WOOD RAT  (1924, 1984)
Progressive, success-orientated and amicable, this rat will try to explore everything and find good use for almost anything he come across. Expansive and very comprehensive in outlook, the wood rat is a corporate soul who knows how to make the system works for him. He is far-sighted and always concerned in finding the whys and therefores. Although he is egotistic, he makes himself agreeable and is quite thoughtful of others because he seeks universal admiration and approval.
Yet he has his principles and knows what he wants. He has strict priorities, but can be flexible in order to achieve his aims. One reason the wood rat work so hard is he loves security and worries about his future.
Outwardly, this person exudes confident and know-how and is probably professional in manner. He is a good talker and can promote ideas objectively and manage projects capably. Here is someone who have little difficulty in drumming up suppport for his ventures.

FIRE RAT  (1936, 1996)
This chivalrous and dynamic rat loves getting involved in all sorts of activities and never tires of embarking on new campaigns. He loves travel and fashionable clothes and is open and agressive by nature. He can also be the most generous of all rats.
Although he is energetic and idealistic, he tends to not to be very diplomatic, and sometimes may be too blunt to win the support he requires. Because he is not very disciplined, he will follow the dictates of his heart more often than those of his head. As much as he is devoted to his home and family, he may still take off whenever he feels needs to. He needs lots of room and attentions to soothe his over sized ego. An independent and very, very competitive rat, he will not be content to maintain an average position. If he is too impatient for success, his fortunes may change often quite drastically.

Got some questions here for the experts...

I'm reading some books about how the different matching of ba zi combinations bring about different stars (good & bad).

Like for example, born in "zi" month matches with "si" (di zhi) brings about "Tian De" with is a lucky star that can counteract various unwholesome stars provided the used "si" Di Zhi is not being chong ke xing chuan by other tian gan or Di zhi.

Si is fire, water ke fire, so the month di zhi "zi" counteract with the "si" di zhi that brings about the "tian de", if there is one more in the bazi, "zi", and there is "chou" that can form Metal element with "si" at the right month, does it mean that the extra "zi" di zhi will not be in conflict with "si" since "si" has already merge with "chou" to form metal?

Or if there are 2 "Ji" (-earth tian gan) and 1 "Wu" (+earth tian gan) would the extra "zi" (water di zhi) be countered and not disturb the tian de star's effect?

what you have saw in the book is the more advance method in bazi which is call 10 gods (shi shen), na yin , month gods and killing (yue shen) etc...

Like for example, born in "zi" month matches with "si" (di zhi) brings about "Tian De" with is a lucky star that can counteract various unwholesome stars provided the used "si" Di Zhi is not being chong ke xing chuan by other tian gan or Di zhi.

this is falls under the months gods and killing... but it is not tian de (heavenly virtue) but long de (dragon virtue)... besides zi (rat) and si (snake), zi (rat) and wei (sheep); si (snake) and xu (dog), also forms long de (dragon virtue)... under this method, not only the gods like long de (dragon virtue), the killings like xue dao (blood knife) also can counteract with other stars in the chart to bring out good or bad results...

Si is fire, water ke fire, so the month di zhi "zi" counteract with the "si" di zhi that brings about the "tian de", if there is one more in the bazi, "zi", and there is "chou" that can form Metal element with "si" at the right month, does it mean that the extra "zi" di zhi will not be in conflict with "si" since "si" has already merge with "chou" to form metal?

this is the di zhi san he (earth branch 3 combination)

si (snake) + chou (ox) + you (rooster) = metal struture

so having only si (snake) and chou (ox) only gives a half metal structure, to me it is not consider as a metal structure (but certain master would say so, it is better to ask him under which classical text did he get the info from).

pls also note that the zi (rat) and the chou (ox can also combines because it falls under the liu he (6 harmony) and this is a sure combining situation...
(which all master will agree upon) so we use a little common sense here, what will the result occured?

there is this master by the name of joey yap, he always mention that in chinese metaphysics we must always use common sense which i totally agree...

i would like to know the name of the book and the auther of the book... can you pls post it up here, pls?

p/s: my spelling not good, hope you understand what i mean...