The pillars
Glossary
Every term has its source
2027 · Goat
Palaces are the stage, stars the cast, transformations the motion. BaZi reads from the Day Master to Ten Gods and favorable elements.
Vol. 1
Ziwei Doushu
Your birth date and hour lay out twelve palaces, and fourteen major stars fall into them. Palaces are the stage, stars are the cast, and the Four Transformations set them in motion.
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Twelve PalacesTwelve stages of a life
A chart is a four-by-four grid; its outer ring of twelve cells are the palaces. Counting counter-clockwise from the Life Palace, each governs one part of a life.
The chart circles a palace, its opposite and its two trines; hover any palace to switch. Reading one palace always means reading these four.
Further readingSan Fang Si ZhengFourteen Major StarsThe cast in the palaces · with Ziwei at Zi
Ziwei group6 stars · counting back from Ziwei
Back from Ziwei: Tianji; skip one to Taiyang, then Wuqu, Tiantong; skip two, and there Lianzhen sits.
Tianfu group8 stars · counting on from Tianfu
On from Tianfu: Taiyin, Tanlang, then Jumen, Tianxiang, Tianliang, Qisha; skip three for Pojun.
Vol. 2
BaZi
Four pillars of year, month, day and hour: eight characters. The Day Master is you; the other seven become Ten Gods by how they feed or check it, and the balance of elements points to your favorable elements.
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Ten GodsFive relations, each split by polarity
PeersSame as me
OutputI produce
WealthI control
OfficersControls me
SealsProduces me
Vol. 3
Foundations
Where both systems start: know what each one reads, then get the birth time right.
Vol. 4
Timing Cycles
The natal chart maps the moment you were born; luck cycles are time moving across it, from ten-year stretches down to a single year and month.
Da Xian
Ziwei: every ten years another palace becomes the decade Life Palace, with its own transformations.
Major Cycles
BaZi: stems and branches that follow the month pillar, one step every ten years.
Annual Fortune
Each year lays a new stem, branch and set of transformations on top; most events land here.
Monthly Fortune
The year splits into twelve months: when to push, when to hold.
Scale in years.
Vol. 5
Chinese Zodiac
Your zodiac animal is the branch of your year pillar. Each entry covers its temperament, the birth years it spans, and how it stands with the year's Tai Sui.
