Hi,

May I find out the key differences between these two? At first I didn't catch those words when I was reading the compatibility reports which were generated in this website... How serious is this? What is the significance when two people's heavenly stems clash/ harm? Thanks!

Dear Yan Zhen Goh,

yan zhen goh wrote:
May I find out the key differences between these two? At first I didn't catch those words when I was reading the compatibility reports which were generated in this website... How serious is this? What is the significance when two people's heavenly stems clash/ harm? Thanks!

Under the ba zi, there are 4 degrees of incompatibility (Clash/Harm/Punishment/Self-Punishment). Of which two more problematic clash are the :-

1. Clash (being the worst), normally means a completely different nature of horoscope sign that is not compatible (quite similiar to if you think about water and fire).

2. Harm (is next), normally this means some minor differences between the two which does not necessary see eye to eye.

In the compatibilty report, we do a detailed check against all your ba zi pillars to see what are the types of clashes/harms that will be found.

Given, that more than 12 different heaven stem/earthly branch are being compared. Some clashes/harms present is perfectly fine. Especially, if the clashes are from non-important pillars such as the hour vs conception pillar.

The more major clashes are Year to Year and Day to Day clashes. As that will denote, potential horoscope incompatibility or day element incompatibility.

So unless there are major clashes, most of the rest occuring are quite normal or not really as significant.So we normally view it as a total:-

1. If there are 2 major clash/harm, it does show some minor incompatibility.

2. If there are no major clash/harm, but there are at least 4-6 minor clash/harm, then it also shows porential incompatibilty as too many small issues can also become a big problem.

Otherwise, most of the rest will denote minor forms of disagreement between the couples, most of the time can be reduced through having the common element to help improve the relationship.

Hope that helps.

Warmest Regards
Robert Lee
GEOMANCY.NET - Center for Applied Feng Shui Research