Spirits and stars · Inauspicious
The counterpart to Interception: internal drain, a heavy mind, being pulled around by your own emotions.
Take the opposite palace of the three-harmony group of the year or day branch: Shen, Zi and Chen see Hai; Yin, Wu and Xu see Si; Si, You and Chou see Shen; Hai, Mao and Wei see Yin.
Source: San Ming Tong Hui, spirits and stars chapter
In practice it reads as overthinking and internal drain: putting attention on concrete actions (notes, lists, staged goals) works better than turning things over.
Used: it is used as a drain signal in period analysis.
Rule of thumb: these markers are read from fixed classical tables, and the scores and advice come from a separate model. Both are laid out on the site, and neither is a claim about what will happen.
Is it a disaster marker?
The tradition lists it as inauspicious, but in real life it usually shows up as drain and hesitation. It is not a forecast of calamity.
Should I be careful when it appears?
Read it as a reminder to run fewer threads in parallel and focus on one or two things.