Glossary
These are common terms used in NextMove. You can also ask about them in conversation; learning them in advance is not required.
| Term | Meaning |
|---|---|
| Fangcun cards | NextMove's cultural card deck based on the 64 I Ching hexagrams, used for reflection |
| Your daily Fangcun | The daily single-card format |
| Spread | The number and positions of cards in a reading; current question formats are Find insight, Explore a situation and Make a choice |
| Basic meaning | An explanation of the card itself, not necessarily personalised with your details |
| Deep conversations | Focused ongoing discussions about work, wellbeing, relationships and family |
| Birth chart | A traditional structure calculated from birth information and used as cultural context |
| Bazi / Four Pillars | A traditional system expressing the birth year, month, day and hour through stems and branches |
| True solar time | A time conversion involving birthplace and other factors, which may differ from clock time |
| Experience calibration | Recording real events by year to provide context for a theme |
| Memory | Information summarised from discussion or added manually for later conversations |
| Saved person / archive | A record of another person's relationship and birth details |
| Six-line casting | A traditional method forming a hexagram from six yin or yang lines |
| Original / resulting hexagram | The initial hexagram and the form produced by changing lines |
| Changing line | A line marked as changing in a cast |
| Date selection | A traditional cultural method for comparing dates for a specific activity |
| Quick reply / In-depth reading | After sign-in, Quick costs 2 points per reply and Pro costs 5; Pro requires eligible access |
| Card journal | Saved Fangcun readings with links to their original conversations |
Traditional terminology describes a cultural system of interpretation, not a proven causal relationship or a certain future outcome.
Read more: Fangcun cards · Hexagram readings · Experience calibration