Bone Weight · The verse explained
6 liang 8 qianThe Boat on Water
- Natural Ease
- Shifting Ground
- Quiet Trust
Rarity:Very rare · about 3 in 10,000
The verse
- 富贵由天莫苦求
- 万金家计不须谋
- 十年不比前番事
- 祖业根基水上舟
- Wealth and rank rest with heaven, so do not strain to seek them;
- A fortune of ten thousand gold needs no planning.
- Ten years on, things are not as they were before;
- The family foundation is like a boat upon the water.
In plain words
This is a life that does well when it stops forcing things. Wealth and standing come more easily when you let them arrive rather than chase them, and a comfortable fortune does not need endless scheming to hold together. Yet the ground under this life keeps moving — what worked before does not always work again, and the family's foundation shifts like a boat on water. The lesson is steadiness of spirit rather than steadiness of circumstance.
The Chinese original is shown first; the English lines are Guanyitang's own translation.
CaCareer
Progress comes more from patience and timing than from constant pushing. Opportunities tend to arrive on their own schedule, and forcing a path too hard often backfires. A flexible approach, willing to adjust direction as conditions change, serves better than rigid five-year plans. Trust builds faster than force here.
WeWealth
Money tends to come without needing elaborate schemes — a natural sufficiency rather than sudden riches. But holdings and circumstances shift over time, so what secures comfort in one period may need rethinking later. Treating wealth as something to steward and adjust, rather than lock into one fixed plan, keeps it steady.
ChCharacter
Calm, trusting, and not prone to grasping — this is a temperament that does well without straining. The steadiness is real, but comfort can slide into passivity, where changes are noticed too late. Staying attentive to shifting circumstances, even while staying relaxed, keeps this ease from becoming complacency.
FaFamily and people
The household holds together well, though its footing is not perfectly fixed — more like a vessel that rides the water than a house built on stone. This calls for flexibility among family members, adjusting together as circumstances move, rather than expecting things to stay exactly as they were.
AdviceGuanyitang's advice
Since the family foundation is like a boat upon the water, don't expect it to sit still. Keep your balance loose, adjust your grip as conditions shift, and trust that steady adaptation — not rigid planning — is what keeps this life afloat and comfortable.
Bone weight gives the outline; BaZi shows the timing
Want to know which years run smoothly and which call for care? Cast a BaZi chart from the same birth details to see the ten-year cycles and each year.
Sources and how the text was settled
About 0.031% of all combinations of the four weight tables give this total (a share of combinations, not of people).
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