Ghostly Gaze and Startling Discussion on the Eight Trigrams Lines: Revised Edition with Annotations

The following content is excerpted from "Ghostly Gaze and Startling Discussion on the Eight Trigrams Lines"

○ Qian Hexagram, First Line Moves: Jia Zi, Five Saints Hall in front of the door; Population declines by two or three pairs; Nets pasting old walls should be burned; Broken stove and pierced pot definitely bring misfortune; It is certain that the stone pond in front of the door, boats, and ponds all cause disaster; Widows cohabiting, two surnames sharing the bed (Indicates: The mortar and field in the house are broken and should be repaired)
Three Talismans and Wind Clouds Annotation: Zi clashes with Wu and breaks You, hence the broken stove and pierced pot; Geng clashes with Jia and indicates the stone pond in front of the door; Also, Zi represents water, hence it brings disaster; Also, Jia clashes with earth, hence the judgment that nets pasting old walls; Therefore, using fire to mediate prevents disaster.
○ Second Line Moves: Jia Yin, Left side of the kitchen cabinet is pierced; Iron and wood used as hooks to hang Buddha; Pray to the local Earth God for rituals and thanksgiving; Annual incense and fire offerings are incomplete (Indicates: Worries about parents' illness and disaster, should pray to gods)
Three Talismans and Wind Clouds Annotation: Yin represents the left side, located in the Gen hexagram direction and seeing Jia wood, further indicating the left side; Yin is clashed by Shen, hence the left side is pierced. Also, Yin represents deities and Buddhas, and Jia represents the image of hanging; Here it is entirely inappropriate to use iron hooks, hence the meaning of using iron and wood as hooks to hang deity statues. Furthermore, Jia Yin wood clashes with Chen earth, offending the Earth God; Here "She Si" refers to the main official of the Earth God deity. Wood is prosperous without fire imagery, also indicating incomplete incense offerings.
○ Third Line Moves: Jia Chen offends earth in the center; Moved from under the kitchen, lacking the water vat; Pray to the incense and house deity for rituals and thanksgiving; Avert disaster and retreat earth to avoid calamity
Three Talismans and Wind Clouds Annotation: Jia Chen wood clashes with earth, hence offending the Earth God; Also, the combined You is missing, changed to lacking the water vat; Fire can mediate wood and earth, such as using incense fire to connect, hence averting disaster and retreating earth can avoid calamity.
○ Fourth Line Moves: Ren Wu, the spout of the soup pot is missing; An old gourd hangs in the room; Children's disaster is due to construction offenses; Incense fire delays and is definitely not false (Indicates: Two doors facing each other, women giving birth)
Three Talismans and Wind Clouds Annotation: Ren is water, shaped like a pot; However, the stroke above Wu breaks the pot's spout, hence the soup pot has no spout; Ren represents a gourd, and Wu represents hanging on the wall, hence this judgment; Water is clashed by fire, and what clashes water is earth; Gen represents yang offending water, hence children's disaster is caused by earth; Moving earth corresponds to construction offenses; Ren water clashes with Wu, and fire is not prosperous, hence incense fire is poor.
○ Fifth Line Moves: Ren Shen, ancient vessels and soup pots; Vows to temples and guardians not yet fulfilled; Welcome incense fire and promise banners; Buddha and deity incense fire has never been settled (Indicates: Vows long unfulfilled, injustice; Beware of evil ghosts affecting population and bloodline)
Three Talismans and Wind Clouds Annotation: Ren also represents soup pots meeting Shen, mainly ancient artifacts; Shen, Zi, Chen form water; Ren can connect to Zi but lacks Chen, hence having unfulfilled vows; Here "Jia Lan" is merely a reference. Also, Shen resembles a banner shape, hence one can welcome incense fire and promise to return the banner to resolve it. Ren is prosperous water and Shen generates it, no fire seen, hence incense fire is extremely weak, can judge that Buddha and deity incense fire is not settled.
○ Sixth Line Moves: Ren Xu, triangular stone in the kitchen; Broken metal, broken axes, swords bring disaster; Broken mortars and mills are all not auspicious; Evil dogs in the house should go to bed (Indicates: Chickens and dogs causing trouble, fire burning damaged beds and kitchens)
Three Talismans and Wind Clouds Annotation: Xu represents triangular stone, and also represents the fire storehouse, hence speaking of triangular stone in the kitchen; Also, Xu fire is dry earth defeating metal, hence suffering from metal and stone objects in the home. Furthermore, Xu represents dogs, hence judging that dogs want to go to bed and cause trouble (In modern times, pet dogs cannot be judged this way)

Others are interpreted similarly.

Kan Hexagram
○ First Line Moves: Wu Yin, stone mill moved outside and returned; Rocking bed legs indicate damage; Picked up bricks and stones from kitchen and monastery; Causes people to go east and west in confusion (Bought back for the year, damaged four-cornered objects cause怪怪, main loss of wealth)
○ Second Line Moves: Wu Chen, Wu Xu, broken walls and fences; Two surnames return together sharing children; Kitchen cabinets bought attract gossip; Further attracts blood disaster for childbearing women
○ Third Line Moves: Wu Wu, pot in the home is broken again; Definitely indicates foot diseases and inflammation; Further attracts crooked backs and hunched backs; A pair of fire tongs with uneven sides; Involves public affairs that will not stop; Further indicates children and grandchildren with unclear eyes; Must prevent wealth loss year after year; Livestock especially cannot be raised
○ Fourth Line Moves: Wu Shen, merits are incomplete; Attracts plague officials in front of the house; Also has iron hooks and butcher items; Causes eye diseases and damages vision (A small stove in the home causes disaster and attracts misfortune, many obstacles in actions)
○ Fifth Line Moves: Wu Xu, moving earth must prevent damage; Disputes arise at the end of summer and beginning of autumn; If not fighting over fields, then fighting over houses; Family must guard against thieves coming secretly
○ Sixth Line Moves: Wu Zi, the road in front of the door curves; Weighing scale broken tail damages ruler's wealth; Water ditch by the kitchen collapses and breaks; Construction leads to generating wealth (Indicates: Hanging water ghosts, an ancient tree as a deity)

Feng Shui Taboos:
1. Bricks and stones from monasteries/temples should not be put into the home, as they can cause the population to scatter.
2. Walls should not be broken; if broken, it is unfavorable for descendants. If the kitchen cabinet's Feng Shui position is poor, it can attract gossip and cause blood disaster for childbearing women.
3. Broken pots indicate foot diseases and also cause bent backs and hunched backs. If fire tongs are one short and one long, the home offends official matters, and indicates children and grandchildren with nearsightedness, further indicating wealth loss and unprosperous livestock.
4. Insufficient merits easily attract plague and disease. The front of the house should not have iron hooks or tools with killing aura used by butchers, otherwise causing eye diseases.
5. Moving earth must be restrained by earth time to be used. It is not suitable to move earth when earth is prosperous at the end of summer, easily attracting gossip. Also, if moving earth in autumn, prevent earth energy transforming into metal and causing gossip.
6. If there is a curved road coming in front of the door, if the road is broken, it indicates loss of wealth. Also, a collapsed water ditch by the kitchen also indicates damage; repairing it can generate wealth.

Others are interpreted similarly.

Gen Hexagram
○ First Line Moves: Bing Chen, rice steamer rings in the pot; Picked up tiles and stones from the grave side; Three iron pots, two broken; Mainly attracts strange dreams and damages population (Also indicates snakes causing trouble)
○ Second Line Moves: Bing Wu, broken door in the central hall; Repairing and moving causes illness to be unbearable; Vows made before deities this year; Draw out connections to avoid clash and injury
○ Third Line Moves: Bing Shen, broken pot and cauldron without shouting; Floorboards without nails and grave bricks; Earth God and Jia Lan temple monsters; Iron knives and old locks incomplete
○ Fourth Line Moves: Bing Xu, old mill in the home is pierced; Blood disaster for small mouths, corpses entangle; Further indicates kitchen cabinets, bowls, and dishes broken; Stove door broken, catching bricks
○ Fifth Line Moves: Bing Zi, a small pool in front of the door; Children have long-term illness, gloomy and sad; Gongs before Buddhas and Jia Lan's; Pure vows before deities owed and unfulfilled (Indicates: Small mouths and pots causing disaster, damaging wealth)
○ Sixth Line Moves: Bing Yin, rice steamer roars loudly; Ancient iron, old copper, and broken bricks; Bridge stones in the pit, grain ears are not clean; If removed, it can avoid attracting injustice (Indicates: Stone tablets causing disaster, cutting off life and death, injuries)

Feng Shui Taboos:
1. Tiles and stones from grave sides should not enter the home, otherwise strange events will occur in the home, and iron pots in the home will be damaged continuously, mainly indicating strange dreams and damaging population.
2. If the central hall door is broken, it indicates many illnesses in the home, and going to pray to deities and make vows can avoid disaster.
3. Pots and cauldrons are broken, or floorboards have no nails (referring to nails lost), this indicates Earth God or temple deities causing trouble.
4. If there are millstones in the home, and they are complete, otherwise it indicates blood disaster for children; also, if kitchen cabinets, bowls, and dishes are damaged or stove doors are broken, it corresponds to this.
5. If there is a small pool in front of the door, if the Feng Shui direction is incorrect, it indicates children having long-term illness and is inauspicious.
6. Ancient iron, old copper, or broken bricks should not enter the home. If wheat ears are seen in bridge stone pits, they should be cleared to avoid attracting injustice.

Zhen Hexagram
○ First Line Moves: Geng Zi, incense burner broken and pierced; Soup pot without spout, incomplete; Many vows made in the family hall; Offering money to deities (Indicates: House height uneven, external stone mill causing disaster)
○ Second Line Moves: Geng Yin, back door of the home is pierced; Broken door, steps, and seats do not correspond; Stove fire, ash, lamp, brick seat damaged; Old chairs damaged and broken, mirrors incomplete; A bamboo vessel comes from unknown origin; Causes people to fail in their tasks (Indicates: Heart pain in the home, should seek medical treatment)
○ Third Line Moves: Geng Chen, pierced wall breaks the spirit hall; Buddha images and Earth Gods have lost makeup for a long time; Hemp ropes and gourds in the room are strange; Childless women have illnesses that are not strong (Indicates: Incense and lamps are inauspicious, and old vows are unfulfilled)
○ Fourth Line Moves: Geng Wu, broken fire in the home causes shock; Bought copper and iron, sounding like bells; Broken old lamps cause disaster; Corpses of women dying young (Indicates: Stove in the middle of the kitchen is broken)
○ Fifth Line Moves: Geng Shen, broken stone, strange mortar, copper; Meeting ghosts under the locust tree (Indicates: Hanging suicide casualties cause disaster, damaging wealth and people, inauspicious)
○ Sixth Line Moves: Geng Xu, old kitchen in the home; Broken boxes and cabinets should be removed urgently; Southeast facing bridge is heavily inauspicious; Mountain spirits and ghost eyes are dark and confused

Feng Shui Taboos:
1. Incense burners should not be pierced or broken; soup pots in the home should not lose their spouts, otherwise indicating strange events in the home.
2. Back doors should not be pierced or broken; furthermore, old tables and chairs should not be placed, nor bamboo vessels of unknown origin, otherwise causing tasks to fail.
3. Walls next to the spirit altar should not be broken; if there are images of deities or Buddhas in the home that are not cleaned for a long time, it is also inappropriate to hang rope-like objects or strange-shaped gourds in the house, otherwise causing the home's people to be childless or have long-term illnesses.
4. The home should not have broken or old lamps, this will attract disaster, mainly injuring children or women in the home.
5. Strange stones should not be placed in the home, easily attracting ghosts to cause family members to hang themselves.
6. Broken boxes and cabinets should be cleared; if it is an inauspicious time, it will attract ghosts and monsters to cause disaster.

Xun Hexagram
○ First Line Moves: Xin Chou, moving earth causes blood loss and worry; Livestock cannot be harvested year-round; Broken mill, foxes enter the house; Yin people and small children make noise (Indicates: Broken incense lamps, foot issues, house deities uneasy, blood disaster self-attributed)
○ Second Line Moves: Xin Hai, moving water causes child death; Bought dead people's beds in previous years; Snakes entering the house as monsters; Changing roads and repairing doors prevents guest injuries (Indicates: The family should attract the eldest son, broken pots at the bed legs, broken scales with no tail or star)
○ Third Line Moves: Xin You, hen flapping wings and crying; Only because bought dead people's clothes; Tables, stools, and desks all have broken legs; Pot ringing causes disaster, informing you
○ Fourth Line Moves: Xin Wei, mirror in the room is not round; Buddha and deity incense fire broken and pierced; Mountain spirits and ancient wood come as monsters; Old vows not repaid for many years (Indicates: Widows involved in lawsuits, eventually resolved)
○ Fifth Line Moves: Xin Si, ghost and evil clothes on the rack; Broken vat under the stove in the earth; Definitely indicates old cabinet with one leg broken; Widowed mother and daughter have sorrow and inflammation
○ Sixth Line Moves: Xin Mao, Five Saints facing due east; Broken incense burner and images need repainting; Further indicates eye beds have damage; Hanging dark bodies cause disaster; Weighing scale broken tail should be strange; House owner attracts guests entering the house year after year

Li Hexagram
○ First Line Moves: Ji Mao, three families' extinct household tables; Broken vats and copper cauldrons also bring disaster; Soup pot without spout, bed broken corner; Ancestors' incense fire needs money
○ Second Line Moves: Ji Chou, broken pots and broken stoves; Women have long-term illness and bitter sorrow; Sacrificial pigs and calves are also strange; Three oxen with two heads (Indicates: Ancestors' front, water coming from people indicates inauspicious)
○ Third Line Moves: Ji Hai, triangular stone by the well; Ancient bricks under the water vat; Old vows unfulfilled, need repentance and thanksgiving; Grave trees in front of the door are stolen by people (Indicates: Northwest side of the house has a water pool blocked, and the pool between causes eye and foot diseases)
○ Fourth Line Moves: Ji You, wrongfully dead people in previous years; Hens causing trouble, shocking the home; Water by the pig and sheep pens is bad; Silkworms, mulberry, and ducks also fail (Indicates: Two surnames cohabiting, receiving ancient artifacts, wife has illness or two surnames' incense)
○ Fifth Line Moves: Ji Wei, old stones in the kitchen; Broken water vat, blocking the ocean ditch; Throwing oneself into the river and hanging, casualties' ghosts; Sending pots to the door head year after year; Widowed mother sitting at home attracts outside men; Selling women's clothes brings disaster to small mouths; Women's illnesses should prevent dark body ghosts; Making a scene in front of the door every night
○ Sixth Line Moves: Broken knives, broken scales, broken leg cabinets; Hollow gourds hide scales, beware of children; Also snakes and insects enter the house; Hen crying at night indicates inflammation and disaster; Servants and livestock escape and are lost; A household of widowed mothers definitely attracts men

Kun Hexagram
○ First Line Moves: Yi Wei, children should not be carried around; Hollow gourds and broken deity images become spirits; Yin people have illnesses, must strictly avoid; Adopting another child to two surnames
○ Second Line Moves: Yi Si, children greatly alarmed by water; Stove pierced, pot leaking, very distressing; Tree growing back door, roots enter the house; Hen calling frequently the next year (Indicates: Hollow gourds in the room)
○ Third Line Moves: Yi Mao, broken scales, cauldron, chicken crying; Beams changed to small bed halls; Old knives without handles, locks without wheels; Dead people vaguely unclear; Fallen trees coming to make houses and warehouses; Moving earth must repay seeing blood disaster; Stones at the back door attract gossip; Removing them avoids inflammation and adds blessings
○ Fourth Line Moves: Gui Chou, flowing water moves in front of the door; Ocean ditches blocked and not circulating; Buddha and deities damaged, ancestors angry; Cursing enemies occupy graves, inauspicious
○ Fifth Line Moves: Gui Hai, reverse water flow in front of the door; Old vows in the bridge not yet fulfilled; A green brick stone at the back door; Attracts Yin people to cause disaster and worry
○ Sixth Line Moves: Gui You, outer water pit in front of the door; Earth God's swords and daggers sharp and piercing; Ancient vessels and swords at the head of the bed; Causing trouble and demons, making people afraid

Dui Hexagram
○ First Line Moves: Ding Si, attracting snakes entering Yin; Dogs on beds indicate inauspicious inflammation; Broken deity images should be replaced; Broken mirrors and pierced sandalwood indicate wealth loss
○ Second Line Moves: Ding Mao, broken-legged stools in the home; Temples and monasteries will cause women's illness; Suitable for sons to hang long banners in the corridor (Indicates: Currently at the crossroads, clashing with wife)
○ Third Line Moves: Ding Chou, missing net in the hall; Fire tongs of uneven length, not forming pairs; Steamer basins and urns tied with ropes; Ancient times feared invasion, main blood disaster; Incense burners and old vessels, temple items; Yet make Jia Lan cause disaster; Parents and children have inflammation and difficulties; Daughters' gossip should avoid the third winter
○ Fourth Line Moves: Ding Hai, green stone spirit in the kitchen; Wall pierced, Buddha broken, pot pierced; Hollow gourds bound with bamboo strips, holding hemp and beans; Advise you to remove them to avoid inflammation and disaster
○ Fifth Line Moves: Ding You, road in front of the door is not peaceful; Vase mouth broken, incomplete; Divine clan counts deity images and Buddha debts; Female ghost spirit altars attract disaster origins
○ Sixth Line Moves: Ding Wei, bought dead people's clothes; Old stones of stove gods and grave bricks moved; Peach wood dragon lanterns are all inauspicious; Women secretly marrying attract suspicion; Yiguang hanging suicide, dark body ghosts; Various matters in the home are mostly obstructed and delayed; Broken vats and urns cause disaster; Road behind has dead children