Direct Resource (正印) meaning

What is Direct Resource?

Direct Resource (正印) is the character with the opposite polarity among the element that gives birth to you. Jeong (正) means upright and in (印) means seal, so it is 'the upright seal,' meaning credentials and documents. It stands for your mother, teachers, scholarship, licenses, and papers for a house or land, and it is an energy that looks after you and protects you. It is also called Insu (印綬).

Personality and traits

People with a clear Direct Resource love learning and are warm-hearted. You respect your elders and tradition, and you trust and accept people. On the other hand, there is a dependent streak, so you sometimes put off decisions or leave them to others. You grow big once you reach the stage of putting what you learned to use in the world.

Direct Resource in each pillar

In the Year Pillar

A Direct Resource in the Year Pillar is read as a sign that your family valued scholarship and education. You received a lot of love from your mother or grandparents.

In the Month Pillar

A Direct Resource in the Month Pillar is a working life in education, research, administration, and documents. It is a position where licenses and degrees become your strength.

In the Day Branch

A Direct Resource in the Day Branch means your spouse looks after you well. It is said you meet a spouse like a mother, and luck with property papers is read here too.

In the Hour Pillar

A Direct Resource in the Hour Pillar means settling down late in life with study, documents, and a home. Your children tend to be devoted to you.

When you have a lot of Direct Resource

With many Direct Resource stars, the care goes too far and your strength to stand on your own is weak. You think a lot and act slowly, and they hold down the Output stars, so the flow from talent to money (siksin saengjae) can get blocked. You need to deliberately create work that puts what you learned to actual use.

When you have no Direct Resource

Without a Direct Resource, it is a flow of learning and standing up by your own strength. Your independence comes early to match. If you have an Indirect Resource, it takes charge of learning.

Love and relationships

In love, Direct Resource is warm and devoted. You look after your partner and trust them. On the other hand, you get used to receiving and may expect your partner to play the mother, so it helps to keep the give and take balanced.

Work and career

Direct Resource shines in work where documents and credentials are your strength: education, research, administration, publishing, real estate, and the public sector. When it connects to a Direct Officer, you stay recognized for a long time in a stable position, which is called Gwanin Sangsaeng.

Which characters count as Direct Resource, by Day Master

Find your Day Master (the heavenly stem of your birth day) in the first column to see which stems and branches are Direct Resource for you. Branches are read by their main hidden stem.

Day Pillars whose Day Branch is Direct Resource

These Day Pillars carry this star in the spouse seat, the branch of the birth day.

• 子Gap-jaWood Rat
• 巳Gi-saEarth Snake
• 亥Eul-haeWood Pig
• 午Mu-oEarth Horse

FAQ

Does having a Direct Resource mean I am good at studying?

Direct Resource loves learning and has a great capacity to take things in, so it fits well with study. It does not decide your grades; it means credentials and documents become a strength in your life.

Why is there a saying that many Resource stars mean no money?

It is because the Resource stars (Direct and Indirect Resource) clash with the Wealth stars (Wealth controls Resource) and hold down the Output stars that produce wealth. Being used to learning and receiving makes it easy to become passive about earning and spending money. Turn what you learned into something you sell, and it is solved.