What Is the Following Wealth Structure?
The Following Wealth Structure (Cong Cai) is one of the Following Structures, classified as a Special Structure (Wai Ge). When the Day Master is extremely weak with no root, and the Wealth stars (the Five Elements the Day Master controls) in the chart are overwhelmingly strong with no Peer or Rival to support the Day Master, the Day Master is powerless to resist the wealth momentum and can only submit — this is called the Following Wealth Structure.
Formation Conditions for Following Wealth
- Day Master extremely weak: No Peer (Bi Jian) or Rival (Jie Cai) to support; Day Master has no Root Connection
- Wealth stars extremely strong: Direct Wealth (Zheng Cai) and Indirect Wealth (Pian Cai) are numerous and powerful, forming momentum
- No Resource/Seal to support: No Direct Seal (Zheng Yin) or Indirect Seal (Pian Yin) generating the Day Master
- No Peer to protect the Day Master: Virtually no same-element peers in the chart
Favorable and Unfavorable for Following Wealth
The Following Wealth Structure submits to Wealth stars:
- Favorable: Wealth stars (what Day Master controls), Authority (Wealth generates Officer, following the generative flow), Output (generates Wealth)
- Unfavorable: Resource/Seal (Seal controls Output, Seal is controlled by Wealth — breaks the balance), Peer/Rival (competes for Wealth, breaks the structure)
Personality Traits
Those with the Following Wealth Structure typically:
- Value wealth highly, are skilled at business, and have strong financial luck
- Submit to external authority and go with the flow
- Develop smoothly in commerce, trade, and finance
- If the structure is pure, possess strong wealth accumulation ability
Common Characteristics of All Following Structures
All Following Structure chart holders share one common characteristic: following the trend brings good fortune, going against it brings misfortune. The chart holder's luck cycles must follow the direction of the dominant deity — going against it breaks the structure, indicating dramatic ups and downs or even disaster.
Important Notes
Determining the Following Wealth Structure requires extreme caution: if the chart has even a weak Peer or Rival with root connection, the Following Structure may not hold, and the chart should instead be analyzed as a Standard Structure pattern of "excessive Wealth with weak Day Master" — the treatment of these two patterns is completely different.