Practice
The requester, or the person seeking the fortune telling advice, presents a person's moment of birth: year, month, day, and time to the fortune interpreter. Without this crucial information, the analysis cannot take place. Chinese name or strokes in the characters that make up one's name is also requested at times for further refinement in the analysis at times. Although analyzing in combination with the name is practiced, this is outside the scope of zi wei dou shu.
One difference from astrology is that the positions in zi wei dou shu does not correspond actual position of those stars.
Calculations are worked out to chart the stars into 12 different palaces or Gong (宫). This would then be one's Natal Birth Chart or Mìng Pán (命盘).
By integrating the stars and palaces, their attributes, environmental factors, the Five elements, Yin and Yang concept and all the possible combinations and variations, including the position of the symbolic stars and their interrelations, not only can personalities be understood, but personal and professional relationships can be predicted. The end result is a calculated translation of one's destiny in detail including events that have already happened in the past for verification purposes.
The plotting of one's birth chart is not difficult. What is difficult in Zi Wei Dou Shu is the complex system of interpretation that allows us to 'read' the blueprint of our lives.
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