Qi Men Dun Jia 奇門遁甲
奇門遁甲 qi men dun jia: the mysterious gates, a plate cast for a moment.Qi Men Dun Jia does not start from your birth. It casts a plate for the moment a question is asked, which makes it the one system here aimed at a decision rather than a person.
What it is
Where the other systems here read a birth moment, Qi Men Dun Jia reads the moment of asking. A plate is cast for that hour and divided into nine palaces, each carrying a gate, a star and a spirit, and the reading works from where the question and the asker fall on it.
That difference decides what it is for. A birth chart describes tendencies that hold for years. A plate describes the shape of one situation, which is why this reading asks for a question and not just a date.
Your birth chart still matters
The plate is cast for the question, but it is read against your own four pillars, so the reading needs both. That cross-reference is what separates a general plate reading from one addressed to you.
What Qi Men Dun Jia is made of
2 setsStars, gates and spirits 九星八門八神
25 entriesThe five elements 五行
5 entriesReadings built on Qi Men Dun Jia
1 readingMethod and sources
Charts are computed with deterministic libraries, corrected for true solar time at the birth longitude, and interpreted against the classical texts listed below.
Read against the classical plate, gate and star correspondences:
- 奇門遁甲秘笈大全 Qimen Dunjia Miji Daquan The Complete Secret Manual of Qi Men Dun Jia, the 八門, 九星 and 八神 correspondences
- 奇門遁甲元靈經 Qimen Dunjia Yuanlingjing The Original Spirit Classic
- 遁甲演義 Dunjia Yanyi An Exposition of Dunjia
- 煙波釣叟歌 Yanbo Diaosou Ge Song of the Old Fisherman