The Strength Worksheet, End to End
Last updated 10/7/2026
This lesson produces one complete line-strength trace. The order is a UAYA course convention for making the work reproducible; it is not presented as a universal lineage sequence.
Inputs
Record these before evaluating anything:
- selected line position, branch, element, and moving/static state;
- exact month branch and day stem-branch;
- calculated void pair;
- the branch relations you can reproduce from the course tables.
If any input is missing, stop. A strength tier without its calendar context is not reproducible.
UAYA worksheet order
- Copy the line, month, day, movement, and void inputs without interpretation.
- Mark void membership, month clash, day clash, day value, and fixed branch relations.
- Record the seasonal category from the cited seasonal lesson.
- Retain movement and every detected relation in separate fields.
- Locate the rule needed to qualify void, Month Breaker, Dark Moving, binding, or frame formation.
- Apply only rules whose conditions match the recorded facts.
- Summarize the line qualitatively without hiding special states or unresolved conflicts.
- Stop when a required rule is missing, competing rules disagree, or a condition cannot be reproduced.
The order prevents separate observations from being treated as independent points.
Complete trace: Case 00035 target
Example type: documented mechanics; no source outcome used.
Input: line 2, Yin Wood, moving; Chen month; Ji-Mao day; void pair Shen/You.
| Operation | Result |
|---|---|
| Void check | Yin is not void |
| Month clash | Chen does not clash Yin |
| Seasonal baseline | weak under the course’s preceding seasonal table |
| Day relation | Mao is Wood → day support present |
| Combination/clash/harm/punishment | none for this line against month/day |
| Movement | moving |
| Final course record | weak seasonal baseline; day support; moving |
The permitted conclusion is the complete qualitative record shown above. This lesson does not turn that record into a statement about the historical case’s result.
Conflict path
Example type: invented exercise.
Suppose one located lineage rule calls every eligible static day-clashed line Dark Moving, while the checked Zengshan Buyi chapter distinguishes a weak or resting line as Day Breaker.
The worksheet must record both rules and rule precedence unresolved. Do not continue as if the conflict were a small difference in wording.
Worksheet template
inputs → void membership → month/day relations → seasonal category → movement → other branch relations → located rule → qualitative summary → conflict check
Trap and stopping condition
- Do not omit a field to obtain a preferred description.
- Do not add an uncited numerical score to this trace.
- Do not erase a branch flag because it failed to change the final tier.
- Stop whenever a required source rule is absent or the precedence between competing rules has not been declared.
Source note
The worksheet order, qualitative summary, and unresolved stop are UAYA course conventions. Received distinctions are cited in the preceding void, Month Breaker, and Dark Moving lessons. The worked chart is Case 00035 in Zengshan Buyi, volume 2, “Weather” (天时章第三十五), checked composite printed p. 90; it is used only for chart mechanics.
Next, separate a branch pair from an operative restraint: Liu He and the Bound State.