The Chinese divinatory boards, computed

What kind of reading is it

奇門遁甲 Qí Mén Dùn Jiǎ When to move, and which way 大六壬 Dà Liù Rén What is going on, and with whom 太乙神數 Tài Yǐ Shén Shù How a year stands, for everybody in it 七政四餘 Qī Zhèng Sì Yú The sky a life began under 紫微斗數 Zǐ Wēi Dǒu Shù The seats a life is counted into 八字 Bā Zì What a life is built from, at the hour of a birth

Your question

Where you are asking from

place

Coordinates

Latitude — degrees, positive north Longitude — degrees, positive east

Options

The moment

day hour

Leave them empty and the chart is cast for the instant you press, in the time of the place above — which is the classical use. Fill them in to put the question to another moment.

Your birth, if you want it in the chart

Date of birth

Sex — only the direction of the 行年 xíngnián count depends on it

not given male female

The chart is still cast for the instant you ask. What the birth adds is where it falls inside it: 本命 běnmìng, the year you were born in, and 行年 xíngnián, the year you are living.

How this board is laid

The ju is determined

from the day, by five-day stretches: 拆補 chāibǔ by whole blocks, with the leap: 置閏 zhìrùn from the term’s first instant, by five-day stretches: 茅山 máoshān

Cast by the chaibu method.

The fifth and sixth spirits are named by

the half of the year 陰陽異名 yīnyángyìmíng: 勾陳 gōuchén and 朱雀 zhūquè in a yang chart, 白虎 báihǔ and 玄武 xuánwǔ in a yin one nothing: the same eight names stand in both dun, as 《御定奇門寶鑑》 yùdìngqíménbǎojiàn has them the half of the year, with 白虎 báihǔ kept at the fifth seat in a yang chart: the board of 《奇門遁甲全局》 qíméndùnjiǎquánjú

When the chief 值符 zhífú and the chief gate 值使 zhíshǐ fall on the central palace, they are read

at 坤 kūn, which is the palace the centre lodges in: 《御定奇門寶鑑》 yùdìngqíménbǎojiàn in the central palace itself: 《奇門遁甲金鏡寶鑑》 qíméndùnjiǎjīnjìngbǎojiàn

How the instant is read

Correct to true solar time

The year of the pillars begins

at 立春 lìchūn, where the solar year turns at 正月初一 zhēngyuèchūyī, the first day of the lunar year

The day begins

at the hour of the Rat 子時 zǐshí, 23:00 at midnight, 00:00

What you entered goes into the prompt.

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