Knowledge › Vietnam › Folk belief Practitioners describe căn đồng as a spirit root that forces the trình đồng rite, while anthropologists read it as rebuilding self and social position.
Updated 27 Sept 2026 Culture and belief
Knowledge › Vietnam › Folk belief Hầu đồng is the spirit mediumship ritual at the heart of Đạo Mẫu, believed to channel the Tứ Phủ deities through a medium.
Updated 20 Aug 2026 Culture and belief
Knowledge › Eastern › BaZi Thấu can is a stem exposed among the four pillars; thông căn is a stem rooted in a branch. Together they show whether that stem has real strength.
Updated 14 Oct 2026 Traditional systems
Knowledge › Western › Tarot Explore the symbolism and in-depth meaning of the 4 of Pentacles Tarot card: control, holding on, financial security, and healthy boundaries.
Updated 12 Sept 2026 Modern system
Knowledge › Eastern › Vietnamese astrology 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.
Updated 25 Sept 2026 Traditional systems
Knowledge › Eastern › Feng shui Northeast-facing houses belong to the Gen trigram and Earth element, tied to knowledge. See which elements match and what layout notes to keep in mind.
Updated 20 Aug 2026 Traditional systems
Knowledge › Eastern › I Ching A clear reference guide to all eight trigrams of the I Ching: their meaning, element, family member, and direction according to the Later Heaven arrangement.
Updated 9 Aug 2026 Traditional systems
Knowledge › Eastern › Feng shui Gen Mountain in the 24 mountain directions: its Earth element, Northeast palace, and meaning for house direction and altar placement.
Updated 19 Jul 2026 Traditional systems
Knowledge › Eastern › BaZi Without the birth hour, Bát Tự still builds three pillars of year, month and day; Tử Vi needs the hour to place Mệnh and Thân. What stays usable.
Updated 2 Nov 2026 Traditional systems
Knowledge › Eastern › Feng shui North-facing houses belong to the Water element, suited to Water or Metal people, while Wood, Fire and Earth owners need colors and objects that harmonize.
Updated 24 Jul 2026 Traditional systems
Knowledge › Eastern › BaZi Hà Lạc lý số casts a hexagram from the can chi of a birth date: the number tables, the 25 and 30 reductions, and a worked example from Học Năng's book.
Updated 12 Oct 2026 Traditional systems
Knowledge › Eastern › Feng shui East-facing houses belong to the Wood element, suited to Wood and Fire and to Chấn or Tốn trigrams. Note the limits on Metal and balance the five elements.
Updated 30 Jun 2026 Traditional systems
Dictionary › Stems, branches & zodiac animals The Heavenly Stems are ten symbols in the Stem-Branch system, used to record days, months, years and hours in East Asian calendrics.
Updated 12 Sept 2026 Calendar and astronomy
Dictionary › Stems, branches & zodiac animals Can Chi pairs the Ten Heavenly Stems with the Twelve Earthly Branches to record years, months, days and hours in the traditional East Asian calendar.
Updated 12 Sept 2026 Calendar and astronomy
Knowledge › Vietnam › Traditional food Ruou can in the festival life of the E De and other Central Highlands groups: an offering to deities and a bond of community solidarity.
Updated 13 Sept 2026 Culture and belief
Knowledge › Eastern › Feng shui Southeast-facing houses in Ba Zhai feng shui: the Xun trigram and Wood element, why East group homeowners benefit most, and layout points to consider.
Updated 26 Jul 2026 Traditional systems
Knowledge › Vietnam › Traditional food The S'tiêng people of Bình Phước make rượu cần with forest leaf and bark yeasts and rice, yielding bitter and sweet types.
Updated 4 Jul 2026 Culture and belief
Knowledge › Eastern › I Ching The Gen trigram (☶) is one of the eight trigrams of the I Ching, symbolizing the mountain, stillness and the point of rest, and teaching when to stop.
Updated 17 Aug 2026 Traditional systems
Knowledge › Eastern › I Ching The Qian trigram (☰) in the I Ching has three yang lines, symbolizing Heaven, creativity and the ultimate yang principle.
Updated 20 Jun 2026 Traditional systems
Knowledge › Vietnam › Folk belief Couple age matching has three main methods: earthly branch, nạp âm and cung phi, which often disagree. With a worked example and what old books say.
Updated 15 Oct 2026 Culture and belief
Knowledge › Eastern › BaZi Hidden stems are the heavenly stems concealed inside each earthly branch, layered as main qi, middle qi and residual qi.
Updated 25 Sept 2026 Traditional systems
Knowledge › Eastern › I Ching Explore the Pure Yang Hexagram (Qian), the first hexagram in the I Ching: a symbol of heaven, creativity, and infinite potential.
Updated 14 Jun 2026 Traditional systems
Knowledge › Vietnam › Ethnic minority customs The Mường New Rice Festival in Hương Cần Commune, Phú Thọ falls on the 10th day of the 10th lunar month, when the Lang makes the offering at Khoang Đình.
Updated 27 Sept 2026 Culture and belief
Knowledge › Eastern › I Ching Hexagram 52 Thuần Cấn in the I Ching teaches the way of knowing when to stop: the judgment on 'stopping at the back' and the six line texts from toe to cheek.
Updated 26 Sept 2026 Traditional systems
Knowledge › Vietnam › Life-cycle rites Lễ tơ hồng honors Ông Tơ Bà Nguyệt after the bride arrives; lễ hợp cẩn has the couple share wine and betel in the bridal chamber. Rites and meaning.
Updated 20 Oct 2026 Culture and belief
Knowledge › Western › Enneagram Enneagram Type 3, The Achiever: core motivation, strengths, weaknesses, and paths to healthy growth for balancing success with inner happiness.
Updated 20 Jun 2026 Modern system
Knowledge › Eastern › The twelve zodiac animals A 2030 Canh Tuất child has Thoa Xuyến Kim nạp âm. See which parent years can chi and nạp âm call compatible, and why this is folk custom, not science.
Updated 17 Oct 2026 Traditional systems
Knowledge › Eastern › I Ching Heavenly Stem Yi is Yin Wood in the I Ching, linked to the Kun and Xun hexagrams and seen as gentle, adaptable and quietly resilient.
Updated 4 Aug 2026 Traditional systems
Knowledge › Vietnam Having a child in 2027 Đinh Mùi, nạp âm Thiên Hà Thủy: read parent compatibility by can chi, nạp âm, tam hợp and lục hợp, with notes on the method's limits.
Updated 17 Oct 2026
Knowledge › Western › Enneagram Deep dive into Enneagram Type 2 (The Helper): core motivations, strengths, hidden shadows, and tailored growth advice for this personality type.
Updated 24 Aug 2026 Modern system
Knowledge › Vietnam › Folk belief Kỳ yên at Bình Thủy communal house, Cần Thơ: Thượng điền on the 12th-14th of the fourth lunar month, Hạ điền on the 14th-15th of the twelfth. Rites explained.
Updated 2 Nov 2026 Culture and belief
Knowledge › Eastern › I Ching Đằng Xà, Bạch Hổ and Huyền Vũ are three of the six beasts in Lục Hào, started by the day stem. Each spirit's nuance is analysed, and none decides fortune.
Updated 25 Sept 2026 Traditional systems
Knowledge › Eastern › Numerology Discover the meaning of number 5 in Eastern Numerology through the lens of the Five Elements, I Ching, and Vietnamese culture.
Updated 30 Aug 2026 Modern system
Knowledge › Western › Psychology Do astrologers matching charts to unknown people beat chance? Double-blind tests, Carlson 1985 to Hartmann 2006, found they did not.
Updated 27 Sept 2026
Knowledge › Western › Psychology A numerology test on 806 Nobel laureates found birth-number distribution no different from chance. Why does numerology still sound true to so many people?
Updated 27 Sept 2026
Knowledge › Eastern › BaZi The heavenly stems in Bát Tự: the four clashing pairs, the pairs that only overcome one another, and how Trích Thiên Tủy speaks of stems at war.
Updated 12 Oct 2026 Traditional systems
Knowledge › Eastern › Feng shui Feng shui for west-facing houses: the Yang Metal element, who it suits, and how colors, materials and plants ease harsh afternoon sun.
Updated 16 Aug 2026 Traditional systems
Knowledge › Eastern › Feng shui South-facing houses belong to the Fire element and suit the West group. See how furniture and colors balance the five elements.
Updated 7 Jul 2026 Traditional systems
Knowledge › Western › Tarot Can Tarot truly predict the future, or is it a mirror reflecting the mind? A look at the limits of the 78-card deck and the introspection it depends on.
Updated 12 Jun 2026 Modern system
Knowledge › Western › Tarot After a breakup, tarot can help name your feelings and review the relationship, but it cannot say whether your ex will return.
Updated 23 Sept 2026 Modern system
Knowledge › Eastern › Feng shui A northwest-facing house belongs to the Qian trigram and the Metal element, suiting Earth and Metal people while Fire needs care.
Updated 20 Jul 2026 Traditional systems
Knowledge › Vietnam › Folk taboos Vietnamese folk taboos for groundbreaking, construction and housewarming cover dates, directions and rituals, rooted in yin-yang and five elements.
Updated 16 Jun 2026 Culture and belief
Knowledge › Eastern › Lunar calendar Lập Đông is the 19th of the 24 solar terms, marking the start of winter and usually falling on 7 or 8 November each year.
Updated 16 Oct 2026 Calendar and astronomy
Knowledge › Eastern › Feng shui The Táng thư names five kinds of mountain unfit for burial: đồng, đoạn, thạch, quá, độc. What the main text says and what its commentary adds.
Updated 12 Oct 2026 Traditional systems
Open data The twelve double-hours of each day across the sixty-day stem-branch cycle, marking which are auspicious. Sixty times twelve is seven hundred and twenty rows, one full cycle.
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Open data The ten heavenly stems with the five-element attribution and yin-yang polarity of each.
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Open data All 60 stem-branch pairs with their Na Yin five-element attribution and the lunar years they cover between 1924 and 2043.
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Open data The date and time the sun enters each zodiac sign, computed per year instead of using a fixed boundary.
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Open data Kua number by birth year and sex for 1900 to 2099, with the four favourable and four unfavourable directions.
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