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Chapter 2 of 14
六壬粹言
This volume addresses ten common controversies and errors in Six Ren (Liuren) divination, distinguishing right from wrong and clarifying the origins of each tradition. Its purpose is to correct fallacies inherited by later students and restore the original principles of classical methods. The content covers core issues including the Monthly General (Yuejiang) method, the selection of Noble Spirits (Guishen), the distinction between Day and Night Nobles, the differences between Five Element and Ten Heavenly Stem birth/death cycles, the positioning of Earth's Tomb, the Shehai lesson, the Bieze lesson, the Bazhuan lesson type, the calculation of Annual Cycles, and the Twenty-Eight Lunar Mansions and their territorial divisions. Each item is expounded below in sequence.
The method of determining the Monthly General: various texts all use the midpoint of each solar term (zhongqi) as the basis for moving into a new palace. The so-called monthly midpoint refers to the celestial position where the sun transits into a new zodiac palace. This method is extremely precise and correct. However, some have used the combination star of the lunar month as a substitute for the midpoint solar term to determine the Monthly General, which amounts to self-styled innovation that is superficially plausible but fundamentally wrong. In the Ming Dynasty, Yao Guangxiao used the He-Tu generative numbers, taking the generative numbers for Yang stems and the completion numbers for Yin stems, jumping according to these numbers to select the General—creating a heretical theory that is even more absurd and absolutely inadmissible.
The essence of the Monthly General is the actual position of the sun on the celestial sphere. The sun's motion crosses into new palaces at each midpoint solar term, with each midpoint corresponding to the sun entering a new ecliptic zodiac palace. Using midpoint solar terms to fix the Monthly General is a precise method based on astronomical observation. Methods using the month's combination star or He-Tu numbers all depart from the astronomical foundation that "the Monthly General equals the sun's ecliptic position," representing mere numerological contrivance.
The Monthly General system is essentially an astronomical-calendrical model. The sun completes one circuit of the ecliptic each year, passing through twelve zodiac stations (Jupiter stations), each entered at a corresponding midpoint term. Liuren's method of laying the Monthly General over the hour creates a divination chart that projects the spatiotemporal coordinates of celestial motion. Any "innovation" detached from astronomical reality causes the model to lose its objective reference—a principle similar to modern science's requirement that models be grounded in observable facts.
The core spirit of "refutation" lies in the principle that methodology must have ontological grounding. Whether the choice of Monthly General is right or wrong depends on its fidelity to the objective motion of Heaven. As a "study of Heaven and humanity," Liuren presupposes precise grasp of Heavenly patterns. Any subjective shortcut, however ingenious, severs the connection between divination and the Way of Heaven, reducing "celestial mechanism" to empty symbolic play.
Regarding the selection of Noble Spirits for the Ten Stems: the Tonggui and Ding'ezuo texts designate Jia, Wu, and Geng as using Chou and Wei, and the six Xin days as using Yin and Wu. However, the Zengmen and Jingui texts designate Jia and Wu as using Chou and Wei, and Geng and Xin as using Yin and Wu—contradicting each other. Examining the Xieji Bianfang Shu, though differing in other aspects, all agree that Jia, Wu, and Geng together use Chou and Wei. In Ziping astrology, the Celestial Noble (Tianyi Guiren) also employs Chou and Wei for Jia, Wu, and Geng. Thus it is clear that the method of the Tonggui is correct and cannot be altered.
There exist two transmission lineages for the Celestial Noble selection: the system of "Jia, Wu, Geng sharing Chou as their Guardian Earthly Branch" represented by the Tonggui, and the system represented by the Zengmen, which sent Jia and Wu to Chou-Wei while Geng and Xin went to Yin-Wu. The decisive evidence hinges on two points: the official recognition of the Xieji Bianfang Shu, and the corroborating testimony from Ziping astrology—two independent systems converging on the same conclusion that Jia, Wu, and Geng use Chou and Wei.
The divergence in Noble appointments is essentially a matter of differences in textual lineage, not theoretical innovation. Different ancient texts developed variant formulas through processes of recopying and school dissemination. The method for discernment is straightforward: horizontal comparison—checking whether different divination traditions converge. Although Bazi and Liuren are distinct systems, the underlying logic of the Celestial Noble is shared, and their consensus offers cross-validating power.
The debate over formulas raises a profound question: how is classical authority established? In symbolic systems with no empirical test (such as guardian benefactors), correctness can only be anchored through "multi-source corroboration." This parallels the scientific principle of "reproducibility": when a conclusion is repeatedly confirmed in independent systems, its credibility is markedly elevated.
The Day and Night Nobles refer to the Yang and Yin Noble Spirits. When casting at hours Mao, Chen, Si, Wu, Wei, or Shen, use the Yang Noble; when casting at You, Xu, Hai, Zi, Chou, or Yin, use the Yin Noble. This is extremely sound. However, some insist that when divining during daylight hours—even if the hour is a nighttime hour—one should still use the Day Noble; and when divining at night—even if the hour is a daytime hour—one must use the Night Noble. This results in more daytime divinations than nighttime, creating imbalance and incompleteness. Others propose defining Day/Night by sunrise and sunset as those times shift through the seasons, which is worse—attempting to carve a boat to find a fallen sword (an absolutely rigid approach).
The criterion for distinguishing Day vs. Night Nobles is the yin-yang attribute of the emerging temporal chakra, not the actual day/night status at the diviner's location or the clock time of divination. Hours Mao through Shen belong to Yang and use the Yang Noble; hours You through Yin belong to Yin and use the Yin Noble. This classification is clean, symmetrical, and covers all twelve hours without gaps. Using real sunrise/sunset varies with season and geographic latitude, making standardization impossible, and its precision is contradicted.
The Liuren system of hours is an form(model-driven) time framework—twelve Earthly Branches divided evenly into Yin and Yang realms, each with exactly six hours. This symmetrical structure bears no necessary relation to actual day length but is a formalized spatio-temporal implement. Substituting empirical day/night destroys the logical coherence of the model, much as an axiomatic system's self-consistency is prioritized over point-for-point correspondence with physical reality.
This item illustrates a central principle: divination models are closed formalized dimensions within complete coherent geometries used only for reflection, pursuit as well insight coherence over orientation to empirics. Treating environment interpretations interferes where disciplined classical operations serve analytical precision performance independent potential nuance including full astuary calibration far context — the power. Thus rather equivalence externally has nominal boundaries toward symbolism ordered nature itself.
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The territorial divisions of the Twenty-Eight Lunar Mansions differ between ancient and modern times. Examining the motion of the constellations, they drift approximately one degree every seventy years and shift one entire palace every 2,100-plus years. In the Yao era, the winter solstice sun was in the Xu mansion; in the Zhou dynasty, in the Niu mansion; in Han, Tang, and Song, in the Dou mansion; in Yuan and Ming, in the Ji mansion; and in the present dynasty (Qing), by the Jiaqing period, it had reached one degree within the Ji mansion. The constellations have thus shifted by two full palaces compared with the Yao era.
Examining the (Liuren Daquan) which places Nu, Xu, and Wei in the Zi palace, Dou and Niu in the Chou palace, and so forth—this reflects the **Song dynasty's stellar positions**, not present-day positions. Examining the method of the *Lixiang Kaocheng* (Calendar and Astronomical Compendium), the celestial circumference is divided into 360 degrees, with each degree subdivided into sixty minutes:
| Palace | Mansion/Degree Allotment |
|--------|--------------------------|
| Chou | Ji 1–8 |
| Zi | Dou 22–23, Niu 7, Nü 11, Xu 4 |
| Hai | Xu 8–9, Wei 22, Shi 7 |
| Xu | Shi 8–15, Bi 13, Shi 7 |
| You | Kui 10–11, Lou 12, Wei 12, Mao 11 |
| Shen | Mao 3–8, Zi 0, Shen 6 |
| Wei | Shen 7–10, Jing 26 |
| Wu | Jing 27–30, Gui 4, Liu 16, Xing 4 |
| Si | Xing 5–8, Zhang 18, Yi 7 |
| Chen | Yi 8–16, Zhen 13, Jiao 7 |
| Mao | Jiao 8–10, Kang 10, Di 16 |
| Yin | Di 17, Fang 4, Xin 8, Wei 15, Ji 0 |
Together this totals 360 degrees.
Luo Honglie said: in Western calendrical methods, the circumference of heaven comprises a surplus of 360 degrees, and the sun's annual circuit repeats each year. But bounded by the solstice point, the full circuit is not complete when the winter solstice day arrives. This is the origin of the precession method. Hence the sun's motion begins on the winter solstice day and ends at the end of Greater Snow. Each year the sun's position drifts by approximately fifty-one seconds of arc, amounting to one degree of difference accumulated over seventy years. This is how it came to pass that when celestial ecliptic positions cross into new astronomical signs the divisions between sign boundaries differ with each world age—constellation palaces from antiquity then necessarily vary with the modern.
Yet if one strictly applies the new celestial figures, such classic secret formulas recorded as "Niu Nü commanding the boat," "Dou Niu counterposed," "Wind Earl gathering with Ji," and "Rain Master meeting with Bi" all cease to be applicable. Thus this classic retains them in coordinates cast under the systematic (古法) with respect, yet faithfully records where these systems materially begin for astronomical justification thereby historically exposing different era horizons for later practitioners never negligible acknowledgment order adapt future accordingly.
### 🧠 Deep Understanding
#### Core Concept 💡
The systemic locating and mansion/asteristic attribution grid in the so-terraced Twenty-Axis depends extended momentum "actually aligned floating interplay.” In constant distinction beyond absolutely given representation: incremental approximately every 7-decades all direct context likely several near transitions; the master divisions need show seasonally stable coordinate correspondence. Manifest constants annotated include clear test initial function exact on each subsequent further elaboration. Unknown core drift consistent remain legitimate enough ancient ones use broad signal albeit likely semantic layer nonetheless stable functionality.
#### Modern Interpretation 🌟
Best decision policy honors above all with astronomy respecting the unchanged operational meaning powerful.
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#### Practical Value ⚡
Practical facts order: “canon astrological practice direct modern; palace segmentation relevant official.
#### Philosophical Reflection 🤔
Clear no eternal outer constants similarly model heuristics still exact historically intended outcome system persists simultaneous tradition exact essence.
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### Grand Summary Essential Closing
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