Life Gate (生門) in Qimen Dunjia
The Life Gate is the Qimen gate most often associated with growth, resources, income sources, and processes that can be sustained.
Overview
The Life Gate is the Qimen gate most often associated with growth, resources, income sources, and processes that can be sustained. The eight gates form the human-action layer. A rotating-plate chart moves them around the eight outer palaces; no gate occupies the center. Its home position is Gen 8 in the northeast and its element is Earth.
At a glance
- Page role
- Chart symbol reference
- Terms covered
- Life Gate · Sheng Men · 生門
- Verification focus
- The eight gates form the human-action layer. A rotating-plate chart moves them around the eight outer palaces; no gate occupies the center. Its home position is Gen 8 in the northeast and its element is Earth.
- Stop rule
- Life Gate is not a return forecast, investment recommendation, or guarantee of income. Verify price, contract, counterparty, cash flow, and downside independently.
Direct answer and scope
The Life Gate is the Qimen gate most often associated with growth, resources, income sources, and processes that can be sustained.
- Names and related terms: Life Gate
- Names and related terms: Sheng Men
- Names and related terms: 生門
How the rule is formed or checked
The eight gates form the human-action layer. A rotating-plate chart moves them around the eight outer palaces; no gate occupies the center. Its home position is Gen 8 in the northeast and its element is Earth.
Keep the cast moment, UTC offset, method version, palace, and interacting symbols visible before adopting an interpretation.
How to use this in a reading
For a deal or resource question, inspect Life Gate together with Wu as capital, the asker and matter palaces, and any strain or void. It can identify the resource channel without proving profit.
- 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 vigorous Life Gate supported by its palace can show accessible resources. A void Life Gate or one controlling its palace may show a nominal opportunity whose timing, capacity, or terms are not yet usable.
Common mistake and limit
Life Gate is not a return forecast, investment recommendation, or guarantee of income. Verify price, contract, counterparty, cash flow, and downside independently.
Sources and editorial basis
- 《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.
- 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.
- 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.