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One article that covers the whole map. Where Qimen comes from, how the nine palaces work, the four layers of a chart, and how to get your first reading. Read this first; every other article goes deeper into one of its chapters.
Read the guide →A step-by-step reading of a real career-move question: the signals that say take it, and the ones that say walk away.
Weighing a launch decision: both doors — the venture and its cash — and whether the timing has fuel.
Whether the alliance holds, which side actually gains, and the six signals a partnership won't last.
The state of the bond itself, the signals that say it breaks, the ones that say it holds.
The person-and-dwelling relation, why now and the long run are different questions, and what changes when you buy to profit.
The capital-and-return relation that decides profit or loss, how soon the money sits, and what warns the information isn't clean.
Whether there's a real reason to move at all, how the new place weighs against the old, and whether the destination suits you.
The Luoshu logic behind the 3×3 grid: why every row, column and diagonal sums to 15, and how that structure drives chart rotation. (Term definitions live in the Glossary; this is the "why".)
What each of the eight trigram-palaces stands for — the people, places, timing and body parts 乾坤震巽坎离艮兑 colour every symbol with.
From the Yellow Emperor's legendary war to the Warring States period: how a military secret became a decision-making tool.
Why your city matters: how longitude and the equation of time change your chart, and why clock time isn't enough.
Wood, fire, earth, metal, water: how production and destruction cycles drive every judgment in a chart.
From solar terms to the three yuan, from yin-yang dun to the 18 ju: the calculation chain behind every chart.
One of the Three Rites, built from the I Ching, yin-yang and the five elements: the symbolic model that makes reading a chart make sense.
One reads your birth chart, the other reads the moment of your question. What each answers best, and how they work together.
Planets vs palaces, natal charts vs moment charts: where the two traditions overlap and where they part ways.
Hexagrams vs palace charts: two ways of asking the moment a question.
Calculated charts vs drawn cards: what each style of divination is actually good at.
Why traditional systems have been consulted before hard choices at all, what each is suited to, and where the whole category has to stop.
Doors, stars, stems, deities: the four layers decoded step by step, with a worked example chart.
Seasonal strength, context, and why the "worst" door in the chart can be exactly what your question needs.
How to find the axis of any chart: the two elements that anchor every reading.
Green Dragon Turns Its Head, White Tiger Rampant: what happens when stems meet, and the famous pairs every reader knows.
A door has a fixed meaning, but the palace it lands in raises or lowers it — the four door-palace relations: pressure, control, harmony and support.
Door pressure, punishment clash, entombment, and void: the four red flags QimenIt auto-detects on every chart.
Two special markers that change how a palace reads: when energy is absent, and when it's about to move.
Growth, Peak, Tomb, Conception: the twelve stations every stem runs, yang forward and yin backward — and why entombed is not the same as stored.
Before reading any chart you must find the Yong Shen: the symbol that represents your question. Get it wrong, and the whole reading falls apart.
You've found your Yong Shen — now what? The judgment order that turns symbols into a verdict: whole-chart mood, strength, the other side, and when it lands.
How to estimate when an outcome will manifest: the year-month vs day-hour scale, the used-god's tempo, void, clash and combination, the Horse Star, and palace numbers.
The chart is fixed, so where does the disagreement come from? Where interpretation diverges, and how consistency is restored.
When to change jobs, start a business, or negotiate a raise: which doors and stars to look for.
Reading partnership charts: the palaces that represent you, them, and the space between.
QimenIt has no question box, but how clearly you hold the question decides whether you pick the right category and focus. How to get it clear, and choose accordingly.
Which palaces hold your wealth signals, and when the chart says wait.
Reading illness signals in a chart: the palaces, stems, and doors that relate to wellbeing.
Test timing, study direction, and what the chart reveals about academic outcomes.
Reading a year in phases: which periods favor action, which call for restraint, and which stars and doors set the terms.
Locating missing items or people: how palace directions and door states point the way.
Lawsuits, disputes, and negotiations: reading the balance of power between the parties.
Modern chatbots often cast correctly, yet cannot verify their own chart. Why a decision-grade reading needs computed, verified casting.
What happens between your question and your reading: how QimenIt computes true solar time, casts the chart, and interprets it, and where AI beats (and doesn't beat) a human master.
Why QimenIt shows conditions, timing and risks, but never tells you what to do. Counsel, not command.
No verifiable accuracy rate exists for Qimen, and we won't quote one. What accuracy can and cannot mean here, and how we keep our analysis checkable.