Comparing Flagship Artifacts and Boundaries
Last updated 10/7/2026
The three UAYA flagship courses do not produce the same artifact. This lesson compares the accepted records so that shared I Ching vocabulary does not become a blended method.
Eight Palaces is included as a structural coordinate, not as a peer divination verdict. It supplies family and retrieval information that later systems may use only after their additional rules are declared.
Three artifacts
Question, cast, calendar, palace and line assignments, selected target, conditions, interactions, provisional judgment, timing candidates, and review status remain separate fields.
A selected cue, its provenance, a predeclared conversion rule, arithmetic, hexagram and moving line, Ti/Yong relation, bounded interpretation, and later review.
Palace head, family membership, element, sequence position, changed-line set, source layer, and an error log.
Boundary matrix
| Course | Input owned by the artifact | Reproducible output | It does not establish by itself |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wen Wang Gua | a screened question, cast, and dated chart context | an auditable six-line record under declared rules | a certain event or authority over a real-world decision |
| Plum Blossom | a recorded moment signal or declared number/time/count procedure | an inspectable signal-to-calculation record | that every cue is meaningful or that WWG rules apply |
| Eight Palaces | a hexagram’s visible line structure | one family, element, and structural position in the accepted catalogue | a question, prediction, timeline, personality, diagnosis, or judgment |
The same hexagram may appear in all three courses. That does not merge the artifact:
- WWG adds a dated cast table, line roles, selection, condition, and other declared layers.
- Plum Blossom records why a moment signal was chosen and how it was converted.
- Eight Palaces retrieves a family coordinate from the hexagram structure.
One routing exercise
Invented exercise; no chart and no outcome.
| Available material | Correct artifact decision |
|---|---|
| A screened question, completed cast, and exact Ganzhi context | A WWG record may be constructed, subject to the course’s intake and safety boundaries. |
| A sudden sound chosen before calculation, with a declared counting rule | A Plum Blossom moment-signal record may be constructed. |
| Hexagram 35 and a request for its palace family and sequence position | Use the Eight Palaces catalogue as a structural lookup. Do not turn the coordinate into a forecast. |
| All three mixed into one verdict | Stop, separate the records, and identify which task—if any—each artifact actually owns. |
Do not ask the three artifacts to vote. Agreement does not prove a result, and disagreement does not authorize choosing the most attractive answer.
Source and dependency note
Dependency note: this table compares the reader-facing artifacts defined in the linked Wen Wang Gua, Plum Blossom, and Eight Palaces flagship courses. It is explicit UAYA synthesis and does not claim that the three courses form one historical system.
Stop condition
Stop when inputs, calculations, or interpretations are being moved between artifacts without an accepted bridge rule. Stop when Eight Palaces family membership is being treated as an independent answer to a question.