twelve-palaces
Twelve Palaces
The twelve palaces divide the chart into life areas. Each palace becomes meaningful through its stars, transformations, and relationship to the Life Palace.
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Ziwei Meanings
Use this as a plain-language reference before or after a Ziwei Dou Shu chart. The chart is easier to read when you separate palaces, stars, and the four transformations.
How to read it
Start with Life Palace, Body Palace, and the palace where a question lives. Then read main stars as symbolic actors and Four Transformations as movement signals. Treat the chart as a mirror, not a verdict.
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5 meanings
life-palace
Life Palace
The Life Palace is the chart's central point of view. It does not summarize everything, but it anchors how the rest of the chart is read.
body-palace
Body Palace
The Body Palace shows where the chart becomes embodied through habit, action, and lived emphasis.
main-stars
Fourteen Main Stars
The fourteen main stars are symbolic actors. Their meaning changes by palace, brightness, combinations, and transformations.
four-transformations
Four Transformations
Hua Lu, Hua Quan, Hua Ke, and Hua Ji show movement in the chart: gain, command, name, and bind.
Twelve Palaces
Palaces locate a question. Stars describe what is active there.
12 meanings
life
Life Palace
Core perspective, temperament, and the first place to check when reading the whole chart.
siblings
Siblings Palace
Peers, siblings, lateral support, and the way equal-level relationships form around the person.
spouse
Spouse Palace
One-to-one partnership patterns, attachment style, expectations, and relationship mirrors.
children
Children Palace
Children, students, creative output, legacy, and what is passed forward.
wealth
Wealth Palace
Money flow, resource handling, value exchange, and the rhythm of gaining and spending.
health
Health Palace
Body signals, maintenance, vulnerability patterns, and the need to observe without replacing medical care.
travel
Travel Palace
Movement, outside environments, relocation, public exposure, and what happens away from home base.
friends
Friends Palace
Friends, collaborators, teams, followers, and the social field around shared effort.
career
Career Palace
Work role, responsibility, public contribution, and how capability becomes visible.
property
Property Palace
Home base, property, stored resources, family ground, and the places that hold stability.
fortune
Fortune Palace
Inner life, recovery, taste, joy, and the private atmosphere behind outer action.
parents
Parents Palace
Parents, elders, institutions, protection, inheritance of expectations, and authority figures.
Fourteen Main Stars
Main stars are read as symbolic roles, not fixed labels.
14 meanings
zi-wei
Zi Wei
Central authority, coordination, dignity, and the need to hold the chart together.
tian-ji
Tian Ji
Strategy, movement, adaptation, problem solving, and changing plans.
tai-yang
Tai Yang
Visibility, giving, leadership, warmth, and public-facing effort.
wu-qu
Wu Qu
Execution, resources, discipline, measurable results, and practical control.
tian-tong
Tian Tong
Ease, softness, comfort, emotional receptivity, and the need for room to recover.
lian-zhen
Lian Zhen
Attraction, rules, complexity, charisma, and the tension between desire and restraint.
tian-fu
Tian Fu
Storage, stewardship, stability, protection, and long-term resource keeping.
tai-yin
Tai Yin
Reflection, care, hidden value, memory, and quiet forms of support.
tan-lang
Tan Lang
Desire, talent, appetite, social magnetism, and the need to choose what to feed.
ju-men
Ju Men
Speech, doubt, argument, inquiry, and the power of naming what is unclear.
tian-xiang
Tian Xiang
Mediation, protocol, support, service, and maintaining order between people.
tian-liang
Tian Liang
Protection, ethics, age, guidance, and the wish to reduce harm.
qi-sha
Qi Sha
Pressure, decisiveness, disruption, courage, and the need to direct force carefully.
po-jun
Po Jun
Breaking old forms, reconstruction, risk, and the cost of starting over.
Four Transformations
The transformations show how attention and pressure move through the chart.
4 meanings
hua-lu
Hua Lu
Gain, flow, attraction, and where something becomes easier to receive.
hua-quan
Hua Quan
Command, agency, intensity, and where the chart asks for stronger handling.
hua-ke
Hua Ke
Name, recognition, learning, repair, and where clarity becomes visible.
hua-ji
Hua Ji
Bind, knot, delay, attachment, and where attention keeps returning until the pattern is understood.