Methodology
The Reading Workflow
The end-to-end sequence practitioners follow when approaching a chart.
Jie Pan
The reading workflow is the sequence practitioners commonly follow: cast the chart, judge Day Master strength, identify the structure, choose the useful and favorable elements, then read the luck and annual cycles. Only the first step is purely mechanical; strength thresholds, structure, and useful-god selection are interpretive and differ between schools. Framing the whole as a process makes clear that a reading is an interpretive method rather than a single deterministic output.