Stillness Gate (死門) in Qimen Dunjia
The Stillness or Death Gate describes closure, completion, immobility, and processes whose active phase has ended. It can be relevant to ending, archiving,…
Overview
The Stillness or Death Gate describes closure, completion, immobility, and processes whose active phase has ended. 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 Kun 2 in the southwest and its element is Earth.
At a glance
- Page role
- Chart symbol reference
- Terms covered
- Stillness Gate · Death Gate · Si Men · 死門
- 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 Kun 2 in the southwest and its element is Earth.
- Stop rule
- Never read the name literally as a death prediction. It cannot diagnose illness, forecast mortality, or replace emergency, medical, or bereavement support.
Direct answer and scope
The Stillness or Death Gate describes closure, completion, immobility, and processes whose active phase has ended.
- Names and related terms: Stillness Gate
- Names and related terms: Death Gate
- Names and related terms: Si Men
- Names and related terms: 死門
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 Kun 2 in the southwest 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
It can be relevant to ending, archiving, clearing, grieving, or stabilizing what should no longer expand. The question decides whether closure is useful or obstructive.
- 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
Stillness Gate can support a clean close when the goal is completion. In a launch question, the same condition may show that energy, permission, or demand is not moving.
Common mistake and limit
Never read the name literally as a death prediction. It cannot diagnose illness, forecast mortality, or replace emergency, medical, or bereavement support.
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.