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What Friend means
The Friend (Bi Jian) shares your Day Master's element and polarity. It stands for independence and self-reliance: you make your own way and keep your own pace.
Strengths and pitfalls
At its best: strength in self-employment and founding things, and equal partnerships with peers.
Out of balance: stubbornness, isolation or rivalry. Listening to others restores balance.
When Friend arrives
When it arrives in a Luck Pillar or year, expect independence, decisions made on your own terms, and stronger ties with peers or rivals.
The Ten Gods come from how each stem in your chart relates to your Day Master. Which pillar they sit in (year, month, day or hour) shapes where and when they show up.
See it in your own chart
Where Friend sits in your chart, and when it arrives in your Luck Pillars, depends on your date and time of birth.
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