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Chinese cosmology in plain language — with named source terms.

What is Zi Wei Dou Shu (紫微斗数)? The Twelve-Palace Frame

Twelve palaces, star combinations, and decade cycles — a structural reading of one moment of time.

Four Pillars encode Element balance and Day Master archetype — useful for self-modeling if you treat it as a mirror, not a cage.

Six lines form a hexagram; changing lines point to a second figure. Here is the minimum viable mental model.

Classical physiognomy maps feature zones to temperament and tendency. AI can assist feature extraction — with strict privacy hygiene.

Start with orientation, clutter, bed position, light, and elemental balance — before buying “cure” gadgets.

Pair charts overlay Day Masters, branches, and palace resonance — friction and harmony can both be productive.

Your "sheng xiao year" follows the lunar new year boundary — not always January 1. Here is why that matters.