Reference

Entries organised one concept at a time. Each gives the original source and a modern reading, and links back to the related texts and charting tools.

• The 64 HexagramsEvery hexagram of the Book of Changes, listed in the traditional King Wen sequence. Each entry gives the structure of the figure — its number, trigrams and line pattern — together with the original Chinese statement and a plain-language reading.
• BaZi TermsThe vocabulary of Four Pillars astrology, grouped into symbolic stars, the Ten Gods, the sixty Nayin sounds and the twelve stages of the life cycle.
• Zi Wei Dou Shu TermsThe stars and palaces of a Zi Wei chart: fourteen major stars, the supporting and minor stars, the twelve palaces and the four transformations.
• Qi Men Dun Jia TermsThe symbols on a Qi Men board. The eight doors, nine stars and eight gods each carry their own imagery, while the patterns describe what happens when heaven and earth plates meet.
• Da Liu Ren TermsThe generals and symbolic stars of a Da Liu Ren chart, following the ordering of the Da Liu Ren Zhi Nan and the Liu Ren Shensha Fu.
• Liu Yao TermsThe vocabulary used when dressing a Liu Yao hexagram: the six gods, the six relations, the self and other lines, moving lines and the twenty-eight lunar mansions.