Select or create a birth profile to view the twelve-palace Zi Wei chart.
Zi Wei maps birth time into twelve life palaces, using major and auxiliary stars plus birth-year four transformations to describe character, relationships, career, and resources. It complements BaZi, using a framework of stars and palaces for reflection rather than fixed predictions.
Sound readings usually weigh several dimensions together:
Overall pattern, innate character, and life axis—the chart core.
Siblings, peers, and everyday social ties.
Marriage, partner traits, and intimacy patterns.
Children, creativity, investments, and expression.
Income style, money habits, and material resources.
Constitution, health risks, and physical load.
Relocation, outer environment, and external chances.
Friends, subordinates, and social circles.
Work, study, and public role.
Home, family property, and living context.
Inner life, interests, and sense of ease.
Parents, elders, education, and inheritance.
Birth-year transformations show where energy gathers or frays:
Tendency toward gain, resources, and helpful ties.
Drive, responsibility, and control themes.
Reputation, learning, and visible credit.
Friction, fixation, and lessons needing care.
From Life Palace stars, twelve palaces, and four transformations to major limits and annual layers—how to read a Zi Wei chart
Birth hour fixes the Life Palace; fourteen major stars set innate pattern and temperament.
Wealth, career, relationships, and other palaces map life domains; Sanfang Sizheng shows which related positions should be read together.
Birth-year four transformations mark energy flow; major and annual limits layer stage themes.
Build the chart in four steps and see why each detail matters
Enter name and gender; gender sets major-limit forward or reverse direction.
Birth date and traditional hour; add birthplace when possible for true solar time.
Check the birth date, hour, and place, then generate the twelve-palace chart.
Anchor in the Life Palace, Body Palace, and Five Elements bureau; then read the twelve palaces before adding major limits and annual timing.
Note Life Palace stars, Body Palace, and Five Elements frame.
Start at Life Palace; note empties, borrowed stars, and brightness.
Pick a major-limit decade, then annual/monthly layers for current themes.
Place star combinations and named patterns back into the twelve-palace chart instead of judging from one star or label.
If you want to connect more palaces and timing layers, continue with the deeper reading.
Zi Wei Dou Shu is traditionally attributed to Chen Tuan in the late Tang and early Song, blending Daoist star lore with calendrical systems into a twelve-palace framework centered on the Zi Wei constellation. Charts use birth year, month, day, and hour with four transformations and timing cycles for life reflection. This atlas view offers digital charting and reading guidance for exploration—not deterministic verdicts.
Zi Wei Dou Shu fixes the Life Palace and star positions by birth hour. Without an accurate moment, the chart structure cannot be determined and readings will be unreliable.
Deeper reading connects the Life Palace, twelve palaces, patterns, and timing layers into a fuller thread, with questions you can bring back to daily life. It is based on the same chart and does not replace your own judgment.
You may try estimated hours for reference only. We recommend recovering a more precise time through memory, records, or birth-time correction to improve accuracy.
No. Major limits are ten-year chapters; annual and monthly layers show stage themes against palaces and transformations—not a daily luck ticker.
No. Empty palaces are read with the opposite and linked palaces; they do not mean that part of life is missing or hopeless. Pattern names summarize tendencies, while star brightness, challenging stars, timing, and personal choices still matter.
This service is for entertainment only. Important decisions should consider your own judgment, life experience, and professional advice.