Reading methods
Choosing the Useful God and its palace, strength conditions, and reading door restriction, strike, tomb, Fu Yin, Fan Yin and Void.
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Door restriction, striking punishment and tomb entry differ
Three separate examples distinguish a door–palace relation, a six-instrument punishment placement and a wonder-stem tomb placement. Check the operands before treating the traditional labels as comparable.
Read first: Three Wonders, Six Instruments and Two Stem Layers · Doors, Stars and Spirits: Keep the Qimen Layers Distinct
QM-010Fu Yin, Fan Yin and void branches need different evidence
A star at its home or opposite palace is a positional relation. Two unpaired branches in a ten-part group are a different calculation. Keep the chart layer and time scope visible when reading these labels.
Read first: Meet the Nine Palaces Before Reading a Qimen Chart · Duty chief and duty door: track the role before the position
QM-008Before calling a Qimen symbol strong, identify the rule
Two passages in the same classical work give Tian Peng different flourishing and supporting labels. Learn to retain the source, object, time convention and palace condition instead of blending incompatible tables.
Read first: Doors, Stars and Spirits: Keep the Qimen Layers Distinct
QM-007Choosing a Qimen significator before looking for its palace
A significator is a selected object of attention, not an answer hidden in a palace. Compare symbol-first and direction-first approaches, using a limited south-to-Li example with explicit source and scope.
Read first: Three Wonders, Six Instruments and Two Stem Layers · Doors, Stars and Spirits: Keep the Qimen Layers Distinct