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Zi Wei Dou Shu is a Chinese Astrology system used by many professional Chinese fortune tellers. Although it is not as well known than its counterpart, Ba Zi (also known as Four Pillars of Destiny or Eight Characters), it can provide comparable insights into a person's character, potential and luck cycle throughout his or her life.
Ba Zi transforms a person's Chinese solar year, month, day and time of birth into four pillars comprising each of a heavenly stem and an earthly branch. The fortune teller then evaluates the relationship, the combinations, clashes etc between the stems and branches in the pillars to make reveal a person's character and potential. Zi Wei Dou Shu on the other hand uses a person's Chinese lunar age (date and time of birth) and express then into a chart made up of palaces, stars, stems and branches to denote time and the four enhancers generated by the heavenly stems.
There are 12 palaces to be exact arranged in a 4x4 matrix. They are Self, Sibling, Spouse, Children, Wealth, Health, Travel, Friends, Career, Property, Mental and Parent palaces. Within each of the palaces are the heavenly stem and branch that denotes time cycle e.g. decades, years, months, day and time. Also located within the palaces are stars that can range from as little as 18 to 114 depending on the school that your practice. And finally the four forces (or changes).
There are two primary schools of Zi Wei Dou Shu, namely the Three Harmony School and the Four Changes (refer to forces) School.
The main difference between the two schools is in the emphasis. The Three Harmony School places much more importance on the stars in each palaces and their combination with other stars in selected palaces. The Four Changes School places much more emphasis on the four forces (that exist in every palaces) and hence are able to make as many readings with lesser stars. The Four Changes schools typically uses between 18 and 30 plus stars only.
Both the systems have their strengths and weaknesses but when used by an experienced astrologer, it can tell a lot of things about the person. For example besides telling you about the person's character, it can also tell his or her career and wealth potential, relationship with others such as spouse, sibling, children, children and friends, his or her physical and mental health and migration potential.
In addition it can also reveal a person's luck e.g. career, wealth, relationships and health in every decade and every year.
It goes without saying that learning the system is not easy and it takes years even under proper guidance to be reasonable good at it.
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Henry Fong is a Feng Shui Consultant. To find out more on Chinese Astrology Compatibility, visit his web site at http://www.absolutelyfengshui.com
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