Qi Men Dun Jia and feng shui Divination
What is Qi Men Dunjia?
Qi Men Dun Jia (or Qimendunjia) is one of the three most powerful divination methods, the other two being Tai Yee and Liu Ren.
These divination methods are used to discern both good and bad luck in relation to time and space (direction). Tai Yee is used to divine events that affect societies, such as earthquakes, weather effects like hurricanes, massacres and natural disasters. Qi Men is generally used for military action, but can also be applied to competitive environments in making the right strategic decision in ever-changing situations. Liu Ren is mostly used for divining general daily events that affect our own daily lives.
Qi usually means mysterious or strange, but in this context it means valuable or holy. Men means a gate, and Dun means hidden or escaped (to make hidden). Jia is the first of the ten Heavenly stems and is considered the most sacred in this method.
These three oracles use very special charts to divine and give conclusions. They all use Heavenly stems, Earthly branches (commonly known as the animals of the Chinese zodiac), the He Tu combinations, the Luo Shu, the Eight Trigrams, emblematic elements, and divine number.
Qi Men Dun Jia can be divided into Year School Dunjia, Month School Dunjia, Day School Dunjia and Time School Dunjia in terms of time. In terms of reasoning methods, it should be divided into Line-Up Palace Dunjia and Jump-in-Palace Dunjia.
Here we introduce Time School and Line-Up Palace Dunjia
People may ask when how and why Dunjia came into practice.
Nowadays many people believe Dunjia originated from military arrangements
on the battlefield and such statements have gained wide approval in scholarly
circles. The ancient book "The Song from Old Fishing Man" carried the following story:
Emperor XuanYuan fought a fierce battle with Shi You for many years. In a dream he dreamt Heaven gave him an oracle and XuanYuan then paid his respects upon a sacrificial platform and practised such arts which soon brought success. He ordered his military man Feng Hou to write down these arts and this was the beginning of Dunjia.
The popularity of this method spread far and wide from the late Spring and Autumn to the Warring States period - a time when many states fought endless battles to expand their territories. Also Sun Zi's book The Art of War carried similar information concerning the theory of Dunjia. However, most people did not understand the exact meaning.
During the Three-kingdom Times, the famous military counsellor Zhu Ge Liang applied Eight Trigram or the Ba Gua Arrangement on the battlefield and won huge success as a result. Consequently, even today, the book "The Three Kingdoms" is necessary reading for intelligence experts and politicians around the world.
In Qi Men Dun Jia (or Dunjia) theory, we use a kind of direction chart called Pan, which is drawn as a square and then divided into nine blocks (eight directions plus the centre ).
In each directional block, one of the eight gates is positioned. Initially, we put away Jia (because of its holiness) and use the other nine stems to put them into a Dun Jia Pan chart. Then, after several processes, Jia comes into the Pan chart from one of the eight gates. And that's why this method is called Qi Men Dun Jia.
Later due to the wide application of Dunjia, this divination approach gradually broke its own boundary and gained application in health diagnosis, business decisions, and agricultural divination.
Why is Dunjia used for Divination?
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Any divination process, whatever form they assume, are models set up to imitate the social society, nature and the universe. Qi Men Dun Jia is a mathematical and physical model set up to incorporate Heavenly, Earth, Human, and unexpected aspects, as well as time and space, or directional elements.
There are nine basic Yang Dun Ju and nine Yin Dun Ju which produce a dynamic unified model to imitate all the transformations and changes experienced in life. Therefore it can be used to divine for society, nature, individual life times, and all that is unknown to Man.
One of the most typical characteristics of Qi Men Dun Jia is that in ancient times, it was deemed so powerful that those who used it attempted to keep it top-secret. Qi Men Dun Jia masters were subsequently suppressed in order to prevent the secrets of Dunjia leaking to the enemies of the governors. Many Dunjia-masters were arrested and the secrets of Dunjia were never made clear or shared. That is until now.
Want to learn more about Qi Men Dun Jia?
Qi Men Dun Jia classes and courses are available from the International Feng Shui School of Excellence. Please visit the school for next available course dates.
