Qi Men Dun Jia (QMDJ)

What is Qi Men Dun Jia?

Qi Men Dun Jia (QMDJ) is one of three Chinese divination arts of San Shi 三式 which consists of Tai Yi
Shen Shu 太乙神數, Qi Men Dun Jia 奇門遁甲 and Da Liu Ren 六壬神課. Tai Yi Shen Shu is primarily
used for divining important events pertaining to the country and Da Liu Ren is used for divining normal
daily events.

For Qi Men Dun Jia, it was traditionally exclusively used by the kings and generals in the battle fields to
gain advantage over the enemy. In the classic 奇門遁甲祕籍大全, this book documented 108 types of
divination events or activities that be applied used by QMDJ. From this it is obvious that QMDJ can be
used outside the military arena and is applicable to our normal daily lives.

The Legend
Legend said that about 4600 year ago, the Yellow Emperor 黃帝 (2497 BC to 2398 BC), were fighting a
losing battle with a 7-foot tall half giant, half bull war deity called “Chi You” 蚩尤 with iron head and
copper body, together with its 81 brothers.

Chi You 蚩尤
One night while he was sleeping, the Yellow Emperor was woken up by a bright light coming from
heaven. From this bright light emerged “The Fairy of Ninth Heaven” 九天玄女 carrying an 9-inch by 8-
inch jade box. The Yellow Emperor received the jade box from the fairy and found that it contain a magic
scroll written on dragon skin.

The Yellow Emperor, following the secrets written in the “dragon scroll”, subsequently defeated Chi You
at the Battle of Zhuolu 涿鹿 in the 27th century BC by using South-pointing compass chariots to find
their way in the thick heavy fog during the battle. This victory for the Yellow Emperor herald the start of
the Han Chinese civilization.

Jiu Tian Xuan Nu 九天玄女

After the victory, the Yellow Emperor instructed his court officials to translate the dragon scroll into 13
chapters of military 兵法 methods , 12 chapters of “Solitary Void” 孤虛法methods and 1080 QMDJ
charts. These literatures eventually become the classic of the Qi Men Dun Jia art.

The Story of Jia

To understand the basic principle of Qi Men Dun Jia better, the following tells the story of Jia, which is
the first of the Ten Heavenly Stem of Jia , Yi 乙, Bing 丙, Ding 丁, Wu 戊, Ji 己, Geng 庚, Xin 辛, Ren 壬
and Gui 癸. Jia represents the Emperor. Among the nine heavenly stems, Jia is most afraid of Geng
because Geng can attack Jia and can take over the throne and become the next Emperor. In order to
protect himself, Jia marry off his sister Yi 乙 to Geng 庚 to make him happy and lessen the chance of
Geng attacking Jia.
In doing so, Jia is also afraid that Yi, being the wife of Geng will become the next Empress if Geng by any
chance become the next Emperor. Therefore Jia decided to get his 2 children, son Bing 丙 and daughter
Ding 丁 to help. Jia ask his daughter Ding to visit her aunt Yi often at Geng’s palace, so as to keep an eye
on couple Yi and Geng, in the event they are planning a revolt to unthrone Jia. Jia then ask his son Bing
to standby and be alert at all times to protect his father in the event Geng attack Jia because Bing can
control Geng.

In the land that Jia rule, he divided his territory into 6 smaller kingdoms and assign each of his 6 warlord
generals of Wu, Ji, Geng, Xin, Ren and Gui to take charge of them. These 6 warlord generals, also known
as Xun Shou 旬首 or “leader of 10”, are represented by one of the 6 Jia 六甲, and each of the 6 Jia is in
charge of 10 JiaZi 甲子. The 6 Xun Shou are Jia Zi-Wu, Jia Xu-Ji, Jia Shen-Geng, Jia Wu-Xin, Jia Chen-Ren
and Jia Yin-Gui.

In this way, the land that Geng rule is only one sixth of the entire Jia’s kingdom and this will give Geng a
lesser chance of raising a large army to attack Jia. As the Emperor, Jia is not supposed to be seen by the
common people and thus has to remain hidden from view at all times. At any one time, Jia will be hiding
and staying at one of the 6 Xun Shou’s kingdom, constantly moving around among the Xun Shou in
certain specific order to avoid detection by his enemy.

Terminology of QMDJ
In Qi Men Dun Jia terms, there are SanQi 三奇 and LiuYi 六儀, in short QiYi 奇儀. SanQi are the 3 stems
of Yi, Bing and Ding while LiuYi are the 6 Xun Shou 旬首 stems of Wu, Ji, Geng, Xin, Ren and Gui.
Together they make up the 9 heavenly stems.

Yi, Bing and Ding are SanQi or “3 Wonders” because they are the family members of Jia and are
therefore trusted. Yi is Day Wonder 日奇, Bing is Month Wonder 月奇 while Ding is Star Wonder 星奇.
LiuYi are the 6 warlord generals in which Jia will be hidden in one of them at any one time.

There are various components or layers that make up a QMDJ chart. Other than the SanQi and LiuYi
layers, there are also the BaMeng 八門 (8 Doors), JiuXing 九星 (9 Stars) and BaShen 八神 (8 Deities)
charts.

The BaMen are XiuMen 休門, ShengMen 生門, ShangMen 傷門, DuMen 杜門, Jing3Men 景門, SiMen 死
門, JingMen 驚門 and KaiMen 開門. The JiuXing are TianPeng 天蓬, TianRui 天芮, TianChong 天沖,
TianFu 天輔, TianQin 天禽, TianXin 天心, TianZhu 天柱, TianRen 天任 and TianYin 天英. The BaShen are
ZhiFu 值符, TengShe 螣蛇, TaiYin 太陰, LiuHe 六合, BaiHu 白虎 (GouChen 勾陈), XuanWu 玄武
(ZhuQiao 朱雀), JiuDi 九地 and JiuTian 九天.

SanQi and LiuYi consists of 2 layers, upper and lower plate. The upper layer is called TianPan QiYi 天盤奇
儀 (Heaven Plate QiYi) while the lower layer is called DiPan QiYi 地盤奇儀 (Earth Plate QiYi). The BaShen
is known as RenPan 人盤 (Man Plate) and the JiuXing is known as TianPan 天盤 (Heaven Plate). Finally
the 9 palace of the Luo Shu grid is known as DiPan 地盤 (Earth Plate).
The TianPan concerns things or events that are natural in occurrence which man cannot control while
RenPan concerns things or events arising from the action from man. DiPan is the place and directions for
these TianPan and Dipan events occurrences.

So what is Qi Men Dun Jia?

"Qi" is SanQi, "Men" is BaMen and "Dun Jia" is Hidden Jia. Therefore Qi Men Dun Jia can be simply
summarised as the method of hiding the Jia with the protection of the SanQi in a good location for Jia to
achieve success in BaMen activities. It is the divination system of optimising the 3 integrated
components of Tian, Di and Ren 天地人 ( Heaven, Earth and Man) to achieve success for anyone using it.

QMDJ and Feng Shui

This short paragraph tries to give you an idea of how Qi Men Dun Jia 奇門遁甲 (QMDJ) can be applied
for house feng shui. It introduces the basic principles and gives an overview of a special use of Qi Men
Dun Jia. You may call it Qi Men Feng Shui 奇門風水 or whatever but this system basically accesses the or
inauspiciousness of a Yang dwelling using the ten heavenly stems 三奇六儀 and eight doors 八門 of
QMDJ. It does not use the Flying Star 9 Stars 九星 or 8 Deities 八神.

In this system, each room or facility of the dwelling or house has a specific usage or purpose. The usage
and purpose of each room or facility is then correlated and mapped into one of the twelve aspects of a
person’s life, identical to the “twelve palaces” of ZWDS as follows: Life Palace, Parents Palace, Siblings
Palace, Spouse Palace, Children Palace, Wealth Palace, Health Palace, Travel Palace, Friends/Servant
Palace, Career Palace, Property Palace and Virtue Palace.

Typical mapping between the rooms/facility and the Palaces are:

1. Main Door – Life Palace

2. Hallway – Life Palace

3. Study Room – Career Palace

4. Living Room – Siblings Palace

5. Altar or Shrine – Virtue Palace

6. Safe or place for keeping money and jewellery – Wealth Palace

7. Store Room – Property Palace

8. Reception Room – Career Palace

9. Toilet – Health Palace

10. Swimming Pool – Children Palace

11. Kitchen – Health and Virtue Palace

12. Children’s Room – Children Palace

13. Room for old people – Parent Palace

14. Bedroom – Spouse or Health Palace

15. Bathroom – Children Palace

16. Garage – Travel Palace

17. Maid’s Room – Friends/Servant Palace

18. Terrace or balcony – Virtue Palace

These types of “Room to Palace” mapping help one to put into perspective in understanding the feng
shui when it comes to interpreting the QMDJ charts later on. Based on the interaction of the heavenly
stems (SanQi and LiuYi 三奇六儀), 8 Doors 八門, and the rooms/facility location, a reading can be
derived.

Since the interpretation of feng shui is based on a QMDJ chart, the first step in the derivation of the
chart is to get the main door facing and house facing. These two facings can be the same or different
directions. Door facing are grouped into Sanhe style twin-mountain groups 雙山 (12 groups of 2
mountains) while house facing are grouped into the 8 directions of the compass (8 groups of 3
mountains).

Through a “matching” process, the two facing directions will and indicate one of the 48 QMDJ 局 charts
to be used. This QMDJ chart is then superimposed onto the house plan based on the 9-palace grid,
similar to a typical Flying Star chart. The location of any specific room in that palace/grid will then need
to be read with the SanQi LiuYi and Ba Men.

For example, Main Door 大門 in the Bing Qi 丙奇 with Shang Men 傷門 palace will have a different
reading when compared with a chart with Bedroom 卧房 in the Bing Qi 丙奇 with Shang Men 傷門
palace because the “Palace” is different.

With 48 different QMDJ 局 charts matching with various room layouts, you can imagine how many
possible types of different readings you can get when you do use this system of feng shui for each
rooms.

QMDJ and Finding the Ju

Determine the QMDJ Ju before chart plotting
Before plotting a QMDJ chart based on the Hour School 時家奇門, the first thing that needs to be
determined is the Ju 局. This is especially so with Hour School of QMDJ where most people will use the
date and time to plot the QMDJ chart. For each day there is a Ju number 局數 that corresponds to it.
What is Ju 局 when talking about QMDJ? Ju is a numbered set of charts which are divided by groups of
heavenly stems. The grouping of heavenly stems are Jia-Ji 甲己, Yi-Geng 乙庚, Bing-Xin 丙辛, Ding-Ren
丁壬 and Wu-Gui 戊癸. Together there are 5 heavenly stem groups. Within each heavenly stem group,
there are 12 charts for each of the 12 Shichen or Chinese hours.

For the Hour School QMDJ, the hour pillar for the first group starts with Jia-Zi 甲子, the second group
starts with Bing-Zi 丙子, the third group starts with Wu-Zi 戊子, the fourth group starts with Geng-Zi 庚
子 and the last group starts with Ren-Zi 壬子. Collectively these 5 groups of heavenly stem groups are
known as a Ju 局. There are a total of 18 Ju. 9 Ju for Yang Dun and 9 Ju for Yin Dun. Therefore the entire
collection of QMDJ charts for Hour School can be calculated as 2 (Ying Dun and Yang Dun) x 9 (Ju) x 5
(heavenly stem groups) x 12 (Shichen) = 1080 charts.

These 1080 charts are commonly found in QMDJ books as a quick reference guide for locating QMDJ
chart that corresponds to any particular day and time. The method I am showing below is to manually
find the Ju of any particular date with a Ten Thousand Year Calendar or Chinese Almanac.

In some PDA or Smart phone, you may have a Chinese calendar application already built-in. The key is
that the calendar must show the starting day for each solar terms 節氣 and the stem and branch of each
day. In some rare Chinese Ten Thousand Year Calendar books, the author also list down the Ju for each
day of the year. This makes the plotting of QMDJ chart easier but for those with only a normal Ten
Thousand Year Calendar book, the fun is to manually determine the Ju “by counting”.

The reason for finding the Ju is to be able to manually plot a QMDJ chart. The steps to plot a QMDJ chart
is in my next article.

In the Chinese calendar, the year is divided into 24 solar terms or JieQi 節氣. Each solar term is 15 days.
Each term is then divided into 3 groups or Yuan 元 termed as Upper Yuan 上元, Middle Yuan 中元 and
Lower Yuan 下元. Each Yuan 元 is 5 days.

The first day of the Upper Yuan is also called Fushou 符首. For QMDJ, the 24 solar terms are grouped by
groups of 3 solar terms. If you display the 24 solar terms in the circular diagram below, you will find that
groupings of 3 solar terms will give 8 major groups, corresponding to the 8 Bagua palace of Kan 坎, Gen
艮, Zhen 震, Xun 巽, Li 離, Kun 坤, Dui 兌 and Qian 乾, starting from Kan 坎 clockwise to Qian 乾.

From the diagram, under each solar term, you can see 3 numbers underneath it. These are the Ju
numbers that are assigned to the particular solar term. Underneath each solar term, the 3 Ju numbers
corresponds to the Ju for Upper Yuan, Middle Yuan and Lower Yuan.

We can deduce from the diagram that once you know which solar term and the Yuan the day falls into,
the Ju should be able to be determined easily. Wait. It is not so straight forward and easy. One of the
rules of QMDJ is that the starting day of each Yuan must be either a Jia 甲 or Ji 己 day.

Another rule states that the start of all Upper Yuan days must be a Zi 子, Wu 午, Mao 卯 or You 酉 day
and the start of all Middle Yuan days must be a Yin 寅, Shen 申, Si 巳 or Hai 亥 day and the start of all
Lower Yuan days must be a Chen 辰, Xu 戌, Chou 丑 or Wei 未 day. To summarise, the Fushou 符首
must always be one of these 4 days of Jia-Zi 甲子, Jia-Wu 甲午, Ji-Mao 己卯 or Ji-You 己酉.
First things first. How do you know the 3 numbers for each solar term without referring to the circular
diagram above? The key is to know which solar term the day fall into. This can easily be checked by
referring to a Ten Thousand Year Calendar without memorizing any numbers.

First step is to determine which palace the solar term fall under. If the palace is Kan, the first solar term
Upper Yuan number is 1. If the palace is Gen, the first solar term of the Upper Yuan number is 8 and so
on. These numbers correspond to the Luoshu numbers assign to the Later Heaven Bagua.

Then starting with the palace number, you increase the count and assign it to the left for the second
solar term and increase the count to 3 for the 3^rd solar term. This 1-2-3 is the Ju number for the 3 solar
terms of the Upper Yuan. Next, go to the 3^rd line below and continue to increase the count for 4-5-6
from right to left.

This 4-5-6 is the Ju number for the 3 solar terms of the Lower Yuan. Then lastly go to the middle row and
continue to increase the count for 7-8-9 for the Middle Yuan. The row sequence for counting is always
top row, followed by bottom row and then the middle row. And the counting is always from right to left
direction.

For solar term between Dongzhi and Mangzhong, the Ju count is in increasing order because it is Yang
Dun. For Xiazhi to Daxue the count is decreasing because it is Yin Dun. In other words, all solar terms in
Kan 坎, Gen 艮, Zhen 震 and Xun 巽 palaces are Yang Dun while all solar terms in Li 離, Kun 坤, Dui 兌
and Qian 乾 palaces are Yin Dun.

Let’s take Kan 坎 palace as an example for Yang Dun.

Kan 坎 Palace (increasing number)

3 2 1 Step1

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9 8 7 Step 3

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6 5 4 Step 2

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Another example using Zhen 震 palace for Yang Dun.

Zhen 震 Palace (increasing number)

5 4 3 Step 1

<-----

2 1 9 Step 3

<-----
8 7 6 Step 2

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An example for Yin Dun using Kun 坤 palace.

Kun 坤 Palace (decreasing number)

9 1 2 Step 1

<-----

3 4 5 Step 3

<-----

6 7 8 Step 2

<-----

From the above example, if you want to know the Ju number for Bailu 白露 , the 3^rd solar term in the
Kun 坤 palace, Middle Yuan 中元, the number is 3 (in blue).

From the above, we should be expecting the starting Ju number of the Upper Yuan to be the same day
as the first day of the solar term. But due to the rules of QMDJ, this situation may not be always the
case. If it happens to be the same day, this situation is known as Zhenshou 正授.

But sometimes, the Jia 甲 or Ji 己 day can appear before the start of the solar term. This situation is
known as Chaoshen 超神. If it appear more than 9 days before the start of the solar term, then we must
do a Zhirun 置閏. If it fall after the start of the solar term, then it is called Jieqi 接氣. Zhirun 置閏
situation seldom arise and we shall not discuss it here in this article.

To illustrate the concept of Chaoshen 超神, Zhenshou 正授 and Jieqi 接氣, let us take a look at an
example of a typical calendar and its corresponding Ju. In this example, based on Lichun 立春 solar term,
the Ju numbers are 8-5-2. Lichun 立春 start on 4^th February 2009. But the start of the Ju 8 must start
with a Jia or Ji and the Earthly branch must be either a Zi 子, Wu 午, Mao 卯 or You 酉.

We can see that 3^rd February 2009 fulfill the condition. However 3^rd February 2009 is 1 day earlier
than 4^th February 2009. Therefore this situation is known as Chaoshen 超神. For Yushui 雨水 solar
term, we find that the date for the starting Ju number for Yushui 雨水 Upper Yuan 9-6-3 coincide with
the start of Yushui 雨水 solar term on 18^th February 2009. This situation is known as Zhenshou 正授.

So once you know the day for the start of the Ju for the Upper Yuan, you can then count the days
forward until you reach the day you want to determine the Ju for the day.

I hope with this little tutorial, you are able to find the Ju simply by referring to a Ten Thousand Year
Calendar or Chinese Almanac and counting the days. I will leave the other concept of Zhirun 置閏 or
Zhirun Fai 置润法 and Chaibu Fa 拆补法 to another article as these talk about different systems of
counting Ju and dealing with the transition period from Yang Dun to Yin Dun and Yin Dun to Yang Dun
and also the reconciliation of 360 days versus 365 days.

QMDJ and Date Selection

Using QMDJ Date Selection for House Feng Shui
This is a short introduction on how you can use QMDJ for date selection when applying it for house feng
shui. When picking a date for house feng shui purpose, it usually involves moving into the house, start of
renovation, installing a door or stove, and installing fengshui cure or enhancement. Therefore, this
article is talking about using the hour school 時家 of QMDJ for date selection.

When dealing with QMDJ, all the key focus components of the QMDJ chart are considered. They are the
Jiugong 九宫 (excluding the center palace), the Bamen 八門, Jiuxing 九星,Tianpan 天盤, Dipan 地盤,
Qiyi 奇儀 and Bashen 八神.

As far as the house is concerned, the key considerations are the house sitting and facing. You have to
know which palace the sitting or facing mountain is located in order to match the selected date to a
good QMDJ chart. For items like stove or door, use the facing instead of sitting. Other activities
concerning the entire house, you can choose to use both sitting and facing of the house.

For any particular date and time, the palace where the house sitting and/or facing must have good
Bamen 八門 such as the three auspicious Xiumen 休門, Shengmen 生門 and Kaimen 開門. These three
doors must enhance 相生 (give birth to) or at least be on par 比和 (same element) with the palace
where the sitting or facing mountain is located. Another consideration is that the sitting or facing palace
Tianpan 天盤 Dipan 地盤 Qiyi 奇儀 must form an auspicious good structure 吉格.

Next, comes the Bashen 八神. The Zhifu 值符, Taiyin 太陰, Liuhe 六合, Jiudi 九地 and Jiutian 九天 are
considered as auspicious gods to have in the sitting or facing palace. For bad gods such as Baihu 白虎
and Xuanwu 玄武 (Zhuque 朱雀) together good auspicious Bamen 八門 in the same palace are
?considered bad and should not be used.

Fanyin 反吟 and fuyin 伏吟 is always bad when it comes to Jiuxing 九星 and the Bamen 八門. Make sure
they are not in their original home palace location or at the opposite of the home palace location. To
avoid having fanyin 反吟 and fuyin 伏吟 chart, avoid using the six Jia 六甲 as the hour stem when
plotting the QMDJ chart.

When it picking a date starting with the 4 pillars chart of the day and time, the focus elements are the
day stem and hour stem. In QMDJ, the day stem represent the people in the house whereas the hour
stem represent the house itself.

Therefore these 2 stems must mutually enhance 相生 each other and must not control 剋 each other. It
is still acceptable if the people (day stem) control the house (hour stem) but never let the house (hour
stem) control the people (day stem), else it will be bad. This condition is also known as Wu Bu Yu Shi 五
不遇時, which basically mean the hour stem must not be a Qi Sha 七殺 to the Day stem in Bazi
terminology.

Finally, the sitting or facing mountain palaces and the day stem and hour stem represented in the palace
must not be in Void 空亡.

With these simple guidelines outlined above, you should now be able to do your own date selection
using QMDJ on your house, in addtion to other date selection techniques that you may already know.

Introduction to San Yuan Qi Men Dun Jia

The Qi Men Jun Jia 奇門遁甲 (QMDJ) system which I wrote about in my previous articles is based on the
traditional San He Qi Men Dun Jia 三合奇門遁甲 (Sanhe QMDJ). Sanhe QMDJ is usually used for date
selection, divination and choosing auspicious direction and space to perform certain activities.

A typical Sanhe QMDJ chart is plotted using a 9-palace square grid 九宫 or a 8-sector circular pie chart
showing the 8 different sectors with an angle of 45 degree each. To learn how to plot a Sanhe QMDJ
chart, you can read my article here (article13.htm) .

In San Yuan Qi Men Dun Jia 三元奇門遁甲 (Sanyuan QMDJ), the chart is plotted based on 64 hexagrams
of the Fu Xi circular diagram with each direction having 5.625 degrees. In each direction, a Tianpan Qiyi
天盤奇儀 and Bamen 八門 are assigned to each of the 64 hexagrams. Dipan Qiyi 地盤奇儀, Jiuxing 九星
and Bashen 八神 are usually not shown in the chart but can be shown if you wanted to.

In this system, Tianpan Qiyi 天盤奇儀 and Bamen 八門 alone is enough for most of its application.
Tianpan Qiyi 天盤奇儀 gives the meaning of the image it portrays while Bamen 八門 determines the
auspiciousness and inauspiciousness.

As in Sanhe QMDJ there are also a total of 1080 charts to cover for both 9 Yang Dun 陽遁 and 9 Yin Dun
阴遁 with each Dun 遁 having 60 charts. Below is a chart showing a typical Sanyuan QMDJ chart for a
particular shichen.

Sanyuan QMDJ can be considered a specialized date selection system. It is usually used in conjunction
with Xuan Kong Da Gua 玄空大卦 (XKDG) date selection 擇日 system to provide an extremely accurate
way to select an auspicious direction within a 2-hour shichen. As each hexagram occupy 5.625 degrees
angle, it is considered a more accurate system compared to a Sanhe QMDJ direction of 45 degrees.

Based on this fact, it therefore more appropriate to used it for fengshui application where a high level of
refinement is required such as for placement of tombstone facing, burial, placement of fengshui
enhancer or cures. It is just not practical to use Sanyuan QMDJ for traveling towards an auspicious
hexagram because the angle of 5.625 is too small and it is easy to deviate outside the angle while
traveling.

As an example for a date selection application such as tombstone placement or burial, once the
auspicious facing angle (hexagrams and yao level of accuracy) for the tomb is determined using XKDG,
use XKDG Date Selection 玄空大卦擇日 to select an auspicious date and within the auspicious XKDG
day, find a Sanyuan QMDJ chart that has a good Tianpan Qiyi 天盤奇儀 and Bamen 八門 in the
tombstone facing direction of the hexagram.

Once the appropriate chart is found, then proceed to perform the burial or set the tombstone to the
auspicious XKDG facing within the selected shichen. This practice is considered the ultimate full-fledged
application of pure Xuan Kong art, using the integration of XKDG, XKDG Date Selection and Sanyaun
QMDJ.

How to plot a Sanyuan QMDJ chart for any particular day and shichen?
The method to plot a Sanyuan QMDJ chart is quite different from the Sanhe QMDJ way. I will omit the
procedure for Jiuxing 九星 and Bashen 八神 as they are usually not considered so important in Sanyuan
QMDJ application; only the Tianpan Qiyi 天盤奇儀 and Bamen 八門 is commonly used. The Sanyuan
QMDJ chart obtained by this special method of plotting is sometimes known as Doutian 都天 chart.

The first phase of the plotting process is to plot a 9-palace chart and then from the 9-palace chart we
plot the 64 hexagram Sanyuan QMDJ chart. Instead of using Xunsou 旬首 as in Sanhe QMDJ, we use the
term Tianyi 天乙 for Sanyuan QMDJ. I will share briefly the steps here as the entire process is quite
tedious and involves referencing to charts and tables.

As in the traditional Sanhe QMDJ chart plotting procedure, first plot the 4 pillars 四柱八字 chart of the
day and time, find the Ju 局數 and plot the Dipan Qiyi 地盤奇儀 chart. At this point onwards, the
procedure starts to differ from Sanhe QMDJ system.

Find the hexagram that represents the hour pillar JiaZi 時柱甲子. Determine the Xuan Kong Gua Qi 玄空
卦氣 (Xuan Kong Element 玄空五行) of the hour pillar hexagram. From the Gua Qi 卦氣數 number, find
the Dipan Qiyi 地盤奇儀 in the 9-palace that represent the Gua Qi 卦氣數 number.

For example if the Qua Qi 卦氣數 is number 4, then look for the Dipan Qiyi 地盤奇儀 in the Xun 巽
palace (Later Heaven 4 palace) at South-East palace. This Dipan Qiyi 地盤奇儀 is known as the Tianyi 天
乙. Tianyi 天乙 can be any of the 9 heavenly stems.

Next place the Tianyi 天乙 on top of the hour pillar stem at the Dipan Qiyi 地盤奇儀 to form the start of
the Tianpan Qiyi 天盤奇儀 and then place the remaining 7 stems into the remaining 7 palaces in a
clockwise rotation manner based on the same Dipan Qiyi 地盤奇儀 sequence.

Next we can start to plot the Bamen 八門 chart. Bamen 八門 starts with Xiumen 休門 as the first door.
It can rotate forward or backward based on the polarity of the stem. Yang stem rotate clockwise and Yin
stem rotate anti-clockwise. The placement of the Xiumen 休門 is into the palace is determined by the
hour pillar and Yuan 元, either Upper Yuan 上元, Middle Yuan 中元 or Lower Yuan 下元.

This palace number 宫數 can be checked against a table with 60 JiaZi for all possible hour pillars and the
Yuan number 元數.
When the 9-palace chart is plotted, it will be used as a base reference chart for plotting a new 64
hexagram Sanyuan QMDJ chart in the second phase of the process. By referring to the 9-palace chart,
which consists of Dipan Qiyi 地盤奇儀, Tianpan Qiyi 天盤奇儀 and the Bamen 八門, for each Gua Qi 卦
氣 number of the hexagram, refer to the same palace number 宫數 of the 9-palace chart to obtain the
corresponding Tianpan Qiyi 天盤奇儀 and Bamen 八門.

Then assign this Tianpan Qiyi 天盤奇儀 and Bamen 八門 into the hexagram of the Sanyuan QMDJ chart.
Repeat the same steps for the remaining 63 hexagrams until the entire 64 hexagrams circular chart is
completely filled with 64 pairs of Tianpan Qiyi 天盤奇儀 and Bamen 八門. When done, you have just
manually plotted a Sanyuan QMDJ chart for a particular day and time!

As you can see, getting a Tianpan Qiyi 天盤奇儀 and Bamen 八門 for each hexagram is a tedious manual
process. For each Sanyuan QMDJ chart, you have to perform the steps 64 times for each chart. Multiply
it by 1080 charts and you can imagine the amount of time and work it involves. Therefore reference
books for Sanyuan QMDJ showing all 1080 charts does not come cheap.

Credit and Acknowledgment: The original article was authored by Cyril Quah and was initially published
on January 23, 2008. Although his website is no longer active, I strongly believe that such valuable
knowledge should not be forgotten and still be kept available online for both Feng Shui beginners and
experienced practitioners to benefit from.