The ‘Missing Element’ question is a common question posed to BaZi consultants frequently.
Unless I actually have the person’s BaZi chart before me, I am usually skeptical as to the evaluation of a missing element.
So my reply usually is “how do you know it’s missing?”
Of course, the person asking will think I am being difficult. But really, in some 70 percent of the cases, the element is not missing. It is simply that the person looking at the chart does not know it is there.
This is usually when someone has read the odd Chinese book on the subject of BaZi, but despite their copious research, has not actually discovered this thing called Hidden Stems.
Hidden Stems, as the name implies, are Stems that are not visible although on the Joey Yap BaZi MIng Pan, they are not hidden. They are visible, within the Branches.
Here’s how you can be ABSOLUTELY sure you have a missing element (which let’s face it, is not something you want).
Plot the BaZi chart using the Joey Yap BaZi Ming Pan calculator. Then, look at the left side of the chart. You will see a box like this:
If it says ‘0’ (zero) in this box, under any one of the Five Elements. Then you indeed have a Missing Element problem.
Then of course the question becomes, what does it mean yadayada. Which then requires an examination of what is the element that is missing (see search box above) and what that element means to that Day Master.