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The Language of Polaris Astrology

☯ Yin Yang

🌿 Yin represents feminine energy, darkness, night, and the north.
🔥 Yang represents masculine energy, light, day, and the south.  more...

🌻 Five Elements

💧Water 🌳Wood 🔥Fire 🌏Earth 🪓Metal
5 Elements More...

🌳Ten Heaven Stems

🌳H1 🌳H2 🌳H3 🌳H4 🌳H5 🌳H6 🌳H7 🌳H8 🌳H9 🌳H10
The 10 Heaven Stems are units used for recording time. more...

🌿 Twelve Earth Branches

🌿e1 🌿e2 🌿e3 🌿e4 🌿e5 🌿e6 🌿e7 🌿e8 🌿e9 🌿e10 🌿e11 🌿e12
The 12 Earth Branches are units used for recording time. more...

🌷Life and 🔮 Fortune

In Polaris Astrology, there is a distinction between a person's "Life" and "Fortune".
🌷Life: A person's Life is composed of 12 aspects, represented by the 12 Palaces on their Life Chart. The 12 Palaces describe who you are, what you do, and your relationships with others.
🔮Fortune: Fortune represents a person's past, present, and future events. It represents a person's life experiences. Each of the 12 boxes on the chart corresponds to specific periods in the person's life.
A Major Fortune refers to a person's fortune over a specific 10-year period, while an Annual Fortune refers to a person's fortune for one year. There are also Monthly, Daily, and Hourly Fortunes.

🌷 Life Chart

In Polaris Astrology, a person's birth chart is called a "Life Chart" (ming pan 命盤). The Life Chart describes a person's life and fortune. It consists of 12 small boxes connected in a circle to form a large box. Stars are placed in the boxes according to the time of birth. Each of the small boxes is named after one earth branch. Click here to generate your Polaris Astrology life chart.

❤️ Core Components of Polaris Astrology

Polaris Astrology is made up of three core components:
🏰Palaces   ✨Stars   🦋Four Converted Stars

🏰 The 12 Terras(location)

Each of the 12 boxes that make up the life chart is called a terra or palace. Each is named after a Year Animal. There are 12 Year Animals in total. The Year Animals follow a specific order in the chart. The order is the same for everyone. More...

🏰 Twelve Palaces(12 Aspects of Life)

In Polaris Astrology, a person's life has 12 aspects, which are also called the 12 Palaces.  The Life Palace is the first palace. It represents the self. Its location can be anywhere on the chart. Subsequent palaces are placed after the Life Palace according to the order of the 12 palaces. The order of the 12 palaces on the chart is the same for everyone. more...

🏰 Latter Palace

The Latter Palace is the 13th palace. Its location on the life chart coincides with one of the 12 Palaces. It represents the second half of a person's life, usually beginning around the age of 35. The Latter Palace is often omitted when reading a person's life chart.  more...

🏰 Six Person Palaces

The Six Person Palaces represent the relationships between a person and those with whom they are connected. They also represent the personalities and characteristics of these connected individuals.

🏰 Six Affair Palaces

The six affair palaces represent matters of personal concern.

🏰 Six Inner Palaces

The Six Inner Palaces, represent personal matters that are related to the self.

🏰 Six Outer Palaces (Other Palaces)

The Six Outer Palaces, also known as the Six Other Palaces, represent matters other than the Self.
*In some texts, the Journey Palace is classified as one of the Self Palaces. The Journey Palace represents how a person present and expresses themselves, especially when they are away from home or their birthplace. If you live abroad, work abroad, or work far (70 km, 44 mi) from your home, you should consider the Journey Palace as one of your Self Palaces.

🏰 Original Twelve Palaces

The Original 12 Palaces is another term for the 12 palaces. However, whenever the word "original" is mentioned, it means that only a person's life is being considered. It does not include the person's Major Fortune and Annual Fortune.

💰 Major Fortune

Major fortune represents a person's fortune for a particular ten-year period. There are 12 palaces on the life chart; therefore, there are 12 major fortunes more...

💰 Current Major Fortune

Each major fortune spans 10 years. The current major fortune refers to the 10-year period a person is currently experiencing.

💰 Annual Fortune

The Annual Fortune is the fortune for a particular year. There are several sets of additional annual stars for annual fortunes only. more...

🏰 Twelve Major Fortunes

There are 12 palaces on a person's life chart, and each palace represents one major fortune. Each major fortune corresponds to a specific 10-year period in a person's life. There are a total of 12 major fortunes in a person's chart. More...

🏰 Twelve Major Palaces

Each major fortune has its own 12 palaces, which are called the 12 Major Palaces.  more...

🏰 Annual Twelve Palaces

Annual 12 palaces are used for the annual fortune only. Each year has its own Annual 12 palaces. more...

🏰 Self Palace

When reading the Life Chart, the Palace of Interest is called the Self Palace. For example, if you want to learn about your wealth, locate the Wealth Palace on the chart—it will serve as the Self Palace. Similarly, if you want to know about your spouse, the Spouse Palace becomes the Self Palace. When interpreting a person's life, first focus on the stars in the Life Palace, because it is the most important palace on the Life Chart. When reading any palace, its quartet palaces must be considered together. more...

🏰 Opposite Palace

The palace located six positions clockwise or counterclockwise from the Self Palace is called the Opposite Palace. When interpreting any palace, it is essential to read it alongside its Opposite Palace. more...

🏰 Six Lines

Each palace on the Life Chart has an Opposite Palace. The Six Lines connect each Self Palace to its Opposite Palace. The Opposite Palace serves as the external representation of the Self Palace.  more...

• 🌻Life-Journey Line connects the Life Palace and the Journey Palace.
• 🌻Parent-Health Line connects the Parent Palace and the Health Palace.
• 🌻Wealth-Fortuen Line connects the Wealth Palace and the Fortune Palace.
• 🌻Home-Child Line connects the Home Palace and the Child Palace.
• 🌻Career-Spouse Line connects the Career Palace and the Spouse Palace.
• 🌻Friend-Sibling Line connects the Friend Palace and the Sibling Palace.

🏰 Trio Palaces

Each palace has two companion palaces. The Self Palace (the palace of interest), together with its two companions, is referred to as the 'Trio Palaces.' The first Companion Palace is four palaces clockwise from the Self Palace (the Career Palace of the Self Palace). The second Companion Palace is four palaces counterclockwise from the Self Palace (the Wealth Palace of the Self Palace). more...

🏰 Quartet Palaces

The Quartet Palaces consist of the Self Palace, its Opposite Palace, and its two Companion Palaces. The Opposite Palace is the Journey Palace of the Self Palace. When interpreting a palace, all the palaces within the Quartet should be read together as a group. more...

🏰 Adjacent Palaces

Adjacent Palaces are the two palaces on either side of the Self Palace. The Self Palace is therefore sandwiched between the two adjacent palaces. more...

🏰 Central Palace (Enclosed Palace/Sandwiched Palace )🥪

The palace that is enclosed by the two adjacent palaces is called the Central Palace (Enclosed Palace/Sandwiched Palace). more...

🏰 Empty Palace

A palace with No Main Stars is called an empty palace. To analyze an empty palace, use (borrow) the Main stars from its opposite palace. more...

✨ Fourteen Main Doushu Stars

There are 14 main stars of Polaris Astrology. Main stars are the most influential and important stars. Each palace can have from zero to two main stars.  The 14 main stars are divided into two groups, the Northern Doushu Main Star, and the Southern Doushu Main Stars. It is also divided into active and passive groups.

✨ Northern Doushu Main Stars:

• 👑 Polaris: A natural leader, egocentric, unyielding, and always wants to be in control.
• 🧠 Thinker: The advisor, kind, intelligent, knowledgeable, and always thinking.
• ☀️ Sun: Outgoing, open, energetic, radiant, glamorous, and likes to help others.
• 🪙 Gold: An action-oriented wealth star, hardworking, reliable, may not talk much.
• 🐻 Child: Full of imagination, enjoys eating and having fun, with good coordination skills.
• 🦁 Wild Star: A secondary love star, aesthetic, good at art, follows high standards, nonconforming, unyielding, and abides by their own rules.

✨ Southern Doushu Main Stars:

• 🏠 Mansion: The treasure, a savings wealth star, with a reserved personality, forgiving, caring, and good at managing money and giving orders.
• 🌙 Moon: The planning wealth star. Good-looking, feminine in appearance (for both males and females), observant, detail-oriented, emotional, and occasionally insecure.
• 🐺 Greedy Wolf: The primary Lover Star, with good social skills, outgoing, and with materialistic desires; some have desires for knowledge.
• ⚗️ Dark: The dark star, intelligent, extremely analytical, and skilled in communication and debate. Likes to uncover the truth and reasons behind things.
• 🍷 Prime Minister: Well-groomed, with good social skills, a good listener, and makes decisions by gathering information from all sides.
• 🌳 Elder: The sanctuary, the elder or oldest sibling, the chief or group leader. Tends to protect and help others. Talkative and good at telling stories.
• ⚔️ Seven Slayer: A fighter star, competitive, always striving to improve and make more money, willing to take higher risks.
• 🚗 Warrior: A fighter star, the soldier, is polite, generous, dislikes trivial matters, innovative, imaginative, and may experience many significant life changes.

🐻🐼Active and Passive Stars

Among the 14 Main Stars, 8 are Active Stars, and 6 are Passive Stars. Only Active Stars can be in the same palace or in the same Quartet Palaces as other Active Stars, and only Passive Stars can be in the same palace and the same Quartet Palaces as other Passive Stars. There are 15 Active Star combinations and 9 Passive Star combinations. In total, there are 24 main star combinations, known as the 24 Dual Main Stars.

In general, Active Stars are fierce, and Passive Stars are gentle. However, among the Active Stars, the Mansion Star and the Prime Minister are gentle. Among the Passive Stars, the Dark Star and the Sun Star can sometimes be fierce and sometimes gentle.

🐻 Active Main Stars

👑Polaris 🏦Mansion 🪙Gold 🦁wild-star 🐺Greedy-Wolf 🍷prime-minister ⚔️Seven-Slayer 🚗Warrior

🐼Passive Main Stars

🧠Thinker ⚗️Dark ☀️Sun 🌙Moon 🐻Child 🌳Elder

🦋 Four Converted Stars

The Four Converted Stars are the most important stars in Polaris Astrology. They can transform a star from passive to active, increase or reduce a star's strength, and alter a star's characteristics. more...

• 💰 To Wealth: Causes a person to become more generous, make more money, become more relaxed, more affectionate, and gain weight.
• 🗡️ To Authority: Causes a person to become more assertive. The person works harder, becomes more competitive, and has a desire for more power or control.
• 🛡️ To Brightness: Increases a person's exposure, making them more cautious. It also increases luck, alleviates health issues and mishaps, and reduces the effects of the To Darkness Star.
• 🐌 To Darkness: Activates the negative side of the converted stars, becoming an obstacle and hindering progress.

🦋 Original Converted Stars

The Original Converted Stars are derived from a person's birth year. They are the most influential set of Converted Stars and are very important when interpreting the life chart.

🦋 Major Converted Stars

The Major Converted Stars are used for Major Fortunes. When interpreting Major Fortunes, the Original Converted Stars must be considered simultaneously.

🦋 Annual Converted Stars

The Annual Converted Stars are for the fortune of a particular year. When interpreting the fortune of a specific year, the Original, Major, and Annual Converted Stars must all be considered together.

🦋 Three Extraordinary Stars

💰To Wealth 🗡️To Authority 🛡️To Brightness
The Three Extraordinary Stars are the Four Converted Stars without the To Darkness star

✨ Eight Auspicious Stars

The Eight Auspicious Stars consist of four Assistant Stars and four Advancement Star. more...
🍀 Yang Noble   🐞 Yin Noble   ♂️ Left-Assistant   ♀️ Right-Assistant   📚 Literature   🎵 Music   💲Savings   ✈️ Sky Horse

✨ Four Assistant Stars

A person with Assistant Stars receives benefits and opportunities from others, such as advantages in special situations or from the government.

• 🍀 Yang Noble: Receives help and benefits from the government, other organizations, or individuals with high social status (usually male).
• 🐞 Yin Noble: Receives help and benefits from the government, other organizations, or individuals with high social status (usually female).
• ♂️ Left-Assistant: Receives help and support primarily from male friends and subordinates.
• ♀️ Right-Assistant: Receives help and support primarily from female friends and subordinates.

✨ Four Advancement Star

A person with Advancement Star increases their benefits and opportunities through self-help, such as studying and practicing.

• 📚 Literature: Scholastic, poetic, and skilled in writing.
• 🎵 Music: Craftsmanship, skillful with musical instruments, good at math, and strong debating abilities.
• 💲 Savings: Accumulates wealth through savings and various income sources.
• ✈️ Sky Horse: A person typically receives benefits and opportunities during travel, vacations, business trips, etc."

✨ Four Challenge Stars

• 🗡️ Blade Star: Associated with bloodshed, injury, and surgery.
• 🐢 Spinning Top: Represents slowness and delays.
• 😡 Fire Star: Symbolizes explosiveness and anger.
• 🔔 Ringing Star: Related to stress, noise, and disturbances.

✨ Thievery Stars

Both the Earth Empty Star and the Earth Raid Star represent the loss of wealth, often involving a sudden significant financial loss. The effect of the Earth-Empty Star tends more toward emotional distress, while the Earth-Raid Star tends more toward monetary loss.

• 😱 Earth-Empty: Emotional distress.
• 💸 Earth Raid: Struck by loss of money.

✨ Six Challenge Stars

The four Challenge Stars plus the two Thievery Stars, the Earth Empty Star, and the Earth Raid  Star are called the 6 Challenge Stars.
Six Challenge Stars: 🗡️Blade Star   🐢Spinning Top   😡Fire Star   🔔Ringing Star   💸Earth Raid   😱 Earth Empty

✨ Miscellaneous Stars

In traditional star classification, stars that do not belong to any specific class are categorized as Miscellaneous Stars.

✨ Companion Stars

Many of the stars in Polaris Astrology are companion stars. Companion stars are two stars that are related to each other and are usually derived using similar methods. The strength of some Companion Stars is much stronger when both stars are in the same palace or when both stars are found in their quartet palaces.

✨ Empty Stars

• 😱 Earth Empty: Symbolizes loss of money and emotional distress (more toward emotional distress)
• 💸 Earth Raid: Symbolizes loss of money and emotional distress (more toward loss of money)
• 💭 Empty Sky: imagination, unrealistic.
• 🚧 Empty Road: Represents obstacles (Only the Primary Empty Road Star is used. The Secondary-Empty-Road-Star is ignored)
• ☁️ Empty Time: Represents obstacles (Only the Primary Empty Time Star is used. The Secondary-Empty-Time-Star is ignored)

✨ Wealth Stars

• 🪙 Gold Star: Action Wealth Star, acquires wealth through taking action.
• 🏠 Mansion star: Savings Wealth Star, acquires wealth by saving money and is good at money management.
• 🌙 Moon star: Planning Wealth Star, good at making plans, acquires by long-term investments and buying real estate.

Note: The above Wealth Stars do not guarantee that someone will make money. However, under the right conditions, they can lead to significant financial gains.

• 💰  To Wealth Star: Converts other stars to Wealth Stars, causing the converted stars to express more of their positive qualities, so that they can use their natural abilities to make money.
• 💲 Savings Star: acquires wealth mostly by working, and saving money.

Note: The To Wealth Star and the Savings Star are the most important Wealth Stars in Polaris Astrology. In most situations, these stars represent tangible wealth.

✨ Hindering Stars

• 🐌 To Darkness: Causes the converted stars to express more of their negative qualities. Thus becoming an obstacle to progress.
• 🐢 Spinning Top: Indecisive, Causing delays.

✨ Torment Stars

• 🗡️ Blade Star: Symbolizes bloodshed, injury, surgery
• 👮 Discipline Star: The Discipline Star is nicknamed the "Little Blade Star," which often indicates law-related issues.

⚔️ The Three Knives

The Blade Star, the Discipline Star, and the Seven Slayer Star(main star) are collectively known as the "Three Knives" of Polaris Astrology.

💖 Love Stars

• 🐺 Greedy-Wolf: Main Star, primary love star; the star of desire. Represents desires for wealth, knowledge, good social skills, and communication skills. When there are no To-darkness stars in the same palace, the person has many friends of the opposite gender.
• 🦁 Wild Star star: Main Star, secondary love star; nonconforming, aesthetic, artistic, rule-based, follows high standards, and has emotional desires.
• 💕 Love-Bird: Symbolizes marriage, making the person attractive.
• 🍼 Joy Star: Symbolizes childbirth, making the person attractive.
• ❣️ Charmer Star: A love star associated with sexual desire and love at first sight; may indicate extramarital relationships.
• 🏩 Big-Spending: Spending money with the opposite gender and/or having toxic relationships.
• 🛁 Pool Star: Indicates spending money with the opposite gender and/or having toxic relationships, usually short-term relationships.
• 👶 Bath Star: Symbolizes the first bath after birth. The person may be popular with the opposite sex. The effect of the star may be minor, is not used by most Polaris astrologers.

📚 Academic Stars

• 🛡️ To Brightness: One of the four converted stars; represents exposure, is clear-minded, and is good at academics.
• 📚 Literature: Auspicious star, skilled in Literacy; symbolizes certificates, such as driver's licenses, marriage licenses, and diplomas.
• 🎵 Music star: Auspicious star; the person is talented, creative, and skilled in math and craftsmanship.
• ⚗️ Genius star: Miscellaneous star, good in academics.
• 🏞️ Dragon-Lake: Miscellaneous star, good in art and craftsmanship
• 🏰 Phoenix-House: Miscellaneous star, good in art and craftsmanship

✨ Status Stars

Status Stars: In general, status stars enhance a person's status. There are eight status stars.
🍷Three-Officials Star   🍷Eight-Chair Star   ✨Glory Star   👸Royalty Star   🏅Reputation 🍷Recognition Star   🕊️Heaven-Official   🍇Heaven-Fortune

⭐ Solo

Only one Main Star is in a palace.

⭐ Dual Main Stars ⭐

When two main stars are in the same palace.

💕 Companion Stars

Companion Stars are two stars that are related to each other. more...

✨Star Essence

Star essence is the core aspect of a star.

🏰Palace Ruler

The majority of the Main Stars are Palace Rulers of specific palaces. When a star is in the palace where it is the ruler, it will unleash its true potential and express its best qualities.

• 🧸Child Star: Ruler of the Fortune Palace.
• 🌳Elder Star: Ruler of the Parent Palace.
• 🧠Thinker Star: Ruler of the Sibling Palace.
• 🪙Gold Star, 🌙Moon Star: Ruler of the Wealth Palace.
• 🏦Mansion Star: Ruler of the Wealth Palace, and the Home Palace.
• 👑Polaris Star, 🦁Wild Star, 🍷Prime Minister, ☀️Sun Star: Rulers of the Career Palace.
• 🚗Warrior Star: Ruler of the Spouse Palace, Child Palace, and Friend Palace.
• ⚔️Seven Slayer, 🐺Greedy Wolf, ⚗️Dark Star: Not Rulers of any palace.

🏰Absolute Star Formation

On the Life Chart, the location of certain stars in one palace always corresponds with specific stars fixed in specific palaces. For example, if the Polaris Star is in the Life Palace, then the Sun Star will always be in the Child Palace, and the Gold Star will always be in the Wealth Palace. Similarly, if the Thinker Star is in the Life Palace, then the Polaris Star will always be in the Parent Palace, and the Sun Star will always be in the Spouse Palace. The stars and palaces involved in these fixed relationships are called the Absolute Star Formation.

✨ Encounter

When a star encounters other stars within its quartet palaces.

✨ Charge

When the To Darkness star or the To Authority star exerts its force to its Opposite Palace, it is called "charging".

✨ Stacked Converted Stars

When more than one of the same converted stars appears in the same palace, the converted stars are stacked.  More...

🏰 Sky-Net and Earth-Web Terras

The Dragon and Dog Terras, also known as the Sky Net and Earth Web Terras, are said to reduce the strength of the stars within them, according to ancient texts. If a person's Life Palace is located in one of these terras, they need to work very hard to succeed. However, the validity of these terras is difficult to prove, because there are many successful people whose Life Palace is in the Sky Net or Earth Web terras.

🏰 Covertly Jointed Terras

There are six pairs of covertly jointed terras, which are used only in special situations. Their validity is difficult to prove. Covertly jointed terras are mostly used by Four Pillar Divination practitioners, but not by Polaris astrologers. more...

🏰 Star Classifications

In Polaris Astrology, there are two types of classification: modern and traditional. Which classification you use is not important. What matters is understanding the characteristics of the stars and their combinations with other stars in different palaces. This website primarily uses the traditional classification.  More...

✨ Modern classification

Modern classification divides stars into 5 classes, from class H1, the most significant, to class H5, the least significant. More ...

✨ Traditional classification

Traditional classification divides stars into 6 categories.
👑14 Main Stars    🦋4 Converted Stars   🍀8 Auspicious Stars    😡6 Challenge Stars
✨Miscellaneous Stars   🎉Annual Stars

✨ Star strength

The strength of each star varies in different palaces. Star strengths are ranked from Prosperous to Trapped. Prosperous and Productive have positive influences, Stable has no influence, while Idle and Trapped have negative influences.

Don't be too concerned about the strength of the stars. According to many Polaris astrologers, star strength contributes very little to a person's overall fortune. What is important depends on star formations and other factors.

✨ Star Formations

Star formations describe the combinations of stars across different palaces. According to Zhong Zhou Polaris Astrology, there are 60 star formations. More ...

⏰ Longitude Adjusted Birth Time (LAB-T)

This site uses LAB-T (Longitude Adjusted Birth Time) to more accurately reflect a person's true time of birth. A time zone is an area, not a point; everyone within the same time zone uses the same time throughout the area. However, the position of the sun in the sky at any given time is not the same for everyone within that time zone.

For example, if a person's time of birth is 9:28 a.m. PST (Pacific Standard Time, UTC-8), and the longitude of their birthplace is 116.5° West, the longitude is 4 degrees West of 112.5°. Since PST (UTC-8) begins at 112.5° West, and one degree of longitude is four minutes, the adjustment is calculated as 4 degrees x 4 minutes = 16 minutes. Therefore, the person's longitude-adjusted birth time is 9:12 AM LAB-T (9:28 AM minus 16 minutes = 9:12 AM LAB-T).