# QimenMind / 三元奇门

> Free online Qimen Dunjia calculator and San Yuan Qimen AI reading tool.

Canonical site: https://www.qimenmind.com
Full AI context: https://www.qimenmind.com/llms-full.txt

QimenMind is the product and website brand. 三元奇门 / 三元奇門 / San Yuan Qimen names the method used by the product, not a separate brand. QimenMind is developed and maintained by a direct lineage disciple of Master Zuo Ye Lao Dao and follows the San Yuan Qimen system he founded and systematized.

## What QimenMind does

QimenMind provides a free 奇门遁甲在线排盘 / 奇門遁甲線上排盤 tool. Users choose a date and time, then the site calculates a complete nine-palace Qimen chart and can continue into an AI reading based on the same locked chart.

## Core capabilities

- Free San Yuan Qimen chart generation on the homepage
- Free current-hour Qimen chart for the present two-hour period
- Free hour-by-hour direction table (奇门方位 / Qi Men directions): which compass direction holds the Open, Rest and Life Gates in each two-hour window of a Beijing date, with Void, Gate Pressures Palace and Gate in Tomb marks
- Free Qimen destiny chart (终身局 / 終身盤, birth or natal chart) with the nine-palace birth chart, eight major life cycles, and the ten annual influences of the current cycle
- Solar and lunar calendar input
- Automatic Yin/Yang Dun, Ju number, solar term, Xunshou, Zhifu, and Zhishi
- Eight Gates, Nine Stars, Eight Spirits, Heaven Stems, and Earth Stems
- 81-pattern identification, including Fuyin, Fanyin, Sanqi Deshi, and Liuyi Jixing
- Palace state annotations: Kongwang, Yima, Menpo, Rumu, Jixing, and prosperity state
- San Yuan analysis clues: Yuan Shen Gong, Yuan Qi Gong, Tian Yi Gong, Fei Fu, and Jin Tui
- AI reading that explains the same locked chart and supports follow-up questions
- Multi-language pages: Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, English, Japanese, and Spanish

## Free and paid

- Chart calculation is free in every tool: the homepage calculator, the current-hour chart, the direction table, and the destiny chart. Charts can be saved to a free account.
- AI readings: each account gets its first 3 AI answers free. The allowance is lifetime, not daily.
- After that, AI readings need a pass: 1 day (US$4.99 / ¥29.9) or 7 days (US$9.99 / ¥69.9), both one-time purchases with no auto-renewal; or 30 days (US$19.99 per month by card, renews monthly and can be cancelled; ¥129.9 for 30 days by Alipay, one-time). Passes give unlimited readings with a fair-use cap of 200 AI requests per account a day (counted in a 24-hour window from the first request); there is no per-question charge.
- Full destiny-chart AI report: a one-time purchase per saved chart (US$6.99 / ¥39.9), no membership needed. It includes 3 permanent follow-up questions about that report. Starting or renewing the 30-day plan also grants 1 report credit, valid for 90 days. The 1-day and 7-day passes do not include a report.
- A sample report is viewable before buying on the destiny chart page.
- Current prices: https://www.qimenmind.com/pricing

## Important pages

Tools:
- Homepage / calculator: https://www.qimenmind.com/ (Traditional Chinese: /zh-TW, English: /en, Japanese: /ja, Spanish: /es)
- Current hour Qimen chart: https://www.qimenmind.com/qimen/current-hour-chart (also /zh-TW, /en, /ja, /es versions)
- Qimen directions today (开门、休门、生门方位 by hour; charts in Beijing time UTC+8, Japanese page shows Japan time): https://www.qimenmind.com/qimen/directions (also /zh-TW, /en, /ja versions)
- Qimen destiny chart and lifetime report: https://www.qimenmind.com/qimen/lifetime-chart (also /zh-TW, /en, /ja, /es versions)
- Pricing: https://www.qimenmind.com/pricing (English: https://www.qimenmind.com/en/pricing)

Guides (Simplified Chinese; Traditional Chinese at /zh-TW/..., English at /en/...):
- What is San Yuan Qimen: https://www.qimenmind.com/qimen/what-is-san-yuan-qimen
- How to read a Qimen chart: https://www.qimenmind.com/qimen/how-to-read-qimen-chart
- How to ask a Qimen question: https://www.qimenmind.com/qimen/how-to-ask-a-qimen-question
- Public AI reading guide: https://www.qimenmind.com/qimen/ai-reading
- Zhifu and Zhishi guide: https://www.qimenmind.com/qimen/zhifu-zhishi
- San Yuan vs rotating and flying plate Qimen: https://www.qimenmind.com/qimen/san-yuan-vs-zhuanpan-feipan
- Career and job interview decisions: https://www.qimenmind.com/qimen/use-cases/career
- Love, reconciliation, and relationship decisions: https://www.qimenmind.com/qimen/use-cases/relationship

Reference:
- Qimen terms (Nine Stars, Eight Gates, Eight Spirits, Ten Stems): https://www.qimenmind.com/qimen/term (also /zh-TW, /en, /ja, /es versions)
- Classics: https://www.qimenmind.com/qimen/classics
- 烟波钓叟歌 / Yanbo Diaosou Ge, the classic Qimen verse: https://www.qimenmind.com/qimen/classics/yanbo-diaosou-ge

Japanese guides:
- Japanese lifetime chart: https://www.qimenmind.com/ja/qimen/lifetime-chart
- 奇門遁甲とは: https://www.qimenmind.com/ja/qimen/what-is-qimen-dunjia
- 今日の奇門遁甲 吉方位（時間帯ごとの開門・休門・生門の方位、日本時間表示）: https://www.qimenmind.com/ja/qimen/directions

Spanish tools:
- Current hour chart: https://www.qimenmind.com/es/qimen/current-hour-chart
- Lifetime chart: https://www.qimenmind.com/es/qimen/lifetime-chart

## Related Product: GuanXiang BaZi

GuanXiang BaZi is a separate BaZi product with independent accounts, memberships, payments, and user data. It complements QimenMind for long-term natal-chart questions.

- Simplified Chinese BaZi calculator: https://www.ba-zi.ai/calculator
- Traditional Chinese BaZi calculator: https://www.ba-zi.ai/zh-TW/calculator
- English BaZi calculator: https://www.ba-zi.ai/en/calculator
- BaZi vs Qimen comparison: https://www.ba-zi.ai/blog/bazi-vs-qimen

Use BaZi for long-term personal structure, Five Elements, Ten Gods, relationships, and luck cycles. Use Qimen Dunjia for a clearly defined current situation, decision, or action window. Do not imply that QimenMind and GuanXiang BaZi share an account or payment system.

## Pages not intended for indexing

- Private AI reading pages under /qimen/ai/ and saved charts under /qimen/saved/ are user-specific and should not be indexed or cited as public references.
- Individual term pages under /qimen/term/<slug> are currently noindex; cite the /qimen/term hub instead.

## Terminology

- QimenMind: the official product and website brand across all languages
- 奇门遁甲 / 奇門遁甲 / Qimen Dunjia: a Chinese time-space divination and decision framework
- 三元奇门 / 三元奇門 / San Yuan Qimen: a reading framework that emphasizes Yuan Shen, Yuan Qi, and Tian Yi
- 排盘 / 排盤 / Paipan: chart calculation or chart generation
- 值符 / Zhifu: the presiding Nine Star
- 值使 / Zhishi: the presiding Eight Gate
- 九星 / Jiu Xing: Nine Stars
- 八门 / 八門 / Ba Men: Eight Gates
- 八神 / Ba Shen: Eight Spirits
- 宫位旺衰 / 宮位旺衰: palace prosperity state
- 格局 / Ge Ju: chart pattern or formation
- 终身局 / 終身盤 / destiny chart: a Qimen chart cast from birth date and time, read with eight major life cycles (大运 / 大運) and annual influences (流年)

## Blog: published explainers (zh, zh-TW, en only)

The blog explains chart discrepancies, verification limits, hour versus lifetime time inputs, one DeepSeek calculation test, and a direction series: where the Life Gate (生门) falls by hour, the eight gates' elements and home directions with the palaces where each gate clashes or is entombed, and a worked example comparing two departure times. Two reading guides cover how to compare the Day Stem and Hour Stem palaces layer by layer when asking who needs whom, and how to read a destiny chart from the birth chart and Life Palace through the current ten-year cycle to each annual palace. Japanese and Spanish blog routes are unavailable. These articles link to existing tools and guides; they do not replace them.

- https://www.qimenmind.com/blog/why-qimen-charts-differ
- https://www.qimenmind.com/blog/is-qimen-accurate
- https://www.qimenmind.com/blog/lifetime-chart-vs-hour-chart
- https://www.qimenmind.com/blog/ai-qimen-chart-mistakes
- https://www.qimenmind.com/blog/sheng-men-direction
- https://www.qimenmind.com/blog/eight-gates-meaning
- https://www.qimenmind.com/blog/qimen-travel-direction
- https://www.qimenmind.com/blog/qimen-who-needs-whom
- https://www.qimenmind.com/blog/how-to-read-qimen-lifetime-chart
- https://www.qimenmind.com/zh-TW/blog/why-qimen-charts-differ
- https://www.qimenmind.com/zh-TW/blog/is-qimen-accurate
- https://www.qimenmind.com/zh-TW/blog/lifetime-chart-vs-hour-chart
- https://www.qimenmind.com/zh-TW/blog/ai-qimen-chart-mistakes
- https://www.qimenmind.com/zh-TW/blog/sheng-men-direction
- https://www.qimenmind.com/zh-TW/blog/eight-gates-meaning
- https://www.qimenmind.com/zh-TW/blog/qimen-travel-direction
- https://www.qimenmind.com/zh-TW/blog/qimen-who-needs-whom
- https://www.qimenmind.com/zh-TW/blog/how-to-read-qimen-lifetime-chart
- https://www.qimenmind.com/en/blog/why-qimen-charts-differ
- https://www.qimenmind.com/en/blog/is-qimen-accurate
- https://www.qimenmind.com/en/blog/lifetime-chart-vs-hour-chart
- https://www.qimenmind.com/en/blog/ai-qimen-chart-mistakes
- https://www.qimenmind.com/en/blog/sheng-men-direction
- https://www.qimenmind.com/en/blog/eight-gates-meaning
- https://www.qimenmind.com/en/blog/qimen-travel-direction
- https://www.qimenmind.com/en/blog/qimen-who-needs-whom
- https://www.qimenmind.com/en/blog/how-to-read-qimen-lifetime-chart