Ten-year fortune (taiun) and yearly fortune (nen’un) in Sanmeigaku

1.What is taiun?

Taiun starts from the eto of your month pillar and moves on to the next eto every ten years. Each ten-year block is called a jun, counted as the first jun, the second jun, the third, and so on.

From the eto of each jun you find stars in the same way as for the body star chart:

• Main star (one of the ten main stars): your day stem × the taiun’s stem. The theme of those ten years.
• Subordinate star (one of the twelve subordinate stars): your day stem × the taiun’s branch. How your energy comes out.

2.Forward and backward

The direction taiun moves in is set by whether your birth year’s stem is yang or yin, and by sex.

Forward means moving to the eto after your month pillar; backward, to the one before. In Sanmeigaku, the direction of taiun is the only place where sex is used.

3.The age it starts (ritsuun)

The age at which your first taiun begins is set by the number of days between your birthday and the start of a solar month. Roughly three days count as one year, so it begins somewhere between the ages of 1 and 10.

4.The void ten-year period

A jun whose branch falls on the two branches of your void (tenchūsatsu) is called a taiun void. Taiun moves one eto every ten years, and the two void branches sit side by side, so a taiun void usually lasts two jun in a row (about twenty years), or only one if, for example, the first jun is already on the second branch. A void period is said to suit putting things in order and reviewing them rather than starting something big and new.

5.What is nen’un?

Nen’un is the fortune for each year, worked out from that year’s eto (which changes at Risshun). The main and subordinate stars are found the same way as for taiun. The two years whose eto falls on your two void branches are your void years.

6.Reading with the phase method

The eto of taiun and nen’un are also compared with the day, month and year pillars of your chart. The method of looking at relationships such as stem combinations, branch combinations and clashes is the phase method (isōhō).

7.Find your own taiun and nen’un

Enter your date of birth and sex in the Sanmeigaku reading (Japanese) to see, in tables, the age your taiun starts, your taiun from the first to the tenth jun, your nen’un for twelve years either side of now, the phase method, and your void periods and years. It is all free.