Otto Lilienthal's Zi Wei Dou Shu chart

Aviation pioneer, the "Glider King" · born May 23, 1848 in Anklam, Germany

The German gliding pioneer known as the "flying man". His Life Palace holds Zi Wei (Wang) and Qi Sha (Ping), and his Body Palace sits in the Life Palace too.

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Leaders · Zi Wei1848 · M4 D21 · Wu hour

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Water 2 Bureau

Life Master Ju Men

Body Master Tian Liang

Life Palace

You have drive and authority and dare to make decisions.

Terms in this palace · Tap for a plain explanation

You have drive and authority and dare to make decisions.From the classic

This life will likely ask you to go through some hardship.

Stars

Zi Wei NatureYou carry the bearing of the Emperor Star: you like to make the call and keep the whole picture in view. You shine most when you have capable people around you.

Qi Sha NatureYou have drive and nerve, the boldness of the General Star. Before you charge ahead, know your way back.

Zi Wei and Qi ShaYou are decisive and don't back down easily. That fierce streak is kept in check, so you won't be too rash.

For MenClassical texts say Qi Sha in a man's chart brings authority. Today, it means you can hold real power and keep a room in hand.“Star Combinations: Qi Sha”

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 Children Palace, so your thoughts often circle around children and younger people.

Body Master Tian LiangThe older you get, the more you become the elder who looks after people and takes responsibility. Let someone look after you for once. Your Body Master sits in your Siblings Palace, so much of your later effort goes into your peers.

Patterns

Jun Chen Qing Hui (Emperor and Ministers Meet)The Emperor Star has both assistants at its side: you are suited to leading people and can find those willing to follow. The bigger the role, the better you perform.Classic pattern

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

Shuang Lu Jiao Liu (Double Lu Exchange)Lu Cun and Hua Lu both sit in the trines of your Life Palace: you have more than one source of income, from your own work and your network, and it grows the more you tend it.Later pattern

Helpful TrinesSan Fang Si Zheng brings in Zuo Fu, You Bi and Tian Yue: you have help and resources in your own life, more than this palace alone suggests.

Transformations

Trines: Lu · KeShining in from the Wealth Palace (Tan Lang Hua Lu, You Bi Hua Ke): resources back you up; people readily vouch for you and speak well of you.

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.

Ji to WealthYou tend to worry about money and whether there’s enough. Steady income suits you better than big risks.

Minor Stars

Gu ChenYou are good at being alone and used to working through things by yourself. When someone asks how you are, try telling the truth.

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 palaceZi Wei and Tian Fu depend wholly on the help of Zuo Fu and You Bi; Qi Sha and Po Jun owe their savagery solely to Qing Yang and Ling Xing.“Tai Wei Fu” ›When the stars as a whole are auspicious, even meeting a malefic star is auspicious. When the stars as a whole are malefic, meeting a malefic star is malefic.“Tai Wei Fu” ›To trace it to the source: Zi Wei is the imperial seat, and (the person it governs) is born with a solid and weighty face. Tian Fu is a venerable star, and it too gives a pure and mild build.“Xing Xing Fu” ›My Quan Shu (67 lines on this palace) ›

Where the chart lines up

Working side by side with his brother Gustav

Lilienthal and his younger brother Gustav worked together for many years on technical, social and cultural projects. As schoolboys the two studied bird flight together and even built wings strapped to the body; later, his more than 2,000 glider flights from 1891 onwards were also made together with Gustav. His chart shows Tian Ji (Li) with Hua Ji (Transformation of Obstruction) in the Siblings Palace. The Siblings Palace stands for brothers and sisters, and Hua Ji marks where thought and effort go, which lines up with the two brothers throwing themselves into research together.

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First glides in the spring of 1891

In the spring of 1891 (nominal age 44), on the slope of a sand pit on a hill between the villages of Derwitz and Krielow, west of Potsdam, Lilienthal made his first jumps and glides, covering about 25 metres; his flight attempts in 1891 are seen as the beginning of human flight. In 1891 his annual Life Palace moves to his natal Career Palace. The Career Palace stands for career and the work in hand, so the year's focus falls on his flying experiments.

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A small engine that brought financial freedom

Lilienthal was also an inventor, and devised a small engine that worked on a system of tubular boilers and was much safer than other small engines of the time; this invention gave him the financial freedom to focus on aviation. He also founded his own company to make boilers and steam engines. His chart shows Tan Lang (Miao) with Hua Lu (Transformation of Wealth) in the Wealth Palace. The Wealth Palace stands for income, and Hua Lu is money coming in: earning from invention to fund his aviation research fits this star.

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Life Palace

Otto Lilienthal's Life Palace holds Zi Wei and Qi Sha. Xingge's name for this persona: The Emperor. With the Water 2 Bureau, that makes the Water 2 · Zi Wei type among Xingge's 75.

Zi Wei · The Emperor ›Water 2 · Zi Wei type ›

Birth-year transformations

The stem of Otto Lilienthal's birth year transforms four stars:

Birth data

Local time 1848-05-23 11:30, from Astro-Databank, Rodden rating AA (birth certificate or record). In true solar time at the birthplace that is 11:33, the Wu hour.

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