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How a Chart Is Calculated · The 12 Palaces · The 14 Main Stars · How to Read a Chart · What a Calculator Does · True Solar Time · Glossary
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Relocation is read from the Travel Palace, the mirror of your Life Palace. How Zi Wei Dou Shu reads the move question, the stars that travel, and its timing.
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The Spouse Palace maps the pattern of partnership, not a person. How Zi Wei Dou Shu reads love, its stars, and the timing behind the word when.
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A chart does not print a number. Zi Wei Dou Shu reads the Wealth Palace, the money stars and the decades to show how money moves and when for you.
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A job-change question is a timing question, not a personality test. How Zi Wei Dou Shu reads the Career Palace, its stars and its decades to show when to move.
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The Officer Star (廉贞) is the star of the boundary a person keeps, tests or crosses. Where it lands, and why its seat grade tracks the star standing beside it.
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The Blessing Star (天同) is the main star of ease and being looked after. Where it lands, which grades it carries, and why its weakest seats surprise people.
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The Finance Star (武曲) governs resources earned through capability, not luck. Where it lands, and why its best seats are also its most rigid.
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The Sun Star (太阳) is the main star of exposure and giving. Where it lands in Zi Wei Dou Shu, and what each of its twelve seats means.
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The Heavenly Mechanism Star (天机) always sits exactly one step behind the Emperor Star. Here is where it lands, and what it means when it rules each palace.
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The Emperor Star (紫微) is placed first in every Zi Wei Dou Shu chart. Where it lands, how bright that seat is, and how to read the palace it rules.
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Every chart is built by five mechanical steps — lunar conversion, the Life Palace, the Five Element Bureau, placing Zi Wei, and distributing the 14 main stars. Worked through on one example, with the points where different systems legitimately disagree.
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The placement rules behind the chart: how Zi Wei is located from the bureau and the lunar day, how Tian Fu mirrors it, how the two star groups run in opposite directions, and where published tables differ.
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The Life Palace anchors the whole chart — the month count, the hour count, and the directions each one uses. Change this one position and every other palace, the bureau, and every star moves with it.
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What a chart calculator really does — the five jobs, the two stages, where calculation ends and interpretation begins, and why two calculators can return different charts for the same birth data.
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The 12 palaces are the grid of a Zi Wei Dou Shu chart — 12 sectors that divide your entire life into readable domains: self, family, love, money, health, career, and everything in between.
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The 14 Main Stars (主星) are the backbone of every Zi Wei Dou Shu (Purple Star Astrology) chart — 14 archetypes that shape personality, career, wealth, and relati…
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The Four Transformations (四化) are the clockwork of a Zi Wei Dou Shu chart — the mechanism that marks which life domains turn on, decade by decade and year by year. Here is how they work and why 化忌 is not a curse.
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Two people can have the same star in the same palace and live nothing alike. The reason is 三方四正 — the rule that ties every palace to three others, and why an empty palace borrows its opposite.
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Your natal chart never changes. Your life does. The layer that turns a fixed 12-palace map into a timeline is 大限 — the ten-year cycle that gives each palace its turn at running the show.
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Zi Wei Dou Shu (紫微斗数, "Purple Star Astrology") is a 1,000-year-old Chinese astrological system that maps your entire life onto a 12-palace chart. Unlike Western…
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The 30 terms you meet in every chart reading — from 命宫 to 化忌 — in plain English, each with the one idea that makes it click.
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Three corrections — longitude, the equation of time, and legal clock changes — can move a birth hour by up to two hours. One hour boundary is enough to move your Life Palace.
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Compatibility here is not a score — it is a two-chart comparison across the 12 palaces: spouse palace, its opposite, its trine partners, and where the transformations land.
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Two charts can carry the same main star in the same palace and still read as two different lives. The difference is the layer underneath: the auxiliary stars.
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Your Day Master (日主) is the one Heavenly Stem in your BaZi chart that stands for you. Here is what the ten Day Masters mean and how strength is judged.
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The Ten Gods classify everything in your chart relative to your Day Master — the grammar that turns four pillars into a readable story.
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Chart calculation must be deterministic; interpretation should resolve through fixed rule tables. Here is how to audit any AI Zi Wei Dou Shu tool in five minutes.
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The Life Palace anchors your personality, temperament, and the face you show the world — the box that defines who you are and which star archetype your whole life story is built around.
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The Wealth palace is about how money moves through your life — not how rich you are. Wu Qu the money-maker, Tian Fu steady growth, and the wealth stars that signal financial strength.
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The Career palace is about direction and reputation: Zi Wei the executive, Tian Ji the strategist, Lian Zhen the operator — and how it balances against the Spouse palace.
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The Spouse palace is one of the most-read and most-misunderstood boxes — it describes the pattern of partnership, not a specific person: passionate, stable, distant, or dramatic.
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The Children Palace is about children, fertility, and the bond with the young — and, in modern readings, creativity, play, and your inner child.
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The Health Palace maps your constitution, ailment tendencies, and how you carry stress — Tai Yang and the heart, Tai Yin and digestion, Wu Qu and the bones.
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The Siblings Palace governs your brothers and sisters, the friends who became family, and the competition-and-cooperation patterns you grew up with.
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Zi Wei Dou Shu (紫微斗数) and BaZi (八字, Four Pillars of Destiny) are the two most popular systems in Chinese astrology — and they answer different questions about y…
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Zi Wei Dou Shu (紫微斗数, Purple Star Astrology) and Western astrology both promise to reveal who you are — but they work in fundamentally different ways. Western a…
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Every Zi Wei Dou Shu chart has two anchors, not one. The Life Palace tells you who you are; the Body Palace (身宫) tells you where your effort actually goes — and it only ever lands on six of the twelve palaces.
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The Property Palace (田宅宫) keeps everything that grounds you — housing, land, family assets, and the emotional foundation you call home. It maps how you accumulate, protect, and feel about what you own.
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The Happiness Palace (福德宫) describes your inner quality of life: emotional well-being, pleasure, taste, and how content you feel when nothing is being measured. It is the life you live inside your own head.
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The Parents Palace (父母宫) stores your roots — your parents, your upbringing, what you inherited emotionally, and how you relate to authority for the rest of your life, bosses included.
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The Friends Palace (交友宫) describes your social operating system: friends, colleagues, partners, clients, and the networks you build. It shows how you connect — not how many friends you'll have.
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The Travel Palace (迁移宫) describes your life beyond home ground: travel, relocation, foreign places, and the person you become when you step outside your familiar circle. It faces your Life Palace.
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