Zi Wei Dou Shu for beginners

Chapter 0

Before the chart

What this map is actually drawing

1. 1Zi Wei Dou Shu isn't fortune-telling. It's a map of who you are
2. 2One chart, twelve rooms
3. 3How your chart is cast
4. 4Heavenly Stems and Earthly Branches, the crash course

Chapter 1

The twelve rooms

Twelve sides of a life

1. 1The Life Palace and the Body Palace
2. 2The self line: Fortune, Travel and Health
3. 3The relationships line: five rooms about other people
4. 4The resources line: Wealth, Career and Property
5. 5San Fang Si Zheng: the rooms visit each other
6. 6Empty Palaces, borrowed stars and the Origin Palace

Chapter 2

The fourteen main stars

Fourteen kinds of room owner

1. 1Main stars are the owners of the rooms
2. 2Where Zi Wei sits decides the whole chart
3. 3Zi Wei and Tian Fu: the Emperor and the Steward
4. 4Tian Ji and Tian Liang: the Strategist and the Elder
5. 5Tai Yang and Tai Yin: Sun and Moon
6. 6Wu Qu and Tian Xiang: the Financier and the Chancellor
7. 7Tian Tong and Ju Men: the Sunshine and the Debater
8. 8Lian Zhen and Tan Lang: the Judge and the Player
9. 9Qi Sha and Po Jun: the General and the Breaker
10. 10The Empty Palace: the fifteenth kind of owner

Chapter 3

Auxiliary stars

The helpers and examiners beside the main stars

1. 1Helpful and challenging stars aren't good and bad
2. 2The Six Auspicious Stars: three pairs of helpers
3. 3The Six Malefic Stars: three pairs of examiners
4. 4Lu Cun and Tian Ma

Chapter 4

The Four Transformations

The impulses that set the stars in motion

1. 1The Four Transformations are four impulses
2. 2Hua Lu: connection and reward
3. 3Hua Quan and Hua Ke
4. 4Hua Ji: where you can't let go
5. 5Where Hua Ji sits, and what it clashes with
6. 6Your birth-year transformations
7. 7A first look at Flying Stars and self-transformation

Chapter 5

Chart patterns

Set bonuses when the right stars line up

1. 1Chart patterns are set bonuses
2. 2The three star groups
3. 3Classic favorable patterns, a selection
4. 4Flanking patterns: your neighbors matter
5. 5Don't let patterns box you in

Chapter 6

Luck periods

Beyond the map, there is weather

1. 1Your chart is the map; the luck periods are the weather
2. 2Decade Luck: a chapter every ten years
3. 3Annual Luck: this year's theme
4. 4Minor Luck and Monthly Luck
5. 5The layered chart: reading three layers together

Chapter 7

Minor stars and spirits

Small stars that sharpen the picture

1. 1The romance star family
2. 2Small stars of talent and distinction
3. 3Small stars with heavy names
4. 4The Twelve Life Stages
5. 5Bo Shi, Jiang Qian and Sui Qian

Chapter 8

Opening the Quan Shu

Checking our answers against the ancients

1. 1What kind of book is the Quan Shu
2. 2The Tai Wei Fu in plain words
3. 3Selected readings from the Gu Sui Fu
4. 4Selected readings from the Zhu Xing Wen Da Lun
5. 5Reading a whole chart from start to finish

Chart placement and the Four Transformations follow the original text of the Zi Wei Dou Shu Quan Shu. The lessons are Xingge's plain-language retelling, and readings are framed as how practitioners tend to see things, not as promises.