Chapter 04: Six Relatives and Six Spirits

After completing this chapter, readers should understand:

1. The Six Relatives are the core system in Liu Yao for turning hexagram imagery into real human and matter relationships.
2. The Six Relatives include Parents, Siblings, Children/Descendants, Wife/Wealth, and Officer/Ghost.
3. The Six Relatives cannot be understood only by their literal names. They represent different types of people, matters, objects, and relationship themes.
4. The Six Spirits are Liu Yao’s auxiliary imagery system, including Azure Dragon, Vermilion Bird, Hooked Chen, Flying Serpent, White Tiger, and Black Tortoise.
5. The Six Spirits help observe how a matter appears, its atmosphere, and hidden features, but they cannot independently determine good or bad.
6. In Liu Yao judgment, the Useful Line, Self and Other, strength and weakness, movement and transformation, generation, control, clash, and combination should be primary, while the Six Spirits are auxiliary.
7. Combining Six Relatives and Six Spirits allows a hexagram to become a more concrete map of a real-world question rather than an abstract symbol.

Liu Yao can analyze concrete questions because it does not only read the hexagram name; it assigns real-world meaning to every line.

In a Liu Yao hexagram, each line corresponds to a type of Six Relative:

Parents
Siblings
Children/Descendants
Wife/Wealth
Officer/Ghost

These Six Relatives let us know:

• Which line represents money;
• Which line represents work;
• Which line represents a contract;
• Which line represents messages;
• Which line represents the other party;
• Which line represents pressure;
• Which line represents competition;
• Which line represents products or children.

The Six Spirits further help us observe the atmosphere of the matter.

For example, for the same Wealth line:

• Wealth line with Azure Dragon may be more presentable, smooth, and joyful;
• Wealth line with Black Tortoise may involve hidden factors, opacity, or secret connections;
• Wealth line with White Tiger may come with pressure, conflict, or intense risk;
• Wealth line with Vermilion Bird may relate to verbal promises, messages, or negotiation.

Therefore, the Six Relatives tell us “what the matter is,” while the Six Spirits tell us “what atmosphere the matter presents.”

The name “Six Relatives” easily causes beginners to misunderstand.

Seeing Parents, one may think it only represents parents.

Seeing Siblings, one may think it only represents brothers and sisters.

Seeing Children/Descendants, one may think it only represents children.

Seeing Wife/Wealth, one may think it only represents wife or money.

Seeing Officer/Ghost, one may think it only represents lawsuits or spirits.

This is incorrect.

In Liu Yao, the Six Relatives are a relationship classification system.

They represent not only people, but also matters, objects, relationships, and themes.

For example:

• The Parent line can represent parents, but also contracts, documents, messages, houses, and certificates;
• The Sibling line can represent siblings, but also friends, colleagues, competitors, and partners;
• The Children/Descendants line can represent children, but also products, output, entertainment, joy, and relief of pressure;
• The Wife/Wealth line can represent wife, but also money, clients, resources, and practical benefit;
• The Officer/Ghost line can represent official position, but also pressure, illness, rules, superiors, and risk.

Therefore, when learning the Six Relatives, do not only read the literal name. Read their actual correspondence in the question being asked.

The basic imagery of the Parent line includes:

Documents, contracts, messages, certificates, houses, protection, elders, rule texts, study materials

The Parent line can represent actual parents and elders, but in question judgment it is more often used for documents and information-related matters.

Parent line in career questions

When asking about work, the Parent line may represent:

• Contract;
• Offer;
• Company system;
• Document process;
• Qualification proof;
• Work platform;
• Notification from a superior.

For example, ask:

Can this job be confirmed?

If the Parent line is strong and moving, it may show movement in documents, contracts, or notifications.

If the Parent line is empty, it may show that the offer, contract, or documents have not yet landed.

If the Parent line is controlled, the paperwork process may be blocked.

Parent line in exams and learning

The Parent line also represents learning, books, exam materials, certificates, and academic credentials.

When asking about exams, the Parent line is often one of the important Useful Lines.

A strong Parent line may show strong preparation materials, knowledge foundation, or exam documents.

A weak or empty Parent line may show insufficient preparation, incomplete materials, or unsettled results.

Parent line in message questions

When asking about messages, replies, or notifications, the Parent line is very important.

For example:

When will the other party reply?

When will the application result come out?

Can the document be approved?

A moving Parent line often shows message movement.

An empty Parent line may mean the message has not arrived for now.

A combined Parent line may mean the message is stuck.

A clashed Parent line may mean the message changes suddenly.

The basic imagery of the Sibling line includes:

Siblings, friends, colleagues, peers, competitors, partners, division of wealth, same-kind force

The most important feature of the Sibling line is “same kind.”

It can be help, and it can also be competition.

Sibling line in partnership questions

When asking about partnership, the Sibling line may represent partners, companions, or team members.

When the Sibling line is favorable, it may mean someone helps and the team has strength.

When the Sibling line is unfavorable, it may mean disagreement, competition, or division of benefit.

For example, when asking whether a partnership goes smoothly, a strong and moving Sibling line may represent active partners, but it may also represent obvious competition for benefit.

You must see whether it generates or controls Self, and whether it generates or controls the Useful Line.

Sibling line in financial questions

When asking about money, the Sibling line often has imagery of competition, dividing wealth, or losing wealth.

Because the Sibling line is the same kind as oneself, it easily competes with oneself for the wealth star.

For example:

Will the client pay?

If a Sibling line moves and controls Wealth, it may indicate:

• Payment is delayed;
• There is a competitor;
• Benefit is divided;
• Someone intervenes;
• The money is difficult to arrive fully in one’s own hands.

But it is not correct to mechanically say the Sibling line is always bad.

If asking about team entrepreneurship, the Sibling line may also represent partnership strength.

If the Self line is weak and the Sibling line supports Self, it may represent help from friends or partners.

Sibling line in interpersonal questions

When asking about friends, colleagues, or competitive relationships, the Sibling line is often an important reference.

A strong Sibling line shows that peer relationships are prominent.

A moving Sibling line shows action from peers or competitors.

A Sibling line controlling Self may show pressure from colleagues, friends, or competitors.

A Sibling line generating Self may show help from friends.

The basic imagery of the Children/Descendants line includes:

Children, products, output, talent, joy, entertainment, user experience, relieving pressure, freedom, result presentation

The Children/Descendants line does not only represent children.

In modern questions, it often represents products, content, services, output capacity, user experience, and forces that help people relax.

Children/Descendants line in product and career questions

When asking about products, content, works, or services, the Children/Descendants line is often important.

For example:

Can this product be completed well?

Will this content be popular?

Is this course suitable for release?

Will users like this service?

A strong Children/Descendants line may show better product, output, or user experience.

A weak or empty Children/Descendants line may show that the product is not yet formed, output is insufficient, or user feedback is not obvious.

Children/Descendants line and pressure

The Children/Descendants line can control Officer/Ghost.

Officer/Ghost often represents pressure, illness imagery, rules, and anxiety.

Because Children/Descendants can control Officer/Ghost, it carries imagery of relief, easing pressure, and resolving illness-related stress.

When asking whether pressure can ease, a strong Children/Descendants line is usually a better signal.

But when asking about work position, an overly strong Children/Descendants line controlling Officer/Ghost may not be good.

Because Officer/Ghost may represent the position in work questions, Children/Descendants controlling Officer/Ghost may show unwillingness to be managed, unstable role, or broken rules.

Therefore, the same Children/Descendants line means different things in different questions.

Children/Descendants line in relationship questions

In relationship questions, the Children/Descendants line can sometimes represent ease, joy, expression, children, and it can also represent the force that controls Officer/Ghost.

If a woman asks about relationship, Officer/Ghost often represents the object, and a strong Children/Descendants line controlling Officer/Ghost may sometimes show unwillingness to be constrained by the other person, or dissatisfaction with the object in the relationship.

But if the question is how to relieve pressure, a strong Children/Descendants line may be favorable.

Therefore, it is not enough to simply say the Children/Descendants line is good.

The basic imagery of the Wife/Wealth line includes:

Money, clients, resources, income, practical benefit, market, material conditions, partner image in male relationship questions

The Wife/Wealth line is very important when asking about finance, clients, business, and resources.

Wife/Wealth line in financial questions

When asking about money, the Wealth line is usually the core Useful Line.

For example:

Can this money be recovered?

Will the client pay?

Will the project produce profit?

Can the quotation close?

A strong Wealth line generating Self is usually more favorable.

A weak, empty, controlled, or tombed Wealth line makes financial matters harder to land.

A combined Wealth line may mean money is stuck by conditions.

A clashed Wealth line may mean financial change or fluctuation.

Wife/Wealth line in business questions

In business questions, the Wealth line can also represent:

• Clients;
• Market;
• Cash flow;
• Sales opportunity;
• Resources;
• Business return.

If the Wealth line is strong but the Self line is weak, it may mean the opportunity exists, but one’s ability to receive it is insufficient.

If the Wealth line generates Self, wealth is favorable to oneself.

If the Self line generates Wealth, one must invest in order to obtain wealth.

Wife/Wealth line in relationship questions

Traditionally, when a man asks about relationship, the Wealth line often represents the partner object.

But in modern judgment, the Other line, Self-Other relationship, and question context must also be read together.

Do not simply say “a strong Wealth line means the relationship is good.”

You must also see:

• Whether the Wealth line generates Self;
• Whether the Wealth line combines with Self;
• Whether the Wealth line is empty;
• Whether the Wealth line is controlled by the Sibling line;
• What the relationship between Other line and Self line is.

The basic imagery of the Officer/Ghost line includes:

Position, authority, superior, rules, pressure, illness, risk, lawsuit, constraint, partner image in female relationship questions

Officer/Ghost is one of the most complex Six Relatives in Liu Yao.

Its meaning varies greatly in different questions.

Officer/Ghost line in career questions

When asking about work, position, promotion, or interviews, the Officer/Ghost line is often an important Useful Line.

A strong Officer/Ghost line generating Self may show a powerful job opportunity.

A moving Officer/Ghost line may show changes in role, superior, or responsibility.

An empty Officer/Ghost line may show that the position has not landed.

Officer/Ghost controlled by Children/Descendants may show obstruction to the position or unwillingness to be managed.

Officer/Ghost line in pressure questions

Officer/Ghost also represents pressure, anxiety, rules, and trouble.

If asking:

Can the current pressure ease?

Officer/Ghost strong and controlling Self usually shows obvious pressure.

A strong Children/Descendants line controlling Officer/Ghost may show a way to ease pressure.

Officer/Ghost entering tomb may show pressure being suppressed, but not necessarily gone.

Officer/Ghost line in illness questions

In traditional Liu Yao, the Officer/Ghost line can often represent illness imagery.

But a modern course must emphasize:

When health issues are involved, Liu Yao cannot replace medical diagnosis.

We can only say:

In health-related questions, the Officer/Ghost line can be used as a symbolic reference for pressure, illness imagery, or discomfort state.

If there is a real physical issue, professional doctors should be followed.

Officer/Ghost line in relationship questions

Traditionally, when a woman asks about relationship, the Officer/Ghost line often represents the partner object.

But this still cannot be judged mechanically.

Read together:

• Other line;
• Self-Other relationship;
• Strength and weakness of Officer/Ghost;
• Whether Officer/Ghost generates Self, combines with Self, or controls Self;
• Whether Officer/Ghost is empty, damaged, or in tomb;
• Whether moving lines affect Officer/Ghost.

A strong Officer/Ghost line does not necessarily mean a good relationship; it may also mean heavy pressure.

Officer/Ghost generating Self or combining with Self without being damaged is usually more favorable than Officer/Ghost controlling Self, being empty, or being clashed and controlled.

The Six Relatives also have generating and controlling logic.

This is because the Six Relatives fundamentally come from Five Element relationships.

Common generating relationships can be understood as:

• Parents generate Siblings;
• Siblings generate Children/Descendants;
• Children/Descendants generate Wife/Wealth;
• Wife/Wealth generates Officer/Ghost;
• Officer/Ghost generates Parents.

This is a generating cycle.

Controlling relationships can also form:

• Parents control Children/Descendants;
• Children/Descendants control Officer/Ghost;
• Officer/Ghost controls Siblings;
• Siblings control Wife/Wealth;
• Wife/Wealth controls Parents.

These relationships are important in judgment.

For example:

Children/Descendants generate Wealth

Children/Descendants represent products, output, and services.

Wealth represents money, clients, and returns.

Children/Descendants generating Wealth can be understood as:

Using products, services, or output to produce income.

This is very common in modern business questions.

Siblings control Wealth

Siblings represent competition, same-kind forces, and partners.

Wealth represents money.

Siblings controlling Wealth may indicate:

Competition dividing wealth, partners splitting profit, or money being consumed.

But if asking about help from friends, Siblings are not necessarily unfavorable.

Children/Descendants control Officer/Ghost

Children/Descendants controlling Officer/Ghost can indicate:

Output, ease, or solutions controlling pressure.

In illness or pressure questions, this may be a good image.

In position questions, Children/Descendants controlling Officer/Ghost may be unfavorable to role stability.

Wealth generates Officer

Wealth generating Officer can indicate:

Resources supporting position, responsibility, rules, or authority.

In career questions, Wealth generating Officer may represent resources pushing career forward.

But in pressure questions, it may also mean practical responsibilities increasing pressure.

The Six Spirits are the auxiliary imagery system in Liu Yao.

They include:

Azure Dragon
Vermilion Bird
Hooked Chen
Flying Serpent
White Tiger
Black Tortoise

The Six Spirits are not the main basis of judgment.

They are more like adding atmosphere, color, and style to each line.

It can be understood this way:

The Six Relatives tell us “what this matter is.”

The Six Spirits tell us “what atmosphere this matter presents.”

For example, for the same Wealth line:

• With Azure Dragon: smoother, more presentable, joyful;
• With Black Tortoise: hidden, opaque, secret wealth;
• With White Tiger: pressure, risk, intensity;
• With Vermilion Bird: messages, speech, negotiation;
• With Hooked Chen: delay, involvement, old accounts;
• With Flying Serpent: complexity, doubt, unease.

Therefore, the Six Spirits are helpful, but they must not override the main judgment.

Common imagery of Azure Dragon:

Joy, smoothness, elegance, respectability, good news, banquets, gifts, happy events

Azure Dragon usually carries a more positive atmosphere.

For example:

• Wealth line with Azure Dragon may show a more presentable financial opportunity;
• Parent line with Azure Dragon may show good news or formal documents;
• Officer/Ghost with Azure Dragon may show a more respectable position or reputation.

But Azure Dragon does not mean absolute good fortune.

If the line itself is empty, damaged, and weak, Azure Dragon may only look good on the surface.

Therefore, strength, weakness, generation, and control must still be read.

Common imagery of Vermilion Bird:

Messages, documents, speech, expression, dispute, communication, sound

Vermilion Bird is related to language, information, and transmission.

For example:

• Parent line with Vermilion Bird is often related to messages, documents, or notices;
• Other line with Vermilion Bird may mean the other party will speak or send messages, and may also involve dispute;
• Officer/Ghost with Vermilion Bird may show verbal pressure or rule notifications;
• Wealth line with Vermilion Bird may connect finance with negotiation or verbal promises.

Vermilion Bird is not necessarily bad.

It can be good news, and it can also be argument.

You must see whether the line it sits on is favorable or unfavorable, strong or weak.

Common imagery of Hooked Chen:

Delay, postponement, involvement, land, real estate, old matters, entanglement, stable but inflexible

Hooked Chen is slow, heavy, sticky, and dragging.

For example:

• Wealth line with Hooked Chen may show delayed money, old accounts, or fixed assets;
• Parent line with Hooked Chen may show houses, delayed contracts, or old documents;
• Other line with Hooked Chen may show the other party is slow, conservative, or involved in something;
• Self line with Hooked Chen may show oneself being held by old matters.

Hooked Chen is not necessarily bad.

When asking about real estate, land, or long-term stability, Hooked Chen may even show a rooted image.

But when asking about fast progress, Hooked Chen often suggests slowness.

Common imagery of Flying Serpent:

Doubt, false alarm, complexity, fantasy, unease, entanglement, suspicion, psychological pressure

Flying Serpent is often related to uncertainty, imagination, worry, and complex emotions.

For example:

• Self line with Flying Serpent may show overthinking or unease;
• Other line with Flying Serpent may show the other person’s attitude is complex or unclear;
• Officer/Ghost with Flying Serpent may show psychological pressure, false alarm, or suspicion;
• Wealth line with Flying Serpent may show the financial matter looks complicated and must be distinguished carefully.

Flying Serpent does not necessarily represent real danger; sometimes it is only inner unease.

It must be judged together with the substantial strength in the hexagram.

Common imagery of White Tiger:

Pressure, conflict, harm, intensity, risk, damage, urgency, strictness

White Tiger carries a stronger atmosphere.

For example:

• Officer/Ghost with White Tiger may show more obvious pressure, illness imagery, or rule conflict;
• Wealth line with White Tiger may show financial dispute, risk, or intense pressure;
• Other line with White Tiger may show the other party is forceful, impatient, or oppressive;
• Self line with White Tiger may show one is under pressure or emotionally intense.

White Tiger requires caution, but one should not see White Tiger and immediately conclude disaster.

If asking about competition, police or military work, execution, or high-pressure positions, White Tiger may also represent strong execution and a high-pressure environment.

The key remains question type and the state of the Useful Line.

Common imagery of Black Tortoise:

Hidden matters, secrecy, ambiguity, opacity, deception, secrets, movement, desire

Black Tortoise is often related to what cannot be seen clearly, cannot be explained clearly, or occurs behind the scenes.

For example:

• Wealth line with Black Tortoise may show hidden money, opaque funds, or financial secrets;
• Other line with Black Tortoise may show concealment or unclear attitude from the other party;
• Parent line with Black Tortoise may show opaque documents or information;
• If Black Tortoise is prominent in a relationship question, there may be ambiguity, hidden factors, or unclear relationship elements.

Black Tortoise is not always deception.

It can also represent privacy, secrets, nighttime, fluidity, and deep information.

But when Black Tortoise appears, more verification is usually needed. Do not rely only on surface statements.

In judgment, read the Six Relatives first, then the Six Spirits.

For example:

Wealth line with Azure Dragon

The Wealth line represents money; Azure Dragon represents joy and smoothness.

It may indicate a presentable financial opportunity, positive income, or good news.

But if the Wealth line is empty, it may only be a surface opportunity and may not land.

Wealth line with Black Tortoise

The Wealth line represents money; Black Tortoise represents hidden and opaque matters.

It may suggest secret funds, unclear finances, or opaque payment conditions.

Verification is needed.

Parent line with Vermilion Bird

The Parent line represents documents and messages; Vermilion Bird also represents messages and expression.

When the two appear together, information, notices, contracts, and communication themes are obvious.

Officer/Ghost line with White Tiger

Officer/Ghost represents pressure, position, illness imagery, and rules; White Tiger represents intense pressure and risk.

If asking about work, it may indicate a high-pressure position.

If asking about health, special attention should be suggested, but it cannot replace medical judgment.

If asking about a lawsuit, pressure may be heavier.

Other line with Flying Serpent

The Other line represents the other party; Flying Serpent represents doubt and complexity.

It may show that the other party’s state is complex, their statement is unclear, or the querent is highly suspicious of the other party.

This must be judged with the strength of the Other line and whether it generates or controls the Self line.

The Six Spirits have rich imagery, but they must never be used alone for judgment.

Do not say:

Azure Dragon is always good.
White Tiger is always bad.
Black Tortoise always means deception.
Flying Serpent is always false.

These are all too simplistic.

The correct method is:

1. First read what the question is;
2. Then select the Useful Line;
3. Then read the Useful Line’s strength and weakness;
4. Then read the Self-Other relationship;
5. Then read moving lines and changed lines;
6. Finally use the Six Spirits to assist in judging how the matter appears.

For example, Officer/Ghost with White Tiger, when asking about a high-pressure execution role, may represent a position with heavy pressure but a sense of authority.

If asking about illness, it should be viewed cautiously as discomfort or risk imagery.

If asking about an ordinary relationship, it may show relational pressure or a forceful other party.

The same Six Spirit means different things in different questions.

Question:

Will the client pay this week?

The key lines are the Wealth line, Other line, and Self line.

If the Wealth line carries Black Tortoise and is also held by combination, it may show hidden conditions around the money, or an opaque payment process.

If the Parent line carries Vermilion Bird and moves, documents, invoices, or message communication may be needed to push payment forward.

If a Sibling line moves and controls Wealth, it may show competition, deduction, profit-sharing, or expense offset.

Practical suggestion:

The payment is not completely without chance, but payment conditions may not be transparent enough and may still require additional documents or communication process. Confirm invoice, approval, payment date, and whether deduction conditions exist.

Question:

Should I actively contact the other person?

If the Other line carries Flying Serpent, it may show that the other person’s state is complex, or that the querent has many doubts about the other person.

If the Parent line carries Vermilion Bird and moves, the message and communication theme is obvious.

If the Self line generates the Other line, it shows that oneself is more active and more willing to give.

If the Other line does not generate Self, the other person’s response may not meet one’s expectation.

Practical suggestion:

Light communication is possible, but do not carry excessive expectations or push for an answer. Uncertainty is strong in the current relationship. Use a simple and natural way to observe the other person’s response first.

Question:

Is this position suitable for me?

Officer/Ghost is the Useful Line for the position.

If Officer/Ghost carries Azure Dragon and generates Self, the position may be respectable and helpful to oneself.

If Officer/Ghost carries White Tiger and controls Self, the position may involve heavy pressure and high requirements.

If the Parent line is strong, the contract, system, and platform are relatively clear.

If Children/Descendants is strong and moves to control Officer/Ghost, one may be unwilling to be constrained by the position, or role stability may be affected.

Practical suggestion:

This position has some opportunity, but the pressure is not small. Before accepting it, clarify responsibility boundaries, evaluation standards, and workload. If you want a stable platform, it may have value; if you want freedom to create, evaluate carefully.

This chapter should be remembered through the following key points:

1. The Six Relatives are Liu Yao’s human-and-matter classification system.
2. The Parent line represents documents, messages, contracts, certificates, houses, protection, and elders.
3. The Sibling line represents peers, friends, competition, partnership, and division of wealth.
4. The Children/Descendants line represents children, products, output, joy, user experience, and relief of worry.
5. The Wife/Wealth line represents money, clients, resources, market, and practical benefit.
6. The Officer/Ghost line represents position, pressure, rules, illness, lawsuits, and constraint.
7. The Six Relatives cannot be understood only by literal names; they must be read according to the question.
8. The Six Spirits include Azure Dragon, Vermilion Bird, Hooked Chen, Flying Serpent, White Tiger, and Black Tortoise.
9. Azure Dragon leans toward joy and smoothness; Vermilion Bird toward messages and speech; Hooked Chen toward delay and involvement; Flying Serpent toward doubt and complexity; White Tiger toward pressure and conflict; Black Tortoise toward hidden and opaque matters.
10. The Six Spirits are auxiliary, not the core basis of judgment.
11. Combining Six Relatives and Six Spirits can make judgment more concrete.
12. Liu Yao judgment must primarily rely on Useful Line, Self and Other, strength and weakness, movement and transformation, generation, control, clash, and combination.

Does the Parent line only represent parents?

No.

The Parent line also commonly represents documents, contracts, messages, certificates, houses, study materials, protection, and similar matters.

Is the Sibling line always bad?

No.

When asking about money, the Sibling line may represent competition and division of wealth.

But when asking about friends, teams, or cooperation, the Sibling line may also represent support from companions.

Is the Children/Descendants line always good?

No.

When asking about pressure or illness, the Children/Descendants line has imagery of relief.

But when asking about position, Children/Descendants controlling Officer/Ghost may be unfavorable to role stability.

Does Officer/Ghost always represent bad things?

No.

When asking about work, Officer/Ghost can represent position and opportunity.

When asking about pressure, it represents burden.

When asking about health, it may serve as an illness-image reference.

Its meaning depends on the question.

Is Azure Dragon always auspicious?

Not necessarily.

Azure Dragon is a better atmosphere, but if the line it sits on is empty, controlled, or weak, the matter may still fail to land.

Does Black Tortoise always mean deception?

Not necessarily.

Black Tortoise represents hidden, opaque, and behind-the-scenes information, and may also represent privacy, secrets, and fluidity.

Whether deception exists must be judged with the Useful Line, Other line, and whole hexagram.

1. Why can the Six Relatives not be understood only by their literal names?
2. What real-world themes does the Parent line usually represent?
3. How is the Sibling line different in money questions and partnership questions?
4. Why does the Children/Descendants line have imagery of relieving worry?
5. What does the Wife/Wealth line represent in business questions?
6. Why can Officer/Ghost represent both position and pressure?
7. How do generating and controlling relationships among the Six Relatives help judgment?
8. What are the Six Spirits?
9. What are the basic images of Azure Dragon, Vermilion Bird, Hooked Chen, Flying Serpent, White Tiger, and Black Tortoise?
10. Why can the Six Spirits not independently decide good or bad?
11. What might Wealth line with Black Tortoise suggest?
12. What different meanings might Officer/Ghost with White Tiger have in different questions?
13. Why is Parent line with Vermilion Bird often related to messages and documents?
14. How can Six Relatives and Six Spirits be combined to analyze real-world questions?

Next chapter:

The next chapter will explain the most important dynamic parts of Liu Yao judgment:

• What moving lines and still lines are;
• Why moving lines represent change;
• What strength and weakness mean;
• How Month Branch and Day Branch affect the strength of lines;
• How emptiness, tomb, clash, and combination affect whether a matter can land;
• What timing means;
• Why Liu Yao does not only ask “can it succeed,” but also “when will there be change.”

After completing the next chapter, readers will understand:

The core of Liu Yao judgment is not only finding the Useful Line, but also seeing whether the Useful Line has strength, whether it moves, whether it is activated by time, and when the matter may change.