Tool 13 · Chinese system · 梅花易數
Lucky house number check
by the Chinese system
Cast a hexagram from the digits of a house number, casting by numbers as taught in 梅花易數 and see how the self trigram relates to the event trigram, with 5 auspicious levels. No birth date is needed.
Simple reading: the hexagram is cast from the digits of the house number. The text 梅花易數 says nothing about house numbers. Using it on a house number is a modern adaptation.
House number cast
Hexagram
What this hexagram is about
Commentary on the hexagram in 《彖傳》
Auspicious level of 5
The text rates this relation as
Upper and lower trigrams
Upper trigram · 體 the self用 the event
Element:
Lower trigram · 體 the self用 the event
Element:
Image and quality of each trigram as given in 《說卦傳》
Moving line line from the bottom, in the upper trigramin the lower trigram
The trigram with the moving line is the event and the other is the self, as the text says: 「有動爻者為用」
卦辭 of this hexagram
Original wording of the 《周易》 It does not speak of house numbers.
Image of the hexagram 《象傳》
Text of line (the moving line)
This way of casting reads the result from the moving line, so the text of this line is a key part of the hexagram.
互卦 and 變卦
互卦 · middle outcome
Hexagram
- Upper trigram
- Lower trigram
變卦 · closing outcome
Hexagram
- Changed trigram
The text treats the middle and closing hexagrams as secondary to the main one. This page shows how they relate to the self but leaves them out of the auspicious level.
About the translations
English translation by the lucky-number team, following the commentary of 朱熹《周易本義》
《序卦傳》《雜卦傳》《象傳》《說卦傳》 are commentaries in the 十翼 set, written later than the main text.
《彖傳》 is also part of the 十翼 set, written later than the main text. The summary under “What this hexagram is about” is written by the lucky-number team from 卦辭 《彖傳》 《象傳》
Example
Casting example for 123/4
House number cast 123/4
Hexagram 56 旅
Feng (豐) means many occurrences; few kin is Lu (旅).
「豐多故也，親寡旅也。」 《雜卦傳》
What this hexagram is about
Lu (旅) is about traveling; the Za Gua (《雜卦》) says few close kin is Lu. The lower trigram 艮 (mountain) lies beneath the upper trigram 離 (fire), an image of fire on a mountain, and the Tuan Zhuan (《彖傳》) explains that the yielding (yin line) gains the middle on the outside and accords with the firm, stopping and clinging to brightness. The judgment says slight success, and for the journey steadfast correctness is auspicious. The Xiang Zhuan (《象傳》) has the noble person be careful in applying punishments.
Commentary on the hexagram in 《彖傳》
旅，小亨，柔得中乎外，而順乎剛，止而麗乎明，是以小亨，旅貞吉也。旅之時義大矣哉！
Lu (旅): slight success. The yielding gains the middle on the outside and accords with the firm; stopping and clinging to brightness, hence slight success. For the journey, steadfast correctness is auspicious. The meaning of the time of Lu is great indeed!
Auspicious level 5 of 5
用生體 Fire gives rise to the self's Earth
The text rates this relation as 「有進益之喜」 meaning the joy of gain
Upper and lower trigrams
Upper trigram · 體 the self用 the event
離 Lí
火 · 麗 Fire · clinging
Element: Fire
Lower trigram · 體 the self用 the event
艮 Gèn
山 · 止 Mountain · stopping
Element: Earth
Image and quality of each trigram as given in 《說卦傳》
Moving line line 4 from the bottom, in the upper trigramin the lower trigram
The trigram with the moving line is the event and the other is the self, as the text says: 「有動爻者為用」
卦辭 of this hexagram
小亨，旅貞吉。
Slight success. For the journey, steadfast correctness is auspicious.
Original wording of the 《周易》 It does not speak of house numbers.
Image of the hexagram 《象傳》
山上有火，旅；君子以明慎用刑，而不留獄。
On the mountain there is fire: Lu (旅). The noble person, taking this as a model, is clear and careful in applying punishments and does not leave lawsuits pending.
Text of line 4 (the moving line)
九四 「旅于處，得其資斧，我心不快。」
On the journey resting in a place; obtaining goods and an axe; our heart is not at ease.
This way of casting reads the result from the moving line, so the text of this line is a key part of the hexagram.
互卦 and 變卦
互卦 · middle outcome
Hexagram 28 大過
Da Guo (大過) is toppling; Gou (姤) is meeting, the yielding meeting the firm.
- Upper trigram 兌 the self's Earth gives rise to Metal
- Lower trigram 巽 Wood overcomes the self's Earth
變卦 · closing outcome
Hexagram 52 艮
Gen (艮) means stopping.
- Changed trigram 艮 Earth, the same element as the self
The text treats the middle and closing hexagrams as secondary to the main one. This page shows how they relate to the self but leaves them out of the auspicious level.
About the translations
English translation by the lucky-number team, following the commentary of 朱熹《周易本義》
《序卦傳》《雜卦傳》《象傳》《說卦傳》 are commentaries in the 十翼 set, written later than the main text.
《彖傳》 is also part of the 十翼 set, written later than the main text. The summary under “What this hexagram is about” is written by the lucky-number team from 卦辭 《彖傳》 《象傳》
Where this comes from in Chinese texts
- 《梅花易數》卷一「乾，一；兌，二；離，三；震，四；巽，五；坎，六；艮，七；坤，八。」·「乾、兌，金；坤、艮，土；震、巽，木；坎，水；離，火」The text numbers the eight trigrams 1 to 8 and gives the element of each.
- 《梅花易數》「凡上下二卦無動爻者為體，有動爻者為用」The trigram without the moving line is the self; the trigram with it is the event.
- 《梅花易數》卷二 體用總訣「用生體，有進益之喜」·「體用比和，則百事順遂」·「體克用，諸事吉」·「體生用，有耗失之患」·「用克體，諸事凶」The text gives a verdict in words for each of the five relations, not a number. This site ranks the five verdicts as auspicious levels 5 to 1.
- 《梅花易數》卷二 占卜總決「應用生及比和，則吉；體生用及克體，則不吉」This section of the same text does not list the self overcoming the event among the auspicious relations, so the text is not consistent on this point.
- 《梅花易數》卷三「用為占之即應，互為中間之應，變為事占之終應」The hexagram from the four middle lines is the middle outcome, and the hexagram with the moving line flipped is the closing outcome.
- 《周易》 卦辭 · 爻辭The names, judgments and six line texts of all 64 hexagrams are quoted from the original, with translations by the lucky-number team following the commentary of 朱熹《周易本義》
- 十翼《序卦傳》·《雜卦傳》·《象傳》·《說卦傳》The meaning of each hexagram name, the image of each hexagram and the images of the trigrams are quoted from this set of commentaries, written later than the main text.
The text says nothing about house numbers. This page takes the digits of the house number in order and splits them into an upper and a lower part. With an odd number of digits, the upper part has one digit fewer. It is a modern adaptation, close to the section that casts from written characters split into an upper and a lower half. 「凡見字數如停勻，即平分一半為上卦，一半為下卦。如字數不勻，即少一字為上卦，取天輕清之義，以多一字為下卦，取地重濁之義。」
Examples in the text also add the hour of casting. This page adds no time, so the same number gives the same result every day, and the seasonal strength of the trigrams is not used.
The text itself says to use it flexibly, not rigidly: 「要在圓機，不可執」
Simple reading: the auspicious level is the site's ranking of the wording in the text. It is a symbolic reading, not a promise of luck.
About this tool
What casting a hexagram from a house number means
梅花易數 is a Chinese text that teaches casting a hexagram from numbers. The first number gives the upper trigram and the second gives the lower trigram. The two stacked make one of 64 hexagrams, and the total tells which of the six lines is the moving line.
This page borrows those steps for the digits of a house number and checks whether the elements of the self and event trigrams give rise to each other, overcome each other or are the same. The Chinese result here is always kept apart from the Thai result on the lucky house number page.
A Thai house number often has a main number and a sub-number joined by a slash. This page uses the digits of both parts in the order written, and a letter after the number is not used. The lucky house number page instead reads the house number by Thai numerology.
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Questions about the Chinese house number system
How is this different from the lucky house number page?
The lucky house number page reads the house number by Thai numerology. This page follows the casting steps of a Chinese text. The two systems are always shown apart and never merged into one score.
Which digits are used?
The digits of the house number in order. For example, house number 123 slash 4 uses 1234. The slash, dashes and any letter after the number are not used. A house number with fewer than 2 digits cannot be cast.
Do you keep the house number I enter?
No. The house number is worked out in your browser. It is not sent to this site, not put in the link and not kept in the tab.