Beyond Explain — Bazi, Tong Shu, Qimen, Feng Shui
Chinese Metaphysics · Practised as Method

Some days resist you.
There is a reason, and it can be read.

Six classical systems — Bazi, Tong Shu, Qimen Dun Jia, Feng Shui, numerology and the Yi Jing — describe the same day from six angles: your nature, the calendar, the timing of action, and the space you sit in. Read together, they turn a bad week into a set of decisions.

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I.

The six disciplines

01 八字

Bazi

Four Pillars of Destiny

Your birth moment written as eight characters — year, month, day and hour, each a stem and a branch. It maps the elements you carry in surplus, the ones you lack, and the ten-year luck cycle you are currently inside.

Answers: why this year drains you, which element to strengthen, what kind of work and people suit your structure.

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02 通書

Tong Shu

The Chinese Almanac

The day-by-day record: each date's pillar, its Twelve-Day Officer, the animal it clashes with, the constellation on duty, and the activities the classics mark as favoured or forbidden.

Answers: when to sign, open, move, renovate, travel or marry — and which days to simply keep quiet.

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03 奇門遁甲

Qimen Dun Jia

Mysterious Gates, Hidden Stems

A nine-palace chart cast for a specific hour and question. Stars, doors and deities distribute across the palaces and show where advantage sits, which direction carries it, and how the other party is positioned.

Answers: which hour to make the call, which direction to face or travel, whether to press or wait.

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04 風水

Feng Shui

Form, Compass and Flying Stars

The audit of a physical place: the land and building's form, the facing direction measured on the luopan, and the annual and monthly stars moving through each sector of the floor plan.

Answers: where to sleep, sit and work in this house this year — and which sector to leave alone.

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05 數理

Numerology

Numbers, Names and Dates

The numbers already attached to you — birth date, name, phone, plate, unit and floor — reduced and read for the elements and combinations they carry, and checked for the sequences the classics treat as draining.

Answers: which number to choose when you are given a choice, and which strings to stop using.

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06 易經

Yi Jing

Book of Changes · Study & Divination

Sixty-four hexagrams, each with its moving lines, describing a situation and the direction it is already travelling. Cast for a question, or studied line by line as the source text the other five systems draw their logic from.

Answers: what stage a situation is in, whether to advance, hold or withdraw, and what the classics counsel there.

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II.

Countering the day

Six steps, in order, run each morning in under ten minutes. The point is not to avoid difficulty but to meet it at the right hour, from the right seat, facing the right way.

01

Read the day itself

Tong Shu

Note the day's stem-branch, its Officer, and the animal it clashes with. If your own day branch is clashed, treat the day as structurally unstable and postpone anything irreversible.

02

Test it against your chart

Bazi

The same day lands differently on different people. Ask whether today's element feeds what you lack or inflames what you already have too much of. A day that is generally fine can still be a poor day for you.

03

Name the challenge precisely

Framing

Write it as one sentence with a subject, an action and a deadline. "Get the client to approve by Thursday" can be charted. "Work is stressful" cannot.

04

Choose the hour and the direction

Qimen Dun Jia

Cast the chart for the question and pick the two-hour window whose palace favours you. Take the meeting from the indicated direction; if the chart shows a closed door, use the day for preparation instead of contact.

05

Adjust where you sit

Feng Shui

Move the desk out of this year's afflicted sector, sit facing a supportive direction with a solid wall behind you, clear the entry, and keep the noisy sectors — this year's Five Yellow and Grand Duke — undisturbed.

06

Record what happened

Practice

One line a day: the date's pillar, the decision, the outcome. After three months the record shows which days genuinely go against you, and the practice stops being belief and becomes your own data.

What is fixed

The chart you were born with, and the cycle you are in. These are read, not changed.

What moves

Year, month, day and hour keep turning. Timing is the widest lever available to you.

What you do

Direction, seat, room and conduct. Small adjustments, applied consistently, are the whole method.

III. Readings

Bring a date, a question, and a floor plan.

A first session covers your Bazi chart in full, the current year's outlook, and one Qimen chart for the question you arrive with. Feng Shui audits are done on site or from measured drawings with a compass reading.

Bazi reading90 minutes, remote or in person
Date selectionPer event, from the almanac and your chart
Qimen consultSingle question, charted for the hour
Feng Shui auditOn site, or from measured drawings
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