Lesson 5: An Introduction To Zi Wei Dou Shu Astrological Analysis
This lesson will discuss the more advanced topic of the Chinese stars, and how they relate to palaces so as to create someone's full Chinese chart. We will use a shareware program to analyze example charts, and we will discuss beneficial and detrimental stars in each palace or house. As this is a very complex topic that takes the masters many years to learn, this section will serve as an introduction only!
The Twelve Palaces
Zi Wei Dou Shu is based on the Chinese lunar calendar, and similar to Western astrology, divides a chart into twelve houses or palaces that represent the twelve Chinese earthly animals. In order to begin our understanding of this complex system, it is very important that we first learn the significance of each of these houses or palaces. Each palace is as follows:
- Life Palace: This is the most important palace and represents the personality or character of a person. It tells the person's destiny. This is also called the "Ming" palace.
- Parents Palace: This represents our parents and our family backgrounds.
- Happiness Palace: This represents the moral, spiritual, and emotional aspects of a person. This tells us whether a person will live peacefully or not.
- Property Palace: This represents the property, inheritance, investments a person will own.
- Career Palace: This represents the type of career that is most suitable for a person. It also determines the amount of success you can expect from your chosen career.
- Friends Palace: This represents the kind of peers and colleagues a person will have and whether they will be helpful or not. It also represents the relationship you have with your friends.
- Travel Palace: This represents whether you will need to relocate to achieve success, and the travel you will undertake in your life.
- Health Palace: This represents your health condition such as the kinds of diseases you'll likely to encounter.
- Wealth Palace: This represents your financial income and can predict whether a person will have steady income, or encounter losses. This also tells whether income is from hard work or other sources.
- Children Palace: This represents whether a person will have children or not; whether the children are well behaved or not; whether the children will be rich or not. This also represents the relationship a person will have with his/her children. This also represents nieces and nephews.
- Spouse or Marriage Palace: This represents the character of the spouse and relationship with spouse. This palace can also predict whether marriage will end in divorce, and whether there will be affairs.
- Siblings Palace: This represents the relationship between brothers and sisters. It also tells about the characters of brothers/sisters.
A palace is affected and influenced by the adjacent palaces, the opposite palace and the related harmony palaces. When there are no major stars in a palace which is under study, the major stars in the opposite palace is then examined as if the stars there are actually in the palace being analyzed. This is because the opposite palace is like a mirror image of the palace being analyzed. These two palaces have the strongest influence on each other.
The palaces rotate around the chart throughout the years. A person has a 10 year luck chart and an annual luck chart. A person's first 10 year luck chart is the same as the original natal chart. The second 10 year luck chart has the Life Palace either occupying the Parents Palace or Siblings Palace, depending upon whether the person being analyzed is a male or a female. The other palaces move one place following the Life Palace. This rotation in the chart causes the person's luck to change.
