Zi Wei Dou Shu
Zi Wei Dou Shu centers on the Life Palace, distributes stars across twelve palaces, and uses Si Hua for dynamics.
Suggested reading path
- Methods: Charting → Si Hua method → Reading order
- Concepts: Twelve Palaces · Life Palace · Major Stars · Si Hua
- Tables: Si Hua Table
- Term index
The system directory below lists all palace, major-star, and method pages.
In this system
Concepts
- Annual Luck (Zi Wei)Year-by-year stem–branch triggers for Si Hua and palace timing.
- Decade Luck (Da Xian)Roughly ten-year palace migration for luck cycles.
- Life PalaceThe chart’s core palace; often the first lens for temperament and life tone.
- Major StarsFourteen major stars form the chart’s main temperament and event tendencies.
- Si Hua (Four Transformations)Lu, Quan, Ke, and Ji — the key dynamic mechanism in Zi Wei reading.
- Twelve PalacesThe twelve life-domain palaces — Zi Wei’s basic chart partitions.
Terms
- Career PalaceCareer, duty, social role, and achievement path
- Children PalaceAffinity with children, juniors, creation, and extension of one’s work
- Fortune PalaceSpiritual satisfaction, interest anchors, and inner enjoyment
- Friends PalaceSubordinates, friends, and mobilizable interpersonal resources
- Health PalaceBody–mind load, pressure outlets, and places needing care
- Ju MenSpeech star; often linked to expression, debate, and hidden matters.
- Lian ZhenSecondary peach-blossom and secondary “prison” coloring; often linked to passion, disputes, and change.
- Life PalaceSelf tendency, life axis, and overall chart tone
- Parents PalaceElder relationships, background of origin, and upstream resources
- Po JunBreak-and-renew; often linked to dismantling old setups and opening new paths.
- Property PalaceReal estate, residence, family foundation, and asset settling
- Qi ShaSharp pioneering; often linked to action, pressure, and unusual encounters.
- Siblings PalacePeers, collaboration, lateral relationships, and shared loyalty over resources
- Spouse PalacePartnership, intimacy patterns, and cooperative bonds
- Tai YangBright and outward; often linked to fame, giving, and male-elder imagery.
- Tai YinSoft inward light; often linked to subtlety, finances, and feminine imagery.
- Tan LangDesire and talent; often linked to ambition, networking, and hobbies.
- Tian FuTreasury star; often linked to steady holding, resources, and management.
- Tian JiClever and changeable; often linked to strategy, thinking, and shifts.
- Tian LiangShade/protection star; often linked to refined nobility, resolution, and loftiness.
- Tian TongBlessing temperament; often linked to ease, harmony, and emotional needs.
- Tian XiangSeal-star temperament; often linked to assistance, protocol, and image.
- Travel PalaceGoing out, relocation, environment change, and affinity elsewhere
- Wealth PalaceMoney attitudes, cash flow, and resource management
- Wu QuHard-metal star; often linked to wealth, decision, and execution.
- Zi WeiEmperor-seat star; often linked to self-respect, leadership drive, and core status.
Tables
- Si Hua Table (Year Stem)Common mapping of the ten Heavenly Stems to stars transformed as Lu, Quan, Ke, and Ji.
Methods
- Common Zi Wei Chart FieldsMeaning, source step, and reading use of each common Zi Wei chart output field.
- Si Hua Method and Flying StarsDerive Lu, Quan, Ke, and Ji from the year stem (and finer time layers), mark flying destinations, and explain natal vs Decade/annual Si Hua layers.
- Zi Wei Charting MethodSteps to place Life and Body, lay out twelve palaces, and seat fourteen major stars plus common auxiliaries from lunar birth month, day, and hour.
- Zi Wei Reading OrderRecommended reading order from Life Palace and triangle/square to Si Hua, Decade Luck, and annual luck.
Indexes
- Auxiliary Stars IndexEntries for Zuo Fu / You Bi, Chang / Qu, Kui / Yue, and other auxiliaries will follow; this page is a placeholder index.
- Zi Wei Term IndexEntry points for twelve palaces, fourteen major stars, and Si Hua.