High-Stakes Questions: Stop and Refer
Last updated 10/7/2026
This lesson has one job: recognize a high-stakes request and end with a clear stop/referral record. No chart interpretation follows.
A disclaimer does not make a diagnosis, prognosis, legal conclusion, financial directive, safety verdict, or other consequential prediction acceptable. The boundary applies before casting and before technical wording.
Stop before interpretation
Do not cast to identify a condition, choose care, predict recovery, or decide whether help can wait.
Do not use a chart to settle legal status, evidence, filings, approval, validity, guilt, penalty, or procedure.
Do not make financial exposure, employment, solvency, contract, or payment decisions from a reading.
Do not cast for danger, emergency, violence, self-harm, transport safety, death, or lifespan.
Current weather, route, border, transport, deadline, status, and institutional decisions belong to their current sources.
Do not cast to reveal another person's health, motives, fidelity, plans, or private circumstances.
The no-cast referral record
Complete all five fields without adding chart language:
Question as asked:
High-stakes category or external fact:
Why WWG does not own this output:
Appropriate real-world authority or direct evidence source:
Disposition: refer + stop; no cast“Appropriate authority” stays generic on this course page because jurisdiction, location, urgency, and professional scope can change. The record identifies the kind of real-world source needed; it does not provide domain advice.
Safe wording pattern
“This request needs current facts or qualified judgment that a Wen Wang Gua record cannot supply. I will not cast or interpret a chart for that output. Please use the appropriate real-world source.”
Do not append “but the chart suggests…” after the refusal. That would reintroduce the interpretation the boundary removed.
Practice exercises
These invented prompts receive the same output: a completed referral record and no cast.
| Prompt asks for | Why it stops |
|---|---|
| a diagnosis or recovery date | health judgment and prognosis |
| whether a filing will succeed | legal status and external decision |
| whether to invest or sign | financial or contractual direction |
| whether a route is safe today | current transport and safety facts |
| whether another person will commit | private state and agency |
Stop condition
If the requested output belongs to a qualified person, institution, official record, current measurement, direct conversation, or emergency resource, the WWG task is complete at refer + stop. Do not select a target line, build a judgment, generate timing candidates, or offer a symbolic substitute.
Scope note: this lesson uses a strict no-cast boundary for high-stakes questions and follows the Act 9 domain-routing rules. It supplies a generic referral workflow only; it does not provide medical, legal, financial, safety, or other professional guidance, and it is not a received WWG rule.