Essential Six Yao Course: Complete Analysis of Interaction Patterns in Six Yao

Preface

Six Yao prediction may seem like mere changes of lines, but in reality, all outcomes stem from 'movement and stillness and interaction.' Moving lines can trigger changing lines, static lines can be secretly activated by the sun and moon, and lines can be entangled through multiple relationships such as combination, clash, punishment, destruction, and repetition. Mastering these patterns allows one to truly read the information in the hexagram and infer the direction and timing of events.

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Section 1: Movement and Stillness of Lines

The core of Six Yao judgment always revolves around the useful god, but to understand the changes of the useful god, one must first grasp the difference and function of moving and static lines.

I. Moving Lines and Static Lines

• Moving Lines: Old yin, old yang → indicate a change in the line position.

• Static Lines: Young yin, young yang → indicate the line remains unchanged.

1. Relationship Between Moving and Static Lines

• Moving lines can generally generate or control static lines, but static lines cannot generate or control moving lines.

• Even if a static line is very strong, the moving line still takes the initiative.

• If a moving line is temporarily weak (insufficient power), it may not take effect, but as time (seasonal orders, day stems) progresses, once it becomes strong, it can exert its power again.

  👉 This is why the timing of events can be inferred from the hexagram.

II. Changes of Moving Lines

• When a moving line activates, it forms a changing line.

• The sun and moon can affect both the moving line and the changing line.

• Changing line generates moving line → called returning generation (auspicious).

• Changing line controls moving line → called returning control (inauspicious).

III. Static Hexagrams

• A hexagram without moving lines is called a static hexagram.

• In a static hexagram, a strong static line can still support or control a weak static line, just as a strong person can help or suppress the weak.

• If a static line is in void, it regains power when the void is filled in the next cycle, often used to determine response timing.

📌 Summary

Moving lines are 'signals of change,' while static lines are 'the tone of the environment.' Moving lines have greater influence than static lines, but static lines, if strong or when timing changes, can also play a key role. Mastering the interaction between movement and stillness is key to understanding the timing and development trends in Six Yao prediction.

Section 2: Hidden Movement and Daily Break

In Six Yao, if a static line is in the monthly branch, receives generation or support from the monthly branch, encounters generation from a moving line, combines with the monthly branch, or grows in the month, and then is struck by the daily branch, it forms hidden movement.

• Hidden Movement: A static line is secretly activated by the daily clash.

  • Favorable for the useful god → auspicious.

  • Unfavorable for the useful god → inauspicious.

    Therefore, every hexagram should be carefully checked for hidden movement lines, as they are often key to judging good or bad.

If a static line is already weak, controlled by the monthly branch, and then struck by the daily branch, it is called daily break.

• A line with daily break → its power is greatly weakened and cannot function.

• If the useful god encounters daily break → unfavorable;

• If the taboo god encounters daily break → favorable instead.

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✅ Summary

• Hidden Movement: A static line encountering daily clash 'secretly activates,' which can turn auspicious or inauspicious.

• Daily Break: A static line already weak is struck by the daily branch, losing all power.

• Judgment should combine analysis of the useful god, taboo god, and source god.

• Hidden movement is often a 'key hidden thread' that determines turning points in events.

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Section 3: Six Combinations

Six combinations refer to the six pairing relationships of earthly branches:

• Zi and Chou combine

• Yin and Hai combine

• Mao and Xu combine

• Chen and You combine

• Si and Shen combine

• Wu and Wei combine

This 'six combination' is common in hexagrams, often meaning meeting, seeing, entanglement, retention, stay, healing, harmony, etc. However, auspiciousness or inauspiciousness is not absolute and must be judged based on the useful god, sun and moon, movement and stillness, etc.

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Several Cases of Six Combinations

1. Sun/Moon Combine with Lines

• Monthly combination with hexagram lines → called 'combined strength,' often used to discuss momentum, not commonly used as a basis for response timing.

• Daily combination with hexagram lines → clear auspiciousness or inauspiciousness, may be 'generation with combination,' 'control with combination,' or 'punishment with combination.'

  • Predicting illness: Recent illness encountering combination → mostly indicates lingering illness; chronic illness encountering combination → instead suggests 'life retention.'

  • Predicting travel: Moving line encountering combination → there must be obstacles; static line encountering daily combination → can proceed on the same day.

  • Predicting marriage: Mostly indicates emotional entanglement, even suggesting extramarital affairs.

1. Line-to-Line Combination

   The useful god in the hexagram is combined by a moving line → judgment is the same as 'daily combination.'

• Source god combined → if the useful god is auspicious, breaking the combination brings good.

• Taboo god combined → if the useful god is not auspicious, breaking the combination line makes the taboo god even more rampant.

1. Moving Line and Changing Line Combine

   That is, a line activates, and its changing line combines with the moving line; judgment must consider auspiciousness or inauspiciousness.

2. Hexagram with Six Combinations, or Hexagram Changes to Six Combinations

3. Six Clash Hexagram Changes to Six Combination Hexagram

4. Six Combination Hexagram Changes to Six Combination Hexagram

   Six combination hexagrams, such as Earth and Heaven Pi, Mountain Fire Bi, etc., where first and fourth, second and fifth, third and top lines combine.

• Predicting childbirth → six combination often indicates difficult labor.

• Other matters → mostly indicate harmony and completeness.

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✅ Summary

Six combination in hexagrams often symbolizes 'harmony and retention':

• Recent illness → combination indicates lingering disease; chronic illness → combination indicates life retention.

• Travel → moving line encountering combination often brings obstacles; static line encountering daily combination brings change on the same day.

• Marriage → mostly emotional entanglement, even extramarital affairs.

• Other matters → six combination is often an auspicious sign of harmony, but still needs to be judged in conjunction with the useful god and overall hexagram trend.

Section 4: Three Combination Bureau

Three combination refers to the gathering of three earthly branches to form a bureau:

• Shen, Zi, Chen form Water Bureau

• Si, You, Chou form Metal Bureau

• Yin, Wu, Xu form Fire Bureau

• Hai, Mao, Wei form Wood Bureau

The three combination bureau consists of 'long life, emperor's prosperity, and tomb treasury' branches, with the middle branch determining the bureau's five-element attribute.

Its power far exceeds that of a single branch, symbolizing cooperation, gathering, assistance, and joint action.

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Key Points of Three Combination Bureau

1. Who Can Participate in the Bureau

   • Sun and moon, moving lines, changing lines, hidden movement lines → can enter the bureau.

   • Static lines → cannot enter the bureau.

2. Half Bureau

   • If only two branches are present in the hexagram (one must be the middle branch), it is called a 'half bureau.'

   • It must wait for the third branch to appear (e.g., supplemented by the sun or month) to form a complete bureau, called 'waiting for one to use.'

3. Void, Break, Entering Tomb

   • If a line in the three combination bureau is in void or broken → it can only form a bureau when the void is filled, combined, or the tomb is struck.

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✅ Summary

The three combination bureau is a highly influential combination in Six Yao:

• Formed bureau → power multiplies, symbolizing joint force, cooperation, stable relationships.

• Half bureau → matters not yet accomplished, will manifest when supplemented.

• Void, break, entering tomb → matters will respond when filled, combined, or tomb struck.

• In hexagrams for marriage, cooperation, gatherings, etc., the three combination bureau often predicts 'gathering without separation,' but may also lead to new situations that replace old relationships.

Section 5: Six Clashes

Six clashes refer to the six pairs of earthly branches that clash:

• Zi and Wu clash

• Chou and Wei clash

• Yin and Shen clash

• Mao and You clash

• Chen and Xu clash

• Si and Hai clash

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Six Forms of Six Clashes

1. Hexagram with Six Clashes

   • Ten hexagrams: Qian for Heaven, Kun for Earth, Dui for Lake, Xun for Wind, Zhen for Thunder, Kan for Water, Li for Fire, Gen for Mountain, Lei Tian Da Zhuang, Tian Lei Wu Wang.

2. Six Combination Hexagram Changes to Six Clash Hexagram

   • Example: Earth and Heaven Pi → Tian Lei Wu Wang.

3. Six Clash Hexagram Changes to Six Clash Hexagram

   • Example: Qian for Heaven → Kun for Earth.

4. Sun/Month Clash with Lines

   • The sun or month clashes and controls a line in the hexagram.

5. Line-to-Line Clash

   • Two lines in the hexagram clash with each other.

6. Moving Line Changes to Clash

   • A moving line changes into a line that clashes with the original line.

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Meaning and Auspiciousness of Six Clashes

• Scatter / Open / Activate: Six clashes have the effect of dispersing, opening, and triggering.

• Illness:

  • Recent illness encountering clash → auspicious, disperses illness.

  • Chronic illness encountering clash → inauspicious, collapses the body.

• Order of Auspiciousness:

  • Most inauspicious → Hexagram changes to six clashes, six clash changes to six clash.

  • Next inauspicious → Line-to-line clash, daily clash with line, six combination changes to six clash.

  • Lighter → Moving line changes to six clash, monthly clash with line.

• Detailed Breakdown:

  • Monthly clash is monthly break

  • Changing clash is repetition

  • Daily clash needs to distinguish between hidden movement or daily break

• Application Scenarios:

  • All matters unfavorable → useful god encounters changing clash or monthly clash.

  • Lawsuits, childbirth → instead favorable to see six clashes.

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✅ Summary:

The most prominent feature of six clash hexagrams is 'turmoil and separation.' It may bring conflict, change, loss, but in specific scenarios (such as litigation, childbirth), it is actually an opportunity for response. Six clashes must be judged not only by the hexagram image but also in combination with the sun and moon, line positions, useful god, etc.

Section 6: Auspiciousness of Three Punishments

Three punishments refer to a special punitive relationship among earthly branches:

• Yin punishes Si, Si punishes Shen, Shen punishes Yin → called power-based punishment

• Zi punishes Mao, Mao punishes Zi → called rudeness punishment

• Chou punishes Xu, Xu punishes Wei, Wei punishes Chou → called ungratefulness punishment

• Chen, Wu, You, Hai → self-punishment

Punishment usually implies punishment, pain, penalty, offense, victimization, etc.

In Six Yao judgment, the focus remains on generation and control of the useful god, with three punishments playing a secondary role. Three punishments often serve as auxiliary information and must be judged in conjunction with the useful god, sun and moon, and moving lines; never conclude solely based on three punishments.

• Yin punishes Si: generation with punishment.

• Chen, Wu, You, Hai self-punishment: when seen in the hexagram or sun and moon, mostly indicates support and comparison.

  • If Chen earth moves and transforms into Chen earth → called repetition, mostly inauspicious.

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Summary

Three punishments in hexagrams mainly indicate obstruction, contradiction, covert sabotage; their power is less than generation and control, but they often serve as key hints. When interpreting hexagrams, focus on the strength of the useful god, with three punishments as supplementary reference, to avoid misjudgment.

Section 7: Repetition and Reverse Repetition

I. Reverse Repetition

Reverse repetition, also called return repetition, has a high verification rate in Six Yao and cannot be ignored. It has two cases:

1. Hexagram Changes to Reverse Repetition

   　- Example: Qian changes to Kun, Kun changes to Qian, Li changes to Kan, Kan changes to Li, Gen changes to Dui, Dui changes to Gen, Zhen changes to Xun, etc.

   　- Or like Earth Wind Sheng changes to Wind Earth Guan.

   　- This is formed by the mutual transformation of opposing directions in the Former Heaven or Later Heaven trigrams.

   　- Feature: The verification rate of hexagram reverse repetition is lower than that of line reverse repetition, but still requires careful consideration.

2. Line Changes to Reverse Repetition

   　- Refers to the moving line and its changing line forming a earthly branch clash relationship.

   　- There are cases where both inner and outer trigrams are reverse repetition, or inner reverse but outer not, or outer reverse but inner not.

   　- Feature: Line reverse repetition is more verifiable, mostly indicating repetition of events, difficulty in undertaking, inability to achieve in one step.

   　- Generally unfavorable, but sometimes things can still be accomplished, albeit with many twists and turns.

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II. Repetition

Repetition refers to the case where the changing line of a moving line is the same as the moving line.

• Example: Qian hexagram changes to Zhen, or Tian Feng Gou changes to Lei Feng Heng.

• Repetition mostly indicates inauspiciousness, meaning stagnation, slow progress, inner pain.

• However, auspiciousness or inauspiciousness still depends on the strength of the useful god; repetition is only an additional reference.

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✨ Summary

• Reverse Repetition → indicates repetition, obstruction, mostly unfavorable.

• Repetition → indicates stagnation, delay, difficulty in breakthrough.

• Judgment must combine strength of the useful god, effects of sun and moon for comprehensive analysis; do not make isolated conclusions.

Conclusion

This article explains the movement and stillness of lines and their interaction patterns:

• Moving lines are powerful, mainly triggering changes in events;

• Static lines, though unmoving, can take effect due to the sun and moon or hidden movement;

• Relationships such as combination, clash, punishment, break, repetition make hexagrams more complex, determining auspiciousness and response timing.

In summary: The core of a hexagram lies in the interaction between the useful god and movement and stillness; other lines and the combination, clash, punishment, and combination with the sun, moon, and time are all modes of interaction. Grasping the patterns of movement and stillness can simplify complex hexagrams and clarify the fundamental direction of events.