Winter official assignment: Xu month, Gui-Si day
Winter official assignment: Xu month, Gui-Si day. Question: Whether an official assignment would be obtained that winter. Read the source locator, reproducible chart, historical author's interpretation, reported outcome and site review boundaries separately.
Entry
Whether an official assignment would be obtained that winter
Month 戌 · Day 癸巳
Source location
Author: Yehe Laoren (野鶴老人)
Zengshan Buyi (增刪卜易)
Chapter 29: Advancing and retreating branches (進神退神章第二十九)
Edition: Chinese Text Project transcription (中國哲學書電子化計劃校錄本)
「戌月癸巳日占本年冬令得官差否，水澤節變需卦」條
Reproducible chart
Hexagram 60 節 → Hexagram 5 需
Changing lines: 3
7 7 6 8 7 8
Original author’s interpretation summary
The Chou Earth Officials/Ghosts line at position three changes to Chen Earth, an advancing pair in this chapter. The author treats this as the main structure and directs the timing judgment to Chou month.
Outcome reported in the book
The text reports obtaining the assignment in Chou month. Office, year and person are unspecified, so this remains only an author report that the site cannot independently verify.
Site review boundaries
- Old yin at line three changes Jie to Xu. The Chou-to-Chen changing pair advances, matching the text.
- Circulating versions differ between Gui-Si and Gui-Hai days. This entry adopts Gui-Si from the linked transcription, without claiming a definitive resolution of the variant.
- Obtaining office in Chou month is the book’s timing interpretation, not modern advice on employment, promotion or public office.
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.
Advancing branches
Fixed branch-pair implementation
The site calculates the seven advancing branch changes explicitly listed in Zengshan Buyi and cross-checks them against examples in Bushi Zhengzong. Yilin Buyi also records forward changes such as Hai to Zi and Yin to Mao, but its terminology is not entirely identical.
A marker requires an actual changing line whose original and changed branches match a fixed pair. An advancing branch does not guarantee progress in an undertaking.
Edition variants
Editorial evidence
Textual variants are differences in dates, wording or rule statements between accessible source versions, not a hexagram structure. Current cases retain the Gui-Si / Gui-Hai day discrepancy, while the trine rule separately retains the one-changing-line / three-changing-lines variant.
Variants must identify the adopted version and its effect on recalculation. No silent emendation is allowed, and variants are not inputs to the Najia algorithm.