Brother’s return: Chen month, Ji-Wei day
Brother’s return: Chen month, Ji-Wei day. Question: When an elder brother would return. Read the source locator, reproducible chart, historical author's interpretation, reported outcome and site review boundaries separately.
Entry
When an elder brother would return
Month 辰 · Day 己未
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)
「辰月己未日占兄何日歸來，得履之兌」條
Reproducible chart
Hexagram 10 履 → Hexagram 58 兌
Changing lines: 6
7 7 8 7 7 9
Original author’s interpretation summary
The author selects top-line Xu Earth Siblings as Yongshen. It changes to Wei Earth, a retreating Xu-to-Wei pair in this chapter. Xu Earth is also clashed by Chen month, treated separately as month break.
Outcome reported in the book
The text says a return was initially expected in the sixth month, but actually occurred in the Xu month. The return date and its explanation are the author’s retrospective record, without external evidence for verification by the site.
Site review boundaries
- Old yang at the top line changes Lu to Dui, matching the text.
- The production line-change algorithm detects top-line Xu-to-Wei retreat. The Chen–Xu clash is a separate relation between the month reference and a line branch.
- The claim that retreat indicates an intention to return and the specific return date are interpretations in the book, not modern traveller predictions on this site.
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.
Retreating branches
Fixed branch-pair implementation
Retreating branches use fixed branch changes in the opposite direction to advancing branchs. The site follows the seven pairs explicitly listed in Zengshan Buyi and compares Bushi Zhengzong and Yilin Buyi, without adding Earth-phase branch pairs absent from the adopted text.
A retreating branch describes only the direction of a changing line’s branch change. It does not imply inevitable decline, failure or delay.
Six clashes
Fixed branch-pair implementation
The site separates clashes between individual line branches, clashes of month or day references with line branches, and the traditional six-clash hexagram classification. Six fixed branch pairs are calculable, but these different levels cannot be merged just because they share a name.
Six clash is a structural term, not an automatic statement of separation, failure or a change in illness.