What This Is
A harm that carries a punishing edge. 寅 (wood) and 巳 (fire) form one of the six branch harms — but 寅巳 is also a segment of the 三刑 punishment 寅巳申, so harm and punishment occupy the same pair. Where a plain 六害 is purely concealed damage, this one is sharpened by the punishment it shares ground with, and the damage shows more plainly than an ordinary harm.
It is hidden damage with a cutting edge, often surfacing in the specific 寅巳申 register: help that is repaid with harm.
When It Fires
It fires when both 寅 and 巳 are present in the chart and the harm is structurally live. Its intensity escalates sharply if the third branch 申 is also present — then the pair crosses from a sharpened harm toward the full 三刑 punishment, 无恩之刑, with all the weight that carries.
What It Changes
It surfaces a harm with a punishing theme. As a 六害 it works underneath, in the register of close relationships; but because it shares ground with the ungrateful punishment, the damage tends to carry that specific quality — generosity met with betrayal, the one helped turning against the helper, support that draws harm in return. The wound is more visible than a plain harm and more pointed in its theme.
Where 申 joins it, the harm tips toward the full punishment, and the betrayal-and-recoil register intensifies considerably.
How To Read It
Read it by whether the harm fires, by intensity, and crucially by whether 申 is present. With only 寅 and 巳, it is a sharpened harm — concealed damage carrying the ungrateful-punishment flavour. With 申 also present, it escalates toward the full 寅巳申 三刑, a far weightier configuration of help-repaid-with-harm and restless, accident-prone motion.
It is read with care and never flatly: the harm alone is subtle but pointed, while the full punishment behind it is a serious window. The reading is the pair against the chart's resilience and against whether the third branch completes the punishment.
Where This Shows Up
A harm of this kind is felt in the betrayal of giving — help repaid with harm, the supported turning against the supporter, generosity that draws trouble back. Because it carries the punishment's edge, it shows more plainly than a quiet harm: the grievance is sharper, the recoil more visible, the theme specifically one of aid met with ingratitude.
Where the third branch 申 is present, the stretch takes on the full ungrateful-punishment texture — restless motion, accident-proneness, and the recurring pattern of those one aids turning away. The texture is harm with a cutting edge: concealed but pointed, and weightier still when the punishment it shares ground with completes.