It depends on the school. Tử Vi nghiệm lý regards nhị hợp as one of the three main methods and as having important capacity, with only sinh nhập or sinh xuất. Tử Vi tổng hợp by Nguyễn Phát Lộc, however, holds that nhị hợp really does not mean much and is not part of the decisive method.
A palace on a Tử Vi chart is read with its tam hợp, opposite, nhị hợp and flanking palaces. What four Vietnamese Tử Vi books say and where they differ.
Thủy Hỏa Ký Tế (No. 63) is the only hexagram with all six lines in correct position and paired. It teaches small success and a good start but chaotic end.
Khụ Sự Chà, the Hà Nhì New Rice Festival in Mường Nhé, Điện Biên, thanks ancestors with floating cakes, pig liver divination and glutinous rice pounding.
The Second Black Star (Ju Men) in Xuan Kong Flying Stars governs illness, disputes and misfortune, yet can turn to wealth under favorable configurations.
What is feng shui? A look at its foundational principles, including yin-yang, the five elements and the bagua, and how they are applied in homes and offices.
Tử Vi Chân Cơ is the core-principle reading of Tử Vi, not a separate school. It differs from Bát Tự and Kinh Dịch in input data and basic units of judgment.
Xuan Kong Flying Stars is a school of feng shui that uses the nine stars flying through time and directions to assess auspiciousness for dwellings and graves.
How Vietnamese Tử Vi books order a chart reading: Mệnh and Thân first, then Cục, the major stars, the palaces in aspect, auxiliary stars and the periods.
The twelve trực, from Kiến and Trừ to Khai and Bế, form a twelve-day cycle for judging each day, rooted in old calendars and the Hiệp kỷ biện phương thư.
Thiên La and Địa Võng in Vietnamese Tử Vi: two fixed stars at the Thìn and Tuất palaces, why they are called La Võng, and Thiên Lương's Đà La condition.
Lục Nhâm is an ancient divination method in the Tam Thức group. Learn how Đại Lục Nhâm builds a chart: Thien Ban, Tứ Khóa, Tam Truyền, and Thiên Tướng.
2029 is Kỷ Dậu, nạp âm Đại Trạch Thổ: which parents' birth years count as favourable or unfavourable by stem, branch and nạp âm, with a 1984 to 2001 table.
Fu Yin, Fan Yin, He Shi, Lian Zhu San Ban Gua and Qi Xing Da Jie: how each forms on the Xuan Kong Flying Star chart and why it is auspicious or inauspicious.
Dinh Cậu Phú Quốc Festival falls on the 15th and 16th of the 10th lunar month, with Nghinh Cậu, Yết Cậu and Chinh Te rituals honouring Chúa Ngọc Nương Nương.