The Ten Gods · Output
伤官
shāng guān · Disruption
What the Day Master produces, in the opposite polarity: output that pushes against what constrains it.
- Originality
- Candour
- Critical eye
- Invention
What defines it
- Family
- Output — what the Day Master produces
- Polarity relative to the Day Master
- opposite
The relationship
Also generated by the Day Master, but with the opposite charge, so the flow meets resistance and sharpens. Traditionally rendered as something like "hurting the officer": the classical reading is genuinely adversarial toward authority — a tendency to say what a structure would rather not hear.
How it shows up
Prominent where people are unusually good at seeing what is wrong with a plan, and unusually willing to say it. They produce the idea the existing arrangement could not have, and are the least tactful person in the room about it.
Where the cost is
The cost is friction with the people who hold the rules. Being right about the flaw does not protect against the consequences of how it was raised, and the same instinct that improves the work also burns goodwill.
What keeps it in proportion
Resource steadies it — support and grounding turn provocation into something that can be built on rather than merely objected to.