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The Language of Polaris Astrology

☯ Yin Yang

🌿 Yin resembles feminine energy, darkness, night, and the north.
🔥 Yang resembles 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

of Polaris Astrology, there is a clear distinction between a person's "life" and "fortune".

🌷Life: A person's Life is made up of 12 aspects, and the 12 aspects are represented by the 12 palaces on the Polaris Astrology Life Chart. The 12 palaces describe who you are, what you do, and your relationships with others

🔮Fortune: A person's fortune represents the past, present, and future events and happenings in the person's life.
It represents a person's life experiences. A major fortune is a person's fortune for a particular 10 years. An Annual Fortune is a person's fortune for one year. There are also monthly, daily, and hourly fortunes.

🌷 Life Chart

of 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 Palaces(location)

Each of the 12 boxes that make up the life chart is called a 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)

of 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 is shared with one of the 12 palaces. It represents the second half of a person's life, usually starting from 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 describe the relationships between the person and others with whom the person is connected. It also describes the personalities and characteristics of those connected.

🏰 Six Affair Palaces

The six affair palaces describe matters of personal concern.

🏰 Six Inner Palaces (Self Palaces)

The Six Inner Palaces also known as the Six Self Palaces, describe personal matters that are related to the self.

🏰 Six Outer Palaces (Other Palaces)

The Six Outer Palaces also known as the Six Other Palaces, describe matters other than the Self.
*In some books, the Journey Palace is classified as one of the Self Palaces. The Journey Palace represents a person's activities when they are away from home or their birthplace. If you live abroad, work abroad, or work far 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 describes a person's fortune for a particular ten years. There are 12 palaces on the life chart. Therefore, there are 12 major fortunes. more...

💰 Current Major Fortune

Each major fortune is 10 years. The current major fortune is the major fortune that a person is in.

💰 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.
• 🌷Each palace represents one major fortune.
• 🌷One major fortune represents a specific 10 years of a person's life.
• 🌷Altogether, there are 12 major fortunes on a person's Life Chart. more...

🏰 Twelve Major Palaces

Each major fortune has its own 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...

🏰 Main Palace

The main palace is the palace of interest. For example, if you want to find out something about your wealth, locate the wealth palace on the chart and it will be the main palace. If you want to know something about your Spouse, your Spouse Palace becomes the main palace. When reading about a person's life, focus on the life palace. The Life Palace is the most important palace of Polaris Astrology. When reading any palace, its quartet palaces must be read together. more...

🏰 Opposite Palace

The opposite palace is 6 palaces clockwise or counterclockwise away from the main palace. The opposite and the main palace must be read together. more...

🏰 Six Lines

Each palace has an opposite palace. The six lines connect the main palaces to their opposite palaces. When reading a palace, its opposite palace must be read together. The opposite palace is the most influential palace other than the main palace.  more...

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

🏰 Trio Palaces

For each palace, there are two companion palaces. The palace itself plus the two companions are called the "trio palaces". The first trio place is the main palace (the palace of interest). The second trio palace is 4 palaces clockwise from the main palace. The third trio palace is 4 palaces counterclockwise from the main palace. more...

🏰 Quartet Palaces

The quartet palaces are the main palace plus its opposite palace, and the two companion palaces. When reading a palace, all the palaces of quartet palaces must be read together as a group. more...

🏰 Adjacent Palaces

Adjacent palaces are the two neighboring palaces next to the main palace. Therefore, the main palace is enclosed between the two adjacent palaces. more...

🏰 Enclosed Palace (Sandwiched Palace)🥪

The palace that is enclosed by the 2 adjacent palaces is called the enclosed palace (sandwiched palace). more...

🏰 Empty Palace

A palace with No Main Stars is called an empty palace. To read 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, frank, vigorous, radiate, glamorous, and likes to help others.
• 🪙 Gold: An action-oriented wealth star, hard-working, reliable, may not talk much.
• 🐻 Child: Full of imagination, enjoys eating and having fun, and has 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, is forgiving, caring, and good at managing money and giving orders.
• 🌙 Moon: Planning Wealth-Star. The person is good-looking, feminine (in appearance, for both males and females), observant, detail-oriented, may feel insecure at times, and is emotional.
• 🐺 Greedy Wolf: The primary lover star, with good social skills, outgoing, and with materialistic desires; some have desires for knowledge.
• ⚗️ Analyst: The dark star, intelligent, extremely analytical, and good at communication and debate. Likes to find 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: Fighter star, competitive. Always wants to be better and make more money, willing to take higher risks.
• 🚗 Warrior: Fighter star, the soldier, polite, generous, doesn't like trivial things, is innovative, has a lot of imagination, and goes through many significant life changes.

🐻🐻Active and Passive Stars

Among the 14 Stars, 8 are active stars, and 6 are passive stars. Only active stars can be combined with active stars, and only passive stars can be combined with passive stars. There are 15 active star combinations and 9 passive star combinations. In total, there are 24 main star combinations called the 24 Dual Main Stars.

In general, active stars are fierce, and passive stars are gentle. Among the active stars, the Mansion Star and the Prime Minister are gentle. Among the passive stars, the Analyst 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 ⚗️Analyst ☀️Sun 🌙Moon 🐻Child 🌳Elder

🦋 Four Converted Stars

The Four Converted Stars are the most important stars of Polaris Astrology. On the day of a person's birth, or during a certain year, month, day, hour, or in certain palaces, certain stars are being converted. When a star is converted, Its characteristics change.  more...

• 💰 To Wealth: Cause the person might become more generous, make more money, be more relaxed, be more affectionate, or gain more weight.
• 🗡️ To Authority: Cause a person to become more assertive. The person works harder, becomes more competitive, and wants to be in control.
• 🛡️ To Brightness: It increases a person's exposure, and makes the person more cautious. It also increases a person's chance (luck) and can alleviate health issues and mishaps.
• 🐌 To Darkness: Activate the negative side of the converted stars. Thus, it becomes an obstacle and hinders progress.

🦋 Original Converted Stars

The original converted stars are the converted stars that are derived from a person's birth year. They are the most influential set of converted stars. Very important when reading the life chart.

🦋 Major Converted Stars

The major converted stars are a set of converted stars for reading major fortunes. When reading major fortunes, the original converted stars must be observed at the same time.

🦋 Annual Converted Stars

The annual year converted stars is a set of converted stars for reading the fortune of a particular year. When reading the fortune of a particular year, the original, the major, and the annual converted stars must be observed 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 are made up of 4 assisting stars and 4 supporting stars. more...
🍀 Yang Noble   🐞Yin Noble   Left-Assistant   Right-Assistant   📚 Literature   🎵 Music   💲Savings   ✈️ Sky-Horse

✨ Four Doushu Assisting Stars

The 4 assisting stars receive benefits, and opportunities from others, such as benefits from the change of company policy, or government policy.

• 🍀 Yang Noble: Receive help and benefits from the government or other organizations or help from others with high social status (usually male).
• 🐞 Yin Noble: Receive help and benefits from the government or other organizations or help from others with high social status (usually female).
• Left-Assistant: Receive help and support from mostly male friends and subordinates (usually male).
• Right-Assistant: Receive help and support from mostly female friends and subordinates (usually female).

✨ Four Doushu Supporting Stars

The four Supporting stars receive benefits, and opportunities from self-help by studying and practicing.

• 📚 Literature: Scholastic, poetic, have good writing skills.
• 🎵 Music: Craftsmanship, good with musical instruments, good at math, has good debating skills.
• 💲 Savings: accumulate wealth through savings and other sources of income.
• ✈️ Sky-Horse: Traveling opportunities, vacations, business trips, etc.

✨ Four Doushu Challenging Stars

• 🗡️ Blade Star: bloodshed, injury, surgery.
• 🐢 Spinning Top: Slow, delayed.
• 😡 Fire Star: Explosive, angry.
• 🔔 Ringing Star: Stressful, noisy, and bothersome.

✨ Thievery Stars

Both the Earth-Empty star and the Earth Raid star represent the loss of wealth, usually suddenly lost a large amount of wealth. The affect of the Earth-Empty star is more toward emotional distress and the Earth Raid star is more toward money loss.

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

✨ Six Doushu Challenging Stars

The four Challenging stars plus the two robbery stars, the Earth-Empty star, and the Earth Raid star are called the 6 Challenging stars.
Six Challenging 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 of Polaris Astrology are Companion Stars. Companion Stars are two stars that are related to each other and are mostly derived using similar methods. The strength of some Companion Stars is much stronger if both of the stars are in the same palace or if both of the stars are encountered in the 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: Resembles obstacles (Only use the Primary-Empty-Road-Star and ignore the Secondary-Empty-Road-Star.)
• ☁️ Empty-Time: Resembles obstacles (Only use the Primary-Empty-Time-Star and ignore the Secondary-Empty-Time-Star.)

✨ Wealth Stars

• 🪙 Gold Star: Action Wealth Star, acquires wealth by taking action.
• 🏠 Mansion star: Savings Wealth Star, acquires wealth by saving money. Good at money management.
• 🌙 Moon star: Planning Wealth Star, acquires wealth by planning.

Note: The above Wealth Stars do not guarantee that someone will make money. However, if the above wealth stars encounter one or both of the following wealth stars, under the right conditions, a lot of money can be made.

• 💰 To Wealth Star: Converts other stars To Wealth Stars; thus, causing the converted stars to express their positive side more, and 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 stars are the most important wealth stars of Polaris Astrology. In most situations, the To Wealth star and the Savings Star represent real money.

✨ Hindering Stars

• 🐌 To Darkness: Causing the converted stars to express their negative sides.
• 🐢 Spinning Top: Causing delays.

✨ Torment Stars

• 🗡️ Blade Star: Bloodshed, injury, surgery
• 👮 Discipline Star: The Discipline Star is nicknamed the little Blade Star, it usually resembles a lawsuit.

⚔️ The Three Knives

The Blade Star, the Discipline Star, and the Seven Slayer Star(main star) are called the three knives of Polaris Astrology.

💖 Love Stars

• 🐺 Greedy-Wolf: Main Star, primary love star, good social skills, and good communication skills. When there are no Darkness stars in the same palace, the person has many friends of the opposite gender and may have sexual desires and/or desires for wealth and knowledge.
• 🦁 Wild Star star: Main Star, secondary love star, aesthetic, artistic, rule-based, follows high standards, has emotional desire.
• 💕 Love-Bird: Symbolizes marriage, causing the person to be attractive.
• 🍼 Joy Star: Symbolizes childbirth, causing the person to be attractive.
• 💕 Charmer Star: Love, at first sight, may have extramarital relationships, or toxic relationships.
• 🏩 Big-Spending: Spending money with the opposite gender and/or having toxic relationships.
• 🛁 Pool Star: Spending money with the opposite gender and/or having toxic relationships.
• 👶 Bath Star: Minor effects, Symbolizing the first bath after birth. The person might be popular with the opposite gender.

📚 Academic Stars

• 🛡️ To Brightness: One of the four converted stars, represents exposure, is clear-minded, and is good at academics.
• 📚 Literature: Auspicious star, good at writing and academics, it symbolizes certificates, such as driver's license, marriage license, and diplomas.
• 🎵 Music star: Auspicious star, the person is talented, has creativity, good at 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

In general, status stars increase the status of a person. There are eight status stars:
🍷Three-Officials Star   🍷Eight-Chair Star   ✨Glory Star   👸Royalty Star   🍷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 Rulers

The majority of the Main Stars are rulers of specific palaces. When a star is in a palace that it rules (its own palace), 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, ⚗️Analyst Star: are not rulers of any palace.

🏰Absolute Palace star

A star in a certain palace always has certain stars fixed to certain palaces. For example, when the Polaris Star is in the Life Palace, then the Sun Star is always in its Child Palace, and the Gold Star is always in its Wealth Palace.

When the Thinker Star is in the Life Palace, then the Polaris Star is always in its Parent Palace, and the Sun Star is always in its Spouse Palace.

If there are No Main Stars in the Life Palace, the Life palace is called an empty palace. For empty palaces, the main stars of its opposite palace are Used as Main Stars In such situations, for certain stars, their absolute palace star changes. Thus, the absolute palace stars change, when the main palace is an empty palace.

✨ Encounter

When stars encounter each other within the quartet palaces.

✨ Charge

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

✨ Invigorate

To invigorate a star is to cause the star to be energized from passive to active. More...

✨ Stacked Converted Stars

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

🏰 Sky-Net and Earth-Web Palaces

The Dragon and Dog Palaces are also known as the Sky-Net and Earth-Web Palaces. According to the ancient text, the two palaces decrease the strength of the stars within. If a person's Life Palace is at either of the two palaces, they need to work very hard to succeed. However, the validity of the palaces is not proven. There are many successful people whose Life Palace is at the Sky-Net Palace or Earth-Web Palace.

🏰 Covertly Jointed Palaces

There are six pairs of covertly jointed palaces, which are only used in special situations. Their validity is hard to prove. Covertly jointed palaces are mostly used by the Four Pillar Divination Practitioners, but not by Polaris Astrologers.  more...

🏰 Star Classifications

There are two types of classification: modern classification and traditional classification. Whichever classification you use is not important. What is important is the understanding of the characteristics of the stars and their combinations with other stars and in different palaces. More...
This website mainly uses traditional classification.

✨ 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 Challenging Stars
✨Miscellaneous Stars   🎉Annual Stars

✨ Star strength

The strength of each star is different in each palace. Star strengths are ranked from Prosperous to Trapped. Prosperous and Productive have positive effects. Stable has no effects. Idle and Trapped have negative effects. Don't be too concerned about star strength. According to many Polaris astrologers, star strengths contribute very little to a person's overall fortune. What is important depends on star formations and other factors.

✨ Star Formations

Star formations describe star combinations. According to Zhong Zhou Polaris Astrology, there are 60-star formations. More ...

⏰ Coordinate Adjusted Time (CAT)

This website uses CAT (Coordinate Adjusted Time) to more accurately reflect a person's true time of birth. A timezone is an area, not a point; everyone within the same timezone uses the same time across the entire area. However, the position of the sun in the sky at any given moment is not the same for everyone in the same timezone.

For example, if a person's time of birth is 9:28 a.m. PST (timezone -8), and the longitude of the person's birthplace is 116.5° West. The longitude for (timezone -8) is between 112.5° West and 127.5° West. The person's birthplace longitude is 116.5° West, which is 4 degrees greater than 112.5°. Since timezone -8 starts at 112.5°, and one degree of longitude is four minutes (4 degrees x 4 minutes = 16 minutes). Therefore, the person's coordinate adjusted birth time is 9:12 am CAT (9:28 am - 16 minutes = 9:12 am CAT).