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Twelve Life Stages (Bazi)
The Twelve Life Stages track one element's qi through a Sprouting-to-Prime-to-Void cycle, read at each branch a stem sits on. It describes the state of an element's energy, not a forecast of a person's life.
Twelve Life Stages (Bazi)
The twelve-stage cycle (十二長生) that tracks an element's qi from Sprouting through Prime to Void and back. A metaphor for an energy curve — the strength of an element at each branch — NOT a forecast of a person's life.
birth — the first emergence of qi, fragile and full of promise
Read the page →the exposed cleansing — raw, unstable, untested, the vulnerable beginning
Read the page →coming of age — donning cap and sash, taking on form and role
Read the page →approaching office — strength gathering, the climb toward power
Read the page →the peak — full strength, the qi at its zenith before it must turn
Read the page →the first decline — past the peak, the quiet turn downward
Read the page →weakening — the sickness stage, strength leaking away
Read the page →the spent stage — qi exhausted, motion ceasing
Read the page →the vault — qi buried and stored, kept rather than gone
Read the page →extinction — qi at zero, the empty point before renewal
Read the page →the new seed — qi reconceived in the dark, unseen potential
Read the page →gestation — nourished toward rebirth, the wait before the sprout
Read the page →Stay in the loop
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