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Nine systems.
One growing library.

The encyclopedia of the divination traditions KAXANTA reads from — plain-English, source-cited, and free. Start with a system, follow a beginner path, or dive into an essay.

9 ◆ systems
19 ◆ comparisons
115 ◆ glossary terms
4 ◆ beginner paths

The nine systems

◆ Start anywhere · everything cross-links
Human Design
Synthesis · 1987 · Ra Uru Hu

A modern mechanics of type, strategy, and authority — built from I Ching, astrology, Kabbalah, and the chakra system. Answers the question: how do you make clean decisions?

5 types64 gates9 centers
Western Astrology
Hellenistic · ~2nd c. BCE

The tropical zodiac, as it developed through Ptolemy, Bonatti, Lilly, and the 20th-century psychological revival. Maps identity through planets, signs, houses, and aspects.

12 signs10 planets12 houses
Ba Zi
Chinese · Tang-Song · ~10th c.

"Eight characters" — four pillars (year, month, day, hour) expressed through ten stems and twelve branches. The most structural of the Chinese fate systems.

4 pillars10 stems5 elements
Numerology
Pythagorean · 6th c. BCE

A decimal alphabet. Reduces name and birth date to archetypal digits and master numbers, mapping life path, expression, and personal year cycles.

9 core3 master5 cycles
Feng Shui
Chinese · Han — Tang

The study of qi through space. Flying Stars, Eight Mansions, and form schools — computing how a birth date, a compass, and a room plan interact.

8 trigrams9 stars24 mountains
Qi Men Dun Jia
Chinese · Han military origin

The "Strange Gate Hiding" — a time-and-space grid once used by generals to pick winning hours. Best-in-class for when and which direction to act.

9 stars8 gates9 palaces
Xuan Kong Da Gua
Chinese · San Yuan · Fu Xi ring

Reads the building, not the person — the hexagram its facing lies in on the 64-hexagram ring and its exact inverse behind it, read against the 20-year period.

64 hexagrams6 lines9 periods
Water Formula
Chinese · San Yuan · 龍門八局

Where water should arrive at a building and where it should leave — eight positions read from the palace the building sits in: the Dragon Gate Eight Formations.

8 positions8 formations2 exits
Zi Wei Dou Shu
Chinese · Song · ~10th c.

The "Purple Star" astrology. Places dozens of stars across twelve palaces representing life domains. Where Ba Zi maps structure, Zi Wei maps narrative.

14 majors12 palaces10 da xian

Featured · deep reads

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Recently published

◆ New essays · updated weekly
☷ Feng Shui · essay
Flying Star Feng Shui October 2026: the Monthly Chart From October 8
The October 2026 flying star chart does not start on October 1. It re-flies at the instant of Han Lu, 06:29 UTC on October 8, puts 9 in the centre, and holds until 09:52 UTC on November 7. Laid over the 2026 annual chart, it produces the pairings that matter this month: 8 and 9 together in the Southeast, 1 and 9 in the centre, the argumentative 2 and 3 in the West, the "crossed swords" 6 and 7 in the Southwest — and the monthly 5 moving into the North, a sector already carrying the Year Breaker and the Three Killings. This piece gives the full nine-sector table as our engine computes it, and the classical rule for each difficult sector.
8 min · Sep 25Feng Shui
木 Ba Zi · essay
Han Lu 2026: Cold Dew Opens the Earth Dog Month on October 8
On October 8, 2026, at 06:29 UTC — 14:29 in Beijing — the Sun reaches 195° of ecliptic longitude and the Chinese solar calendar announces Han Lu, 寒露, 'Cold Dew'. It is the seventeenth of the twenty-four solar terms, and unlike the equinox two weeks before it, it is a section term: at that instant the Ba Zi month pillar turns from Ding You, the Fire Rooster, to Wu Xu, the Earth Dog, and Qi Men Dun Jia moves onto a new set of Yin Dun structures. This piece gives the engine-computed moment, what the Earth Dog month means inside a Fire Horse year, and the three pentads that end on the Double Ninth.
10 min · Sep 25Ba Zi
遁 Qi Men · essay
Qi Men Dun Jia 8 Doors Explained: 八门 Palaces and Use
Qi Men Dun Jia has exactly eight doors (八门) — Rest, Life, Injury, Block, Scenery, Death, Shock and Open — one for each outer palace of the Lo Shu grid. Three are the classical auspicious doors, three are the difficult ones, and two sit in between. Where the 9 Stars say what kind of decision a moment supports, the doors say what kind of action it supports. This piece gives every door’s home palace, trigram, element and classical use in one table, explains why an "inauspicious" door is a tool rather than a verdict, and covers the Duty Door and the classical rule of door compulsion.
9 min · Sep 25Qi Men
☷ Feng Shui · essay
Ba Zhai, the Eight Mansions: Every Kua, Every Direction, and the Rule Behind the Table
Ba Zhai — the Eight Mansions school — is the part of classical Feng Shui that is about the person rather than the building. It gives everyone one of eight trigrams through the Kua number, and from that trigram it rates all eight compass directions: four that support you and four that work against you, each with a name, a rank and a job. This piece prints the whole system in one place — the Kua-to-trigram table, the eight energies, the complete direction table for every Kua and its reverse lookup — and then shows the one thing almost no English source explains: the line rule that generates every row of that table from the trigram itself, and why it splits the world into an East group and a West group.
14 min · Sep 06Feng Shui
木 Ba Zi · essay
Ba Zi Clashes and Combinations: How the Twelve Branches Meet
The Heavenly Stems in a Ba Zi chart relate to one another through the Ten Gods. The Earthly Branches relate through something older and more geometric: six combinations, six clashes, six harms, four penalty groups and four three-harmony triads, laid out as fixed patterns on the twelve-branch wheel. They are how a chart holds together, and they are how a year, a month or a day reaches into it. This piece prints every table, shows how each set is derived from the wheel rather than memorised — the harms fall out of the combinations and the clashes, the triads out of the life cycle of an element — and closes with a single twelve-row table that gives every branch its partners at a glance.
14 min · Sep 06Ba Zi
紫 Zi Wei · essay
How a Zi Wei Dou Shu Chart Is Calculated, Step by Step
Every Zi Wei Dou Shu chart is built the same way, in the same order: convert the birth date to the lunar calendar, locate the Ming Palace from the month and the hour, derive the Five Elements Bureau, place the Zi Wei star from the lunar day, and let the other thirteen major stars fall into fixed positions around it. None of the steps is difficult, but every one of them is a lookup most apps hide. This piece walks all five with the classical tables printed in full — including the 150-cell table that places Zi Wei for every lunar day in every bureau — and builds one real chart from birth data to a finished twelve-palace layout.
18 min · Sep 06Zi Wei