If you’ve ever wished to predict the future accurately or change a life event. The Chinese have a top secret system that combines strategy, timing, and energy alignment to help you make better decisions.
Its call Qi Men Dun Jia (奇门遁甲). This ancient Chinese system is reverted as the top three metaphysic secrets of ancient China. Previously, use in war and reserved only for the Emperor.
Today its use quietly in business as a roadmap for understanding how time, space, and human effort interact to shape outcomes.
Here’s a simplified breakdown of Qi Men Dun Jia.
The Qi Men Dun Jia Chart
Think of a Qi Men Dun Jia chart as a snapshot of energy at a particular moment with an action or question attach. This energy is divided into several key components that help you analyze any situation.
1. The Nine Palaces (九宫)
The chart is a 3x3 grid. Each box is call a palace. Each palace holds different energies depending on the question you’re asking, so identifying the right palace for your query is key. This is the complicated part as there are many styles of reading the palaces but the most common are;
- Asker vs Answer
- Self vs Opponent
- Attack vs Retreats
In a professional setting it will mainly be focus on sells, for beginners usually are using the Ask Answer method.
2. Heaven, Earth, and Human Plates (三盘)
These three layers represent the main forces at play:
- Heaven Plate: Divine influences or fate — things you can’t control.
- Earth Plate: Environmental factors — your surroundings or physical space.
- Human Plate: Your actions, decisions, and free will.
These plates work together, showing where you have control and where external factors might dominate. This is heavily use when locating the Opponent.
3. Eight Doors (八门)
The Eight Doors are like road signs — they show opportunities, challenges, and outcomes for different aspects of life.
- Open Door (开门): Success, opportunities, and career-related matters.
- Rest Door (休门): Rest, health, and recuperation.
- Harm Door (伤门): Accidents, injuries, or risks.
- Delusion Door (杜门): Blockages, delays, or secrecy.
- Scene Door (景门): Appearance, fame, and creativity.
- Death Door (死门): Endings, transformations, or difficulties.
- Fear Door (惊门): Fear, conflict, and surprises.
- Life Door (生门): Growth, wealth, and vitality.
Each door gives you a clue about what kind of result you can expect if you pursue a specific choice or action.
4. Nine Stars (九星)
Stars bring a layer of personality emotion or energy to your reading.
- Tian Peng (天蓬): Wealth, ambition, and risk-taking.
- Tian Rui (天芮): Health, illnesses, and nurturing.
- Tian Chong (天冲): Action, courage, and competition.
- Tian Fu (天辅): Assistance, support, and wisdom.
- Tian Ying (天英): Intelligence, creativity, and brightness.
- Tian Xin (天心): Strategy, decision-making, and planning.
- Tian Zhu (天柱): Strength, endurance, and physical power.
- Tian Ren (天任): Stability, reliability, and patience.
- Tian Qin (天禽): Balance, centrality, and harmony.
Each star work alongside symbolic phenomenon paint a clearer picture of the situation. This part is an open interpretation much like how one would read tarot cards, I’ve often wonder if Alister Crawly had incorporated these stars into his cards since symbolic similarities run deep.
However this part is also the most complicated part as different questions one will read the chart differently much like one will read a reverse card.
5. Ten Heavenly Stems (十天干)
These are like characters in a play, representing people, actions, or qualities involved in your situation.
- Jia (甲): Leader or the main subject.
- Yi (乙): Resource or assistance.
- Bing (丙): Action, authority, and visibility.
- Ding (丁): Strategy, intelligence, and clarity.
- Wu (戊): Barriers, challenges, and stability.
- Ji (己): Flexibility, care, and diplomacy.
- Geng (庚): Strength, execution, and competition.
- Xin (辛): Precision, detail, and innovation.
- Ren (壬): Fluidity, adaptability, and resourcefulness.
- Gui (癸): Concealment, intuition, and mystery.
Each element can be link in many ways and have many uses with combinations of the Eight Deities* (八神). This area of the chart is very personal with many secrets. It is one of the main focus when doing a forecasting reading or if you want a direct Feng Shui audit.
How to Do a Basic Reading
Let’s say you’ve generated your Qi Men Dun Jia chart (using a software tool or app), and now you’re ready to dive in. Here’s what to do:
- Define Your Question
Be specific. Are you asking about career opportunities, relationship decisions, or perhaps travel plans? Clarity is essential. - Locate the Relevant Palaces
Identify the palace linked to your question. Remember that each styles with have a different technical reference point. For example Asker Answer will look at the Open Door (开门) in the answer when ask about career. - Analyze the Components and check the Five Elements
Identify the details and calculate if the action or event has good results. One basic is to look at how the elements in your palace interact:
- If there’s a producing cycle (e.g., Wood feeds Fire), it’s a good sign.
- If there’s a controlling cycle (e.g., Fire melts Metal), expect obstacles or maybe a long waiting time.
After the Reading: What Happens Next?
So, you’ve made your decision or strategy based on the reading. Here’s how to move forward effectively:
1. Timing Is Everything
Pick the Right Time to start your plan during an auspicious hour or day. It is best if luck is on your side rather than working for your enemy. Usually if the outcome is prosperous, you can take action immediately.
2. Use Directions to Your Advantage
For less ideal events. It is advice to avoid Negative area by stay clear of sectors marked with harm and stay clear of yearly affliction.
3. Boost Positive Energy
For others may choose to doing Feng Shui Adjustments like activate the sector corresponding to action or choice to boost the luck factor. However this recommendation should be under professional advice and done with care. My advice is to use date selection to remove negative energy.
4. Seek Support
This can one advice everyone should take from a Qi Men Dun Jia reading. It can be done many ways but the popular is to ask a nobleman, or to visit a temple to invite blessings. This helps when you have an outcome that will be successful but has many obstacles.
Can the Future Be Changed?
Yes. I’ve use Qi Men Dun Jia for effective outputs. I’va also seen important people use Qi Men Dun Jia in the news to alter events. It very easy when you know the symbolic and phenomenon.
Theoretically, the execusion step is done after a forecasting and action is selected. The two most recent I’ve noted down is by Presidents, Donald Trump and Yoon Suk Yeol. If you don’t believe look at the image below.
