Qimen Dunjia 奇門遁甲 — Ask One Question
Ask one real question and a Qimen board is cast for the exact moment you asked. Unlike a birth chart, Qimen answers situations: should I take the offer, is this the right time, which direction favours me.
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帝王之術 · the emperor’s divination
Ask the Nine Palaces
奇門遁甲 is the most revered of the Three Rites 三式 — used by strategists and emperors to time a decision, choose a direction, and read the hidden currents of a moment. Ask one clear question; we cast your chart for right now.
What is it about?
時家奇門 · 拆補轉盤法. One question per casting (心誠則靈); recasting the same matter clouds the answer.
What is 奇門遁甲? · 淺說
Qimen Dunjia arranges the cosmos of a single moment onto a nine-palace board (九宮), layering four "plates": the 三奇六儀 (ten heavenly stems, with 甲 the hidden emperor — 遁甲), the 九星 (nine stars, heaven’s energy), the 八門 (eight doors, human action), and the 八神 (eight spirits, unseen forces).
To read a question, a master finds its 用神 — the symbol that stands for the matter — and reads the door, star, spirit and stem sitting with it, plus its direction. That tells you whether to act, where to face, and when.
A faithful 時家奇門 casting for reflection & strategy. For high-stakes decisions, our master reading (paid) interprets the finer patterns — 格局, 空亡, 擊刑, 入墓.
A different kind of divination
BaZi and Zi Wei describe a life. Qimen Dunjia 奇門遁甲 describes a moment. Historically it was a strategist’s instrument — attributed to military use, later applied to negotiation, travel and timing — and it is cast fresh for each question rather than fixed at birth.
That is why this tool asks for your question first. The board is generated from the timestamp of the asking, so the reading is only meaningful for the question you actually held in mind.
How the board is cast
The board uses the 時家奇門 hour-based system with 拆補 chai-bu局 selection: the current solar term and its 三元 division determine the 局 number, which sets the arrangement of the nine palaces. The Three Wonders (三奇) and Six Instruments (六儀) are placed around the 值符 duty chief, and the 值使 duty gate moves accordingly.
Each palace then carries a Door, a Star and a Deity. The interaction between the palace holding your question and the palace holding you is the reading.
What you can and cannot ask
Qimen answers best when the question is specific, singular and about a real decision in front of you — a deal, a move, a conversation, a date. It answers poorly when the question is vague (“will I be happy”), compound (“should I move and change jobs”), or asked repeatedly in the hope of a better board.
Ask once, act, and cast again only when the situation genuinely changes.
Common questions
Can I ask the same question twice?
You can, but the tradition advises against it and so do we. Re-casting until you get the answer you wanted is not divination, it’s shopping. If the situation has materially changed, cast again.
Why does it need the current time?
Because that is the input. The board is a function of the solar term, the day’s stem and branch, and the double-hour in which you asked. Change the moment and you change the board.
What’s in the paid report?
The free reading gives you the board and the core answer. The full report reads every relevant palace, gives the favourable direction and the window to act, names what supports and obstructs you, and explains the reasoning so you can judge it yourself.