Library

Knowledge

What you use most, in this order: ask, read, the point dictionary, every meridian, the Five Elements, and the I Ching.

Look something up

A concrete question, or a guide to read slowly.

AssistantAsk

Ask about a point, a channel or a cycle. The answer comes from the atlas, as an educational reference.

LibraryArticles

Study guides to read slowly.

2 guides

The atlas

The point dictionary and the index of every channel.

AtlasPoint dictionary

The 361 channel points, classical extras and Japanese overlays. Filter by meridian, family or area.

451 entriesAtlasAll meridians

The twelve channels, Ren and Du, extra points and the Namikoshi map, with element and point count.

16 maps

Study frames

The element cycle and the eight trigrams, joined to the channels.

FramesFive Elements

Generating and controlling cycles, and the meridians of each element.

FramesI Ching

Eight Later Heaven trigrams tied to the channel's element, plus the name of any hexagram.

8 trigrams · 64 names

Keep going

Connections, point families and lineages, once you are inside a card.

FramesKnowledge graph

How a point, its channel and its element connect.

AtlasPoint families

Shu, yuan, luo, xi, shu-mu and the rest of the classical classification.

LibraryLineages and techniques

From the Neijing and WHO to Masunaga, Namikoshi and the other layers of the atlas.

FramesTCM and Masunaga

The two maps, side by side, kept distinct.