Da Liu Ren class gods (lei shen) by question

What are Da Liu Ren class gods?

A Da Liu Ren chart holds twelve heaven-plate branches, twelve generals, four lessons and three transmissions, and each of them can be read. Once you ask about one matter, you first find the sign that stands for it. That sign is the class god, lei shen in Chinese.

Class gods are picked out of the chart you already have; they add no new layer. Tradition has two ways of picking them, usually used together, plus the Post horse for movement. If the chart itself is new to you, start with what is Da Liu Ren.

Class god

Also called: lei shen, 类神

The branch or general that stands for the matter asked about. It shows where the matter sits on the chart and what state it is in.

Six relations

Also called: liu qin, 六亲

Relations to the day stem by element: what controls it is Officer (官鬼), what it controls is Wealth (妻财), what produces it is Parent (父母).

General as class god

A general picked for its traditional image, such as the Azure Dragon for money or the White Tiger for illness, read through the heaven branch it rides.

Post horse

Also called: yi ma, 驿马

A branch found from the day branch. It stands for movement and is read for travel and moving house.

Which class god for money, work or marriage?

The complete reading sorts questions into six kinds and takes a set of class gods for each. The first three columns are what the free calculator uses; the last is what other books often add.

Relationships list both Wealth and Officer because the free calculator does not know whether the person asking is a man or a woman, so it takes both. Travel has no agreed six-relations rule, so the free calculator reads only the horse and the White Tiger. Offspring and Sibling are never class gods in the tool.

A lost item is not one of the six. Tradition reads the Dark Warrior (玄武), the general of loss, theft and hidden dealings, and then the class god of the thing itself: Wealth for lost money. The complete reading folds a lost-item question into the closest of the six kinds and says which one it read.

How do you find the six relations from the day stem?

A six-relations class god depends on the element of a branch, measured against the element of the day stem. The day stem is the stem under the first lesson.

1. Name the day stem element

   Jia and Yi are Wood, Bing and Ding Fire, Wu and Ji Earth, Geng and Xin Metal, Ren and Gui Water.

2. Find Officer

   The element that controls the day stem; its branches are Officer.

3. Find Wealth

   The element the day stem controls; its branches are Wealth.

4. Find Parent

   The element that produces the day stem; its branches are Parent.

So one relation usually covers two to four branches. The free calculator works out all of them. When you read, start with the one that sits in the three transmissions.

Where do you find the class god on the chart?

A six-relations class god is a branch: find it on the heaven plate and note which earth palace it sits over and which general it rides. A general works the other way round: find the general first, and the heaven branch it rides is where that class god stands.

The horse comes from the day branch: 寅 on 申, 子 and 辰 days, 申 on 寅, 午 and 戌 days, 亥 on 巳, 酉 and 丑 days, 巳 on 亥, 卯 and 未 days. Some books count it from the year branch; the free calculator uses the day branch. Then check, in this order:

1. Is it in the three transmissions? How they are taken is in three transmissions.
2. Is it empty, one of the two branches the ten-day group of the day does not reach?
3. Which palace does it sit over, and which general does it ride? The images are in twelve heavenly generals.

One chart, six questions: where are the class gods?

The Da Liu Ren guides on this site share one moment: 21 October 2026, 10:30 Tokyo time. The free result gives a 戊辰 day, 巳 hour, month general 辰 and three transmissions 卯, 寅, 丑. The day falls in the 甲子 ten-day group, so 戌 and 亥 are empty.

The day stem 戊 is Earth, so Officer is 寅 and 卯, Wealth 子 and 亥, Parent 巳 and 午.

Read in the traditional way: for work, the class gods run from the first transmission to the last, so the matter is moving. For money, Wealth and the Azure Dragon are outside the transmissions and 亥 is empty, so the money side has not taken shape. For travel, the horse is the middle transmission.

In, empty or absent: how do you read a class god?

Once the class god is found, tradition reads its state. The first three are also the rules the complete reading uses, sourced to the 六壬通论 line that emptiness is hollow and waits for its time.

• In the three transmissions: the matter is already moving and is the main line of this chart. It reads most directly when the class god is the first transmission.
• Empty: the matter is hollow, a name without substance when it falls on Wealth or Officer, and it waits until the empty branch is filled. When that is, see Da Liu Ren timing.
• Outside the transmissions and empty: the matter has not taken shape yet.
• Outside the transmissions but not empty: the matter exists but is not what drives this chart; read the palace it sits over and the general it rides.
• Several branches for one relation: read the one in the transmissions first.

Tradition also weighs a class god's seasonal strength, its relation to the day stem and the asker's birth-year branch. The charts on this site do not compute seasonal strength or the birth year.

Why do books give different class gods?

Ask the same question of two books or two AI chats and you often get two sets of class gods. Usually nobody is wrong; they start from different methods. Some lead with the generals, some with the six relations, some split by whether a man or a woman is asking.

Find the class god on your own chart

Pick one question, cast a chart with the free Da Liu Ren calculator, name the day stem, then use the tables above. The whole method is in the Da Liu Ren guide, and how to read a Da Liu Ren chart goes through a chart layer by layer. The chart is free; AI questions have separate limits.