紫微斗數Purple Star Astrology
紫微問道
Ziwei Wendao
You know your sun sign. This is something older, and far deeper. Zi Wei Dou Shu maps the whole shape of a life — twelve palaces for love, work, wealth, and family; fourteen major stars; four transformations — all cast from the exact hour you were born.
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More than a sign
A map of the whole life, not a single month.
For more than a thousand years, Zi Wei Dou Shu — the art of the Purple Star — has guided scholars, families, and emperors through the choices that shape a life. A Western sign is drawn from the month of your birth; a Zi Wei chart is drawn from its very hour, and reads far more than character alone. Where a Western sign works with one, a Zi Wei chart maps a life across all 108 stars — twelve palaces, fourteen major stars, and the shifting spirits between them.
Twelve Palaces
Every domain of a life — career, wealth, love, family, health, the years ahead — keeps its own house within the chart.
Fourteen Major Stars
The emperors and generals of the night sky, each set in its place by the very hour you arrived.
Four Transformations
The moving currents — fortune, wealth, insight, and trial — that turn the chart through the seasons of a life.
From birth hour to reading
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Your chart is shown in its authentic traditional Chinese form — the way it has always been drawn. Your reading on the Ask page explains it in plain English.
“Every question deserves a careful reading.”
The monthly limit is here so you ask with intention — one matter at a time. That is how a reading stays focused, unhurried, and true.
Questions reset on the first of each month; unused ones do not roll over.
Two ways to keep asking
Every chart begins free — one question and a simplified reading, the moment you sign in. When you wish to go further:
Sincere
Sincere Plan$109/ year
A steady rhythm — eighteen questions a month.
- 18 questions a month, up to 3 a day
- Each answer reasoned from your full chart, weighing your current decade and year, around 1,200 words
- Up to 3 follow-up questions on each reading, with full context
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Devout Plan$329/ year
For deeper study — thirty-six questions a month.
- 36 questions a month, up to 6 a day
- Deeper readings that weigh your decade, year, month, and even the day, around 2,700 words
- Exclusive 自化 & 飛化 (self- and flying-transformations) — natal plus decade/year/month layers, reading the pull between palaces
Read before you cast
2026, a Bing-Wu Year: The Four Transformations, the Twelve Months, and Your Wu Palace
The year 2026 is Bing-Wu, and its Four Transformations are Tian Tong Hua Lu, Tian Ji Hua Quan, Wen Chang Hua Ke, and Lian Zhen Hua Ji. A plain reading of how these four stars move the year, with the transformations and the gist of all twelve lunar months. It also shows you how to find the Wu palace on your own chart — the place where your real theme for 2026 lies.
9 min read
Cast a Zi Wei Dou Shu Chart by Hand: The Twelve Palaces and the Fourteen Main Stars
How is a Zi Wei Dou Shu chart cast? A step-by-step guide to doing it by hand: setting the Life and Body palaces from a lunar birth time, placing the twelve palaces, finding the five-element class, and seating Zi Wei, Tian Fu, and the fourteen main stars — with one worked example throughout.
12 min read
What Is Zi Wei Dou Shu? A Beginner’s Guide
Zi Wei Dou Shu, or Purple Star Astrology, reads a whole life from your birth time through twelve palaces and fourteen stars. A calm, clear guide to how it works.
9 min read
Standing at a Crossroads: Zi Wei Dou Shu Guides, It Does Not Foretell
Sixteen to twenty-four is the age of the most choices — and the most fear of choosing wrong. This is for you, standing at the crossroads: Zi Wei Dou Shu does not foretell your life, but is like a map and a mirror, helping you see your own ground-tone, and placing the power to choose steadily back into your own hands.
8 min read
The stars were set the hour you were born.
It remains only to read them.