Harm lands most on kindness turning to grudge, injury, and disputes — goodwill betrayed, partnerships souring; because it carries a Punishment, it also more often shows surgery or injury, quarrels or litigation. (For the full script of it stacked with a Punishment, see the Yin-Si-Shen Punishment.)
3. When is it triggered?
With Yin or Si present, a Luck Pillar or year bringing the other stirs it; if that year a Shen also arrives to complete the Yin-Si-Shen Punishment, the wound and the strife are heaviest.
4. How to regard it
This is one of the heavier harms, being stacked with a Punishment. In practice, choose partners carefully, put things in writing, leave a margin, and channel the Punishment’s hardness into disciplined trades (surgery, military and police, law). (Reference only.)
5. A story from within a chart
A man and a good friend went into business (Yin-Si), a Wood-feeds-Fire kind of mutual support; yet at the money stage a rift opened and the goodwill soured. As it happened, that year a Shen also came, completing the Yin-Si-Shen Punishment, and a partnership ended up in court — the very weight of a Yin-Si Harm carrying a Punishment: a blade hidden in kindness. Later he learned to put things in writing and leave a margin, and stopped being tripped by the same wound.
Do you have a Yin–Si Harm?
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FAQ
Why is the Yin–Si Harm heavier than others?
Because Yin-Si also sits in the Yin-Si-Shen Punishment; add a Shen and Harm and Punishment stack, deepening both the wound and the strife.
What does a Yin–Si Harm mainly touch?
Kindness turning to grudge, partnerships souring, injury and disputes; carrying a Punishment, also surgery or injury and quarrels or litigation.
Does a Yin–Si Harm always bring litigation?
Not necessarily. It leans that way, but weigh favorability, whether the Punishment completes, and any resolution.
How is a Yin–Si Harm remedied?
Choose partners carefully, put things in writing, leave a margin, and channel the Punishment’s hardness into disciplined trades. Reference only.
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