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Six palaces. One question. Read it plainly.
Xiao Liu Ren is the most compact of the classical Chinese divination methods: you count forward through six palaces from the lunar month, to the day, to the hour — and read where you land. This site does the counting, then explains what it means in ordinary English.
Tools
One live, three in progress- 小六壬Xiao Liu RenCount forwards through six palaces to find where your question lands. The quickest classical method to learn.
- 金钱课Coin OracleSix throws of three coins build one of the sixty-four I Ching hexagrams, with the moving lines marked.
- 黄历AlmanacToday's lunar date, Four Pillars and day officer, with the traditional list of what the day suits and avoids.
- 梅花易数Plum BlossomCast a hexagram from a moment in time, then read it through the body and use lines.
The six palaces
Three favourable · three difficult- 大安Great PeaceEverything stays as it is — and that is the good news.
- 留连LingeringIt is not finished, and it is not moving — it is waiting on something.
- 速喜Swift JoyNews is already on its way, and it is better than you expected.
- 赤口Red MouthWords are the danger here — yours and theirs.
- 小吉Small FortuneModest, real, and helped along by people who like you.
- 空亡Empty VoidThe thing you are asking about is not really there.
A word on what this is
These methods are part of a long Chinese tradition of reading a moment — asking what a particular day and hour are like, and what posture they call for. They are not predictions of a fixed future, and nothing on this site should be used to make medical, legal or financial decisions.
What they are genuinely good for is forcing a question to be asked plainly. The reading that comes back is a mirror with an old grammar: it tells you whether the moment favours movement or stillness, speech or silence, effort or release. That is worth something even if you treat it as nothing more than a structured pause.