六爻 · Wen Wang Gua

Six Lines Divination

Cast a hexagram. Explore its relationships, changing lines and calendar influences through a traditional Liu Yao chart.

Make a cast

What is your question about?

Keep one specific question in mind. Romance starts with Self and Other; money questions focus on Wealth lines; job questions on Officials; documents on Parents; offspring on Children. Choose the main subject, even when several topics appear in the question.

Casting date

Casting time

Timezone

Uses local clock time, with the divination day changing at 23:00. Months change at solar terms (節), not the lunar new month. No longitude correction is applied.

Casting method

Three fair virtual coins are cast for each line, from bottom to top. Each click makes a new cast.

Record your coin casts

Choose the faces shown by your three coins. Their order within a cast does not matter. Record the first cast at the bottom, then work upward.

Coin convention

Decide which physical side is heads before casting. Our Six Lines default uses heads = 2 and tails = 3. Our I-Ching page uses the reverse assignment; follow the convention used when you cast.

Coin faces	Heads = 2	Heads = 3
Head, Head, Head	6 · moving yin	9 · moving yang
Head, Head, Tail	7 · static yang	8 · static yin
Head, Tail, Tail	8 · static yin	7 · static yang
Tail, Tail, Tail	9 · moving yang	6 · moving yin

Yang is an unbroken line; yin is a broken line.

Cast 1 · bottom line

Cast 2

Cast 3

Cast 4

Cast 5

Cast 6 · top line

Enter your six casts

First cast = line 1 at the bottom. Enter the numeric values from your chosen casting method. Values 6 and 9 move; 7 and 8 remain static. For physical coins, choose Enter heads / tails above.

Line 1 · bottom / first cast

Line 2

Line 3

Line 4

Line 5

Line 6 · top / last cast

Use an existing hexagram

Hexagram

Moving lines

Comma-separated numbers, such as 1, 3, 6. Leave empty for a static hexagram.

Six lines, one situation

Make a new cast or enter your own. Your chart will show the Six Relatives, Six Spirits, Self and Other, and the influence of the casting day and month.

Reading your Six Lines chart

Start with the question and identify the relevant subject (用神 Yong Shen). Then examine its relationship to the Self line, the day and month, and any moving lines. These explanations describe chart symbols; they do not automatically answer your question.

世 / 应 · Self and Other

Self represents the person asking; Other commonly represents the counterpart or outside situation. Their positions follow the original hexagram’s Eight Palace generation and are three lines apart.

六親 · Six Relatives and choosing a subject

The traditional “Six Relatives” label comprises five relationship categories, measured against the original palace’s element. Parents can represent support or documents; Siblings peers or competitors; Children offspring or output; Wealth possessions or resources; Officials/Ghosts authority or pressure. Choose the subject from the actual question and context. Choose a question focus to mark candidate lines and review their calendar and moving-line relationships. Multiple candidates remain visible; selecting the final Yong Shen still depends on the specific question.

動爻 / 變卦 · Moving lines and transformation

6 is old yin and changes to yang; 9 is old yang and changes to yin. 7 and 8 remain still. The transformed hexagram applies every moving line together. Its Na Jia assignments are recalculated, while its line relatives retain the original palace element. Static positions are shown for context, not as active changing lines.

旬空 / 月破 / 日沖 · Calendar markers

Void identifies the two branches absent from the casting day’s ten-day cycle. Month clash (month break) and day clash mark opposite branches. The line details also show elemental generation/control and six-combination pairs with day and month. These are individual relationships, not a complete strength score or a favorable/unfavorable verdict. A day clash is not automatically treated as hidden movement (暗動).

伏神 · Hidden spirits

If a relative category is missing from the original hexagram, its line or lines in the pure palace hexagram are shown beneath the corresponding positions. The visible line above is the flying spirit (飛神). Hidden spirits differ from the Six Spirits, which rotate according to the day stem.

Calendar conventions and sources

This chart uses the entered timezone’s civil clock. The day changes at 23:00; the month follows the twelve solar-term boundaries (節). There is no solar-time correction. Dates from 1901 through 2099 are supported. Repeated daylight-saving times must be entered as their UTC equivalent.

Na Jia and Self/Other rules: 卜筮正宗, chapter 7. Additional references: Wenwanggua overview, Six Spirits system, and Eight Palace and hidden-spirit reference.