太乙
Tai Yi Shen Shu is the most macroscopic of the Three Rites, traditionally applied to the fortunes of a state rather than to personal affairs. It reckons from the Tai Yi accumulated years and works through sixteen palaces together with various spirits.
Relatively little of this literature survives, and what does is the most demanding in form, because so much of it turns on calendrical computation. The small number of titles here reflects what exists rather than a gap in the collection.
How to read this branch
Best approached after the layout logic of Da Liu Ren or Qimen Dunjia is familiar; otherwise the accumulated-year computations are hard to check for yourself.
- Tai Yi Jin Jing Shi Jing (太乙金鏡式經)OriginalTranslationTang (唐) · Wang Ximing (王希明)The Taiyi Jinjing Shi Jing (Tang Dynasty, compiled by Wang Ximing)
- Tai Yi Mi Shu (太乙秘書)OriginalTranslationSong (宋) · Wang Zuo (王佐)Determine the master and guest, and the outcome of the seventy-two gam…
Charting guides
- Qimen Dunjia ChartA cast chart can go to AI reading. Qimen Dunjia expands a single moment in time into a grid of nine palaces, each carrying four stacked layers of information. Its casting rules are the most involved of any Chinese metaphysical system, but every step is fully determined. This page follows the casting order.
- Da Liu Ren Chart CalculatorA cast chart can go to AI reading. Da Liu Ren is one of the three canonical systems, alongside Qimen Dunjia and Tai Yi, and the one with the largest surviving literature. It turns a moment in time into a pair of stacked plates, then draws four lessons and three transmissions from them. This page follows the casting order.