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My newer book information page at Qi Men Dun Jia
Qi Men Dun Jia(or Qimendunjia) is one of the most powerful oracles, to know both good luck and bad luck
in aspects of time and space(direction). Qi means mysterious or strange in usual, but in Takeda theory here, it means
valuable or holy. Men means a gate, and Dun means hidden or escaped(to make hidden), and Jia is the first one of
ten stems, which is considered as the most sacred in this method.
In Dun Jia(or Dunjia) theory, we use a kind of direction chart called Pan, which is drawed as a square divided into
nine blocks( 3 x 3. eight directions and centre ). In each directional block, one of the eight gates is positioned. We put
away Jia(because of its holiness) and use other nine stems to put them into Dun Jia Pan chart at first, and after
several process of making, Jia comes into the Pan chart from one of the eight gates. And that's why this method is
called Qi Men Dun Jia.
I have read about at least three kinds of Dunjia in Japan. So called Sangen, Tohru, and Takeda. Moreover, I've seen
more several kinds of Dunjia, of which groups were not clear to me. And perhaps, there might be other kinds of
Dunjia I have never known.
This is one of the most typical characteristics of Dunjia. In ancient age, those who won using Dunjia tried to keep it as
top-secret, and suppressed Dunjia-masters to prevent from Dunjia-secret leaking to the enemies of the governors.
Many Dunjia-masters were arrested, but they'd never made the secret of Dunjia clear. Instead, they made up
counterfeit methods as 'Dunjia'. That's why we can find many kinds of Dunjia, and lost which is the original one today.
As I cannot write about whole kinds of Dunjia, I'll write some articles based on 'Takeda theory', which I think the most
reasonable one of today's Japanese Dunjia.
1.Basic Background
1.1 Heavenly Chi and Earthly Chi
We need to have some knowledges to learn Qi men dun jia. The most basic one is Chinese calendar for Dun Jia.
Because Dun Jia is the scholarship for studying controls of heavnly Chi and Earthly Chi by time factor, using Chinese
calendar. Both of Chi are symbolysed by Ten Stems. But meaning of them are different. Celestial ones are related to
moving sun, and others are related to the earth, especially directions. This means, that we use the same symbols to
indicate status of cosmic energy in different aspects. I suppose it is easy to be confused, but I believe, we should
distinguish heavenly stems and earthly stems clearly. They are not the same.
1.2 Yin Dun and Yang Dun
There are two ways of heavenly Qi's moving, Yin Dun and Yang Dun. Both are concerned with moving of Earth
around the sun.
Yin Dun is a period from summer solstice to next winter solstice. When during the Yin Dun period, Yin
energy is born and increasing its power day by day.
Yang Dun is a period from winter solstice to next summer solstice. During the Yang Dun period, Yang
energy is increasing.
This circulation of energy concerned with time can be comprehend as revolution of earth like following:
[Figure 1: Cyclic moving of Yin and Yang energy]
Jan. Feb. Mar. Apl. May Jun. Jul. Aug. Sep. Oct. Nov. Dec.... . .
- Yang Dun -----------------|----- Yin Dun -------------------|---- - -
| | | |
| summer | winter
| solstice | solstice
| | | |
spring equinox | autumn equinox |
| | | |
| Yang peak | Yin peak
| ++|++ | --|--
-- | +++ | +++ | --- | ---
--- | +++ | +++ | ---- | ---
--- | +++ | +++ | ---- |
--- |+++ | +++ | ---- |
------------0--------------------------------0--------------------------
+++ | -- | --- | +++ |
+++++ | -- | -- | ++++ | +
+++++ | ----- | ----- | ++++ | +++
++ | --- | --- | ++++ | ++++
| ----- | +++++
| Yin bottom | Yang bottom
We should remember how streams influence each other when we use Dun Jia. And one more, this is a factor of time. In
the Dun Jia theory, it is important to watch both time( or seasonal) factor and space( or directional ) factor.
Originally, they are considered as Twelve Branches. In Dun Jia way, included stems of branches are used at first.
According to ancient Chinese phylosophy, people think heaven are moving, and earth are staying. Therefore, twelve
branches are always set at the same position, despite stems are changing their positions by time passing.
1.4 San Qi
1.5 Liu Yi
Liu Yi( six symbolic flags of the king and feudal lords. ) is a stem which is be rearranged by hidden Jia.
It consists of , , , , and .
Liu Yi is determined by stems and branches automatically.
For example, if stem-and-branch of year, month, day, or hour is 22, , we can find that is decided to
stem.
51 41 31 21 11 1
52 42 32 22 12 2
53 43 33 23 13 3
54 44 34 24 14 4
55 45 35 25 15 5
Stems
and
56 46 36 26 16 6 Branches
57 47 37 27 17 7
58 48 38 28 18 8
59 49 39 29 19 9
60 50 40 30 20 10
1.6 Ju
Ju means situation. In Dunjia method, there are cyclic numbers on year, month, day and hour of Dunjia calendar.
For example, Ju number of the year 1998 is 2. 1995 is 5. The first situation number is on the year BC 117, which
is the starting year of stem and branch as .
Ju Shu ( situation numbers ) consists of 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 and 9. It goes descendantly under Yin Dun period, and
ascendantly under Yang Dun period like following:
= 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1
= 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9
2.'Pan' chart
First of all, we must cast several kinds of charts to divinate by Dun Jia. There are two main kinds of diagrams called
'Pan', 'Li Xiang Pan' and 'Zuo Shan Pan'.
Stems are the most important part of Pan. They represent heavenly qi.
detailed stories
of Ten Celestial Stems
To position eight gates, we need to determine a position of Sheng Men, for ther gates are
positioned orderly.
I'll describe about the way to position Sheng Men in the section 4. I wrote results of rotation here.
We select a suitable gate for purpose. But it is not usual to use Yearly or Monthly gates. Usually
we use Daily and Hourly gates to make our fortune better. Of course, it is more advisable to use
good luck directions on both Daily-Pan and Hourly-Pan.
However, there are some important rules of eight gates positioning, which influences the result of
using gates. I'll write about it in the section 5.
Well kown to Japanese people as the system of 'Kyuu Sei' or 'Kyuu Sei Kigaku'.
4.1. Di Kan
Under YinDun , three San Qi come at first ascendantly, and six Liu Yi follow next descendantly.
Under Yang Dun , six Liu Yi come at first ascendantly, and three San Qi follow next descendantly,
We use situation numbers to arrange nine stems, which made up special situations by making formations.
At first, the position of Wu stem is the home position of the same number Gong with situation number. For example,
if current situation number is 6, the position of the first stem( it should be Yi under Yin Dun, and Wu under Yang
Dun ) is at northwest, which is the home position of Liu-Bai( six-white ) Gong.
See all patterns of nine stems arrangement by 18 patterns of Di Kan arrangement by situation
numbers.
4.2. Tian Kan
Celestial stems or Tian Kan are determined by moving of every Earthly stem or Di Kan. Each Celestial stem moves to
5 times next from its current position. And, the central earthly stem is determined at last.
4.3. Ba Men
(LiuYi)
First, Decide a gate, through which a (a direct messenger from emperor or feudal lords) comes. The Zhishi's
gate is on the gate of position of stem on the Pan. In this case, it should be on the position of northwest( because,
And the Gong of northwest is ( the palace of Six-White ). Here, we get a number Six( of LiuBai ) to count up
from Jia to the current stem.
Put the number Six on stem, and count up numbers to the current Stem , like following:
6 7 8 9 1
The number for the stem is 1, of which Gong is . The home position of . is north, and, this is a
---- ----
Now, I wrote a table to find the answer more easily. Let's confirm the way of BaMen arrangement again. At first,
decide a first gate with the table-A following. For example, if we have a on the position of east , the
first gate should be decided to gate. Patterns of ordering to put Ba Men on Pan are like following:
TABLE-A:
Find the first gate from position of Zhi Shi
northeast
east
southeast
south
southwest
west
northwest
north
For example, when we have as a current stem, and , is on the position of , the position to put
4.4. Ba Shen
To arrange is not difficult as Ba Men. The first one, is put on the position where Stem of the
is placed. And others are placed clockwisely under , and counterclockwisely under .
There are 18 patterns of Di Kan arrangement. 9 of them are used under , and another 9 of them
are used under .
situation number 1 situation number 2 situation number 3
4 9 2 4 9 2 4 9 2
3 5 7 3 5 7 3 5 7
8 1 6 8 1 6 8 1 6
8 1 6 8 1 6 8 1 6
3 5 7 3 5 7 3 5 7
4 9 2 4 9 2 4 9 2
4 9 2 4 9 2 4 9 2
3 5 7 3 5 7 3 5 7
8 1 6 8 1 6 8 1 6
situation number 1 situation number 2 situation number 3
4 9 2 4 9 2 4 9 2
3 5 7 3 5 7 3 5 7
8 1 6 8 1 6 8 1 6
8 1 6 8 1 6 8 1 6
3 5 7 3 5 7 3 5 7
4 9 2 4 9 2 4 9 2
4 9 2 4 9 2 4 9 2
3 5 7 3 5 7 3 5 7
8 1 6 8 1 6 8 1 6