Qimen Applications and Comparisons: Choose the Right Question
Hour-Qimen is best scoped to one current decision or situation at a declared moment. These pages show how to frame eight common operational questions and how…
Overview
Hour-Qimen is best scoped to one current decision or situation at a declared moment. These pages show how to frame eight common operational questions and how to choose Qimen instead of five neighboring systems without claiming one is universally superior. Every application keeps the same calculation method and universal day-hour anchors, then adds only the topic symbol justified by the question. Every comparison fixes the user goal, required inputs, time horizon, and output type before naming a system.
At a glance
- Page role
- Question-specific reading guide
- Terms covered
- Qimen uses · Qimen question types
- Verification focus
- Every application keeps the same calculation method and universal day-hour anchors, then adds only the topic symbol justified by the question. Every comparison fixes the user goal, required inputs, time horizon, and output type before naming a system.
- Stop rule
- Application labels do not authorize medical, legal, financial, safety, or relationship claims without direct evidence. Comparison pages describe scope and method, not scientific validation or ranking.
Explore concepts
- Qimen Dunjia Wiki · chart methods and references
Qimen for a Current Situation: Leverage, Constraint, and Next Step
A current-situation reading compares the asker, the immediate matter, and the Chief context at one declared moment. Its job is to expose leverage, bottleneck,…
Read definition - Qimen Dunjia Wiki · chart methods and references
Qimen for Career and Negotiation: Roles, Terms, and Leverage
Career and negotiation questions should name the role or agreement, counterparty, decision deadline, and negotiable terms.
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Qimen for Finance and Transactions: Resource Signals With Due Diligence
A finance or transaction reading can map access to resources, counterparties, terms, and bottlenecks. It is not a return forecast, credit assessment, market…
Read definition - Qimen Dunjia Wiki · chart methods and references
Qimen for Relationship Interaction: Communication, Boundaries, and Repair
A relationship reading should address observable interaction, communication channels, boundaries, and the asker’s next choice.
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Qimen for Action Timing: Windows, Dependencies, and Review Triggers
Action timing asks whether prerequisites, route, capacity, and movement conditions support acting now, preparing, or waiting for a named signal.
Read definition - Qimen Dunjia Wiki · chart methods and references
Qimen for Travel and Movement: Route, Readiness, and Safety
A travel or movement question should specify origin, destination, purpose, departure window, and safety constraints. The chart can structure route and…
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Qimen Direction Selection: Bearing, Timing, and Reality Checks
Direction selection maps a chosen matter palace to one broad Lo Shu bearing for a specific action and time window. It is a traditional decision hypothesis,…
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Qimen Lost-Object Search: Direction, Evidence, and Stop Rules
A lost-object reading can organize a bounded search hypothesis from the last confirmed sighting, the selected matter anchor, and its palace direction.
Read definition - Qimen Dunjia Wiki · chart methods and references
Qimen vs Bazi: Decision-Time Board or Birth Chart?
Hour-Qimen starts from a question moment and builds a nine-palace decision board; Bazi starts from birth date, time, and place to build Four Pillars.
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Qimen vs Meihua Yishu: Nine-Palace Board or Hexagram Method?
Qimen constructs a multi-layer nine-palace board from a declared calendrical method. Meihua Yishu centers on deriving and changing hexagrams from a selected…
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Qimen vs Liuyao: Palace Layers or Six-Line Hexagram?
Qimen distributes stems, gates, stars, and deities across nine palaces. Liuyao organizes a six-line hexagram with line states and relationship roles.
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Qimen vs Feng Shui: Time-Specific Decision or Site Analysis?
Hour-Qimen is a time-specific board for a current question; Feng Shui is a family of site and environmental practices that usually requires physical…
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Qimen vs Taiyi and Daliuren: Distinguishing the Three Arts
Qimen, Taiyi, and Daliuren are traditionally grouped as the Three Arts, but each has its own board objects, calculations, vocabulary, and historical uses.
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Direct answer and scope
Hour-Qimen is best scoped to one current decision or situation at a declared moment. These pages show how to frame eight common operational questions and how to choose Qimen instead of five neighboring systems without claiming one is universally superior.
- Names and related terms: Qimen uses
- Names and related terms: Qimen question types
How the rule is formed or checked
Every application keeps the same calculation method and universal day-hour anchors, then adds only the topic symbol justified by the question. Every comparison fixes the user goal, required inputs, time horizon, and output type before naming a system.
Keep the cast moment, UTC offset, method version, palace, and interacting symbols visible before adopting an interpretation.
How to use this in a reading
The result should identify leverage, constraint, missing evidence, a reversible next action, and a review trigger. Link tool-seeking intent to the OpenFate Qimen calculator while this Wiki cluster serves explanatory intent.
- Name the visible chart fact before assigning symbolic meaning.
- Compare the asker and matter anchors with every layer in their palaces.
- Record at least one supporting condition and one counter-signal.
- End with a reversible action and an observable review point.
Worked contrast
“Should I sign this vendor agreement before Friday?” fits an hour-chart decision. “What are my lifelong career tendencies?” starts from birth data and belongs to a natal system; using Qimen for both would blur intent and evidence.
Common mistake and limit
Application labels do not authorize medical, legal, financial, safety, or relationship claims without direct evidence. Comparison pages describe scope and method, not scientific validation or ranking.
Sources and editorial basis
- 猪野毅「奇門遁甲の基礎的研究」Abstract and pp. 161–185: history and vocabulary; nine palaces; Three Wonders and Six Instruments; Eight Gates, Nine Stars, and deities; 排宮 and 飛宮 method distinction.A 2010 Hokkaido University research article used for historical vocabulary, the basic board structure, and the documented distinction between rotating-palace and flying-palace approaches. It does not test predictive accuracy.
- 《煙波釣叟歌》Wikisource lines 112–220: nine palaces, 陰陽遁, 三元, 值符/值使, 三奇六儀, 伏吟/反吟, gates, stars, vigor, 擊刑, 入墓, and selected patterns.A public-domain classical verse used only for the rule passages it actually states, including nine palaces, Yin and Yang Dun, Three Wonders and Six Instruments, Chief Star and Gate, gate and star sequences, vigor, and selected conditions. Legendary origin verses are not presented as verified history.
- OpenFate Qimen hour-chart methodOpenFate docs/QIMEN_SYSTEM.md, “Professional calculation contract,” “Interpretation and evidence contract,” and “Rule-source map,” source-reviewed 2026-09-12.Product-specific reference for OpenFate’s fixed-offset civil-time, hour-Qimen, rotating-plate, Chaibu implementation and its deterministic chart fields. A source review on 2026-09-12 does not prove live deployment, other schools, or predictive validity.