Zi Wei Dou Shu Reading Methods
Start with the exact San Fang Si Zheng four-palace geometry and learn how to combine context without losing provenance.
Overview
Reading methods should be reproducible relationship operations, not vague intuition. San Fang Si Zheng provides a stable first method: one focal palace, two trine positions, and the opposite palace.
At a glance
- First method
- San Fang Si Zheng
- Unit
- 4 palace records
- Need
- Supporting and opposing evidence
- Limit
- No luck scoring
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What this section covers
The launch method defines the exact trine-and-opposite geometry.
Later methods can extend the pack without changing the golden locale files.
Start with exact San Fang Si Zheng geometry, continue to the complete reading order, and add weighting, empty-palace, pattern, or timing methods only when the question requires them.
- Start with geometry.
- Add school weighting separately.
- Choose the smallest method owner that fully answers the question.
Evidence-first reading
Name the focal question, retrieve the related records, and preserve symbol residence.
Record both evidence that supports a theme and evidence that limits it.
A reviewable reading keeps the focal question, chart layer, palace records, resident and borrowed stars, transformations, supporting evidence, counterevidence, and rule version together.
- Trace every claim.
- Keep counterevidence visible.
- Link each conclusion to the smallest sufficient evidence bundle.
Core relation and optional layers
The four-palace geometry is common while weighting and derived-palace techniques vary.
A method page must label its lineage and source before adding those layers.
Method pages must name which geometry is shared, which weighting is school-specific, and which wording is modern editorial guidance. Do not blend them into one unnamed authority.
- Core first.
- Variants opt in.
- Open the cited method source before adding an optional layer.
Internal coherence is not external proof
Repeated chart symbols can strengthen a theme inside the tradition.
They do not prove a real-life fact without independent evidence.
A good reading ends with a bounded question or reversible next step. Internal symbolic agreement does not establish an external fact or remove the user’s agency.
- No false confirmation.
- Translate to bounded questions.
- Stop when the available evidence cannot support a narrower claim.
Sources and editorial basis
- iztro 紫微鬥數星盤「認識星盤」— focal 命宮, opposite 四正位, and two 三方位 shown as one four-palace relationAn open-source project guide describing the chart, twelve surrounding palaces, calculation inputs, and a beginner reading sequence.
- OpenFate Ziwei Derived Geometryapp/modules/ziwei/logic/derived.ts:151–165 — [index,+4,+8,+6] triad/opposite geometryPure calculation helpers for hour branches, borrowed-star references, and four-palace San Fang Si Zheng geometry.
- OpenFate Ziwei Profile Schemaapp/modules/ziwei/logic/schema.ts:506–522 — exactly four unique indices and engine geometry matchFail-closed validation for twelve unique palaces, one Life Palace, fourteen unique major stars, and exact relational geometry.