36. Darkening of the Light: Liu Yao Najia Chart
Verified Liu Yao Najia chart for Darkening of the Light: King Wen 36, 坎 Palace, six line rows, Six Relatives, Shi–Ying, and a replayable change example.
Overview
King Wen 36, Darkening of the Light, is the Wandering Soul member of 坎 Palace. Its fixed Liu Yao chart has upper 坤, lower 離, Shi on line 4, Ying on line 1, and six reproducible Najia rows; dated and interpretive fields remain separate.
At a glance
- Reader question
- Darkening of the Light Liu Yao hexagram
- 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
- Identity
- King Wen 36 · Darkening of the Light · upper 坤, lower 離
- Palace and generation
- 坎 Palace · Water · Wandering Soul
- Line 6
- 癸酉 · Metal · Parents / Support (父母) · ⚋
- Line 5
- 癸亥 · Water · Peers (兄弟) · ⚋
- Line 4 · Shi
- 癸丑 · Earth · Authority (官鬼) · ⚋
- Line 3
- 己亥 · Water · Peers (兄弟) · ⚊
- Line 2
- 己丑 · Earth · Authority (官鬼) · ⚋
- Line 1 · Ying
- 己卯 · Wood · Children / Ease (子孫) · ⚊
- Six Spirits
- Assigned from the casting day stem; not fixed by hexagram identity
Direct answer
King Wen 36, Darkening of the Light, is the Wandering Soul member of 坎 Palace. Its fixed Liu Yao chart has upper 坤, lower 離, Shi on line 4, Ying on line 1, and six reproducible Najia rows; dated and interpretive fields remain separate.
Definitions and prerequisites
Use the fixed upper 坤 and lower 離 structure, the 坎-Palace generation table, the trigram Najia rows, and the palace-relative Five-Element formula. Preserve bottom-up line order; reversing the rows creates a different chart.
Method or reference rule
Read bottom to top: 己卯⚊ · 己丑⚋ · 己亥⚊ · 癸丑⚋ · 癸亥⚋ · 癸酉⚋. Derive every Six Relative from 坎 Palace 水, mark Shi at line 4 and Ying at line 1, and leave all day-dependent fields unset until a dated cast is supplied.
Worked example
A deterministic check flips line 6 of Darkening of the Light and reaches King Wen 22, Grace. That single-bit result can be reproduced without interpretation; an actual changed hexagram uses only lines whose stored cast values are 6 or 9.
Closest failure case
Assigning permanent Six Spirits or a permanent verdict to Darkening of the Light is incorrect. Six Spirits depend on the casting day stem, while movement comes from stored values 6 or 9. The same fixed hexagram can therefore appear in different dated charts without changing its base Najia rows.
Sources, interpretation and limits
This is the Liu Yao structural chart for Darkening of the Light, not a general “meaning of hexagram 36” page. Six Spirits, month/day influence, void, actual moving lines, Yongshen, and an outcome require a dated cast; the fixed identity cannot prove what will happen.
The Zhouyi source supports the numbered hexagram identity and received text; the historical manual supports the named Eight-Palace list; OpenFate code supports the displayed current Najia table.
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: Book of ChangesBook of Changes, numbered hexagram 36 (地火明夷); received text and identity only.Digitized access to the received Zhouyi text with hexagram-level navigation. It supports exact classical passages, not the complete later Najia chart system.
- Wikisource: 增刪卜易《增刪卜易》 chapter 2, Eight-Palace lists, 坎宮 entry naming 地火明夷; historical membership witness only.Public-domain digitization with named chapters on casting, Eight-Palace names, Yongshen and worked cases. Editorial additions in the digitization must not be silently attributed to the historical author.
- OpenFate Liu Yao deterministic chart contractOpenFate app/modules/liuyao/logic/data.ts: King Wen 36 地火明夷; TRIGRAMS, najiaOf(), the kan lookup through PALACE_INDEX into palaceSequence(), SHI_BY_GENERATION and liuqinOf(); full six-row table independently recomputed by the Wiki contract.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.