Si Hua Method and Flying Stars
Purpose
After the star chart is fixed, use stems and branches to derive Hua Lu, Hua Quan, Hua Ke, Hua Ji, mark them on concrete stars and palaces, and form a dynamic information layer. Concept: Si Hua. Stem mapping: Si Hua Table.
Natal Si Hua (birth-year stem)
- Take the birth-year Heavenly Stem (note whether year boundary uses Lichun; keep consistency with BaZi year-pillar declaration or state the difference).
- Look up which four stars transform as Lu, Quan, Ke, and Ji.
- Find those stars’ current palaces on the chart and record “star X in palace Y transforms as Z.”
Example: year stem Jia → Lian Zhen Hua Lu, Po Jun Hua Quan, Wu Qu Hua Ke, Tai Yang Hua Ji (see the table).
Decade / annual Si Hua
- Decade Luck Si Hua: derive from the stem tied to the Decade Luck branch (or the stem the Decade chart uses); read the ten-year theme. Palace migration: Decade Luck.
- Annual Si Hua: derive from the annual stem for that year’s triggers. See Annual Luck.
- When layers coincide or clash in a palace, stack “natal structure → Decade Luck → annual,” rather than reading only one layer.
Flying-star reading points
- Hua Lu: gain, resources, where preference leans (still weigh the palace).
- Hua Quan: control, competition, rising force.
- Hua Ke: reputation, documents, resolution and evaluation.
- Hua Ji: entanglement, drain, topics that must be handled.
Never isolate a Ji star as “disaster”; check whether Ke meets/aspects it, whether it lands in a currently commanding palace, and whether it conflicts with useful-god palaces.
Self-transformation and stacked transformation
When a star in a palace receives both natal and luck-cycle Si Hua, or Lu and Ji share a palace, information density is high: list each layer’s source separately, then synthesize.
Output
At minimum include: natal Si Hua table (star, palace, transform); current Decade Luck Si Hua; current annual Si Hua.