Amy Tan's Zi Wei Dou Shu chart

Chinese-American novelist, author of The Joy Luck Club · born February 19, 1952 in Oakland, USA

Amy Tan, who wrote about two generations of mothers and daughters in The Joy Luck Club. Her Life Palace holds Lian Zhen (Ping) and Po Jun (Xian), with Wen Qu (Miao) in the same palace.

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Leaders · Lian Zhen1952 · M1 D24 · Si hour

YearRenChen

MonthRenYin

DayYiWei

HourXinSi

Earth 5 Bureau

Life Master Wen Qu

Body Master Wen Chang

Life Palace

You're skilled and driven, and with support you can rise.

Terms in this palace · Tap for a plain explanation

You're skilled and driven, and with support you can rise.From the classic

Lian Zhen and Po Jun meet helpful stars, but you're stiff-natured and don't blend in easily.

Stars

Lian Zhen NatureCool outside and warm within, you have principles and real charm. You do best when your passion goes into the right things.

Po Jun NatureYou are willing to tear down and rebuild, unafraid to start over. Breaking new ground is your gift; see things through to the end as well.

Auspicious Stars PresentWith people backing you, someone helps push your skills forward, and you do not have to carry everything alone.

By BranchClassical texts say Po Jun and Lian Zhen in Mao or You make a deft person with remarkable skill. Today, it means you're careful and good with your hands, suited to earning through technique or fine work.“Women's Gu Sui Fu”

For WomenClassical texts say Po Jun has a nature that is hard to read. Today, it means your moods and ideas shift fast, and the people around you often can't quite figure you out.“Star Combinations: Po Jun”

With Wen QuClassical texts say Po Jun sharing a palace with Wen Qu makes a lifelong poor scholar. Today, it means you value learning and ideals, and turning your knowledge into income takes deliberate effort.“The Nature of Po Jun”

Life Master Wen QuYou are naturally expressive and artistic, and you get noticed through expression. Write, speak and make things. Your Life Master sits in your Life Palace, so your thoughts often circle around yourself.

Patterns

Sha Po Lang (Killings, Breaker, Wolf)Your Life Palace sits on the Sha Po Lang line: life moves in big swings and you rarely sit still. Change is your fuel, but always leave yourself a way back.Classic pattern

Mixed SupportSan Fang Si Zheng brings in Tian Kui, Wen Chang and Tian Yue, and also Ling Xing: you have both support and pressure in your own life. When help is there, keep your pace steady.

Transformations

Trines: Quan · JiShining in from the Wealth Palace (Zi Wei Hua Quan) and the Career Palace (Wu Qu Hua Ji): you push with more force; when things stall over there, they stall here too.

Flying StarsThis part follows the Flying Star school: where this palace's stem sends its transformations. It is a different method from the classical reading above.

Lu to CareerYour energy naturally goes into work, and it flows better the more you do. Look for a role you can grow in long-term.

Quan to CareerAt work you want to be in charge and suit taking responsibility or going your own way. Grab the chance when it comes.

Self Hua JiYou tend to pile the pressure on yourself and overthink. Saying it out loud takes half the weight off.

Minor Stars

Xian ChiYou have a hard-to-name pull and know how to set a mood. Charm is a gift; how far to take it is your call.

The Life Palace is about: Who you are at the core: your temperament and innate makeup. Every chart reading starts here.

What the Quan Shu says about this palaceTian Tong is stout and full-bodied, with fine, clear, striking eyes. Lian Zhen has wide brows, a broad mouth and a broad, fierce face; by nature violent, quick to anger and fond of quarrels.“Xing Xing Fu” ›Handsome, refined Wen Chang has clear brows and fine eyes; open, upright Wen Qu has a glib, flattering tongue. In its temple the person is sure to have an unusual mole; in a fallen position, sure to have spots or scars.“Xing Xing Fu” ›Po Jun is not benevolent: heavy-backed and wide-browed, with the waist crooked whether walking or sitting, treacherous and fond of doing dangerous things.“Xing Xing Fu” ›My Quan Shu (70 lines on this palace) ›

Where the chart lines up

Making a living from words first

Before writing fiction, Tan was a freelance business writer, working on projects for AT&T, IBM, Bank of America and other large companies under non-Chinese-sounding pseudonyms, and the work grew to 90 hours a week. Early in 1985 she began writing her first novel while still taking business assignments. In her chart, the Life Palace holds Wen Qu (Miao). Wen Qu is the star of writing and expression, at its brightest in Miao. Whether the work was business copy or a novel, it rested on words, which lines up with this star in her Life Palace.

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The Joy Luck Club is published in 1989

In 1989 (nominal age 38), The Joy Luck Club was published and became a bestseller; it was a finalist for the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award, and the hardcover sold over 200,000 copies. In the annual Four Transformations of 1989, Wu Qu (Miao) takes Hua Lu (Transformation of Wealth) and Tan Lang (Miao) takes Hua Quan (Transformation of Power), and both fall in her natal Career Palace. The Career Palace covers work and career; Hua Lu is gain and Hua Quan is command. Two transformations entering the Career Palace in the same year lines up with this book becoming the start of her writing career.

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Her mother's story becomes fiction

Learning about her mother's early life in China was the catalyst for Tan's first novel; The Joy Luck Club is dedicated to her mother, and when Tan started The Kitchen God's Wife, her mother told her, "next time, tell my story." In her chart, the Parents Palace is an Empty Palace, read through the opposite Health Palace's Tian Ji (Li) and Tian Liang (Miao) with Hua Lu. The Parents Palace covers elders; Tian Liang is the star of shelter and protection, and Hua Lu is gain. An elder's story becoming material for her writing fits Tian Liang (Miao) and Hua Lu borrowed into the Parents Palace.

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Life Palace

Amy Tan's Life Palace holds Lian Zhen and Po Jun. Xingge's name for this persona: The Judge. With the Earth 5 Bureau, that makes the Earth 5 · Lian Zhen type among Xingge's 75.

Lian Zhen · The Judge ›Earth 5 · Lian Zhen type ›

Birth-year transformations

The stem of Amy Tan's birth year transforms four stars:

Birth data

Local time 1952-02-19 10:16, from Astro-Databank, Rodden rating AA (birth certificate or record). In true solar time at the birthplace that is 09:53, the Si hour.

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