Three Cosmic Arts Directional Overlays (三式方位疊盤)
The Three Cosmic Arts - Qi Men Dun Jia, Da Liu Ren, and Tai Yi Shen Shu - share a practical concern with direction, timing, and situational force. This module teaches how their directional overlays can be studied beside a Feng Shui Luopan without collapsing them into ordinary Compass School Feng Shui. Each system has its own chart logic, but selected static or contextual bands help students recognize the directional vocabulary of gates, stars, generals, and palaces.
Three Different Directional Questions
- Qi Men Dun Jia: asks where strategic action opens or closes, using gates, stars, spirits, stems, and dun mode.
- Da Liu Ren: asks how time, monthly generals, noble gods, and twelve heavenly generals orient the matter being divined.
- Tai Yi: asks how macro-scale order, nine palaces, host-guest relations, and sixteen spirits frame state-level or large-cycle movement.
For Luopan learning, the value is comparative. A Qimen gate direction is not the same thing as a Flying Star palace. A Liu Ren Monthly General is not a Ba Zhai sector. A Tai Yi spirit is not a landform star. The academy should train students to name the system first, then the layer, then the use case.
Safe Integration Rule
Use Sanshi directional overlays for education, ritual planning, and comparative diagnosis only when the parent chart is present or the ring is explicitly static. If the missing inputs include hour stem, dun mode, monthly general, day-night noble start, or Tai Yi calculation state, the correct answer is incomplete data, not a guessed direction.