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.
Overview
Despite the conventional name Six Relatives, the chart uses five relation classes: Parents, Peers, Children, Officer/Ghost and Wife/Wealth. The palace element acts as “self” for this calculation: same element is Peers, line feeds palace is Parents, palace feeds line is Children, line controls palace is Officer/Ghost, and palace controls line is Wife/Wealth.
At a glance
- Reader question
- Liu Yao six relatives
- 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
Despite the conventional name Six Relatives, the chart uses five relation classes: Parents, Peers, Children, Officer/Ghost and Wife/Wealth. The palace element acts as “self” for this calculation: same element is Peers, line feeds palace is Parents, palace feeds line is Children, line controls palace is Officer/Ghost, and palace controls line is Wife/Wealth.
Definitions and prerequisites
You need the original palace element and the branch element of each line. Visible family words are technical relation labels; they must not be automatically equated with literal relatives in every question.
Method or reference rule
For each line, write palace element, line element and the direction of generation or control. Apply exactly one relation rule, record its conventional label, then keep question-role selection as a separate Yongshen step.
Worked example
In Metal Qian Palace, the 子 Water bottom line is Children because Metal generates Water; 寅 Wood is Wife/Wealth because Metal controls Wood; 辰 Earth is Parents because Earth generates Metal.
Closest failure case
Deriving relations from the upper trigram element instead of the palace element changes labels in non-pure members. Treating every Parents line as a literal parent also confuses calculation with question context.
Sources, interpretation and limits
Six-Relative labels organize symbolic roles; they cannot prove kinship behavior, employment, money, illness, pregnancy or another person’s intent. A reading must show the exact relation calculation and its limited question role.
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: 從宮五行與爻支五行推出父母、兄弟、子孫、官鬼與妻財。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: 從宮五行與爻支五行推出父母、兄弟、子孫、官鬼與妻財。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: liuqinOf() derives the five displayed relation classes from palace and line elements.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.