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Your first visit: start with one small question
You do not need specialist vocabulary or birth details. Use a few choices to find a focus, then leave with something you can act on.
Read the guideBaZi, I Ching, tarot or Zi Wei: where should you begin?
Choose a tool by the question you have, the information you want to share and the symbolic system you want to learn.
Read the guideHow to turn a vague worry into a useful question
Examples for work, relationships and learning, plus a simple way to give the Agent enough context without writing your life story.
Read the guideWhat to prepare before creating a birth chart
Check the calendar, birth time and location before you begin, and know which details can remain unknown.
Read the guideUnderstand BaZi
Read the pillars first, then check the calendar conventions.
How to read a BaZi chart, one pillar at a time
A practical introduction to the four pillars, Day Master, hidden stems and Ten Gods, with a clear distinction between calculation and interpretation.
Read the guideDoes a missing element need to be “fixed”?
Understand the five elements without confusing visible counts, seasonal strength and favorable-element interpretation.
Read the guideThe Ten Gods in BaZi: a worked example with Jia Wood
Learn how element relationships and yin-yang polarity produce the Ten Gods, and why names such as Wealth and Seven Killings need context.
Read the guideCan you use BaZi without a birth time?
Yes, with an incomplete chart and explicit uncertainty. Learn what an unknown hour changes and why a guessed noon is not a full birth chart.
Read the guideBirth time, time zones and apparent solar time
Why daylight saving, longitude and the late-Zi convention can change a chart, and how to make the calculation reproducible.
Read the guideChinese zodiac and BaZi: which new year counts?
Understand Lunar New Year, the beginning-of-spring solar term and why births in January or February need a clear year-boundary convention.
Read the guideBaZi and Western astrology: what each chart calculates
Compare stems and branches with planetary charts, including inputs, calculation conventions and the limits of interpreting precise data.
Read the guideWhich changes the BaZi month pillar: Rain Water or Insects Waken?
Use four fixed Wenbu charts and the 2025 Hong Kong Observatory almanac to see which of these solar terms opens a new BaZi month.
Read the guide ↗What changes when you round a BaZi time-zone offset?
Enter one Kathmandu clock time with three time-zone settings and check how rounding 15 minutes changes the year and month pillars at Li Chun.
Read the guide ↗Can an hour pillar identify the BaZi day stem? Check a Ren Chen record
Work backwards from a copied Ren Chen hour pillar. Compare three practice charts and see which transcription errors the Five Rats rule can detect.
Read the guide ↗Why can the lunar month change without changing the BaZi month pillar?
Compare the Hong Kong Observatory calendar with five fixed noon chart inputs to check where the lunar month and month pillar change.
Read the guide ↗Why the same instant can give different BaZi day and hour pillars
Check the UTC timestamp for three fixed inputs, then see which pillars depend on the selected local clock.
Read the guide ↗Derive the hour stem: the five-rat starting rule and a two-column late-Zi worksheet
Derive the hour stem from a recorded day stem and hour branch with the five-rat starting rule, then redo the same late-Zi record under a 23:00 day boundary and mark character by character whether the day stem and hour stem change.
Read the guide ↗Day boundary: what changes between midnight and the 23:00 Zi hour
Compare the midnight and 23:00 Zi day-boundary conventions on one 23:40 birth record, identify the pillar that actually moves, and see why the late-Zi hour stem must be read off the returned chart rather than assumed to change.
Read the guide ↗Explore the I Ching
Follow the coins, lines and trigrams that make a hexagram.
How three coins become an I Ching hexagram
A clear guide to 6, 7, 8 and 9, bottom-to-top line order, changing lines and the difference between a cast and an interpretation.
Read the guideTrigrams and hexagrams: read the structure first
Learn the eight trigrams, bottom-to-top line order and the difference between upper and lower trigrams with a simple worked example.
Read the guideWhere to find your reflection in a Wenbu JSON export
Use one fixed I Ching result to find the journal note, original line values and selected background in two separate downloads.
Read the guide ↗How common are two moving lines in a three-coin I Ching cast?
Calculate the chance of exactly two and at least two moving lines in six fair tosses. Check the moving positions in a fixed example.
Read the guide ↗How to reconstruct six values from the original and relating hexagrams
Align two figures from one I Ching cast, match four possible line pairs, and enter the recovered numbers to check your work.
Read the guide ↗After a cast: run a coverage check before deciding to cast again
An addition to the existing follow-up rule: compare a new doubt line by line against the original question and scope statement, then decide whether to stay, narrow or recast, with a hypothetical case where the doubt is already covered.
Read the guide ↗Narrow the question before casting: one hexagram, one scope
Use a scope-narrowing worksheet to split a broad worry into sub-questions, choose one, rewrite it as a question a cast can address, state what the cast will not answer, and record the six line values with the moving lines so a later reading is not stretched to cover everything.
Read the guide ↗Narrow the question before casting: one hexagram, one scope
A scope-narrowing worksheet built for I Ching casting: write the broad worry, list the sub-questions it hides, pick one, and state what the cast will not answer, with a worked rewrite and a rule for keeping the original six values.
Read the guide ↗Multiple moving lines: state the rule you use
Record the six original values, choose one explicit convention for multiple moving lines, and mark which parts of the reading depend on that choice. Includes a conventions table, a record format and a hypothetical example.
Read the guide ↗Learn tarot
Start with one card, then learn suits, court cards and reversals.
Your first tarot reading starts with a better question
Learn the 78-card structure, reversals and a simple three-card spread, then turn a reading into a useful reflection practice.
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Tarot suits and court cards without the memorization
Get to know Wands, Cups, Swords and Pentacles, then try a practical way to read Pages, Knights, Queens and Kings.
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Are reversed tarot cards bad? Start with a clear rule
Understand what a reversal is, how Wenbu generates it and how to use a consistent reading approach without treating it as bad news.
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One major and one reversal. How often are they the same card?
List the orientations for a fixed three-card example. Keep the rows with exactly one reversal and see how often it falls on the major.
Read the guide ↗Why Strength and Justice swap VIII and XI in tarot decks
Compare Waite's book with a Conver-pattern Marseille deck. Identify Strength and Justice in an old note and preserve each deck's printed number.
Read the guide ↗When a relationship reading suggests a message you should keep private
Use a fictional example to record an explicit contact boundary, an unsent draft and an action you can take yourself.
Read the guide ↗What to record when your daily card shows up in a three-card draw
Use two fictional records to check a repeated card name without losing the original date, orientation or spread position.
Read the guide ↗How to compare two tarot draws that contain the same three cards
Compare positions first, then follow each card. A worked example shows two cards trading places and one actually reversing.
Read the guide ↗After the draw, add one check: can this card's keyword list answer the position alone?
For readers who already drafted three position questions: a post-draw check that tests each position against the drawn card's keyword list, and rewrites any position the keywords answer on their own before the next draw.
Read the guide ↗Suits and elements: count what is there before saying what it means
A counting worksheet for one drawn spread: tally each suit, mark absences, then separate what is visible, what a tradition associates with a suit, and what you infer about your situation.
Read the guide ↗Use tarot to reflect on a work decision
Turn “should I change jobs?” into a facts, constraints and options note, then use a three-card spread as symbolic prompts and finish with one real-world check. Tarot does not decide for you or predict outcomes.
Read the guide ↗Read a Zi Wei chart
Find the palaces, then learn how stars and transformations are interpreted.
Reading the twelve palaces of Zi Wei Dou Shu
An introduction to the palace structure, major and supporting stars, empty palaces and the conventions that affect a Zi Wei chart.
Read the guideZi Wei’s Four Transformations: Lu, Quan, Ke and Ji
Understand the transformation labels beside stars, check which chart layer they belong to and learn what Wenbu currently displays.
Read the guideZi Wei chart JSON: an empty major-star list or a missing field?
Use a reproducible chart to check two palace records. See what an empty list tells you and what a copy can lose.
Read the guide ↗Read critically and keep notes
Check sources, separate facts from interpretations and revisit your notes.
How to read an AI interpretation and check its sources
Separate a calculated result from a traditional meaning and a personal inference, then check what the cited sources actually support.
Read the guideWhy an AI reading can feel accurate
Separate calculation, interpretation and personal association, and avoid confusing fluent language with evidence of predictive accuracy.
Read the guideAfter the reading: a simple way to reflect and follow up
Turn an association into a small action, then return to record what happened without rewriting your original interpretation.
Read the guideFind an older daily card and the note you saved with it
Find one daily card by its original date, check its note, and keep the right export.
Read the guide ↗Why a public MCP daily card can differ from your browser card
Check the date, time zone and scope of two Wenbu daily cards. Find the record you want to keep for a journal entry or a later conversation.
Read the guide ↗How to tell whether an Agent research turn actually finished
Read five sample event trails to distinguish completion, missing input, a work limit, an explicit error and an interrupted stream.
Read the guide ↗When an agent call fails, read the status and conventions before retrying
A failed agent call tells you that something did not complete as agreed, not that the spread or chart is wrong. This guide uses a triage table to check the terminal status, then the input fields and stated conventions, before deciding whether to retry, fix the input or stop.
Read the guide ↗When an agent call fails, read the status and conventions before retrying
A failed or partial agent call should be read in order: returned status, input fields, then the stated conventions, before deciding to retry, fix the input or stop. A triage table separates invalid fields, rate limits, broken streams, budget-limited turns and successful-but-empty results, and says what each does not prove.
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