Zi Wei Dou Shu guides
Learn to read the twelve life areas before interpreting individual stars. The guides connect the Life Palace, fourteen main stars, Four Transformations and major-period timeline.
Zi Wei Dou Shu
5 articles
The twelve Zi Wei palaces: finding the Life Palace and reading the chart
A beginner’s map of Zi Wei Dou Shu, including the Life and Body palaces, twelve life areas, linked palaces and the site’s time conventions.
The fourteen main stars: understanding a Zi Wei Life Palace
Learn the two main-star groups, six Zi Wei combinations, twelve base layouts, empty palaces and the difference between occupants and chart rulers.
The Four Transformations: Lu, Quan, Ke and Ji
Use the ten-stem transformation table, understand opportunity, authority, recognition and friction, and compare school differences without fatalism.
The Five-Phase Bureau: locating Zi Wei and starting major periods
Understand Water 2 through Fire 6, the Life Palace’s Na Yin, main-star placement and Zi Wei’s nominal-age major-period sequence.
2027 Zi Wei yearly influences: the Ding-year Four Transformations
Locate Tai Yin Lu, Tian Tong Quan, Tian Ji Ke and Ju Men Ji, understand the Wei yearly palace convention and keep the natal chart in view.
The hexagram library
Explore all sixty-four figures and the sixteen published guides. Each guide separates the stable line structure, traditional themes and the limits of interpreting a specific cast.
Open the hexagram library →Put the guides into practice
Compare a natal chart with the yearly view
The natal Zi Wei chart shows the Life Palace, main stars and birth-year Four Transformations. The yearly tool shows Four Transformations and yearly palaces for its displayed year; keep the two time frames separate.