Classical roots
The Hetu and Luoshu are mentioned in classical Chinese texts. Their familiar diagrams developed through later interpretations, so the names and the images have different histories.
THE CULTURAL SOURCEBOOK
From numerical image
to contemporary archive
Hétú and Luòshū provide a language of relation and position. Ancient Shu contributes a visual imagination. The calculation itself remains a modern, fixed rule system.
NUMERICAL ORDER · HÉTÚ AND LUÒSHŪ
HÉTÚ · LUÒSHŪ
Hétú and Luòshū are complementary numerical diagrams. Hétú organizes ten numbers through pairing, direction and the generating cycle of the Five Phases; Luòshū places nine numbers in a balanced three-by-three field.
Together they offer a cultural language for relation, position, yin and yang. In The Starseed Archive, they shape the visual and spatial narrative; the personal chart itself is produced only by fixed, versioned calculation rules.
PAIRING AND GENERATION · HÉTÚ
HÉTÚ
The received Hétú pairs 1 and 6 in the north with Water, 2 and 7 in the south with Fire, 3 and 8 in the east with Wood, 4 and 9 in the west with Metal, and 5 and 10 at the centre with Earth. White circles represent odd, yang and heaven numbers; dark circles represent even, yin and earth numbers.
Its odd numbers total 25, its even numbers total 30, and all ten total 55. Water → Wood → Fire → Earth → Metal → Water expresses a continuous Five-Phase generating cycle. Here, Hétú is a cultural model of pairing and generation; it does not calculate the personal chart.
POSITION AND BALANCE · LUÒSHŪ
LUÒSHŪ
The received Luòshū forms the 4-9-2 / 3-5-7 / 8-1-6 three-by-three arrangement. Every row, column and main diagonal totals 15. Its positions are summarized as: 9 above, 1 below; 3 left, 7 right; 2 and 4 at the shoulders; 6 and 8 at the feet; 5 at the centre.
Odd yang numbers occupy the four cardinal positions and centre; even yin numbers occupy the four corners. Later traditions correlate the nine positions with the Later Heaven trigrams. The archive’s 147 / 258 / 369 / 0 chart remains a separate system; Luòshū provides spatial language, not the personal calculation.
Inspired by Ancient Shu
Bronze eyes, sun motifs, sacred trees and weathered surfaces inspire the Archive’s visual identity. These influences shape its design, while its calculations follow a separate set of rules.
A modern interpretation
The Starseed Archive brings these cultural inspirations into a contemporary practice of self-exploration through numbers and symbols. It is an interpretive approach, rather than an archaeological reconstruction or a scientific model.