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Zi Wei Dou Shu Palaces

Learn the complete twelve-palace framework, the Life Palace anchor, fixed branch positions, rotating role names, and responsible palace reading.

English name
Zi Wei Dou Shu palaces
Pinyin
Zǐwēi Dǒushù Gōngwèi
Simplified Chinese
紫微斗数宫位
Traditional Chinese
紫微斗數宮位
Also called
Ziwei houses · human-affairs palaces

Editorially reviewed: · Reviewed by OpenFate · Editorial Methodology

Overview

Palaces organize the chart into twelve named life-topic contexts. Begin with the full role sequence, then study how the Life Palace anchors that sequence and how each palace connects to its wider relational frame.

At a glance

Framework
12 role palaces
Anchor
Life Palace
Grid
12 fixed branches
Context
Stars, relations, and timing

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What this section covers

The Twelve Palaces page defines the complete role system and its modern aliases.

The Life Palace page explains the calculated anchor without turning it into a total identity.

Start with the full Twelve Palaces atlas, continue to the Life Palace anchor, and then open a specific palace page. This order prevents one role label from replacing the whole chart.

  • Learn the set before one palace.
  • Preserve canonical Han terms.
  • Use the hub to choose the correct palace owner before interpreting it.

How to read a palace

Locate the exact record, branch, stem, resident stars, transformations, and timing range.

Then retrieve its San Fang Si Zheng and label borrowed stars separately.

A useful palace record includes its role name, branch and stem, resident stars, borrowed-star provenance, transformations, timing layer, and San Fang Si Zheng indices.

  • Use structural flags.
  • Keep residence and borrowing distinct.
  • Return to the chart when any required palace field is missing.

Name and method variants

Friends, Servants, Associates, Career, and Official Career may refer to stable canonical palace keys.

Derived-palace and school-specific weighting methods need their own labels and sources.

When names or derived-palace methods differ, compare the cited terminology and method rule before comparing conclusions. A translated alias is not automatically a calculation difference.

  • Normalize aliases.
  • Do not merge methods silently.
  • Keep common geometry and school-specific weighting in separate notes.

Palace safety rule

A palace frames a topic; it does not prove a biography or event.

Health, wealth, marriage, and family claims require direct real-world evidence.

A palace page can organize questions about a life area, but it cannot establish health, wealth, fidelity, family intent, or a future event without direct evidence.

  • No literal event guarantee.
  • No sensitive inference.
  • Navigate to real-world records before making a high-stakes decision.

Sources and editorial basis

  1. 《紫微斗數全書》 (Ziwei Doushu Quanshu)
    卷二「安十二宮例」及「一 命宮」至「十二 父母」；卷二「安身命例」— 寅起正月、顺数生月、逆数生时安命；随后列十二宫次序A searchable transcription of the transmitted three-volume text, used for named rules, palace chapters, and historical star descriptions—not as scientific validation.
  2. iztro 紫微斗數宮位系統
    「紫微斗數宮位系統」前言与十二宮排列表；固定地支位置和移动宫名的区分A public explanation of the fixed branch grid, moving palace-role names, relative palace positions, and interpretive cautions.
  3. OpenFate Ziwei Profile Schema
    app/modules/ziwei/logic/schema.ts:407–542 — exactly 12 unique palace indices, names, branches, and flags；app/modules/ziwei/logic/schema.ts:407–542 — exactly one palace must have isLifePalace=trueFail-closed validation for twelve unique palaces, one Life Palace, fourteen unique major stars, and exact relational geometry.
  4. iztro 紫微鬥數安星訣
    「2. 安命身宮訣」及「3. 定十二宮訣」A public rule catalogue for placing the Life and Body Palaces, the twelve roles, Zi Wei, major-star systems, and Four Transformations, with explicit variant notes.

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