大運與AI時代：你的八字扛得住失業潮嗎？

Introduction – The 2024–2025 Tech Layoff Wave Has Everyone on Edge, Wondering If Their Da Yun Has Gone Wrong

Just after the first quarter of 2025, the global tech industry has been hit with nonstop layoff news. Google, Microsoft, Meta, and Amazon have all downsized in succession, and even TSMC’s supply chain has reported hiring freezes. LinkedIn is flooded with “layoff posts” every day, and social media feeds are full of anxious mid-level managers. Many people have started digging out their Ba Zi charts, suspecting that they’ve hit a “Da Yun transition point” or are suffering from Fan Tai Sui or an unfavorable Liu Nian.

Are you feeling the same way? You work hard, your skills are solid, yet between 2024 and 2025 you got the notice: “department optimization.” When you see your peers getting laid off too, you slowly realize—this probably isn’t a personal luck issue but the whole tide of the era turning. We tend to blame everything on “my bad fate,” but right now, with AI accelerating the replacement of white-collar jobs, your Da Yun might still be smooth, but the current of the times has already swept you away.

This article won’t give you a placebo answer. We’re going to use Ba Zi logic to help you unpack the structural conflict between “Da Yun, Liu Nian, and industry cycles.” One sentence summary: the tectonic shifts of the era are far more violent than the ups and downs of personal fortune.

First, the Conclusion – Da Yun Is the Tide, AI Is the Rising Sea Level. A Good Ba Zi Doesn’t Guarantee You Won’t Be Laid Off

Let’s start with a harsh but true conclusion: From 2024 to 2026, even if your Ba Zi is perfect and your Da Yun is excellent, you can’t be sure you won’t be affected by the AI shockwave. Because Da Yun is like tides—rising and falling every ten years, affecting the highs and lows of your personal energy. But the AI era is like a rising sea level, reshaping the entire continental shelf.

For example: Your Ba Zi has strong Water, and your Da Yun is moving through Metal and Water—in theory, these ten years should be smooth sailing. But if your industry is graphic design, entry-level programming, translation, customer service, or data entry, the sea is already up to your ankles. No matter how much the tide pushes you forward, the water has already covered the car roof.

What Is Da Yun – A Ten-Year Energy Cycle, Explained with the Four Seasons

Da Yun is the most core dynamic parameter in Ba Zi numerology. After your Ba Zi chart is calculated based on your birth day’s Heavenly Stem and Earthly Branch, your life’s ten-year fortune directions are derived. These ten-year cycles, like the Earth’s orbit around the Sun, affect your energy, opportunities, health, and wealth.

The most intuitive analogy is the four seasons: People in a “Spring Da Yun” are full of vitality, suited for starting new ventures and learning new skills; those in a “Summer Da Yun” have high passion, easily expand but also risk burning out; those in an “Autumn Da Yun” should harvest, stabilize, and simplify; those in a “Winter Da Yun” should introspect, conserve, and wait for the right time.

Your original Ba Zi chart is the “seed,” and Da Yun is the “climate.” The same apple tree planted in a tropical (strong Fire), temperate (balanced Wood and Earth), or cold (strong Metal and Water) climate will produce completely different results.

What the AI Era Is Doing – The Sea Level Is Rising, and Neither White-Collar Nor Gold-Collar Workers Are Safe

The AI era isn’t just ChatGPT or DeepSeek. It’s a mass automation of “knowledge workers.” In the past, people thought blue-collar workers would be replaced by machines. Now it’s the turn of white-collar, gold-collar, and professionals—lawyers, accountants, pharmacists, software engineers, translators, data analysts, and even some doctors.

Even crueler: AI never gets tired, never quits, never gets married or has kids, and its iteration speed far exceeds human learning speed. You used to become an expert by accumulating experience over time; now AI can read the entire human literature library in one second.

【Key】People with Fire as a Taboo God Will Have a Particularly Hard Time in These Two Years – 2025 Yi-Si and 2026 Bing-Wu Are Extremely Fire-Dominant

Let’s look at the Liu Nian: 2025 Yi-Si year, with Earthly Branch Si Fire; 2026 Bing-Wu year, with Earthly Branch Wu Fire and Heavenly Stem Bing Fire. Two consecutive years with Fire energy at its peak. If your Ba Zi chart has Fire as a Taboo God—meaning you have too much Fire, or you need Cold/Wet (Water, Metal) to balance—then these two years will hit you hard: anxiety, insomnia, drastic workplace changes, fierce competition.

Why does Fire represent AI, technology, and the speed of change? In the Five Elements, Fire’s nature is: outward expansion, speed, passion, lightning-fast. The rhythm of the AI era is exactly Fire-like: creating something from nothing, iterating rapidly, showing no mercy to personal relationships, and valuing only efficiency. People who fear Fire are naturally unsuited to this fast-paced, high-temperature environment—they prefer stability, slow and meticulous work, and human emotional connection.

Five Elements coping strategies:

1. Use Metal and Water to cool down – move into fields that require extreme accuracy, security/privacy, and legal compliance (legal compliance, medical data auditing, high-end financial advisory)
2. Use Earth to store energy – education & training, physical retail, human resources, psychological counseling
3. Timing strategy – Those with Fire as a taboo god should not make major career changes or start a business in 2025–2026; hold onto your current position. Wait until 2027 Ding-Wei and 2028 Wu-Shen, when Fire energy turns to Earth and Metal, and the situation will ease.

Good Luck Meets a Down Cycle – Structural Mismatch: The Most Painful Situation Is Having a Good Ba Zi but a Disrupted Industry

One of the most heartbreaking scenarios: Your Ba Zi chart is excellent, your Da Yun is favorable, but the entire industry you’re in is being upended by AI. The pain lies in this: you clearly have strong abilities and good support from benefactors, but the whole field is shrinking in value. Your fortune has “good energy,” but “the direction is wrong.” It’s like driving a Ferrari onto a traffic-jammed highway—no matter how good the performance, it’s useless.

Ba Zi Becomes More Useful in the AI Era, but the Way You Use It Changes

The more AI develops, the more useful Ba Zi becomes. In the past, Ba Zi was often used for “when to get a promotion or get rich, when to get married and have children.” Now, the more important uses are:

1. Identify your Five Elements weaknesses – If you fear Fire, don’t rush to the front lines of technology; if you like Fire, you can use AI to accelerate your career
2. Judge the timing for a career shift – When does your Da Yun enter Metal/Water or Earth? That may be the period when you’re suited to go deep
3. Liu Nian warnings – 2025 Yi-Si and 2026 Bing-Wu have extreme Fire; whether you like Fire or not, don’t stubbornly resist changes in these two years

People with a “Bad” Ba Zi Actually Have Opportunities – Those with Strong Shi Shen and Shang Guan Are Hot Commodities in the AI Era

Interestingly, those who in traditional Ba Zi are seen as “unstable and unruly”—people with strong Shi Shen (Eating God) and Shang Guan (Hurting Officer)—are suddenly treasures in the AI era. Because Shi Shen and Shang Guan represent creativity, expression, unconventional thinking, and quick reflexes—precisely the human traits that AI still cannot replicate.

People with a “bad” Ba Zi (weak Self, strong Wealth, uncontrollable Rob Wealth) but powerful Shi Shen or Shang Guan can actually stand out in the AI era through creativity, self-media, copywriting, design, consulting, and customized services. They don’t need big companies or stable systems; one person can generate value.

Conclusion – Your Fortune Is a Steering Wheel, Not a Destination

The period 2024–2026 is a global numerological phase of “Fire blazing and Earth parching” (Yi-Si, Bing-Wu, Ding-Wei), compounded by the acceleration of AI. Everyone is going through a major storm. Those who fear Fire feel suffocated; even those who like Fire may not have an easy time. The key is: don’t just look at whether your Da Yun is good or bad; you need to see the entire energy structure of the era.

Finally, remember: Your fortune is a steering wheel, not a destination. The steering wheel can help you avoid potholes, but the road ahead is laid out by the entire era. Adjust your direction, go with the flow, and you can still steady your boat amid the torrent.