TIAN Methodology

The 'Purple Star Astrology' maps 14 major stars and 100+ minor stars across 12 life palaces. Each palace governs a domain — career, wealth, relationships, health — and the star configuration at birth determines a person's fate trajectory. TIAN uses the current year's flying star overlay to assess whether the market's resolution timing aligns with auspicious or inauspicious palace activations.

Originally a military strategy system, Qi Men Dun Jia ('Mysterious Gates Escaping Techniques') arranges 8 gates, 9 stars, 8 deities, and 10 stems across a 9-palace grid that rotates hourly. The configuration at the time of inquiry reveals which 'gate' the question falls under — Open, Rest, Life, Harm, Obstruction, Scenery, Death, or Shock — each carrying a distinct outcome probability.

The I Ching's 64 hexagrams are cast using the Liu Yao method (six-line coin casting). Each line is either yin or yang, static or changing. The primary hexagram describes the current situation; the transformed hexagram (after changing lines) reveals the outcome. Nuclear hexagrams provide a hidden layer of meaning. TIAN interprets the full hexagram stack — primary, nuclear, and transformed — for each market question.

Tai Yi ('Grand Unity') tracks a 72-year cycle of 16 divine positions, each governing a 4.5-year period. The current Tai Yi position, its relationship to the 'host' and 'guest' stars, and the active 'calculation number' determine whether the period favours expansion or contraction, victory or defeat. TIAN maps the market's resolution date to the active Tai Yi configuration.

Da Liu Ren ('Great Six Ren') uses the 12 earthly branches arranged around a cosmic board with four key positions: the Month General, the Day Branch, the Hour Branch, and the Subject/Object relationship. The interaction between these positions — support, clash, combination, punishment — determines the outcome. It is considered the most complex of the three classical Chinese divination systems alongside Qi Men and Tai Yi.

Flying Stars (Xuan Kong Fei Xing) maps 9 stars across a 9-palace grid that shifts annually, monthly, and daily. Each star carries a quality — prosperity, illness, conflict, romance, authority — and its position relative to the question's 'facing direction' determines the energy quality. TIAN uses the annual and monthly flying star charts to assess whether the market's domain (politics, finance, conflict) is energetically supported.

Ba Zi ('Eight Characters') is a natal chart system based on the year, month, day, and hour of birth — each pillar containing a Heavenly Stem and Earthly Branch. The interaction of the five elements (Wood, Fire, Earth, Metal, Water) across the four pillars reveals the individual's elemental strengths and weaknesses. TIAN applies Ba Zi to key figures in a market (candidates, leaders, organisations) to assess their elemental luck in the resolution period.

Horary astrology casts a chart for the exact moment a question is asked. The question is assigned to a house (1st house = the querent, 7th house = the opponent, 10th house = career/authority), and the ruling planets of those houses are examined for aspects, dignities, and reception. A planet in its own sign or exaltation is strong; a retrograde or combust planet is weak. TIAN uses the chart cast at the time of reading.

The 78-card Tarot deck (22 Major Arcana + 56 Minor Arcana) is read through a positional spread. TIAN uses a three-card spread: Past (context), Present (current energy), Future (likely outcome). Major Arcana cards carry stronger weight than Minor Arcana. Reversed cards indicate blocked or internalized energy. The suit of the outcome card (Wands=fire/action, Cups=water/emotion, Swords=air/conflict, Pentacles=earth/material) contextualises the nature of the result.

Rammal ('Sand Reading') generates 16 geomantic figures through a binary process of odd/even dot counts. The 16 figures are arranged into a Shield Chart of 15 positions, culminating in a single 'Judge' figure that delivers the verdict. Each figure carries a planetary ruler and elemental quality. The Judge figure's nature — favourable (Fortuna Major, Acquisitio, Laetitia) or unfavourable (Tristitia, Carcer, Rubeus) — determines the outcome reading.