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…
Overview
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 orientation, form, and building context. Direction words alone do not make them the same. Choose Qimen for timing and interaction around one action. Choose a documented site method for a building or land question, with measured orientation and inspection. Name any combined practice explicitly.
At a glance
- Page role
- System-boundary comparison
- Terms covered
- Qi Men and Feng Shui · Qimen site selection
- Verification focus
- Choose Qimen for timing and interaction around one action. Choose a documented site method for a building or land question, with measured orientation and inspection. Name any combined practice explicitly.
- Stop rule
- Do not provide structural, environmental, legal, or health clearance from either label. Use qualified inspection and current official requirements.
Direct answer and scope
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 orientation, form, and building context. Direction words alone do not make them the same.
- Names and related terms: Qi Men and Feng Shui
- Names and related terms: Qimen site selection
How the rule is formed or checked
Choose Qimen for timing and interaction around one action. Choose a documented site method for a building or land question, with measured orientation and inspection. Name any combined practice explicitly.
Keep the cast moment, UTC offset, method version, palace, and interacting symbols visible before adopting an interpretation.
How to use this in a reading
A Qimen direction can be an action-route hypothesis for the cast moment, not a permanent property diagnosis. Building safety, code, title, climate, and engineering remain external evidence.
- 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
A favorable movement direction cannot make an unsafe building safe. A sound building inspection can rule out an action regardless of symbolic direction.
Common mistake and limit
Do not provide structural, environmental, legal, or health clearance from either label. Use qualified inspection and current official requirements.
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.
- NCC-T06 奇門遁甲專業版操作手冊NCC-T06 manual setting and board-field sections: configurable plate, center, bureau, deity, and day-boundary axes; used as evidence of modern method variation only.A modern professional-software manual used to document that plate, center, bureau, deity, and day-boundary settings vary. It is evidence of configurable practice, not an independent historical authority or accuracy study.
- 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.