How To Plot a Ziwei Doushu Chart​

HOW TO PLOT A ZIWEI DOUSHU CHART

In Chinese Astrology, it is believed that a person’s age is calculated since he is still in his mother’s womb and not calculated when he is born, therefore when a person is born, his age is actually considered to be 1 year. To build a Ziwei Doushu chart, you must first change your date of birth using the Gregorian calendar to the Lunar calendar because in making the Ziwei Doushu chart, the date of birth is needed based on the calculation of the Lunar date and month.

To do this, Ziwei Doushu practitioners would usually use the Wan Nian Li (万年历) calendar, but in the modern era there are now many online applications in the form of websites and applications on Android or iPhone, you just need to type the keyword : “Convert to Lunar Calendar” and you will find dozens of free apps that will convert your date of birth into Lunar dates and months.  Or you can directly use free online applications on the website or on Android or iPhone to build Ziwei Doushu charts directly, both online and offline. Here we will teach you the basic techniques of building a Ziwei Doushu chart manually. When you are a practitioner, there is no need to do the same thing anymore because you can utilize online and offline applications to save your time.

There are 9 steps in building a Ziwei Doushu chart manually, which are as follows:

• • Identify the Heavenly Stem in the Yin 寅 sector.
  • Complete the Heavenly Stem on each sector.
  • Place the Self sector 命宫where it belongs.
  • Arrange the positions of the 5 elements to determine the position of Ziwei star.
  • Arrange the 14 main stars using the Ziwei template.
  • Arrange the auxiliary stars Zuo Fu and You Bi.
  • Arrange the auxiliary stars Wen Chang and Wen Qu.
  • Identify the Decade’s Cycle.

• Identify the Yearly Cycle.

For example :

Male, born on March 9th, 1968 at 04:30.

After being converted to the Lunar calendar, it is found that his date of birth is the 11th, 2nd Lunar month, Wu Shen (戊申) year or Year of the Earth Monkey, at Tiger (Yin 寅) hour.

Here is the process by following the 10 steps above: