Act 5
Strength and Interaction
Act 5 turns a selected target into an auditable state record. The task is not to announce an outcome. It is to show which temporal and branch conditions are present, which rule set classified them, and what remains unresolved.
Begin only when Act 4 has produced one target line. If the target is still disputed, return to target selection before filling this worksheet.
The Act 5 worksheet
Keep these columns separate:
| Column | What belongs there |
|---|---|
| Chart fact | Branch, element, line position, movement, month, day, and void branches |
| Located rule | A public textual or declared lineage rule, with its locator |
| Course record | The qualitative state produced by that rule, with every relevant condition retained |
| Course decision | UAYA’s labelled synthesis, including unresolved when the available rules do not settle the question |
This separation keeps observation, source authority, and teaching convention from being mistaken for one another. Dark Moving, San He formation, and the weight of harms and punishments are explicit examples in this act.
Run the checks in order
- Record qualitative states without adding a learner score.
- Check void before ordinary strength.
- Mark Month Breaker and any source-qualified condition.
- Classify day clash under a named rule set.
- Reproduce the complete course trace.
- Separate a Six-Harmony pair from an operative bind.
- Detect the four San He branch sets.
- Classify a frame under a located source rule or an explicit UAYA convention.
- Mark harms and punishments without inflating their weight.
- Test whole-hexagram Six-Clash or Six-Harmony structure.
- Trace whether support can actually reach the target.
The finished artifact is a line-state and interaction worksheet, not a verdict or a date.
Stopping conditions
Stop this act when any required input is missing:
- no single target has been selected;
- the exact month/day Ganzhi is unavailable;
- two located rules conflict but the record does not name which one is being applied;
- a detected interaction has no demonstrated path to the target;
- a course label would be mistaken for proof that a reading is true.
“Unresolved” is a valid Act 5 result. It is more useful than a precise label produced from undeclared assumptions.
Source note
The sequence and four-column worksheet are UAYA course conventions, not a classical taxonomy. Public rules are cited page by page. Neither a cited rule nor a completed worksheet establishes predictive validity.
Start by making the record qualitative: Qualitative Strength, Not Learner Scores.
The modules
Record line conditions qualitatively without turning separate observations into a learner score.
5.2 Void as a Declared Line StateRecord calculated void and its source-qualified conditions without treating void as simple weakness.
5.3 Month Breaker: Detection and QualificationRecord a month-clashed line and qualify its condition only through a located source rule.
5.4 Day Breaker vs Dark MovingClassify a day-clashed static line through the seasonal distinction in Zengshan Buyi.
5.5 The Strength Worksheet, End to EndProduce a complete qualitative line-state trace from chart facts, public sources, and explicit UAYA conventions.
5.6 Liu He: Six Harmonies and the Bound StateDistinguish a fixed Six-Harmony pair from an operative bind and record the context that makes the restraint relevant.
5.7 San He: The Four Three-Harmony FramesDetect the four exact San He branch sets while keeping frame presence separate from status, effect, and timing.
5.8 San He Frame StatusesClassify San He formation routes from the conditions in Zengshan Buyi while keeping damaged and incomplete sets visible.
5.9 Harms and PunishmentsIdentify harm and punishment relations while keeping their weight within the limits stated in Zengshan Buyi.
5.10 Six-Clash and Six-Harmony Hexagram TypesReproduce the fixed branch pairs and a declared whole-hexagram structural test without treating structure as an outcome.
5.11 When Combination Blocks GenerationTrace whether an operative bind interrupts a source-to-target support path, with blocked and unblocked contrasts.