Qimen Dunjia charts.
One question at a time.
Cast your chart online and choose what you want to ask. The Yuen Chi Reading explains what helps, what hinders and what may happen, point by point. Charts and readings are free during the public beta.
Location, true solar time, text size and night mode are under ⚙ in the app. The app and its readings are in English; the classical quotations stay in Chinese, with their sources in English. About Qimen Dunjia ↓
Three steps from question to answer.
Choose your question
From work, marriage and investment to renting, exams and lost property. Each kind of question is read through a different element of the chart.
Cast for this moment
The chart is cast for the moment you ask, converted to true solar time for your longitude. Choose Chai Bu, Zhi Run or Yin Pan.
Read it point by point
We find the key element for your question and look at its palace — its seasonal strength, emptiness, tomb, formations, and how it supports or controls the others — then list each conclusion with its reason.
Twenty-plus question types, each read its own way.
Every question type has its own key element and rules, drawn from the classical texts; anything the classics do not cover is clearly marked as a modern reading.
Work · money
Love · family
Daily life
Disputes
More than one word of “good” or “bad”.
The conclusion comes in separate points: what helps, what hinders, and who or what you may run into. The chart reason follows each point; the classical text and its source are attached for anyone who wants them.
Your superior does not bear down on the job: the position is stable.
The job works against you: progress will not be smooth.
Friction with the people under you.
The people in this workplace: refined and courteous.
Around the time of casting, watch for an old man with a walking stick, thunder and rain in the west, or a bearded man carrying a load.
You may come across something with a mouth or a round, disc-like shape, something square and solid, porcelain or brick; something green; a round object that turns; something with writing or winding patterns.
A complete charting toolkit.
Three chart methods
- Chai Bu
- Zhi Run
- Yin Pan (with hidden stems)
True solar time
- Longitude from a city list or your phone's location
- Time-zone offset and equation of time applied
- Switch it on or off at any time
Life chart
- Cast from your birth time
- Read after the Qimen Dunjia Tongzong
- Each life period explained
Boost directions
- From your birth chart: when and where to boost over the next 30 days
- Wealth, career, romance or study, bought separately
- Valid for 30 days; the result is e-mailed to you
- Start below the life chart result
Couple chart
- Two birth charts compared door to door
- Whether your partner helps or strains your money, career, love and children
- Pay once, view any time
- Start below the life chart result
House chart reading
- Cast from the door and house facing and the current period (free)
- Reading of the front door, beds, family, toilets, missing corners and this year's Tai Sui
- Pay once, view any time
- Start from House chart on the Qimen page
Date selection
- Moving in, opening, signing, selling, clearing illness
- The best hours in the next 90 days for your birth day pillar
- Pay once, view any time
- Start below the life chart result
Yin Pan charts can be cast today. Our reading rules follow the classical rotating-board method; Yin Pan readings will only ship once they rest on Yin Pan sources of their own.
Where the rules come from
The reading rules come mainly from the Dunjia Yanyi, Huang Zongxi's Chaoshen Jieqi Zhizhi, the Qimen Dunjia Tongzong and the Gujin Tushu Jicheng. Solar-term times follow the Hong Kong Observatory. Charts are compared hour by hour with independent charting tools; anything that fails the check does not ship.
Every rule carries its original text and source. Modern extensions that the classics do not record are clearly marked as such.
Your first Qimen Dunjia question
Do I need my birth time?
A question chart uses the moment you ask, rather than your birth time. Choose the life-chart option only when you want a lifetime chart. Decide on one question, such as whether to accept a particular office job, then choose its question type after casting.
Does Yin Pan include question readings?
Yin Pan charting is available. The question readings follow the classical rotating-board method and do not yet offer dedicated Yin Pan analysis. Read the method notes above before choosing.
Something on your mind?
Until 31 December 2026, charting, the dictionary and Yuen Chi Readings are free. The app and its readings are in English; the classical quotations stay in Chinese, with their sources in English.
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