Qimen Dun Jia (奇門遁甲) is a traditional Chinese system that combines spatial symbolism, cyclical time, the Eight Gates, Nine Stars, Eight Deities, trigrams, and stems within a nine-palace framework. It has been used in strategic divination and later explored in metaphysical, military, and self-cultivation traditions. This guide is an interactive learning atlas: explore the stable symbolism of the palaces and the traditional meanings of key symbols, then follow the questions they raise.
The nine-palace grid is the spatial framework. Each palace is associated with a number, direction, trigram, and five-phase element. Traditional Qimen charts often display south at the top, so this atlas labels directions explicitly rather than relying on screen position alone.
The Eight Gates describe different qualities of action, such as opening, resting, growth, visibility, disruption, or closure. Their meaning depends on the chart, the question, and their relationship to other components.
The Nine Stars and Eight Deities add further layers of symbolism. Their placement and interaction matter; a single star, gate, or deity should not be treated as a complete reading on its own.
This codex explains foundational associations and offers practical reflection prompts. It does not calculate a live Qimen chart from date, time, location, solar terms, or a chosen school, and it should not be mistaken for a full technical chart or a guaranteed forecast.
Generate a time-based Qimen chart, inspect the nine palaces, and receive a topic-focused interpretation grounded in the calculated gates, stars, deities, stems, and voids.
Method: hour-based Qimen · rotating plate · split-and-repair Three Yuan method · Zi-hour day rollover at 23:00. This version uses the device's local clock and does not apply longitude-based true-solar-time correction.
Traditional orientation: South at the top. Select a palace to inspect its calculated symbols.
Educational and cultural use only. Qimen schools can differ in solar-term tables, day-boundary rules, ju-setting, center-palace handling, and rotating-plate conventions. This tool applies one documented, consistent ruleset; compare those settings before treating differences between charts as errors. Interpretations are symbolic reflections, not guaranteed predictions.
Learn the basic framework, the role of the main symbol groups, and the limits of this interactive atlas.
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