How a Liu Yao Chart Is Built
See how a Liu Yao chart is built from six recorded line values through hexagram identity, Eight Palace, Najia, relations, and time context.
Overview
A Liu Yao chart is a deterministic transformation of declared inputs. Six bottom-to-top line values establish the original hexagram and moving lines; flips establish the changed hexagram; fixed tables add Eight-Palace identity, Najia, Six Relatives and Shi–Ying; the cast time supplies month, day, Six Spirits and void under stated policies.
At a glance
- Reader question
- Liu Yao chart
- Evidence model
- Fixed chart facts → attributed tradition → conditional interpretation
- Product boundary
- OpenFate /liuyao owns interactive casting and chart generation
- Review posture
- Source-backed reference · interpretation remains conditional
Explore concepts
- Liu Yao learning guide
How to Cast Liu Yao with Three Coins
Cast Liu Yao with three coins by declaring the face values, recording six tosses from the bottom line upward, and preserving every face and sum.
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Liu Yao Line Values: 6, 7, 8 and 9
Understand Liu Yao values 6, 7, 8 and 9: which are yin or yang, which move, and why every line is ordered from bottom to top.
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Original, Moving and Changed Hexagrams in Liu Yao
The original hexagram preserves all six cast polarities; values 6 and 9 mark moving lines, and flipping only those positions produces the changed hexagram.
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Trigrams and Hexagrams in Liu Yao
trigrams and hexagrams in liu yao: reproducible rules, a worked check, common errors, sources, and interpretation limits.
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King Wen Sequence in Liu Yao Charts
king wen sequence in liu yao charts: reproducible rules, a worked check, common errors, sources, and interpretation limits.
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Eight Palaces of Liu Yao
The Liu Yao Eight Palaces group all 64 hexagrams into eight families of eight, each anchored by a pure trigram and a palace Five Element.
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Eight-Palace Generations: Pure to Returning Soul
eight-palace generations pure to returning soul: reproducible rules, a worked check, common errors, sources, and interpretation limits.
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Najia and Nazhi in Liu Yao
Najia and Nazhi assign a Heavenly Stem, Earthly Branch and branch element to each hexagram line according to its inner or outer trigram and position.
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Heavenly Stems and Earthly Branches in Liu Yao
heavenly stems and earthly branches in liu yao: reproducible rules, a worked check, common errors, sources, and interpretation limits.
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Palace Elements in Liu Yao
palace elements in liu yao: reproducible rules, a worked check, common errors, sources, and interpretation limits.
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Six Relatives in Liu Yao
Liu Yao derives five displayed Six-Relative roles by comparing each line branch element with the original hexagram’s palace element.
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Six Spirits in Liu Yao
six spirits in liu yao: reproducible rules, a worked check, common errors, sources, and interpretation limits.
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Shi and Ying Lines in Liu Yao
Shi and Ying are paired positions set by a hexagram’s Eight-Palace generation: a structural self–other axis, not access to anyone’s private mind.
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Hidden Spirits in Liu Yao
hidden spirits in liu yao: reproducible rules, a worked check, common errors, sources, and interpretation limits.
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Month and Day Pillars in Liu Yao
Liu Yao month and day pillars add cast-time context for line strength, clashes, combinations and void; their calculation policy must be stated and replayable.
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Xun Kong in Liu Yao
xun kong in liu yao: reproducible rules, a worked check, common errors, sources, and interpretation limits.
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Direct answer
A Liu Yao chart is a deterministic transformation of declared inputs. Six bottom-to-top line values establish the original hexagram and moving lines; flips establish the changed hexagram; fixed tables add Eight-Palace identity, Najia, Six Relatives and Shi–Ying; the cast time supplies month, day, Six Spirits and void under stated policies.
Definitions and prerequisites
Required inputs are the six values, order, cast instant, timezone, face convention and question category. Required settings include the calendar and day-boundary policy. Missing values cannot be recovered from the final hexagram name alone.
Method or reference rule
Verify the pipeline in stages: line states → original and changed binary identities → trigram and King Wen identity → palace and generation → stems, branches and elements → Six Relatives and Shi–Ying → day-dependent layers → question focus and evidence.
Worked example
For six 7s, the original is Qian with no changed hexagram difference. The fixed table gives Qian Palace, Metal, pure generation, Shi at line six and Ying at line three; Six Spirits still require the day stem.
Closest failure case
Starting with an interpretation and reconstructing whichever chart fields make it sound plausible reverses the pipeline. So does copying month or day data from a birth chart without confirming the Liu Yao cast-time policy.
Sources, interpretation and limits
The chart can prove its own computed fields when inputs and code version are retained. It cannot by itself prove a future outcome, a private mental state or that one school’s policy is universally correct.
Historical and academic records support the named chart taxonomy. Exact table output here follows the versioned OpenFate product contract and is not presented as universal school agreement.
Verification checklist
Save the question, cast time, timezone, face convention, six line values, source edition and product version whenever they can change the result.
- Reproduce the six stored line values before interpretation.
- Name the method, edition and product settings used.
- Cite the decisive chart facts instead of one dramatic label.
- Use observable records and qualified advice for high-stakes decisions.
Sources and editorial basis
- Chinese Text Project: 京氏易傳京氏易傳 work record and visible organization; exact rule claims require a separately named volume, passage and edition. Page claim scope: 用一張可掃描流程圖連結起卦、八宮、納甲、六親、六神、世應與時間層。Digitized historical work associated with Eight-Palace, Shi–Ying, Najia and kinship vocabulary. Exact doctrinal claims still require a named volume, passage and edition.
- A Study on the Construction and Application of Jing Fang YiThesis record T14175802, abstract and contents headings for Eight Palaces, Shi/Ying, Najia/Nazhi and Six Relations; taxonomy only. Page claim scope: 用一張可掃描流程圖連結起卦、八宮、納甲、六親、六神、世應與時間層。Academic thesis record connecting Jing Fang Yi with later Six-Line studies; the accessible contents list Eight Palaces, Shi–Ying, Najia/Nazhi and Six Relations. The record supports taxonomy, not unseen page-level arguments.
- OpenFate Liu Yao deterministic chart contractOpenFate app/modules/liuyao/logic/cast.ts, data.ts and engine.ts: cast → identity → palace → Najia → relations → time-context pipeline.Product evidence for seeded six-line casting and the current deterministic chart fields and policies. It supports current behavior only, not historical priority or predictive truth.