Casting methods
Casting a hexagram from the time
By Vi Nhật Sơn · Updated
Lấy quẻ theo thời gian
Casting a hexagram from the time — what is it? Casting a hexagram from the time refers to the ordinal numbers of the Earthly Branches: add the lunar day, the lunar month and the year branch, then the hour.
Casting a hexagram from the time is one of the ways of obtaining a hexagram of the Yi. This method refers to the ordinal numbers of the Earthly Branches.
The ordinal numbers of the Earthly Branches
Zi = 1, Chou = 2, and so on up to Hai = 12. Within a day, the count starts at the Zi hour, which runs from 11 p.m. of the previous day to 1 a.m. of the next.
The calculation and an example
- Lunar day + lunar month + year branch number13 + 5 + 5 (Thìn)A = 23
- A + hour branch number23 + 4 (Mão)B = 27
- A ÷ 8, remainder → upper trigram23 : 8 dư 7Mountain (Gen)
- B ÷ 8, remainder → lower trigram27 : 8 dư 3Fire (Li)
- B ÷ 6, remainder → moving line27 : 6 dư 3Line 3
- 1Zi
- 2Chou
- 3Yin
- 4Mao
- 5Chen
- 6Si
- 7Wu
- 8Wei
- 9Shen
- 10You
- 11Xu
- 12Hai
| Officer line | Yin Wood | |||||
| Wealth | Zi Water | |||||
| Siblings | Xu Earth | Resp. | ||||
| Wealth | Hai Water | ○ | Siblings · Chen Earth | |||
| Siblings | Chou Earth | |||||
| Officer line | Mao Wood | Self |
See also
- Eight Trigrams — the ordinal numbers of the eight trigrams
- Casting a hexagram — the second way of obtaining a hexagram
- The 64 hexagrams and how they are named, The eight palaces and the 64 hexagrams
- Moving line