Eight Deities in Qimen: Sequence, Roles, and Limits
OpenFate’s declared eight-deity sequence is Chief, Soaring Serpent, Great Yin, Six Harmony, White Tiger, Black Tortoise, Nine Earth, and Nine Heaven.
Overview
OpenFate’s declared eight-deity sequence is Chief, Soaring Serpent, Great Yin, Six Harmony, White Tiger, Black Tortoise, Nine Earth, and Nine Heaven. This layer adds a traditional quality of support, ambiguity, force, concealment, depth, or reach. The deity sequence starts from the palace occupied by the Chief and proceeds around the outer ring, forward for Yang Dun and backward for Yin Dun. Other schools may use a different roster or direction and must be named.
At a glance
- Page role
- Foundation concept
- Terms covered
- Eight Spirits · Qimen deities
- Verification focus
- The deity sequence starts from the palace occupied by the Chief and proceeds around the outer ring, forward for Yang Dun and backward for Yin Dun. Other schools may use a different roster or direction and must be named.
- Stop rule
- Deity names are symbolic taxonomy, not evidence of supernatural intervention. Do not infer spirits, enemies, theft, illness, violence, romance, or consent from one deity label.
Explore concepts
- Qimen Dunjia Wiki · chart methods and references
Chief Deity (值符) in Qimen Dunjia
The Chief Deity represents command, legitimacy, protection, and the most organized form of support available in the deity layer.
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Soaring Serpent (螣蛇) in Qimen Dunjia
Soaring Serpent represents entanglement, ambiguity, repeated doubt, strange impressions, and information that coils around itself.
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Great Yin (太陰) in Qimen Dunjia
Great Yin represents quiet protection, discretion, hidden preparation, and assistance that works without public display.
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Six Harmony (六合) in Qimen Dunjia
Six Harmony represents connection, mediation, agreements, pairing, and the channel through which two sides can coordinate.
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White Tiger (白虎) in Qimen Dunjia
White Tiger represents force, confrontation, sharp consequences, and the cost of using power under pressure. Read it in enforcement, conflict, urgent action,…
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Black Tortoise (玄武) in Qimen Dunjia
Black Tortoise represents obscured information, loss, misdirection, unofficial channels, and facts that are difficult to verify.
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Nine Earth (九地) in Qimen Dunjia
Nine Earth represents depth, grounding, storage, concealment, and strength built by staying close to the base. Read it for consolidation, reserves, defensive…
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Nine Heaven (九天) in Qimen Dunjia
Nine Heaven represents elevation, reach, expansion, visibility at distance, and action that moves beyond the immediate base.
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Direct answer and scope
OpenFate’s declared eight-deity sequence is Chief, Soaring Serpent, Great Yin, Six Harmony, White Tiger, Black Tortoise, Nine Earth, and Nine Heaven. This layer adds a traditional quality of support, ambiguity, force, concealment, depth, or reach.
- Names and related terms: Eight Spirits
- Names and related terms: Qimen deities
How the rule is formed or checked
The deity sequence starts from the palace occupied by the Chief and proceeds around the outer ring, forward for Yang Dun and backward for Yin Dun. Other schools may use a different roster or direction and must be named.
Keep the cast moment, UTC offset, method version, palace, and interacting symbols visible before adopting an interpretation.
How to use this in a reading
Use a deity as a modifier to a palace bundle, never as the sole evidence for an event or another person’s intent. Check whether its theme is repeated by the gate, star, relation, or real-world record.
- 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
Six Harmony beside a usable communication route can support mediation. The same deity with Block Gate and Black Tortoise-like evidence gaps may show that connection is desired but not yet transparent or actionable.
Common mistake and limit
Deity names are symbolic taxonomy, not evidence of supernatural intervention. Do not infer spirits, enemies, theft, illness, violence, romance, or consent from one deity label.
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.