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Elizabeth Taylor's Zi Wei Dou Shu chart

Hollywood actress, two-time Oscar winner · born February 27, 1932 in London, UK

A Hollywood star who began as a child actress and won the Academy Award for Best Actress twice. Her Life Palace is an Empty Palace, read through Wu Qu (Miao) with Hua Ji (Transformation of Obstruction) and Tan Lang (Miao) in the opposite Travel Palace.

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Leaders · Empty Palace (borrows Wu Qu)1932 · M1 D22 · Chou hour
YearRenShen
MonthRenYin
DayWuWu
HourGuiChou
Life Master Ju Men
Body Master Tian Liang

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Life Palace

You are practical and willing to push, but you guard your money closely and look after yourself first.

Terms in this palace · Tap for a plain explanation

You are practical and willing to push, but you guard your money closely and look after yourself first.

Youth is slow to take off, and things rise after middle age.

Stars
Wu Qu NatureYou are resolute and decisive, efficient in what you do and sensible with money. When you dig in, leave a little room for softness.
Tan Lang NatureYou are curious and many-talented, well liked, and you want a lot from life. With so many interests, pick one or two to go deep on.
Wu Qu–Tan LangYou calculate carefully and move cautiously. Reaching out one more time will do a lot for your relationships and your chances.
Borrowed StarsWith no main star in your Life Palace, your basic character is borrowed from Wu Qu and Tan Lang opposite, with less force than if they sat here. The people and setting around you shape you more deeply than most.
Life Master Ju MenYou are naturally inclined to ask why and do not believe things easily. Think it through before you speak, and your words carry weight. Your Life Master sits in your Health Palace, so your thoughts often circle around body and mind.
Patterns
Fu Xiang Chao Yuan (Treasury and Minister Pay Court)The Treasury and Seal stars shine into your Life Palace from the trines: resources and stages are often handed to you, and you suit a steady climb within institutions or large organizations.Classic pattern
Helpful TrinesSan Fang Si Zheng brings in Wen Qu, Tian Yue and Wen Chang: you have help and resources in your own life, more than this palace alone suggests.
Transformations
Hua Ji ClashWu Qu Hua Ji in the Travel Palace opposite clashes in: things are easily thrown off by outside forces in your own life. Do not push yourself too hard.
Trines: KeShining in from the Career Palace (Tian Fu Hua Ke): people readily vouch for you and speak well of you.
This 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 FortuneYou know how to live well, and doing what you love can bring in money. Your interests are worth building on.
Ji Clashes BackWhat happens outside tends to come back and shake you, and things go back and forth. Out in the world, aim for steady before fast.
Minor Stars
Tian XiYou carry a festive air, and your smile puts people at ease. Without trying, good friends tend to find their way to you.
Tian YaoYou 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.
TaiThings are still brewing, and many ideas have not taken shape. Give them time, and do not reveal them too early.

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 palaceAuspicious stars in the Si Zheng settle that the person will be noble; Sha stars converging from the San Fang mean little that is outstanding.“Dou Shu Fa Wei Lun” ›Master Xiyi answered: Hua Ke is the star of the upper realm that oversees examinations and governs ink and writing. Guarding the Body or Life Palace and meeting Hua Quan and Hua Lu, it brings the rank of a chief minister. If it meets evil stars, the person is still a scholar of fine writing who can be a model and teacher to many. A woman's chart with lucky stars embracing it means nobility and honours from the court. Even with the four malefic stars clashing and breaking it, she counts as rich and noble. Hua Ke embracing it or shining on it from opposite is judged the same.“What Does Hua Ke Govern?” ›Master Xiyi answered: Tian Yao guarding the Body or Life Palace makes the nature dark and venomous, much given to suspicion and fear, fond of beauty, dashing with many maids, and lewd. In Miao or Wang it means wealth, rank and many servants; in Hai, learning. Meeting evil stars, the family is ruined and the property lost, and one runs foul of the law through lust. Meeting the Six Harmonies over and over, death in youth. If it comes upon a luck period, with no need of a matchmaker one marries at a wave of the hand. Or with Zi Wei and lucky stars added, hardness and softness balance each other, and it means a charming rake; with Hong Luan added, lewder still; with Tian Xing and Qing Yang (punishment and blade) added, it means an early death.“What Does Tian Yao Govern?” ›My Quan Shu (22 lines on this palace) ›

Where the chart lines up

One of the first modern celebrities

Elizabeth Taylor was one of the last stars of classical Hollywood cinema and one of the first modern celebrities; both her film costumes and her own clothes made her a fashion reference. Her Life Palace is an Empty Palace, read through Tan Lang (Miao) in the opposite Travel Palace. Tan Lang is the star of glamour, sociability and knowing how to enjoy life; the Travel Palace stands for how one is seen out in the world. Drawing attention even off camera fits the Tan Lang borrowed into her Life Palace.

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Best Actress at the 1961 Oscars

At the 33rd Academy Awards on April 17, 1961 (nominal age 30), she won Best Actress for BUtterfield 8. Her chart has Wen Qu (Miao) in the Career Palace, and in the annual Four Transformations of 1961 Wen Qu takes Hua Ke (Transformation of Fame) into the natal Career Palace. Hua Ke stands for reputation and recognition. Her professional reputation lighting up that year matches this Best Actress award.

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Leading the way in AIDS charity work

In August 1985 (nominal age 54), she and Dr. Michael Gottlieb founded the National AIDS Research Foundation, which merged the following month to form amfAR; she later testified before Congress three times for the Ryan White Care Act. This falls in the Decade Luck for nominal ages 53–62, whose Four Transformations send Tai Yin (Bu) with Hua Quan (Transformation of Power) into her natal Friends Palace. The Friends Palace stands for friends and the wider public, and Hua Quan is taking the lead; leading others to pitch in lines up with these transformations.

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Life Palace

Elizabeth Taylor's Life Palace has no main star (an Empty Palace); it borrows Wu Qu from the opposite palace. Xingge's name for this persona: The Traveler. With the Wood 3 Bureau, that makes the Wood 3 · Empty Palace type among Xingge's 75.

Empty Palace · The Traveler ›Wood 3 · Empty Palace type ›

Birth-year transformations

The stem of Elizabeth Taylor's birth year transforms four stars:

Birth data

Local time 1932-02-27 02:30, from Astro-Databank, Rodden rating AA (birth certificate or record). In true solar time at the birthplace that is 02:16, the Chou hour.

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