Everything the wheel opens, one animal at the center
The Eastern wheel, your birth year's animal
The Western wheel, the sky on your birthday
The craft your Zodi Animal practices
五行 · featured system
The five phases that move through everything — now mapped to the seven chakras, each with its own yoga practice.
BaZi
Cast your charttoolWhat is BaZi八字 Bāzì · eight charactersYour Day Master日主 RìzhǔThe Ten Gods十神 ShíshénYou & themTwo skies, read together
The Moon overhead, its phases, and the path they light.
紫微斗數 Purple Star Astrology is one of several English names for the system; the traditional name comes first.
Learn to read a Chinese star chart the way the old court offices did: room by room, star by star, with your own chart as the study map.
One birth moment, twelve rooms, fourteen principal stars. This page teaches you to read the whole court, in order.
Court Novice · Level 1 of 8Learning track Below: learn to read any chart, step by step, with a fully worked example. Add your birth date above for a reading of your own first — the method is the same.
A chart is twelve rooms read together. Select a room to hear its question and watch the rooms that answer with it light up: two triangle partners and one mirror across the court.
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Twelve rooms, one geometry. The figures who live in them come next.
Meet the principal starsThe teaser let you move one star through one room. Here is the grown-up version: any of the fourteen stars, any room, with the reading layered from a beginner's sentence down to a reader's note. A star's meaning is read across three rooms and its mirror, never one.
Drag a star into a room, or tap a star and then a room.
Pick a star to begin.
One placement is never the reading. The court answers together.
Every star bends to its room.
Open the Four Transformations化祿 the Flow, 化權 the Power, 化科 the Shine, and 化忌 the Hook. A birth-year stem re-colors four stars. Set a year or pick a stem and watch which four stars each force flies to. The forces attach to stars, not rooms.
For study orientation. A full chart needs complete birth data.
Forces attach to stars. Structure attaches to rooms.
Read the Triangle三方四正 Sān Fāng Sì Zhèng, taught by toggling rather than by paragraph. This is Mei's Career room. With every companion you add, watch the reading grow more careful and more accurate.
Reading with 1 of 4 rooms.
A verdict needs more than one room.
Write a chart sentencePick a star, a room, and, if you like, a transformation. Write the reading in your own words, then compare with how a beginner and a practitioner would put it, and see what evidence a full reading would still need. Your words are never scored by machine; the comparison is yours to make.
Sentences become readings when time enters.
Open the timing modelMei's chart runs a Fire Bureau, so her first Decade Door opens at age 6. Enter an age to open its door; the Year Wave shows where 2026 lands.
You will meet three timing systems on this site. They are different calculations from the same birth moment, and this hub never blends them.
Rates the day for everyone: lunar date, solar term, the Twelve Day Officers. Inherited calendar lore, a different system with different math.
See today's almanacBaZi also walks life in ten-year turns, counted from the month pillar instead of the Bureau. Two clocks that happen to share a tick.
See BaZi's luck pillarsThe almanac rates the day for everyone. Your decade doors belong to your chart alone. Two clocks, two calculations, no mixing.
You are reading this oneMethod beats memory.
Walk a full reading in the Reader's SchoolEach door below opens one full room of study. Take them in this order and the system builds itself.
The summit is not a certificate. It is the ability to teach the foundations in plain English and to read a chart responsibly. Practice the teach-backs, learn the phrasebook, then sit the Imperial exam.
Pick a prompt, write your answer, then reveal the model answer and score yourself honestly. The model teaches; it does not grade you.
Twenty questions across the whole path. Score 18 or better, with your teach-backs submitted, and the store seats you as Imperial Astrologer. Retakes are always open, no cooldown.
Eight levels, from naming the parts to reading a whole chart responsibly. Nothing here is locked and no account is needed. Take them in order and the system builds itself.
Both systems grow from the same cosmological tradition. They answer different questions, and they answer them differently.
The elemental weather of your life: the five phases active in your birth year, month, day, and hour, and the elemental constitution you inhabit.
The map of your life: twelve rooms, the stars stationed in each at birth, and how the whole court answers when one room is asked.
BaZi tells you the weather. Purple Star gives you the map.
They are separate systems and this site never blends them. When you want the weather, read the Four Pillars at the BaZi hub.