Na Jia and the Six Relationships: A Palace Transfer Sheet
Last updated 10/7/2026
This lesson does one job: transfer verified palace data into a chart record used by later Wen Wang Gua work.
Palace membership supplies structural inputs. It does not, by itself, identify a target line, judge strength, calculate timing, or produce an outcome.
Keep the layers separate
| Layer | What this lesson records | What it does not decide |
|---|---|---|
| Hexagram structure | Upper and lower trigrams; line positions | What the situation means |
| Palace lookup | Palace, palace element, head, and structural position | Whether that position is a life stage |
| Na Jia assignment | The stem and branch printed on each line in the course table | A complete history of every assignment variant |
| Six Relationships | Each line element’s relation to the palace element | Which line should answer a particular question |
| Shi and Ying | World and Response coordinates in the course’s palace-position table | The character or intentions of real people |
The received Jing Shi Yi Zhuan associates stem sets with the eight trigrams in juan xia, scan image 110. That passage supports a narrow received stem-assignment claim. It does not establish a complete branch algorithm, every later variant, or personal authorship by the historical Jing Fang.
The Six Relationships calculation
For the rule used in this course, compare the element of each line with the palace element.
| Element relation | Line role |
|---|---|
| Line and palace have the same element | Brothers |
| Line generates palace | Parents |
| Palace generates line | Children |
| Palace controls line | Wife/Wealth |
| Line controls palace | Officials/Ghosts |
Read every row from the palace as the reference. Reversing that direction reverses the two control categories.
The two control directions in the table are the explicit UAYA teaching convention used throughout this course. Treat the table as the course’s definition and apply it from the palace element toward the line element. The Qian head entry at Jing Shi Yi Zhuan, juan shang, scan image 6, supports Qian’s Metal assignment only; it does not contain this complete element-to-relationship mapping.
“Wife/Wealth” and “Officials/Ghosts” are inherited technical labels. They do not assign gender, social role, illness, blame, or authority to a person merely because the label appears on a line.
Reproducible transfer sheet: Hexagram 1
Use a static Qian-over-Qian record. This is a mechanical example with no question and no claimed outcome.
The verified palace record supplies:
- Palace: Qian
- Palace element: Metal
- Palace head: Hexagram 1
- Position: palace head
- Shi (World): line 6
- Ying (Response): line 3
For this course, use the following bottom-to-top line sheet:
| Line | Stem-branch | Line element | Relation to Qian Metal | Six Relationship | Marker |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Jia-Zi | Water | Palace generates line | Children | — |
| 2 | Jia-Yin | Wood | Palace controls line | Wife/Wealth | — |
| 3 | Jia-Chen | Earth | Line generates palace | Parents | Ying |
| 4 | Ren-Wu | Fire | Line controls palace | Officials/Ghosts | — |
| 5 | Ren-Shen | Metal | Same element | Brothers | — |
| 6 | Ren-Xu | Earth | Line generates palace | Parents | Shi |
This table defines the UAYA convention used in course exercises. It is not presented as a complete primary-source edition of the Na Jia branch rules.
Audit the sheet yourself
- Cover the “Six Relationship” column.
- Begin with the palace element: Metal.
- Compare each line element to Metal.
- Recalculate all six roles.
- Confirm that line 2 is Wife/Wealth and line 4 is Officials/Ghosts.
- Mark lines 6 and 3 as Shi and Ying only after checking the palace position.
If line 2 and line 4 are reversed, the calculation direction was reversed. If Shi and Ying are inferred from the line roles, two different layers have been collapsed.
Where this lesson stops
A complete transfer sheet still does not tell you:
- which line is relevant to a question;
- whether a line is strong, weak, active, void, combined, or clashed;
- whether a missing role should be recovered as Fu Shen;
- whether an event will occur or when it would occur.
Those are downstream Wen Wang Gua operations with their own source and method requirements. The full branch-assignment table, the Fu Shen recovery procedure, and a universal historical account of Shi/Ying are deliberately not taught here because this lesson does not provide adequate primary locators for them.
Continue to How Eight Palaces Supports Wen Wang Gua for the bounded dependency map. Use the dedicated Wen Wang Gua course for the full method.
Sources and course-convention record
- Received Jing Shi Yi Zhuan (京氏易傳), Sibu Congkan chubian book 43, juan shang, scan image 6, for Qian’s Metal assignment only.
- Same received work, juan xia, scan image 110, for the trigram-to-stem passage.
- Same received work, juan xia, scan image 113, for received relationship-category terminology only, not the complete course mapping above.
- The complete transfer table above is the UAYA course convention used for exercises; its two control directions must not be attributed to the cited palace-head passage.