Useful God

What is the Useful God?

The Useful God (用神) is the core element that corrects the chart's overall lean. It drains a strong chart and reinforces a weak one, warms the cold and cools the hot, finding the point of balance. When luck of the Useful God's element arrives (in the Luck or annual pillars) things go smoothly; when luck harms it (the Unfavorable God) the reading counsels care. The Useful God is not the verdict of one viewpoint but is set by weighing four together — Support-Restraint, Climatic Balance, Mediation, and Illness-Cure — and MYEONG derives a first Useful God from the union and a staged tree of these four.

How to read it

Keeping your Useful God's element close through color, direction, season, and daily choices is said to smooth life (for reflection).

Frequently asked

What is the Useful God (用神) in Bazi?

The most useful element that balances the chart — the strategic key of a life. The Useful God (用神) is the core element that corrects the chart's overall lean. It drains a strong chart and reinforces a weak one, warms the cold and cools the hot, finding the point of balance. When luck of the Useful God's element arrives (in the Luck or annual pillars) things go smoothly; when luck harms it (the Unfavorable God) the reading counsels care. The Useful God is not the verdict of one viewpoint but is set by weighing four together — Support-Restraint, Climatic Balance, Mediation, and Illness-Cure — and MYEONG derives a first Useful God from the union and a staged tree of these four.

Why does the Useful God matter in a reading?

Key points: Key to balance, Life strategy, Basis of fortune reading. Keeping your Useful God's element close through color, direction, season, and daily choices is said to smooth life (for reflection).

Related concepts

• Natal Chart
• Day Master
• Strong Day Master
• Weak Day Master
• Balanced Chart
• Favorable God
• Unfavorable God
• Support & Restraint Method
• Climatic Balance Method
• Mediation Method
• Illness & Cure Method