Eight-Line Guicang
ORIGINALThe house system
Conventional charts stop at six lines. Eight-Line Guicang casts on eight, in the Guicang lineage. Time casting takes the sum of year, month and day for the upper and lower trigrams, then adds the hour for the moving line. You can also choose each line by hand or cast with one tap. Primary, changed and postnatal charts appear together, with old yang and old yin lines marked.
Each line carries nine columns — glyph, stem-branch, earthly branch, five phase, eight relations, ten gods, eight gates, shi-ying, twelve palaces — plus shensha, twelve stages, process hexagram and yuantang. Every line can be configured, palace names can be renamed. The source material is ours; it exists nowhere else.
| Item | Method |
|---|---|
| Casting | Time (sum of year, month, day for the trigrams; hour for the moving line) / line by line / one-tap cast |
| Charts | Primary · Changed · Postnatal, cast together |
| Per line | Glyph, stems, branch, five phase, eight relations, ten gods, eight gates, shi-ying, twelve palaces, shensha, twelve stages, process hexagram, yuantang |
| Use | Long-term patterns and single questions alike; the main entry for Guicang study |
