Your task is to compare the received value and combination markers for a selected moving line, then keep every candidate conditional.

Movement does not decide direction, certainty, or practical importance. It only establishes that the received statement for moving lines may be examined after earlier unresolved conditions have been recorded.

Received movement markers

Marker in the received textSymbolic operationUAYA record
Valueuse the moving line’s own branchlist matching dates only inside the declared horizon
Combinationuse the moving line’s fixed combination partnerlist matching dates only inside the declared horizon

The source statement does not provide a universal ranking or a generic “soon” window. UAYA therefore preserves value and combination as alternatives unless a cited case or named lineage narrows them.

The documented weather example

Documented textual case, mechanics use only. In the record publicly catalogued by UAYA as Case 00035, Zengshan Buyi records Child/Yin at bottom-up line 2, moving to Mao in Hexagram 3 → 19.

ComparisonDerivation
ValueYin, the moving main line’s branch
CombinationHai, the fixed partner that combines with Yin
Transformed branchMao remains part of the Bian Yao record; this timing statement does not by itself make Mao the primary timing branch

This table does not compare the candidates with the source’s recorded sky observation. It does not turn a historical weather case into a current forecast or claim that either symbolic branch produced the reported observation.

Dark Moving boundary

The cited line 动而逢合逢值 addresses moving main lines. Do not silently extend it to every Dark Moving line or invent an hour candidate. A Dark Moving timing claim needs its own public source or attributed lineage rule; otherwise record the condition and return no window from this lesson.

Keep the source scope visible

The checked Zengshan Buyi timing chapter states 动而逢合逢值 for moving main lines: value or combination. The course derives those two symbolic branches and stops there unless the complete calendar and declared horizon support dated comparison.

Traps and stops

  • Do not use the shortcut “three moving lines means immediate.” Count does not create this rule.
  • Do not call movement favorable, unfavorable, or certain.
  • If void, bound, incomplete-frame, transformation-delay, or clash conditions remain unresolved, record them before movement.
  • Do not use the transformed branch as a timing branch unless an attributed rule explicitly authorizes it.

Source note

The received moving value/combination statement is in Zengshan Buyi, vol. 1, “General Notes on Response Times for the Various Categories” (各门类应期总注章), checked composite printed p. 48 / PDF physical p. 49. The weather passage catalogued by UAYA as Case 00035 is in vol. 2, “Tianshi” (天时章第三十五), printed p. 90 / PDF physical p. 91; CText work ctp:ws157683, displayed paragraphs 996–1003. The alternative-preserving worksheet is a UAYA teaching convention.

Next step

Attributed timing rules may support different calendar scales and horizons. Record that limit explicitly in Near and Far Timing.