List Of Figures
2.1 Order of Mutual Production and Conquest of wuxing 15
2.2 The Luoshu Chart 21
2.3 The Hetu Diagram 22 2.4a Yubu steps following the Plough 24 2.4b Yubu steps following the jiugong magic square 25
2.5 Feigong variations in the jiugong magic square 26
2.6 Feigong variations and 'colour-coded' (zibai) diagrams 27
2.7 Zibai diagram for 1985 in a Chinese calendar 28
2.8 Zibai diagram for 1976 in a calendar from a Japanese shrine 29
2.9 The yijing Trigrams 34
3.1 Text of the 'Remarks' from the Nan Qi shu 37
3.2 Archaeological specimen of Han cosmic board 41
3.3 Basic Taiyi board 45
3.4 The Five yuan Epochs 47
3.5 Taiyi Configuration 276 (= Configuration 60) 50
3.6 Taiyi Configuration 160 (= Configuration 16) 51
3.7 Taiyi Configuration 161 (= Configuration 17) 52
3.8 Taiyi Configuration 181 (= Configuration 37) 53
3.9 Taiyi Configuration 187 (= Configuration 43) 54
3.10 Taiyi Configuration 198 (= Configuration 54) 55
3.11 Taiyi Configuration 222 (= Configuration 6) 56
3.12 Taiyi Configuration 223 (= Configuration 7) 57
3.13 Taiyi Configuration 231 (= Configuration 15) 58
3.14 Taiyi Configuration 234 (= Configuration 18) 59
3.15 Taiyi Configuration 102 (= Configuration 30) 62
3.16 The fangzhen (Square) Battle Formation 66
3.17 Meteorological forecasting with the Taiyi method 72
3.18 Houses in the Qiyao rangzaijue from the Taishô Tripitaka 74
3.19 A fourteenth-century horoscope from the Zbengshi xing'an, an appendix to the Zhang Guo xingzong 75
3.20 A horoscope from Ziwei dousbu 76 3.21a Recasting of horoscope in Figure 3.19 by the author using a modern Ziwei doushu method 78
3.21b Recasting of the same horoscope by a practitioner in
Taiwan using another version of the Ziwei doushu method 79
3.22 Transmission of the Ziwei doushu system of astrology 81
4.1 Huangdi yinfujing text from Dunjia yanyi 88
4.2 Initial set-up of the dipan with Trigrams, Luoshu numbers, the Nine Stars and the Eight Gates in fixed positions 97
4.3 Fortnightly periods and Qimen Dunjia Configurations 99
4.4 Dipan with the day-stem added 101
4.5 Qimen Dunjia Configuration complete with earth board and heaven board in place 103
4.6 Modern earth board and heaven board model illustrating Configuration shown in Figure 4.5 104
5.1 Passage on the Liuren from Mengxi bitan 118-119
5.2 Determination of the position for yuesa
(from Xieji bianfangsbu) 122
5.3 Determination of the position for yuekong
(from Xieji bianfangsbu) 123
5.4 Determination of the position for Tianyi guiren
(from Xieji bianfangsbu) 125
5.5 The left palm as earth board in Liuren divination 136 Star Map 1.1 Ziweiyuan and the circumpolar constellations 141
Star Map 1.2 Taiweiyuan and surrounding constellations 143
Star Map 1.3 Tiansbiyuan and surrounding constellations 144
Star Map 1.4 Region around the Northern Palace 145
Star Map 1.5 Region around the Western Palace 146
Star Map 1.6 The southern sky in Chinese astronomy 149
11.1 Mutual Production and Conquest of stems and branches 157
11.2 The riyuan and fate-calculation sociogram 158
11.3 Auspicious and ominous combinations of stems with branches 161
11.4 Auspicious and ominous combinations of branches with stems and branches 161
11.5 Auspicious and ominous 'stars' from branch combinations 162
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