Key takeaways (~30 sec)
- 2027 carries the branch Wei, so the year's Tai Sui sits at Wei.
- Four branches meet it: the Goat by value, the Ox by clash and punishment, the Dog by punishment and destruction, the Rat by harm.
- The five relations — value, clash, punishment, harm, destruction — are different rows in the branch table, not five severities.
- The relation belongs to a chart's year branch, one of four pillars, so the year alone does not settle it.
- GPTbazi lays out the four pillars before any interpretation; the chart is free and needs no signup.
The short answer
2027 carries the branch 未, so the year's Tai Sui sits at 未. Four branches meet it: the Goat by value, the Ox by clash and punishment, the Dog by punishment and destruction, the Rat by harm. The list ends there.
The single English phrase 'offending Tai Sui' covers five different relations — 值, 冲, 刑, 害, 破 — that Chinese keeps separate. They are not five degrees of one misfortune. They are five different rows in the branch table, and one branch can hold two of them at once.
Whether any of it touches a particular person is a question about a chart, not about a calendar year. A chart built from the date, hour and place is the only thing that answers it.
What the name attaches to
Three different things share this name, and confusing them is most of what makes the topic sound stranger than it is.
Astronomically, it began as Jupiter. The planet takes about 11.86 years to circle the sun, so it moves through roughly one station a year. Because the real motion is uneven and a little off twelve years, calendarists invented a fictitious counterpart that advances exactly one branch per year in the opposite direction. That point is an accounting device, not an object.
Calendrically, the accounting device became the year's branch. 2027 holds 未, so 2027's Tai Sui is 未. Every table below is built on this layer.
Religiously, the term was later personified as a deity with a name and a birthday, and the practices in the sixth section come from that layer. It is a separate development and it does not change the arithmetic.
The five relations, kept apart
The classical vocabulary lists five relations between a person's year branch and the year's branch. Only one of them is close to the literal sense of 'offend'.
| Relation | Rule | What it describes |
|---|---|---|
| Value 值 | same branch | the year's branch is your branch |
| Clash 冲 | six positions apart, directly opposite | the branch across the compass |
| Punishment 刑 | fixed triads, and one pair | friction the texts place between equals |
| Harm 害 | fixed pairs | damage read as done quietly |
| Destruction 破 | fixed pairs | a split inside something whole |
These are not five severities. They are five rows, and the rows overlap: in 2027 the Ox holds clash and punishment together, the Dog holds punishment and destruction together.
Who it lands on in 2027
| Zodiac | Branch | Relation to 未 | Why |
|---|---|---|---|
| Goat | 未 | value 值 | the year's own branch |
| Ox | 丑 | clash 冲, punishment 刑 | directly opposite, and inside the 丑–戌–未 triad |
| Dog | 戌 | punishment 刑, destruction 破 | inside the same triad, and a destruction pair with 未 |
| Rat | 子 | harm 害 | a harm pair with 未 |
Four of twelve. The other eight — Tiger, Rabbit, Dragon, Snake, Horse, Monkey, Rooster, Pig — hold no relation to 未 under these five rules, and no amount of commentary adds one.
Read your sign and element — freeWhy exactly those four: the tables
Each of the four comes out of a fixed table, and every table is short enough to state in full.
Clash — 六冲 — pairs each branch with the one six positions away: 子–午, 丑–未, 寅–申, 卯–酉, 辰–戌, 巳–亥. 未's partner is 丑, the Ox.
Harm — 六害 — is a separate set: 子–未, 丑–午, 寅–巳, 卯–辰, 申–亥, 酉–戌. 未's partner here is 子, the Rat.
Destruction — 六破 — is another set again: 子–酉, 午–卯, 申–巳, 寅–亥, 辰–丑, 戌–未. 未's partner is 戌, the Dog.
Punishment — 刑 — runs on triads rather than pairs. One triad is 丑–戌–未; another is 寅–巳–申; another is 子–卯; and 辰, 午, 酉, 亥 punish themselves. Because 未 sits inside 丑–戌–未, both the Ox and the Dog are pulled in.
Value needs no table. It is the branch itself, which in 2027 is the Goat.
The same branch can arrive by two routes — the Ox is a clash and a punishment, the Dog a punishment and a destruction. That is a property of the tables, not a doubling of weight.
What the label does not say
A branch relation is a statement about two positions in a fixed twelve-part cycle. It is not a statement about someone's year.
The texts that list these relations describe configurations to be handled — which month to avoid, which direction not to break ground in — not verdicts on a life. The English phrase carries a moral charge the Chinese term does not have: 犯 here means to meet or to cross, the way a road crosses a line.
Three limits are worth stating plainly. First, the year branch is one of four pillars; a chart whose month branch absorbs the relation is not the same chart as one where nothing absorbs it. Second, the relation runs between branches, not between people — a Goat year in 2027 says nothing about how two Goats get on. Third, none of it predicts an event. It is a pattern in a table that people use to organise a year; reading it as a forecast is a later habit, not the system's own claim.
What people actually do
The practices are folk religion. They are old enough to describe without endorsing, and describing them is not the same as recommending them.
安太岁 — installing the year's Tai Sui — is a temple rite: a paper tablet naming the year's deity, a donation, a name written down, and a small ceremony at the year's end to send it off. 拜太岁 is the visit itself, usually in the first weeks of the lunar year.
躲春 is the quiet one, and it falls at Lichun rather than at New Year: staying indoors through the hour of the term, avoiding argument, in some accounts avoiding sleep. It is where this page meets the exact minute Lichun falls in 2027.
Red — belts, underclothes, thread at the wrist — is the household version, tied to 本命年, the year that repeats your own branch. In 2027 that year belongs to the Goat and to nobody else.
None of these alters a branch table. They are the customary response to a relation the table reports, and the table reports the same relation whether or not anyone responds to it.
How to tell whether it applies to you
Two things have to be settled before any of this means something about a specific person.
The first is which branch your year pillar actually holds. A folk table assigns it by date; a Four Pillars chart assigns it at Lichun. In 2027 those two answers differ for births between 09:46 on 4 February and midnight on 6 February — that birth is a Horse by the table and a Goat by the chart, and only one of the two is a value relation to the year.
The second is the other three pillars. A year branch meeting 未 while the month branch sits on 丑 is a different configuration from one where nothing else in the chart touches it. The single relation is a starting point, not a reading.
A chart built from the date, hour and place settles both. GPTbazi lays out the four pillars before it interprets anything, so the branch in question is visible rather than asserted.
FAQ
When does the Tai Sui year 2027 begin? At Lichun, on 4 February 2027 at 09:46 Beijing time, for anything computed from a chart — not at Chinese New Year on 6 February.
Which zodiac signs offend Tai Sui in 2027? Four: the Goat by value, the Ox by clash and punishment, the Dog by punishment and destruction, and the Rat by harm.
Is it bad to offend Tai Sui? The term names a relation between two branches in a fixed cycle. It is not a forecast, and the classical texts treat it as a configuration to handle rather than a verdict.
Does it apply to the calendar year or to the birth year? To the year branch of a chart, which is one of four pillars. It is a property of the chart, not of the calendar year alone.
What is a 本命年, and is 2027 one? A 本命年 is the year whose branch repeats your own. For anyone born in a Goat year, 2027 is one; for everyone else it is not.
Do I need my birth time? Yes, with the date and the place. Without the hour a chart cannot settle the year pillar near a boundary, and cannot compute the other three pillars at all.
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