Terminology

The Month Hexagram Body is a branch counted from the Self Line’s polarity and position, then located in the Najia chart.

Secret Movement is a day clash activating a strong static line; a weak static line under that clash is assessed as Day Break.

Xun Kong marks two branches absent from a ten-day stem-branch cycle. Learn the Bazi and Liuyao lookup and distinguish leaving the void from filling it.

The Bazi Day Master is the Day Pillar’s heavenly stem. Learn how element and polarity assign Ten Gods and how it differs from the full Day Pillar.

Seven Killings controls the Bazi Day Master with matching polarity. Compare it with Direct Officer and read its relationships with Eating God and Resource.

Bazi Yong Shen depends on the method: month-based pattern, strength adjustment and seasonal conditioning use different reference points.

Month Break marks a Liuyao line whose branch clashes with the solar Month Branch. Learn the six clash pairs and distinguish Month Break from Day Break.

I Ching moving lines use casting values 6 and 9 to change polarity. Learn how to build the relating hexagram while stable lines 7 and 8 remain unchanged.

Hurting Officer is Bazi Output with opposite polarity to the Day Master. Compare it with Eating God and trace its links to Direct Officer and Wealth.

Eating God is Bazi Output with the Day Master’s polarity. Learn how it differs from Hurting Officer and relates to Wealth, Resource and Seven Killings.

Direct Officer controls the Bazi Day Master with opposite polarity. Compare it with Seven Killings and trace Wealth, Officer and Resource relationships.

Learn how the Bazi Day Master controls Wealth, how polarity separates Direct and Indirect Wealth, and how chart relationships shape their reading.

Learn the Bazi Peach Blossom (Xian Chi) lookup from Year or Day Branch groups, with examples that distinguish the reference branch and marked pillar.

A missing relationship can be borrowed from the palace’s pure hexagram as a Hidden Spirit beneath the visible Flying Spirit.

Self and Other are positions assigned by the Eight Palaces, three lines apart and distinct from relationship or movement labels.

The Six Spirits (Six Beasts) start from the Day Stem’s assigned spirit and cycle upward through all six line positions.

Learn how Direct and Indirect Resource generate the Bazi Day Master, how polarity separates them, and how Resource interacts with Output.

Friend and Rob Wealth share the Bazi Day Master’s element. Compare their polarity and learn how to label visible and hidden stems in a chart.

Compare Bazi Decade Luck and Annual Pillars: how ten-year cycles advance from the Month Pillar and how both are read alongside the natal chart.

Tomb and Storage in Bazi involve Chen, Xu, Chou and Wei. Distinguish growth phases, hidden stems and chart patterns before applying a Wealth-storage label.

Learn the Bazi Yang Blade lookup for yang Day Stems, how yin-stem conventions differ, and why the marker is distinct from Rob Wealth or a chart pattern.

Learn the Bazi Traveling Horse lookup from Year or Day Branch groups, locate its marked pillar, and separate movement imagery from chart relationships.

Learn Liuyao Six Relationships from each line’s element and the Najia palace, how to select the question’s focus, and how they differ from Bazi Ten Gods.

The primary hexagram records cast polarities; the relating hexagram is made by flipping only the moving lines.

Support generates the focus; the hostile element controls it; the enemy controls support and generates the hostile element.

Advancing and Retreating describe specified same-element branch changes of a moving line, such as Yin to Mao and its reverse.

Six-Clash and Six-Harmony compare Najia branch pairs 1/4, 2/5 and 3/6; ten hexagrams are Clash and eight are Harmony.

Wandering and Returning Soul are the seventh and eighth hexagrams in a palace, with Self at lines four and three.

Explore the Eight Trigrams, their three-line yin-yang patterns and natural images, and how upper and lower trigrams combine into 64 I Ching hexagrams.

Read solid yang and broken yin lines in I Ching hexagrams. Distinguish textual Six/Nine headings from casting values 6–9 and identify which lines change.

In I Ching hexagrams, lines 1–3 form the lower trigram and 4–6 the upper. Compare Water over Fire and Fire over Water to read their positions correctly.

An I Ching nuclear hexagram uses lines 2, 3, 4 below and 3, 4, 5 above. Learn the extraction method and how it differs from moving-line changes.

The King Wen Sequence orders 64 Zhouyi hexagrams in sections of 30 and 34. Learn how sequence numbers, paired hexagrams and Najia palace groups differ.

Learn I Ching yarrow stalk casting: 49 stalks in use, three changes per line, and values 6–9. Compare moving lines and proportions with the coin method.