Enter your birth date, time, place, and gender to create a Zi Wei Dou Shu chart. Review the Life and Body Palaces, 12 palaces, 14 major stars, Four Transformations, decade cycles, and declared calculation settings.
12 Palaces · Life stage & pivotal arenas
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The free chart shows twelve palaces, resident and borrowed stars, transformations and decade context. Every saved annual year appears together without recalculating the birth chart.
Explore each of the twelve palaces alongside six annual readings. New complete reports are checked for missing palace sections before delivery; incomplete sections are retried rather than silently omitted. Earlier saved reports remain unchanged.
Open the reading-basis button to see saved chart structure, palace stars, annual context and valid career or wealth references. Opening this overview makes no new AI request; use the report’s deeper follow-up questions when you want to explore a conclusion further.
The complete Ziwei reading can cover up to 14 distinct layers, separating chart facts, formal pattern conditions, practical interpretation and timing instead of blending them into one generic narrative.
Twelve-palace detail, six annual readings and birth-time-dependent material appear only when the saved chart evidence supports them. Missing scope is disclosed rather than guessed, and earlier saved reports remain unchanged.
Coverage checks establish completeness, not the truth of every interpretation. The verification record separately lists calculation tests, school differences and unresolved reference fields. Birth-time range comparison and a multi-school selector are not included in these controls.
Follow the editorial standards, shared validation process and the exact method used for this system.
Enter your birth date, local time, place, and gender to create a free Zi Wei Dou Shu chart without signing up. Review the Life and Body Palaces, 12 palaces, 14 major stars, Four Transformations, decade and annual layers, and matches from 34 registered pattern and structure labels. The chart also shows the calculation basis; the full AI report and follow-up questions are a separate step.
A Zi Wei Dou Shu calculator converts birth date, time, place, and gender into 12 palaces, star placements, Four Transformations, and timing layers. A chart is easier to verify when the calendar, time correction, day boundary, year boundary, and school rules are visible.
OpenFate stores the rule-based chart before adding AI explanation. Identical birth data is likely to reproduce the same chart only when the calculation conventions also match.
The free chart makes the 12-palace structure, 14 major stars, Four Transformations, and matching pattern or structure labels available before an AI reading. The registered set contains 34 labels; a particular chart displays only those whose conditions match.
Focused tests cover chart construction, leap months, day boundaries, annual layers, and report contracts. The methodology page explains the scope and limits without publishing private birth data or the full internal rule and test libraries.
Use the recorded birth date, local clock time, birth place, and gender. Birth place provides longitude and time-zone context; a lunar-calendar record also requires confirmation of leap-month status.
The current engine declares the Zhongzhou school in the Wang Tingzhi lineage, the Wang Tingzhi Four Transformations table, a Lunar New Year boundary, and a split-leap-month convention. The page exposes the calculation basis and revision rather than presenting one convention as universal.
Zi Wei Dou Shu schools can disagree. Naming the adopted rule set makes comparison possible; it does not imply that every other school is incorrect.
The output shows the Life and Body Palaces, 12-palace structure, 14 major stars and other placements, Four Transformations, decade cycles, and annual cycles. These calculated fields form the evidence layer for any later chart interpretation.
True Solar Time adjusts the recorded local time using birth-place longitude and the equation of time. If the adjusted time crosses an hour boundary, hour-dependent palaces or stars may change; crossing a date boundary can affect date-dependent calculations.
OpenFate supports a 23:00 or 00:00 day boundary according to the selected setting. For births near the late Zi hour, compare the active rule before comparing interpretation text.
A disagreement does not automatically prove that one calculator is wrong. Calendar conversion, leap-month handling, year boundary, historical time zone, daylight saving, True Solar Time, day boundary, school, and Four Transformations table can each change the result.
Hold the birth data constant and compare one rule at a time. Find the first difference in the Life Palace, Body Palace, 12 palaces, or major-star placements before comparing written readings.
The engine builds the chart from birth inputs and selected rules. AI only organizes the existing palaces, stars, transformations, and cycles into readable explanations; it should not invent a birth time or silently replace a declared school rule.
Zi Wei Dou Shu is a traditional interpretive system. Reproducible chart calculations do not scientifically validate personality claims or future-event predictions.
Answers about free chart creation, required birth data, True Solar Time, calendars, day boundaries, school differences, and AI interpretation.
Yes. You can create and inspect the basic Zi Wei Dou Shu chart without signing up. AI interpretation and follow-up questions are a separate step and may require an account and reading credits.
It needs the birth date, recorded local time, birth place, and gender. If the source record uses a lunar date, also confirm leap-month status. Birth place is used to match longitude, historical time zone, and possible daylight-saving rules.
A missing birth time prevents confirmation of the hour-dependent palaces and star placements. Do not enter noon or midnight simply to obtain a complete-looking chart; preserve the uncertainty and compare plausible candidate hours.
No. True Solar Time adjusts the recorded time using birth-place longitude and the equation of time. Chart fields may change only when that correction crosses an hour or date boundary used by the calculation.
Yes. The calendar input must be converted correctly, including a lunar leap month when applicable. OpenFate also declares its Lunar New Year boundary and split-leap-month rule so you can compare the same convention across calculators.
Common causes include birth place, historical time zone or daylight saving, True Solar Time, a 23:00 versus 00:00 day boundary, lunar leap-month handling, year boundary, school, and Four Transformations table. Align the inputs and rules before comparing placements.
No. The chart engine calculates the palaces, stars, transformations, and timing layers first. AI can explain that existing output later, but it does not freely rewrite the calculated chart.
The engine checks 34 registered pattern and structure labels. This includes classical patterns and OpenFate-defined structural signals; it does not mean every chart contains 34 patterns or that all schools use identical conditions. Pattern matches support the full chart reading rather than prove a life outcome.
