Patrick Sia · Qimen Consultation · 奇门咨询
Discover Your Ideal Retirement Lifestyle Retirement Lifestyle Explorer
Answer seven quick questions and explore three lifestyle ideas, with optional Qimen character insights.
A lifestyle exploration aid for reflection — not a forecast, a financial calculator or a validated personality assessment.
About 2–3 minutes. No sign-up. Qimen is optional.
- 1Retirement vision
- 2Interests & activities
- 3Lifestyle preferences
- 4Motivation & constraints
- 5Qimen character (optional)
- 6Your three lifestyles
Seven quick questions
Four short sections. There are no right answers.
Your Qimen Character
You can skip this. Your three lifestyles do not depend on it. Enter your birth details below, then press Show my Qimen components (or Show my Qimen chart).
Find your palace and its components yourself: How to find my Qimen birth palace
Your Qimen components appear here once you enter your birth details above and press Show my Qimen components.
Character 2 · your second set of character
You carry two sets of character when your chart is Fanyin (at any age), or when you are between about age 30 and 40. Character 1 (above) and Character 2 (here) are filled in from your birth details. In a Fanyin chart, if one palace is empty (空), it counts at half weight and the other palace carries more weight.
Qimen here is a separate, traditional perspective. It is interpreted on its own and never changes the three lifestyles chosen from your answers. Learn the symbols: Components in each Palace · Still unsure? Consult Patrick Sia
Your next steps Plan, print and explore
Explore all eight lifestyles Browse beyond your three
Optional. By default your answers stay only in this browser tab and disappear when you close it. If you tick this, your answers and Qimen selections are saved in this browser’s local storage. Nothing is sent to Patrick Sia, to analytics or anyone else, and no account is needed. Untick it, or use Reset, to delete the saved copy.
How the matching works
This is a simple, open set of rules — a lifestyle exploration aid, not a psychometric measurement. It does not give match percentages.
Fulfilment (Q1) and purpose (Q6) add 3 points to the matching lifestyle, each interest (Q3) adds 2, and learning (Q4) and social life (Q5) add 1. Some answers also give a smaller point to one related lifestyle, but no single answer can add more than its limit. Your concern (Q2) and limits (Q7) are not scored — they only change the advice and which activities are suggested, so no lifestyle is ever ruled out because of budget or mobility.
The three highest are shown. Ties are broken by your interests (Q3), then fulfilment (Q1), then the catalogue order. At least one of the three always reflects an interest you chose. The third is labelled an Alternative to explore when it is tied, when you chose only one interest, or when it is well behind the top lifestyle.
The optional Qimen reflection uses the birth palace for your current life stage, worked out from your birth details. It is interpreted separately and never changes your three lifestyles. Its retirement themes are illustrative associations written for this page from Patrick’s character notes — not classical rules.
Want the whole chart read?
Patrick reads all nine palaces, the stems and the timing behind your character.
This tool is for personal exploration. Qimen character interpretations are traditional perspectives, not scientifically validated personality tests. It does not provide medical or financial advice.