Ziyan Xia

Interests

The things I keep returning to outside of work — sitting practice, the old systems for reading a life, and a long-running habit of looking at how things are put together.

Zen & Philosophy

Sitting practice, and the reading around it. It is the counterweight to work spent inside dashboards — a different way of paying attention.

Sitting at a low table in a tatami room

Metaphysics & Divination

Five systems, each with its own logic for the same question.

Vedic Astrology — Jyotish

Sidereal charts, divisional charts, Dasha timing

  • Parashari
  • Navamsa
  • Vimshottari Dasha

BaZi — 八字 / 四柱

Four Pillars: stems and branches, elemental balance, luck cycles

  • Ten Gods
  • Five Elements
  • Luck Pillars

Zi Wei Dou Shu — 紫微斗数

Twelve palaces, fourteen major stars, the four transformations

  • Twelve Palaces
  • Four Transformations
  • Major Limits

Feng Shui — 风水

How a space is arranged, and what that arrangement does to the people in it

  • Form School
  • Directional
  • Space Planning

Qi Men Dun Jia — 奇门遁甲

Time-and-direction charts for a specific question

  • Hourly Charts
  • Directional
  • Divination

Styling

Clothes as composition — silhouette, texture, restraint. The same eye I bring to a chart, pointed at something else.

Photography

Mostly light and interiors. Some of it ends up as reference for the generative work.

Visual Design

The generative image and motion work lives on its own page — Design & AIGC.