Danny gave an example using hour in a wen wang gua divination

This is in response to a question by KC, but it may also interest others.
It gives an example of using the Hour Pillar for fine tuning a WWG reading.
I posted this experiment 4 years ago, on Joseph Yu's WWG list.
It was about the Australian Open Tennis 2005 final.
Below are the old postings about my reading, and the outcome.

Danny

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Here is the divination for tomorrow's men's final at the Australian
Open tennis, the first grand slam event of the year.


Date of divination 29 Jan
Voids: Tiger and Rabbit


Q: Safin - Hewitt ?
Match will be played 30 Jan 05 at 7:30 pm in Melbourne

Month Branch(MB): Ox (Chou)
Date Branch (DB): Tiger (Yin)
Hour Branch(HB): Dog (Xu) changing to Pig (Hai) at 9:20 pm

Gua Shen: Dog (Xu)

Subject : Marat Safin
Object : Lleyton Hewitt


___ Ch W/W Tiger(3) Void -> Broth. Rooster
_ _ S Offsp. Rat(6)
_ _ Par. Dog (Wg)
_ _ Ch W/W Rabbit(3) Void -> Broth. Monkey
_ _ O O/G Snake(12)
_ _ Par. Goat (Wg)




Background:
This can be a rare match because it is 100 year birthday of the
tournament, and for the first time in 29 years an Australian could win (Hewitt).

It is also the first time the final is being played in the evening and not in the afternoon.

Both players reached the final with a lot of good luck.

In their previous 9 meetings Safin has won 5 times and Hewitt 4 times, with Safin winning their last encounter.

Hewitt is the 3rd in the rankings, Safin is the 4th.

Hewitt has never reached the final on his home turf.

Safin reached the final last year and three years ago, but lost on both occasions.

Hewitt is expected to have strong support from the home crowd

The reading looks quite complicated.

Safin (Subject) is in line 5 , Offspring line, Rat in stage 6
Hewitt (Object) is in line 2, O/G line, Snake in stage 12

So Safin wants to attack (Offspring) and Hewitt counterattack (O/G).

That was to be expected as it is their know styles of play.

Both players are in not very strong stage.

Subject(Safin) controls Object (Hewitt)

Safin can win this final.

The seperating lines give a strong Parents/Dog line on Safin's side.

Dog is also the Gua Shen , so this is very strong.

Parents is strong defense, so this could indicate that Safin defends very well against the counter-attacks of Hewitt (Parents drains Object at O/G)

Hewitt has a moving W/W Rabbit line on his side. It is Void but
because it moves it can be used.

However, since it changes to Brothers / Monkey line, this will become support for the Subject (Safin)

Since the home crowd is expected to play an important role in this match, we can also look at the outside lines, which can easily be seen as representing the spectators around the court.

Behind Safin is a moving W/W Tiger in line6. Tiger drains Subject/Rat, but it also changes to Brothers/ Rooster, which becomes a favorable factor for Subject / Safin

Behind Hewitt is a strong Parents / Goat line , which actually drains
Object (Hewitt).

Perhaps the big expectations on his shoulders will be too much and
become a disadvantage?

The whole reading is Fan Yin of Gua. I have no idea what this will
mean in this case.

I may be biased, but it seems to me there is more that favors Safin to
win.

He has the Gua Shen on his side and very important to defend against the counter attacks of the opponent.

Both moving lines change in favor of Safin. Subject controls Object.

起卦方式：手工指定 　　
公历时间：2005年1月29日21时20分　　星期六
农历时间：甲申年十二月二十亥时
干支：甲申年 丁丑月 癸丑日 癸亥时　(旬空：寅卯)
神煞：驿马—亥　桃花—午　日禄—子　贵人—卯，巳
　　　　　　　乾宫：山地剥　　　　　　　　　　兑宫：地山谦
六神 　伏神　 【本　　卦】　　　　　　　　　　【变　　卦】
白虎　　　　　▅▅▅▅▅　妻财丙寅木　　○→　 ▅▅　▅▅　兄弟癸酉金　
螣蛇兄弟壬申金▅▅　▅▅　子孙丙子水 世safin 　 ▅▅　▅▅　子孙癸亥水　世
勾陈　　　　　▅▅　▅▅　父母丙戌土　　　 　 ▅▅　▅▅　父母癸丑土　
朱雀　　　　　▅▅　▅▅　妻财乙卯木　　 ×→ 　▅▅▅▅▅　兄弟丙申金　
青龙　　　　　▅▅　▅▅　官鬼乙巳火应Hewitt 　▅▅　▅▅　官鬼丙午火　应
玄武　　　　　▅▅　▅▅　父母乙未土　　　　　 ▅▅　▅▅　父母丙辰土


Interpretation used
Jan 30 　甲寅日(Day)
甲戌時（Time）
乙亥時 （Time）



Let's look how the calendar affects the situation.

Month Branch(MB) Ox combines with Object (Hewitt). The home favorite is in very good
form.

Date Branch(DB) is Tiger , which supports Object (Hewitt) , but also combines with
Safin's seperating line Dog.

Date Stem(DS) is Wood which drains Safin and supports Hewitt. Hewitt is supposed
to have the better start in this match.

The match starts in Dog Hour, which is the Gua Shen. The quality of play should be exceptional.

After 1 hour and 50 minutes of play the Hour changes to Pig.

Pig supports Subject/ Water (Safin) and controls Object/ Fire (Hewitt)

If the match lasts longer than 1h 50 min , then Safin's chances improve
a lot.

So I would expect a close match with Hewitt starting better and Safin edging him in the end, probably after 4 or 5 sets.


Let's see what happens.

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This was the result:

Hewitt got a very good start as predicted , he played exceptional and did not make any errors in the first set.

Safin looked thight and did not play his normal powerful game.

Perhaps this was because the strong Dog seperating line on his side excerting too much control over his Rat Subject line.

He was overcontrolled and not free flowing in his play.

Hewitt won the 1st set easily by 6-1

In the second set Hewitt started to make more errors and Safin could take his only chance to win this set by 6-3, although he was still not playing well.

Now it was 1-1 in sets

It became very interesting when the match moved into Pig Hour.

This was a Yin Wood Pig Hour, so as the Hour changes there is again a brief boost of Wood from the Hour Stem(HS).

Indeed, at beginning of the 3rd set Hewitt played well again and moved to a 4-1 lead in the set.

By then we were something like 15 minutes into the Pig Hour, so I expected Safin to improve and perhaps still win this set because the Water from Pig Hour would become very beneficial for him.

And so happened. Suddenly Safin found his best tennis and won 5 games in a row to steal this set by 6-4 and go up 2-1 in sets.

A very dramatic turn around in the match.

It continued in the 4th set with Safin earning a quick 2-0 lead by breaking Hewitt serve immediately.

Safin had now won 7 games in a row, which is pretty rare in men's tennis finals.

Hewitt was not playing bad, but Safin hit winners left and right and
served many aces.

Safin kept up his stellar play and did not give Hewitt even a single chance to take back the lost service game and come back in the match.

Safin won the 4th set by 6-4, and was the winner by 3 sets to 1

Tennis matches often stretch over 3 or 4 hours , so there are usually 2 or even 3 different Hours elements that can come and change the match.
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