Casting for an elder’s official career: Mao month, Xin-Si day
Casting for an elder’s official career: Mao month, Xin-Si day. Question: Asking about an elder’s official career on their behalf. Read the source locator, reproducible chart, historical author's interpretation, reported outcome and site review boundaries separately.
Entry
Asking about an elder’s official career on their behalf
Month 卯 · Day 辛巳
Source location
Author: Yehe Laoren (野鶴老人)
Zengshan Buyi (增刪卜易)
Chapter 24: Hexagram change, generation/control, tomb and extinction (卦變生剋墓絕章第二十四)
Edition: Wikisource transcription (維基文庫校錄本)
「卯月辛巳日來人不言所事，占得巽卦變乾卦」條
Reproducible chart
Hexagram 57 巽 → Hexagram 1 乾
Changing lines: 1, 4
6 7 7 6 7 7
Original author’s interpretation summary
The author first says career questions should be cast by the person concerned and that selecting Yongshen for a proxy casting is difficult. Nevertheless, Xun Wood changing as a whole hexagram to Qian Metal is interpreted as returning control through hexagram change. Wood controlled by Metal here is at the trigram-phase level, not returning control calculated for each changing line.
Outcome reported in the book
The text records the elder’s death seven months after dismissal from office. Person, office, year and cause of death are unspecified. This remains an author report without independent verification.
Site review boundaries
- Old-yin lines at positions one and four change Xun to Qian, matching the text.
- Returning control through hexagram change is a whole-hexagram trigram-phase relation. The site’s existing per-line returning-relation module does not replace this level.
- This case includes a reported death and the author’s own caution about selecting Yongshen in a proxy casting. It must not be extrapolated into career or lifespan predictions.
Reading boundaries
Reported outcomes represent the original author’s account, not independent historical verification. This case is not an automatic interpretation template for a user’s present result.
Topic tags identify structures involved in this case, not divinatory efficacy verified by the site.
Working translation of the site’s Chinese editorial case review, not a translation of the classical source. Native-language review is pending; original source names and locators remain in Chinese.
Phase relations in hexagram changes
Historical text review
Generation and control through hexagram change in these cases mainly compare the phases of the lower and upper trigrams in the original and resulting hexagrams. This differs from the site’s returning relations for individual changing lines. Other source versions also discuss tomb, extinction, fanyin and fuyin under hexagram change.
The site does not yet generate whole-hexagram generation/control conclusions. Cases only cross-check the original and resulting hexagrams and the level used by the author.
Five-phase generation / control
Basic relation implementation
Five-phase generation and control underlie Najia Six Relations, returning generation/control, and Yuanshen/Jishen relationships. Cases may use several generation/control chains together with void, break, combinations and clashes. The site preserves each fact instead of reducing complex conditions to a score.
Basic generating and controlling relations are calculable. A historical author’s interpretation remains a separate layer, not a uniquely authoritative conclusion.