The Nine Palaces grid governs the flow of time and fortune, essential for mapping the harvest of prosperity.
Jiu Gong, the Nine Palaces, takes the Lo Shu's three-by-three square and treats each cell as a chamber through which energies — the "flying stars" — rotate in a fixed sequence over time. The static magic square becomes a moving system, its centre and directions taking on different characters in different periods.
Jiu Gong unlocks the fusion of space and time into one animated grid: a coordinate map that doesn't just locate but cycles, where the same position means different things at different moments. It is a spatial framework with a clock built in — geometry that updates.