Kirk Douglas's Zi Wei Dou Shu chart

Hollywood actor (Spartacus) · born December 9, 1916 in Amsterdam (NY), USA

A box-office star of the 1950s, and lead actor and executive producer of Spartacus. His Life Palace is an Empty Palace, read through the opposite palace's Tai Yang (Bu) and Tai Yin (Miao).

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Communicators · Empty Palace (borrows Tai Yang)1916 · M11 D15 · Si hour

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Metal 4 Bureau

Life Master Wu Qu

Body Master Wen Chang

Life Palace

You are gentle with people, and with challenging stars here you tend to keep stress bottled up.

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You are gentle with people, and with challenging stars here you tend to keep stress bottled up.From the classic

Look after your routine and your family ties.

Stars

Tai Yang NatureYou are warm and love looking after people, giving without keeping score. When you shine this much, save some light for yourself.

Tai Yin NatureYou are gentle and perceptive, attentive to feelings and good at building up reserves. When a lot is on your mind, saying it out loud helps.

Tai Yang and Tai YinTai Yin opposite is at Miao in Chou, and Tai Yang is at Bu. You are gentle and refined, with your warmth kept mostly inside.

Challenging Stars PresentWhen challenging stars arrive, both body and mood get worn down. Keep a steady routine and stop when you are tired.

Borrowed StarsWith no main star in your Life Palace, your basic character is borrowed from Tai Yang and Tai Yin opposite, with less force than if they sat here. The people and setting around you shape you more deeply than most.

With Huo XingClassical texts say Huo Xing is strong-willed and stands out, with injuries to the lips, teeth and limbs. Today, it means you charge ahead fast, so look after your hands, feet and teeth.“The Nature of Huo Xing”

Life Master Wu QuDeep down you are practical and hardworking, and you believe only results count. Leave some room for feelings too. Your Life Master sits in your Friends Palace, so your thoughts often circle around your circle of friends.

Patterns

Quan Lu Xun Feng (Power and Wealth Meet)Hua Lu and Hua Quan both shine into your Life Palace: you have resources and the power to steer. When opportunity comes, you can catch it and drive it forward.Later pattern

Transformations

Trines: Lu · QuanShining in from the Career Palace (Tian Tong Hua Lu) and the Wealth Palace (Tian Ji Hua Quan): resources back you up; you push with more force.

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 WealthYou are your own source of income and can earn on your own ability. Investing in yourself pays best.

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 XingYou are principled, follow the rules and hold yourself to a high standard. Self-discipline is a strength; just do not be too hard on yourself.

Feng GaoYou have chances at titles and positions, and good work earns formal recognition. When the title comes, make sure your skills keep pace.

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 palaceThe sun and moon guarding the Life Palace are not as good as shining on it from elsewhere; where Yin and Fu gather, one need not fear danger.“Tai Wei Fu” ›Qi Sha is like Zilu, who would fight a tiger bare-handed and wade across a river; Huo Xing and Ling Xing are like Yu Rang, who swallowed charcoal and feigned muteness.“Xing Xing Fu” ›Like one who fights tigers and wades rivers (Qi Sha), the eyes are far too fierce; like one who swallowed charcoal and feigned muteness (Huo Xing, Ling Xing), the voice is hoarse and low.“Xing Xing Fu” ›My Quan Shu (19 lines on this palace) ›

Where the chart lines up

Talking his way to the dean

Unable to afford college tuition, Douglas talked his way into the dean's office at St. Lawrence University and showed him a list of his high school honors. He then studied on a loan, which he paid back by working as a gardener and a janitor, and graduated in 1939. In his chart, the Wealth Palace holds Ju Men (Miao). Ju Men stands for the mouth and speaking, and here it sits in the palace of money; talking his way into an opportunity when money ran short lines up with this star.

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Breaking contracts to go his own way

From nominal ages 34–43 (1949–1958) he was in the Decade Luck of his Property Palace, which holds Po Jun (Wang). In September 1949 he broke his studio contracts and founded Bryna Productions, named after his mother, to take control of his own projects; in 1955 he broke his contracts with producer Hal B. Wallis and Warner Bros. and began producing and starring in his own films. Po Jun is the star that breaks the old order and starts afresh, which lines up with his setting up on his own during this decade.

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Handing Cuckoo's Nest to his son

Douglas bought the rights to One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest and starred in the stage play on Broadway in 1963; after ten years without finding a producer for the film, he handed the film rights to his son Michael, and the 1975 film made by Michael and Saul Zaentz won the five major Academy Awards. A film he starred in in 1980 was also produced by his son Peter. In his chart, the Children Palace holds Tian Xiang (De). Tian Xiang is the star of support and mutual help, which fits father and sons helping each other in film.

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Life Palace

Kirk Douglas's Life Palace has no main star (an Empty Palace); it borrows Tai Yang from the opposite palace. Xingge's name for this persona: The Traveler. With the Metal 4 Bureau, that makes the Metal 4 · Empty Palace type among Xingge's 75.

Empty Palace · The Traveler ›Metal 4 · Empty Palace type ›

Birth-year transformations

The stem of Kirk Douglas's birth year transforms four stars:

Birth data

Local time 1916-12-09 10:15, from Astro-Databank, Rodden rating AA (birth certificate or record). In true solar time at the birthplace that is 10:24, the Si hour.

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