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.
Overview
Each Eight-Palace family contains a pure hexagram, first through fifth generations, a Wandering-Soul member, and a Returning-Soul member. The generation fixes palace membership and Shi position; it does not itself declare good or bad fortune. The page distinguishes reproducible structure from conditional interpretation and gives one concrete check that can be independently repeated.
At a glance
- Reader question
- eight-palace generations pure to returning soul
- 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
Each Eight-Palace family contains a pure hexagram, first through fifth generations, a Wandering-Soul member, and a Returning-Soul member. The generation fixes palace membership and Shi position; it does not itself declare good or bad fortune. 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. Each Eight-Palace family contains a pure hexagram, first through fifth generations, a Wandering-Soul member, and a Returning-Soul member. The generation fixes palace membership and Shi position; it does not itself declare good or bad fortune.
Method or reference rule
Use this auditable procedure: Start from a pure trigram doubled. Flip lines one through five cumulatively, flip line four back for Wandering Soul, then restore the inner trigram for Returning Soul. Use Shi positions 6, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 4, 3 and place Ying three lines opposite. Save the input, intermediate rows, applicable source locator, product version, and any uncertainty before weighing an interpretive effect.
Worked example
Worked check: In Qian Palace, 天風姤 is first generation with Shi at line one and Ying at line four. Calling it “wandering” because of its imagery would be wrong; Wandering Soul is the seventh structural position, 火地晉. 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 Eight-Palace Generations: Pure to Returning Soul 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
Each Eight-Palace family contains a pure hexagram, first through fifth generations, a Wandering-Soul member, and a Returning-Soul member. The generation fixes palace membership and Shi position; it does not itself declare good or bad fortune. 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: 列出純卦、一至五世、遊魂與歸魂，不把結構名稱直接等同事件好壞。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: 列出純卦、一至五世、遊魂與歸魂，不把結構名稱直接等同事件好壞。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: palaceSequence(), PALACE_INDEX and SHI_BY_GENERATION.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.