In reference to the comments of Dao and Charles, I would like to comment the following:
Pinyin is very useful to use due to the diversity of schools and if we add to that the 7,000 languages in the world, the situation becomes more complicated.
In reality it happens with professionals in biology and botany: there are hundreds of thousands of plants in the world, to avoid confusion they place what they call the common name of the plant according to the region where it is grown, but in parentheses is placed the inernational or scientific name in Latin.
And it is the least traumatic way of handling the diversity of concepts, in my case I usually write the term I apply and the name in pinyin in parentheses so that anyone can detect it. For example, as I avoid saying Food God, I say Nutrition Factor (Shí Shén 食神), and thus any reader will be clear about what I mean.
But going back to the beginning of the post, we should try to use English terms that are a bit more modern and that bear some practical resemblance to the application of any of the 10 Energies or Transformation Qi. We may never agree, but if there is a standard of 80%, that would be enough. And by adding the pinyin to its side in parentheses, any conceptual doubts are clarified.
Regarding tyc's comment, personally I almost always convert the energies of the graph into explanatory sentences, because in principle, it is assumed that the person consulting is not an expert in BaZi, so that one assumes the “role” of translating the Letter in real situations that situations happened before or are about to happen. In a way, BaZi has a large amount of energies that "speak in their own language", the interesting thing is to acquire the ability to know how to discover it, and as already mentioned before in trying to give "solutions" to the person who consults, especially when big trouble comes.
But neither should we condition "rigid sentences", because the energies are mixed and acquire certain nuances with the Na Yin, with the Interactions, with the Structures, with the Heralds, with the Seasons, with the Composite Stars and the Auxiliaries and sometimes it appears a Death and Void, a Heaven in Void, the Useful Energy assumes a leading role for better or for worse. It would be counterproductive to propose that the 10 Agents have a predetermined role (under a sentence), because the reading is holistic (integral) and would not allow it.
I want to thank all the forum members who have been participating, because all these valuable ideas help us to provide feedback on the different philosophical, geographical, idiomatic and conceptual positions. From where I am I only see my own focus and not that of others, so I feel as if I am located on a satellite or in a spaceship outside of planet earth, and thus I can have a more global perspective of BaZi.
I would like to add a point that Charles makes regarding polarity (Yin and Yang): from my own experience (I have seen it many times and repeatedly) and I have already observed it in other people, the polarity opposite to that of the Master Day is more helpful, generous and enriching than polarity itself. Here if you apply a concept that is used in physics that "opposites attract."
Thus, for example, for a person whose Master Day is Yang Wood, in general terms a Yin Metal (Direct Officer), Yin Water (Seal), Yin Earth (Direct Wealth), Yin Fire (Hurting Officer) are more convenient. The only exception is with the Parallel, where the Yang Wood (Lu) is the most suitable. Naturally, everything is nuanced according to the total configuration of the Natal Chart (everything is relative) and the Energies that appear on the horizon of time (Cycle of the 10 Years, the Year, the Month and the Hours that go emerging).
However, there must always be a point of balance, because if a Yang Wood receives the impact of three Yin Metals, in this case it is a Positive Energy but that becomes a harmful process.
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