Bending Straight Pattern (Quzhi Ge)
Wood qi is concentrated and strong; benevolent and upright, growing upward.
Jia or Yi Wood Day Master born in Yin or Mao month, with Yin-Mao-Chen forming the Eastern Wood configuration or Hai-Mao-Wei triple Wood combination in the branches. Wood qi is extremely strong in the chart, with no Metal to restrain it.
Pattern Characteristics
Those with the Bending Straight pattern are benevolent and magnanimous, with compassion and a sense of justice. Like a great tree growing upward, they have extremely strong career ambition and进取 (jinqu) spirit, suited to education, culture, environmental protection, medicine, charity, and other industries related to growth and flourishing. They are upright and unyielding, valuing morality and principles. In relationships, they are willing to help others and forge wide善缘 (shanyuan), though sometimes they are frustrated due to excessive idealism.
Formation Conditions
Formation conditions: 1. Jia or Yi Wood Day Master; 2. Born in Yin or Mao month, with branches forming Wood configuration; 3. Jia or Yi or Ren or Gui revealing in the stems to generate Wood; 4. No Geng or Xin Metal restraining Wood qi. Breaking conditions: 1. Strong Metal appears and restrains Wood qi; 2. Fire is too strong and excessively drains Wood; 3. Heavy Earth buries the roots; 4. Wood qi is impure with too much miscellaneous qi.
Case Study
For example, a Jia Wood Day Master born in the Mao month, where the earthly branches Yin-Mao-Chen form the East Wood frame, with Jia or Yi Wood revealed in the heavenly stems, without Geng or Xin Metal. People with the Curved-and-Straight pattern are like towering trees, indicating lifelong upward growth and benevolent virtue.
How It Reads for Women and Men
For women: A Qu Zhi (pure Wood) woman grows the way a healthy tree does — supple, upright, generous. Her benevolent warmth draws people; she excels at nurturing and arranging. In marriage she prefers growing together over being contained. For men: The Qu Zhi man's core is honesty and compounding growth. Unless over-cut by Metal, his presence deepens with the years. In a broken structure the upright turns rigid.
Strong vs. Weak Day Master
Wood commanding a spring month, roots moistened by Water, canopy breathing through Fire — this is the cleanest form. Signs of breaking: strong Metal felling the Wood, or parched Earth drying the roots, collapse the pattern. Metal-heavy years call for watching friction and over-pruning.