Eastern knowledge, page 11
The Tử Tôn line in Lục Hào Kinh Dịch: why the same line is both a blessing spirit and an obstacle depending on the question
The Tử Tôn line is the line generated by the palace element, symbolizing children, students, subordinates, and livestock.
What Is Hoa Cái in Bát Tự? Why the Mộ Character of the Tam Hợp Is Tied to Art, Religion and Solitude
Hoa Cái is the Mộ character of the tam hợp, always on Thìn Tuất Sửu Mùi. This analysis covers its placement and its links to art, religion and scholarship.
What is Khâm Thiên Tứ Hóa: a Tử Vi school that takes Tứ Hóa as its axis, using the stem of each palace and not only the birth year stem
Khâm Thiên Tứ Hóa is a Tử Vi school that reads charts through Lộc, Quyền, Khoa and Kỵ, flying transformations from each palace's stem.
What Is Qi in Feng Shui: Sheng Qi, Si Qi, and the Zangshu Line 'Qi Rides the Wind and Scatters, Is Bounded by Water and Stops'
Qi in feng shui is the invisible flow the Zangshu describes as scattering in wind and stopping at water. It covers sheng qi, si qi, cang feng, and de shui.
What Is Khổng Minh Thần Toán, How Do You Look It Up, and Why Is It Named After Gia Cát Lượng Despite No Evidence He Wrote It?
Khổng Minh Thần Toán is a 384-card divination book matching 64 hexagrams with six moving lines, credited to Gia Cát Lượng by legend, not by histories.
What Is Kỳ Môn Độn Giáp? The Structure of a Kỳ Môn Chart: Earth Plate, Heaven Plate, Human Plate (Eight Gates), and Spirit Plate (Eight Spirits)
Kỳ Môn Độn Giáp casts a chart for a moment to assess fortune and misfortune. A full chart stacks four plates on the nine palaces of the Lạc Thư grid.
Casting a Mai Hoa hexagram from the lunar year, month, day, and hour: formulas, a full worked example, and the points where books still differ
Mai Hoa Dịch Số casts a hexagram from the lunar year, month, day, and hour: divide by 8 for the trigrams and by 6 for the moving line.
Building a Xuan Kong Flying Star chart step by step: placing the period star in the center, flying it along the Luo Shu, taking the mountain star and facing star, and deciding forward or reverse flight by the San Yuan Long
Build a Xuan Kong Flying Star chart: place the period star in the center, fly it along the Luo Shu, set the mountain and facing stars.
Building the Four Pillars of BaZi from birth date and time: the year pillar changes at Lập Xuân, the month pillar changes at the solar term, the day pillar follows the 60-cycle, and the hour stem is derived from the day stem
BaZi's Four Pillars from birth date and time: the year pillar turns at Lập Xuân, the month at solar terms, the day runs the 60-cycle.
What Is Lộc Tồn, Why Does Every Chart Have It, and Why Is It Always Flanked by Kình Dương and Đà La?
Lộc Tồn is the Yin Earth wealth star heading the 12-star Lộc Tồn cycle, always flanked by Kình Dương and Đà La. Here is how it is placed by birth stem.
How Liu Yao Predicts Timing: Static Lines Await the Day of Rule or Clash, Moving Lines Await the Day of Combination or Rule, Excessive Vigor Awaits the Tomb or Clash, Void in the Cycle Awaits Leaving the Cycle or a Clash, and Month Breach Awaits the Next Month or a Combination
Liu Yao timing rules from Zeng Shan Buo Yi chapter 26D: how static lines, moving lines, excessive vigor and void in the cycle each find their day.
What Is Lục Nhâm? Steps to Build a Đại Lục Nhâm Chart from Thien Ban and Tứ Khóa to Tam Truyền and Thiên Tướng
Lục Nhâm is an ancient divination method in the Tam Thức group. Learn how Đại Lục Nhâm builds a chart: Thien Ban, Tứ Khóa, Tam Truyền, and Thiên Tướng.
The Six Relatives and Six Beasts in Liu Yao Hexagrams: How to Assign Them, Their Meanings, and the Cycle of Original Spirit, Enemy Spirit, and Adversary Spirit
Six Relatives in Liu Yao hexagrams come from the line and palace elements, while the Six Beasts start at the day stem and only add flavor.
What Are Annual Palaces and Annual Stars in Vietnamese Astrology, and in What Order Do You Read a Specific Year on a Chart?
Annual palaces carry the exact earthly branch of the year, while annual stars are placed by that year's stem and branch.
Ti and Yong in Mai Hoa Dịch Số: Which Trigram Is Ti, Which Is Yong, and How Do the Five Generating and Controlling Relations Reveal Fortune or Misfortune?
In Mai Hoa Dịch Số, the trigram without the moving line is ti (the querent) and the trigram with the moving line is yong (the matter).
What Are Mieu, Vuong, Dac, Binh, Ham and Why Does the Same Star Read Oppositely in Different Palaces?
Mieu, Vuong, Dac, Binh and Ham are the five brightness levels of a star in Tử Vi, and they explain why the same star reads oppositely in different palaces.
What Are the Twelve Heavenly Generals and Twelve Monthly Generals of Da Liu Ren, and How Do They Differ?
Da Liu Ren builds the heaven plate from twelve Monthly Generals that shift with mid-qi, then places twelve Heavenly Generals from the Nobleman.
Why the Same Hexagram Cast This Month Differs Next Month: Month Leader, Day Spirit, and the Three States of Void in the Decade, Month Breaker, and Hidden Movement in Liu Yao
Month leader and day spirit set each line's strength in a Liu Yao hexagram, covering void in the decade, month breaker, and hidden movement.
Flying Transformations and Self-Transformations in Khâm Thiên Tử Vi: Reading the Direction of Hóa Lộc and Hóa Kỵ Correctly
Phi hóa: a palace's stem turns a star into Lộc, Quyền, Khoa or Kỵ and sends it to that star's palace. Tự hóa: it does so within itself.
What schools of feng shui exist and where did they split from: from Guo Pu's Zangshu to Jiangxi terrain forms, Fujian li qi, then San He, San Yuan, Bát Trạch, and Huyền Không
Feng shui split into two main schools over a thousand years: Jiangxi reads terrain forms, while Fujian li qi calculates with a compass.
Hidden Spirit in Lục Hào: When the Useful Spirit Does Not Appear, What Tang San Buo Dich Says About Finding and Judging It
When a Lục Hào hexagram lacks the needed relative, Tang San Buo Dich chapter 28 shows how to find the hidden spirit and judge when it is useful.
Hexagram 36 Di Huo Ming Yi (地火明夷): Light Wounded, Holding to One's Path in Dark Times
Hexagram 36 Di Huo Ming Yi in the I Ching speaks of light wounded and dark times: the Judgment, the Image, and the six line texts of the classic.
Hexagram Earth over Heaven Tai (number 11, 泰, ䷊): why is earth above and heaven below called opening and peace?
Hexagram 11, Earth over Heaven Tai, has inner Qian and outer Kun, heaven and earth in harmony. It covers the judgment, image, six line texts and commentaries.
Hexagram 35 Fire Over Earth (Jin, 晉): Advancing, Rising, and the Six Line Texts of the I Ching
Hexagram 35 Fire Over Earth (Jin) in the I Ching: the sun rising above the earth, a sign of advancing and being recognized.