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.
Overview
Heavenly Stems and Earthly Branches enter Liu Yao through different layers: Najia fixes a stem and branch on each line, while the casting month and day supply time authority, Six Spirits, clashes, combinations, and Xun Kong. The page distinguishes reproducible structure from conditional interpretation and gives one concrete check that can be independently repeated.
At a glance
- Reader question
- heavenly stems and earthly branches in liu yao
- 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
Direct answer
Heavenly Stems and Earthly Branches enter Liu Yao through different layers: Najia fixes a stem and branch on each line, while the casting month and day supply time authority, Six Spirits, clashes, combinations, and Xun Kong. The page distinguishes reproducible structure from conditional interpretation and gives one concrete check that can be independently repeated.
Definitions and prerequisites
Before applying the rule, preserve the bounded question, six bottom-up line values, casting time, timezone, day-boundary policy, and named source convention. If an input is missing, stop at definition rather than filling the gap symbolically. Heavenly Stems and Earthly Branches enter Liu Yao through different layers: Najia fixes a stem and branch on each line, while the casting month and day supply time authority, Six Spirits, clashes, combinations, and Xun Kong.
Method or reference rule
Use this auditable procedure: Keep three columns separate: fixed line Gan-Zhi from the upper or lower trigram, branch element used for Six Relatives, and dated month/day Gan-Zhi. Never replace one with a birth-chart pillar. Save the input, intermediate rows, applicable source locator, product version, and any uncertainty before weighing an interpretive effect.
Worked example
Worked check: A line marked 甲子 keeps that Najia assignment whenever the same hexagram is displayed, but whether 子 is supported, clashed, combined, or void changes with the recorded month and day. Save the input, intermediate rows, applicable source locator, product version, and any uncertainty before weighing an interpretive effect.
Closest failure case
The closest failure case for Heavenly Stems and Earthly Branches in Liu Yao is to retain its memorable label while dropping the inputs, direction, source rule, or conflicting evidence. That shortcut cannot be reproduced and can turn a conditional classification into an unsupported prediction.
Sources, interpretation and limits
Heavenly Stems and Earthly Branches enter Liu Yao through different layers: Najia fixes a stem and branch on each line, while the casting month and day supply time authority, Six Spirits, clashes, combinations, and Xun Kong. Keep fixed chart output, attributed historical rules, editorial interpretation, and real-world evidence in separate layers. This reference cannot establish hidden thoughts, causation, or a guaranteed future outcome; medical, legal, financial, and safety decisions require direct evidence and qualified help.
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: 說明干支在納甲與月日層的角色，不重做八字命盤教學。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: 說明干支在納甲與月日層的角色，不重做八字命盤教學。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/data.ts: STEMS, BRANCHES, BRANCH_ELEMENTS and trigram Najia assignments.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.