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Chinese Metaphysics

Fill in your birth profile and house layout once, then read each module in its own tab.

Birth profile

Required for Zi Wei Dou Shu.

Gender
House layout

The direction you look when standing in the front door facing out.

Type the number from a compass, 0 to 359, and the facing is chosen for you.

How to find the way your house faces
  1. Decide which side is the front. Usually it is the side with the main door facing the street. If the main door is on the side, use the most open side: the one facing the street, the front yard, or large windows.
  2. Stand in the front doorway with your back to the house and open a compass app on your phone. Hold the phone flat in front of your chest, parallel to the front wall.
  3. Keep the phone away from metal and electricity: an iron fence, a car, a steel door, or an electricity meter can pull the needle. Step back a pace or two from the door if needed.
  4. Measure three times from slightly different spots, such as the door, a front window, and the porch, and use the middle value.
  5. Enter that bearing in the field above. If it is only a few degrees from the border between two directions, measure again more carefully, because this calculator does not yet make replacement charts for directions on a border.
  6. For an apartment, traditions differ: some use the facing of the building entrance, others the side of the unit with the largest windows. Choose one and use it consistently.

Or the year of the last major renovation. It sets the chart's period.

Fill in the profile above, and each module's result appears in this tab.

What does this page calculate?

Zi Wei Dou Shu places fourteen major stars in twelve palaces by your birth date and hour in the lunar calendar. Each palace stands for one area of life, from the self to the parents, and the four transformations (Hua Lu, Quan, Ke, Ji) mark the liveliest areas of the chart.

Qi Men Dun Jia arranges nine palaces for one hour: the earth and heaven plates, eight doors, nine stars, and eight deities. The chart starts at your birth hour, then moves to any other date and hour to read the mood of a time.

Integrative feng shui joins Flying Stars, which reads a house from its facing and building year, with Ba Zhai, which reads your personal directions from your Kua number. All three are Chinese traditions, best read as material for reflection rather than certain prediction.

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