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It then successively lays out the Siblings Palace, Spouse Palace, Children Palace, Wealth Palace, Illness Palace, Travel Palace, Friends Palace, Career Palace, Property Palace, Fortune and Virtue Palace, and Parents Palace to create a Zi Wei Dou Shu natal chart; by observing the combinations of stellar influences in each palace, one can discern the course of the person's life;Finally, by following the pull of the Four Transformation Stars—Transformation of Academic Honor, Transformation of Wealth, Transformation of Authority, and Transformation of Affliction—one extrapolates the trends and course of fortune throughout life. [1] \u003Cbr> \n Zi Wei Dou Shu predictive astrology holds that a person's character determines their destiny, and their circumstances depend on their inner mind. Even when experiencing the same event, each person feels differently; even when doing the same thing, each person thinks differently; and even when saying the same words, each person gives others a different impression. This is the distinct constitution of human minds.Zi Wei Dou Shu prediction studies integrate astronomy, geography, feng shui, Zhouyi hexagrams, astrology, sociology, psychology, and other fields. They place greater emphasis on the relationship between people and their environment and can be regarded as standing apart among the many Zhouyi divination arts in China. \u003Cbr> \n Chinese name: Zi Wei Dou Shu \u003Cbr> \n Foreign name: Zi Wei Dou Shu (Purple Star Astrology) \u003Cbr> \n Field    Astrology, stellar astrology, predictive studies \u003Cbr> \n Calculation methods: arranging the twelve palaces, determining the Zi Wei Star, etc. \u003Cbr> \n Contents \u003Cbr> \n 1History \u003Cbr> \n 2Classics \u003Cbr> \n 3Basic content \u003Cbr> \n 4Dou Shu analysis method \u003Cbr> \n 5Fourteen principal stars \u003Cbr> \n 6Twelve palaces \u003Cbr> \n 7Characteristics of Zi Wei Dou Shu \u003Cbr> \n 8Principles of invention \u003Cbr> \n 9Methods of study \u003Cbr> \n History \u003Cbr> \n Broadcast \u003Cbr> \n Edit \u003Cbr> \n Compared to Bazi Four Pillars of Destiny fortune-telling, Zi Wei Dou Shu has even earlier origins, yet shares the same source in Zhouyi \u002F I Ching, so they are together known as the two major schools of traditional Chinese fate calculation; furthermore, the Zi Wei Dou Shu art of fortune-telling encompasses astronomy, geography, feng shui, and the Five Elements, while also carrying modern connotations that emphasize social environment and interpersonal relationships. It stands out prominently in Chinese mystical predictive culture, ranking first among the \"Five Great Divine Calculations\" and hailed as \"China's Number One Divine Calculation\" [1]. \u003Cbr> \n In ancient times, Zi Wei Dou Shu was respectfully called the “study of emperors.” During the Ming and Qing dynasties, the Imperial Astronomical Bureau was established in the imperial palace to study it. Only members of the imperial clan or officials personally appointed by the emperor were allowed access to Zi Wei Dou Shu. This is why the Four Pillars were widely circulated among the Chinese populace, whereas Zi Wei Dou Shu remained little known. \u003Cbr> \n Later, when the Kuomintang moved to Taiwan, it brought with it a large number of eminent and wealthy aristocrats, including no small number of descendants of the feudal imperial family. Books on Zi Wei Dou Shu also flowed into Taiwan. As a result, Taiwan produced a large number of experts and scholars who studied it, making Zi Wei Dou Shu far better known in Hong Kong, Macao, and Taiwan than on the mainland. Since Zi Wei Dou Shu is a secret divination art, compared with Four Pillars fortune-telling... \u003Cbr> \n Although Zi Wei Dou Shu rose to prominence in the late Qing dynasty, as the times changed, it flourished in Hong Kong and Taiwan after the seventies and eighties of the last century. Together with Bazi astrology, it became known as one of the two major schools of modern Chinese destiny analysis. As many modern Zi Wei Dou Shu disciples have made public the secrets that were traditionally kept within the school and not passed on, Zi Wei Dou Shu has even shown signs of surpassing Bazi astrology. \u003Cbr> \n Classical texts \u003Cbr> \n Broadcast \u003Cbr> \n Edit \u003Cbr> \n Because Zi Wei Dou Shu forecasting was not as publicly accessible as Four Pillars and Eight Characters, relatively few people knew about it, and even fewer works remained. The more widely circulated Zi Wei Dou Shu classics are approximately 200 years old: The Complete Book of Dou Shu and The Complete Collection of Dou Shu, including the Dou Shu section in the Complete Library of the Four Branches of Literature, as well as several famous rhapsodies such as The Rhapsody of Taiwei and The Rhapsody of Marrow, among others. \u003Cbr> \n Basic content \u003Cbr> \n Broadcast \u003Cbr> \n Edit \u003Cbr> \n Zi Wei Dou Shu and Eight Characters fortune-telling are not the same divination art. Four Pillars fortune-telling uses the Heavenly Stems and Earthly Branches for deduction, but both originate from the Zhouyi \u002F I Ching. [1] \u003Cbr> \n Zi Wei Dou Shu constructs human thought based on the nature of the fixed stars, also called the governing destiny. It constructs human fortune through the Twelve Growth Stages, also called governing fortune. Since its system places the Ziwei Star at the head of all stars, it received its name. When the Ziwei Star moves to Tianqian, modern humanity has Tianqian governing destiny; this is also called Yisu. The lord of destiny has no direct relationship with the Ziwei Star. \u003Cbr> \n A distinctive feature of Zi Wei Dou Shu is that it can provide concrete explanations of the good and bad fortune, rank, and gains and losses in a person's destiny, rather than grasping them abstractly. \u003Cbr> \n Through the twelve palaces of the destiny chart, Zi Wei Dou Shu systematically and comprehensively predicts the intricate social relationships and personal experiences throughout a person's life. Its logical system is rigorous: it is relatively easy and formulaic, yet also allows variation and deduction. It possesses considerable mathematical structure and depth, so Zi Wei Dou Shu is less vulgar, abstruse, and superstitious. As worldwide enthusiasm for the I Ching, fate analysis, and information-based prediction continues to build toward a climax, it has become widely popular in Taiwan, Hong Kong, Southeast Asia, and overseas Chinese communities. \u003Cbr> \n Dou Shu analysis method \u003Cbr> \n Broadcast \u003Cbr> \n Edit \u003Cbr> \n Analyzing the natal Zi Wei chart: Lianzhen sits alone in the Life Palace, occupying a temple or prosperous position. It is joined by Wenqu transformed into Academic Honors and the malefic star Tuoluo. The opposite palace of the Life Palace is illuminated by Tanlang, a star of talent and the arts. Judging from this configuration, the person is generally strong-willed, clever, quick-witted, and demanding, often using their own standards to measure others. They are highly capable and artistically gifted. For a woman, Lianzhen sitting alone in the Shen Palace indicates a dignified and virtuous person who can balance career and family. She has a strong fighting spirit and abundant creative drive.However, since both Lianzhen and Tanlang are peach-blossom stars, this person generally has favorable relations with the opposite sex. They are often skilled at socializing outside the home, and are often attractive or particular about their appearance, with many romantic entanglements. \u003Cbr> \n Analyzing the Travel Palace: Tanlang sits in the Travel Palace, joined by the auspicious stars Zuofu and Tianyue and the malefic star Lingxing. Judging from this configuration, the person has strong self-expression, good popularity outside the home, and many friends. Outside, they often receive support from benefactors among peers and older women. They are prone to change, constantly developing new hobbies and pursuits, and are often busy changing careers or moving house. They work hard away from home but gain from their efforts. After striving, they may achieve unexpected success. They act with plans and strategies outside the home and are welcomed by people from other places. However, because the Travel Palace meets the malefic star Lingxing...When Tan Lang meets Lian Zhen in the opposite palace, both being Peach Blossom stars, the person will have many admirers when away from home, frequently encounter gossip and disputes, and suffer much distress themselves. \u003Cbr> \n Analyzing the Career Palace: The Career Palace is occupied by Tianfu and Wuqu. Wuqu and Tianfu are in temple or prosperous positions and are joined by the auspicious star Youbi. Wuqu is a wealth star, so career luck is good; whatever they do, they will earn a high income, though their career develops late.They are steady and conscientious at work, driven, unafraid of difficulties, and persistently hardworking. Wuqu is also a star of change, so they may easily be dismissed midway and seek another path. Because Wuqu and Tianfu in the Career Palace occupy the Zi Palace, while Lianzhen is in the Life Palace, this person has a strong career drive and is skilled in business and management. They perform particularly well in finance and taxation, large enterprises, or public service. With the auspicious star Youbi, they receive considerable help from friends in their career, hold a high position, and can readily gain both fame and wealth. However, because Wen change into Ji in the opposite palace of the Career Palace illuminates it, they often face paperwork troubles. In particular, in carrying out official duties, they should handle matters impartially...They should not seek personal favors, evade taxes, or pursue private profit, as they may easily become involved in lawsuits. \u003Cbr> \n Analyzing the Wealth Palace: The Wealth Palace is occupied by Ziwei and Tianxiang. Its three directional relationships and four direct relationships meet Wenqu transformed into Academic Honors. Judging from this configuration, Ziwei is not considered a true wealth star, so financial luck is not especially strong. It indicates abundant sources of income and stable finances; wealth may come through support from others or through business reputation and credit. They will not lack money throughout life, but may not necessarily become very wealthy.They are good at accumulating savings to become wealthy, and their financial luck is also good, with opportunities for sudden wealth. They have their own distinctive way of managing money. Since Wenqu transformed into Academic Honors in the Wealth Palace, it indicates becoming wealthy after gaining a reputation and signifies abundance. Their windfall luck is good for speculative ventures, such as winning a prize, and they can generally become affluent. Their sources of money are legitimate, they spend according to a plan, and they often receive unexpected income, such as remuneration or bonuses. \u003Cbr> \n Analyzing the Siblings Palace: The Siblings Palace is an empty palace. In this palace, the two malefic stars Huoxing and Dikong sit. Since the Siblings Palace is empty, it borrows the Sun and Moon from the opposite palace. The Siblings Palace refers not only to one's own brothers and sisters, but also to one's friends and colleagues. Judging from this configuration, the person is easily burdened or harmed by siblings and friends, so it is unwise to become too close to friends; maintaining a certain distance is better. The subject's siblings suffer loss and calamity. \u003Cbr> \n Analyzing the Friends Palace, it contains the Sun transformed into Authority, meeting the Moon. The Sun transformed into Authority in the Friends Palace indicates many male friends, most of them bosses, supervisors, or the like. Since the Sun meets the Moon there, the person makes relatively many new male and female friends outside, and their personalities are diverse. However, because the opposite palace of the Friends Palace is illuminated by two malefic stars, the person is prone to being hurt by friends and to disputes, gossip, and conflicts. Therefore, one should not become too close to friends met for the first time. \u003Cbr> \n Analyzing the Property Palace, it contains the same star Tian Tong alone, while Tian Ma also enters the Property Palace. Tian Tong is a star that emphasizes spiritual enjoyment, which is unfavorable for purchasing real estate, but it brings good relations with neighbors. It has the nature of building a family from nothing and can accumulate wealth; property is initially scarce and later increases, becoming abundant after middle and late age. Since Tian Ma enters the Property Palace, the person will probably move residences many times in life, or frequently change their place of residence, office, or home furnishings and renovations. \u003Cbr> \n Analyzing the Children Palace, it contains Tian Liang alone. Tian Liang is in a fallen position. The children are gentle, kind, filial, calm, and steady; they have relatively strong learning abilities, leadership and command abilities, and social reputation. They do not wish to depend on others, and are rich in literary and artistic interests and talents, making a living through technical skills. Tian Liang is highly principled, and the children have strong personalities and their own opinions. Therefore, education should be conducted through patient guidance, as they can easily develop rebellious personalities. \u003Cbr> \n Analyzing the Virtue Palace, it contains Po Jun alone and also meets the malefic star Qing Yang. This configuration indicates that the person acts decisively, directly, and efficiently, but works mentally and physically hard. They possess an enterprising and striving spirit, remain tirelessly diligent, personally handle everything, cannot enjoy an easy life, and are prone to worry and anxiety. \u003Cbr> \n Analyzing the Spouse Palace, it contains the Seven Killings star, together with the auspicious stars Tiankui and Wenchang transformed into Ji. The spouse has a strong, competitive personality and a practical view of love and marriage. Their standards are relatively high; early marriage is unfavorable, while marrying later is better. It is preferable for the spouse to be older than oneself. There is a possibility of marrying someone from another country, province, or hometown, and a certain age gap between the couple is considered favorable. The spouse is capable and astute, providing substantial assistance, but this configuration still indicates many twists and turns in premarital relationships. The spouse may attract considerable romantic attention outside the home and may also encounter many troubles involving documents and contracts. \u003Cbr> \n Analyzing the Parents Palace, it is an empty palace. The palace itself contains the auspicious star Lu Cun. Since the Parents Palace is empty, it borrows Tian Ji and Ju Men transformed into Lu from the opposite palace. This configuration indicates that the person probably has good heredity or education, but has a weak bond with the parents and may experience parental affliction. During childhood, the parents may easily suffer illness or calamity. Since Ju Men transformed into Lu is in the Parents Palace, the parents also represent the person's supervisors and leaders at work. Therefore, associating more with people a generation older may bring good opportunities or chances to increase income.Ju Men represents the mouth and also indicates making money through speech, such as work that involves speaking. \u003Cbr> \n Analyzing the Health Palace, it contains Tianji and Jumen, and it also meets the malefic star Dijie. When Tianji and Jumen enter the Health Palace, Wood overcomes Earth, generally indicating digestive problems caused by disharmony between the liver and stomach, such as indigestion, acid regurgitation, gastric pain, chest tightness, abdominal distension, and dizziness. There is a greater chance of developing gastroenteritis. The congenital functions of the liver and stomach are relatively weak, so extra attention should be paid to maintenance. Previously, judging from a person's palmistry, the body appeared to be in a suboptimal state of health, with insufficient congenital vital energy and frequent gastrointestinal ailments. \u003Cbr> \n As the saying goes: First is fate, second is luck, third is feng shui, fourth is accumulating hidden virtue, and fifth is education. Destiny is a trend, and fortune-telling is predicting trends to guide people toward good fortune and away from misfortune, acting in harmony with the flow—this is the true significance of fate prediction. \u003Cbr> \n The Fourteen Principal Stars \u003Cbr> \n Broadcast \u003Cbr> \n Edit \u003Cbr> \n one. Zi Wei: Its nature belongs to Yin Earth. It is the imperial seat, nobility, and the ruler of official rank and salary. It can dispel adversity, extend life, and regulate and transform. Personality: easily swayed by what one hears, domineering and forceful, moderate, sincere, and proud. It has qualities of calmness, indifference, and dignity. \u003Cbr> \n two. Tan Lang: Its nature belongs to Yin Water and Yang Wood. It governs fortune and misfortune, the Peach Blossom Sha, desire, and performing arts. Personality: generous, strongly desirous, changeable, fond of literature, art, and speculation. It has qualities of shame, eccentricity, and licentiousness. \u003Cbr> \n three. Ju Men: Its nature belongs to Yin Water. It governs disputes and transforms its qi into darkness. It represents eloquence and underground business. Personality: shrewd, skilled in debate, harsh, prone to verbal disputes, and sharp-tongued. It has qualities of trustworthiness, timidity, and perversity. \u003Cbr> \n Four. Lianzhen is associated with Yin Fire and Yang Wood. Its transformed qi is imprisonment, representing bloodshed and precision instruments. Personality: straightforward, careless about appearance, restless, shrewd and calculating, tough, and willful. It has traits of frugality and cunning. \u003Cbr> \n five. Wu Qu: Its nature belongs to Yin Metal. It governs wealth and property. Personality: strong-willed and upright; when fallen, obstinate and self-righteous. Resolute, decisive, kind-hearted, stubborn, and competitive. It has qualities of righteousness, harshness, and heroism. \u003Cbr> \n six. Po Jun: Its nature belongs to Yin Water and Yin Metal. It represents chaotic places and work involving innovation and change. Personality: bold, energetic, proactive, and ambitious. It has qualities of courage and impatience. \u003Cbr> \n Seven. Qisha is associated with Yin Water and Yin Metal. It is the General Star and governs severity and killing. Personality: relatively arrogant, rational, and not easily convinced by others. Brave, suspicious, changeable, with the bearing of a knight-errant. It has traits of loyalty, cruelty, and fierceness. \u003Cbr> \n eight. Tian Xiang: Its nature belongs to Yin Water. It governs official rank and salary and transforms its qi into the seal. It represents the fate of clerks and of clothing and food. Personality: refined, substantial, luxurious, and chameleon-like. It has qualities of trustworthiness and cold sarcasm. \u003Cbr> \n Nine. Tiantong is associated with Yang Water. It has the function of resolving adversity and transforming difficulties. It governs blessings and virtue. Personality: upright, amiable, indolent, easygoing, innocent, harmonious, changeable, and gentle. \u003Cbr> \n ten. Tian Ji: Its nature belongs to Yin Wood. It governs siblings, benefits longevity, and transforms its qi into goodness. Personality: quick-witted, kind, ostentatious, calculating, changeable, highly adaptable; when fallen, sly. It has qualities of wisdom, suspicion, and virtue. \u003Cbr> \n Eleven. Tianliang is associated with Yin Earth. It is the Longevity Star, and its transformed qi is sheltering protection. It carries abundant blessings and has the function of resolving adversity and transforming difficulties. Personality: experienced, honest and kind, aloof, and silently adherent to established rules. It has traits of longevity and simple-minded directness. \u003Cbr> \n twelve. Tian Fu: Its nature belongs to Yang Earth. It represents salaried workers and land-related departments. It governs wealth and property. Personality: gentle, steady, timid, and ambitious yet proud. It has qualities of politeness, putting on airs, and nobility. \u003Cbr> \n thirteen. Tai Yang: Its nature belongs to Yang Fire. It represents energy, power, and diplomacy. It is the father star, husband star, authority and nobility, and the ruler of official rank and salary. Personality: universal love, uprightness, impatience, showiness, activity, and wholehearted loyalty. It has qualities of benevolence and righteousness, intensity, and kindness. \u003Cbr> \n fourteen. The Taiyin star belongs to yin water. It represents travel, transportation, and beauty services. It governs wealth and property. Personality: elegant, delicate, gloomy, clean, and nagging. It has loving, lazy, and alluring qualities. \u003Cbr> \n That completes the introduction to all fourteen major stars. \u003Cbr> \n The Twelve Palaces \u003Cbr> \n Broadcast \u003Cbr> \n Edit \u003Cbr> \n 12-palace classification \u003Cbr> \n A Zi Wei Dou Shu chart is divided into 12 palaces: Life Palace, Parents Palace, Fortune and Virtue Palace, Property Palace, Career Palace, Servants Palace, Travel Palace, Health Palace, Wealth Palace, Children Palace, Spouse Palace, and Siblings Palace. \u003Cbr> \n The Life, Fortune and Virtue, Career, Travel, Wealth, and Spouse palaces are the six strong palaces, representing the person's patterns of destiny and development; \u003Cbr> \n The Parents, Property, Servants, Health, Children, and Siblings palaces are the six weak palaces, representing one's attitudes toward and expectations of others. \u003Cbr> \n Analysis of the functions of the 12 palaces \u003Cbr> \n Life Palace: Determines a person's personality traits throughout life and also influences the traits of the other 11 palaces. \u003Cbr> \n Parents Palace: Influences the strength of a person's ties with elders, as well as their inner expectations of their parents. It represents the level of learning ability and also physical beauty or unattractiveness. \u003Cbr> \n Fortune and Virtue Palace: Influences a person's attitude toward life, outlook on life, values, strength of desires, blessings, and personal interests. \u003Cbr> \n Property Palace: Influences a person's desire to own real estate and their investment attitude. \u003Cbr> \n Career Palace: Influences a person's career development, suitable type of work, promotion, entrepreneurship, and luck with benefactors in the workplace. \u003Cbr> \n Friends Palace: Influences a person's way of getting along with friends, social circle, and friends' support. \u003Cbr> \n Travel Palace: Influences a person's ability to make friends and expand social connections, opportunities for development, and luck with benefactors or antagonists. \u003Cbr> \n Health Palace: Analyzes a person's innate constitution, as well as their attitude toward and degree of concern for health. \u003Cbr> \n Wealth Palace: Determines a person's financial luck, money-management style, ability to earn money, and ability to bear risk. \u003Cbr> \n Children Palace: Influences one's expectations of children, educational style, parent-child interaction, and depth of affinity. \u003Cbr> \n Spouse Palace: Influences a person's emotional patterns, views on love and marriage, depth of romantic affinity, and preferred type of partner. \u003Cbr> \n Siblings Palace: Influences the depth of affinity between a person and their siblings and the degree of mutual support. \u003Cbr> \n Empty Palace \u003Cbr> \n In a Zi Wei Dou Shu natal chart, not every palace is filled with major stars. When certain palaces in the chart have no major star placed in them, this phenomenon is called an “empty palace”; the major stars in the opposite palace must be borrowed and applied. \u003Cbr> \n Characteristics of Zi Wei Dou Shu \u003Cbr> \n Broadcast \u003Cbr> \n Edit \u003Cbr> \n Zi Wei Dou Shu is one of the most important branches of traditional Chinese destiny analysis. It determines the positions of the twelve palaces according to a person's year, month, day, and hour of birth, thereby forming a chart. By combining the stellar configurations in each palace and connecting them with the hexagram lines of the Zhouyi, astronomy, geography, and feng shui, it predicts the course of a person's fortune, as well as good and bad luck and blessings and misfortunes. [2] \u003Cbr> \n Compared with Four Pillars destiny analysis, its origins go further back; yet because they share the same source and later diverged, they are collectively known as the two major schools of traditional Chinese destiny analysis. Moreover, the Zi Wei Dou Shu method of destiny analysis possesses both the mystical character of the Daoist cosmological view and a modern significance that emphasizes the social environment and interpersonal relationships. It stands out prominently in Chinese esoteric culture, ranking first among the “Five Great Divination Arts” and being acclaimed as the “Number One Divination Art Under Heaven.” \u003Cbr> \n Four Pillars and Eight Characters fortune-telling uses the Heavenly Stems and Earthly Branches to deduce the future. Their combinations are diverse and complex, yet they are also somewhat like mathematical formulas: the meaning of each symbol is variable, so a practitioner of destiny analysis must explore information from many perspectives—much like extracting a string of code from a vast database and then analyzing the trends in the scenarios formed by the various meanings combined in that string of code. It can be said to lean toward probability theory; this is the method of Four Pillars and Eight Characters fortune-telling. \u003Cbr> \n Zi Wei Dou Shu, on the other hand, encompasses Zhouyi's Five Elements, astrology, feng shui, statistics, sociology, psychology, and many other fields. It is like traditional Chinese medicine: it includes both Zhouyi's Five Elements and statistics and pharmacology. Zi Wei Dou Shu places greater emphasis on the chain in which psychology determines personality, personality determines thoughts, thoughts determine actions, actions determine destiny, and destiny determines success or failure. \u003Cbr> \n Principles of Its Invention \u003Cbr> \n Broadcast \u003Cbr> \n Edit \u003Cbr> \n Zi Wei Dou Shu was created by merging and improving the Tang dynasty’s “Qintang Five Stars Method” and “Eighteen Flying Stars.” [2] \u003Cbr> \n Before Zi Wei Dou Shu, the Qintang Five Planets method was extremely popular. Like the Ziping Eight Characters method, it used the solar terms to arrange a destiny chart. The specific reason is that every sixty years, these seven stars in space roughly return to the positions they previously occupied: \u003Cbr> \n 1. Venus's orbital period is 1.62 years; multiplied by 37.03, it is approximately 1 sexagenary cycle; \u003Cbr> \n 2. Jupiter's orbital period is 11.862 years; multiplied by 5.05, it is approximately 1 sexagenary cycle; \u003Cbr> \n 3. Mercury's orbital period is 0.32 years; multiplied by 187.5, it is approximately 1 sexagenary cycle; \u003Cbr> \n 4. Mars's orbital period is 1.9 years; multiplied by 31.57, it is approximately 1 sexagenary cycle; \u003Cbr> \n 5. Saturn's orbital period is 29.88 years; multiplied by 2.008, it is approximately 1 sexagenary cycle. \u003Cbr> \n 6. The Moon's orbital period is 0.08 years; multiplied by 750, it is approximately 1 sexagenary cycle. \u003Cbr> \n According to the above calculation, it is not difficult to see that these six stars roughly return to their positions every sexagenary cycle, but do not completely coincide with their previous locations; there is an error. Venus, Jupiter, Saturn, and Taiyin are acceptable, with relatively small errors. However, Mercury and Mars deviate quite far from their positions, so regardless of the calculation method used, the Five Stars Method would become increasingly inaccurate. Blaming the decline of the Five Stars Method on “imprecise algorithms” actually wrongs the ancient sages.The calculations and analysis are based on the fact that “fluctuations in Mercury's and Mars's positions cause the sexagenary-cycle return rule of the celestial phenomena to lose accuracy.” Two of the seven stars are wrong, so naturally it is impossible to achieve greater precision. \u003Cbr> \n As the “Qintang Five Stars Method” gradually lost accuracy, “Zi Wei Dou Shu” emerged. Unlike the Five Stars Method, which used the “sexagenary-cycle recurrence rule” and the seven stars—“Venus, Jupiter, Mercury, Mars, Saturn, the Sun, and the Moon”—Zi Wei Dou Shu uses the “annual recurrence method,” centered on the “principal stars of the Northern and Southern Dippers” and the two stars “Taiyang and Taiyin.” \u003Cbr> \n The “annual recurrence” of the Northern and Southern Dipper stars has the following advantages over the “sexagenary-cycle recurrence” of the Five Stars: \u003Cbr> \n 1. Zi Wei Dou Shu star placement has a smaller margin of error. Comparing the lunar-calendar date from 200 years ago—month 2, day 17—with the date in 2014—month 2, day 17—the positions of stars such as the Northern and Southern Dippers in the sky are the same. Even if there is a discrepancy, it is extremely small—small enough to be negligible; \u003Cbr> \n 2. Zi Wei Dou Shu observes only the lunar calendar and does not need to pass through the solar terms at all, because the solar terms are arranged according to the Sun’s position. The arrangement of the stars in Zi Wei Dou Shu is based solely on the position of Ziwei, and has no connection whatsoever with the Sun’s position.The position of Ziwei, however, is almost stationary. During the Northern Song, Ziwei was 6 degrees from the [North Celestial Pole], whereas today it is [less than 1 degree away]. Clearly, over the past 1000 years, Ziwei has shifted by only 5 degrees, which is negligible in a natal chart (one palace is 30 degrees). \u003Cbr> \n 3. Zi Wei Dou Shu does not place much importance on the Sun’s precise position, because in the founding philosophy of Zi Wei Dou Shu, neither whether the Sun has crossed 315 degrees of solar longitude nor whether Lichun has already arrived that day affects the arrangement of the principal stars of the Northern and Southern Dippers. What needs to be considered is simply whether the time of birth was during the day or at night. [2] \u003Cbr> \n Zi Wei Dou Shu drew the palace-placement algorithm for stars from the “Five-Star Method,” adopted the destiny-analysis principle of “making the stars substantive” from the “Eighteen Flying Stars,” and incorporated many important elements from reality; the three were combined into one. \u003Cbr> \n Learning methods \u003Cbr> \n Broadcast \u003Cbr> \n Edit \u003Cbr> \n Zi Wei Dou Shu is easy to learn but difficult to master. Ideally, a teacher should guide you into the field; otherwise, it is difficult to achieve much through self-study alone. After all, Zi Wei Dou Shu has traditionally been transmitted secretly, and Zi Wei Dou Shu books available on the market are extremely scarce. They are difficult to find in mainland China, while they are relatively more common in Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Macao. However, books on destiny analysis are very expensive because they contain oral formulas kept secret within schools and lineages. Since they are now made public under intellectual-property protection, there is naturally a reason for their high prices. Moreover, most Zi Wei Dou Shu books on the market are written in classical Chinese,Therefore, self-study is probably not a very simple matter. \u003Cbr> \n Before the 21st century, many people who saw Ziwei in the Twelve Palaces assumed that Ziwei represented the best. In fact, society in the 21st century is different. Why is Zi Wei Dou Shu called the art of emperors? The reason is that Dou Shu was used by the royal court to select talented people, choose future successors, and appoint civil and military officials; naturally, its principles are extremely profound. \u003Cbr> \n Because the social and cultural environment of the 21st century differs greatly from that of ancient times, Zi Wei Dou Shu should also keep pace with the times in prediction and interpretation. For example, modern society is relatively open, and men and women are no longer as conservative as they once were. Therefore, when using Zi Wei Dou Shu to assess marriage, a breakup after an unmarried man and woman have lived together should be treated as a divorce, rather than simply considering them married only after they have obtained a marriage certificate. 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