Stem flowing stars use the year stem and branch flowing stars the year branch; overlaid together they form the complete temporary chart. For this year's romance, patrons or relocation/travel, look mainly to the branch set.
What This Question Is Really Asking
Asking whether romance stirs this year, where patrons are, or whether to move means placing flowing Luan/Xi, Kui/Yue and Ma by the year branch and seeing which natal palaces they enter.
The Underlying Logic
Placement uses the asked year's branch: flowing Luan and Xi by the branch (always in opposite palaces), Flowing Ma by the branch in the four horse grounds Yin-Si-Shen-Hai, and flowing Kui/Yue by the branch's patron directions.
Flowing Luan/Xi govern this year's romance and celebration: in Life, Spouse or Karma, or meeting natal romance stars/Hua Lu, they signal a lively love life, easy commitment, engagement, marriage or a new child—yet only stable if the natal Spouse base is sound.
Flowing Kui/Yue govern this year's patrons: whichever palace they hit finds help this year from elders, superiors or strangers; Flowing Ma governs movement—in Travel/Career/Wealth it means business trips, assignment, relocation or more running around.
The branch set is also temporary: Luan/Xi on a strong natal Spouse兑现 a happy event, on a stressed romance spot it may be only a fleeting or poor match; Flowing Ma meeting natal Ma and Hua Lu is "Lu-Ma galloping" income through movement, meeting malefics/Ji is fruitless rushing.
A Step-by-Step Way to Read It
- Find the asked year's branch and place flowing Hong Luan and Tian Xi
- Place Flowing Ma in the four horse grounds by the same branch, then locate flowing Kui/Yue
- Overlay the branch set on the natal chart and mark the palaces hit
- Use Luan/Xi for romance and celebration, judging stability against the natal Spouse base
- Use Kui/Yue for this year's patron direction and Ma for travel/assignment/relocation pace
- Read with the stem set to separate patron/joy lines from resource/test lines, both as this-year-only layers
Three Common Mistakes
Mistake 1: Promising marriage from Luan in Life without checking the natal Spouse base
Mistake 2: Taking Flowing Ma as bad rushing when Ma meeting Lu is income through movement
Mistake 3: Not separating stem-based from branch-based flowing stars and confusing their anchors
Back to Your Own Chart
Branch-based flowing stars govern a year's patrons, celebrations and movement: Luan/Xi for romance, Kui/Yue for helpers, Ma for travel. Overlay them with the stem set on the natal chart and you see clearly where this year brings people and events.
Reading Order
- Cast the natal chart first and locate the palaces and major stars tied to branch-based annual stars (flowing Kui-Yue, Luan-Xi and the annual horse) before judging anything
- Open the triple-direction of those palaces and count the auspicious, malefic and assistant stars separately
- Check where the natal Four Transformations land to set the chart's baseline tone
- Read the decade-limit transformations to see whether the branch-based annual stars (flowing Kui-Yue, Luan-Xi and the annual horse) line is activated in this stage
- Then read the annual transformations and the year's palace to pin down this year's trigger and timing
- Layer natal, decade and year before concluding, then decide how to act rather than labeling good or bad