Tian Kui (天魁星) Star in Zi Wei Dou Shu
Learn Tian Kui (天魁星) placement, palace evidence, reading conditions, examples, and limits without turning chart facts into fixed outcomes.
Overview
Tian Kui is a supporting star used to examine visible openings, formal recognition, and assistance delivered through an acknowledged channel. Read Tian Kui through its actual palace, co-stars, San Fang Si Zheng, Four Transformations, and timing layer. The chart can establish placement; visible openings, recognition, formal assistance, and access created through an acknowledged channel remains a bounded interpretive focus, never proof of a guaranteed benefactor, elite status, admission, promotion, or rescue.
At a glance
- Canonical class
- Supporting star
- Canonical identity
- Tiān Kuí · 天魁星
- Deterministic evidence
- Calculated palace placement and rulebook provenance
- Required context
- Palace, co-stars, triad, opposite palace, transformations, and timing
- Interpretive focus
- visible openings, recognition, formal assistance, and access created through an acknowledged channel
- Not established by this star
- a guaranteed benefactor, elite status, admission, promotion, or rescue
Definition and scope of Tian Kui
Tian Kui is a supporting star used to examine visible openings, formal recognition, and assistance delivered through an acknowledged channel.
Tian Kui (天魁星) is identified here by Tiān Kuí. Its bounded question is visible openings, recognition, formal assistance, and access created through an acknowledged channel, not a fixed personality verdict.
- Identity check: Tian Kui (天魁星) · Tiān Kuí
- Scope question: visible openings, recognition, formal assistance, and access created through an acknowledged channel
Chart evidence and conditions · How to read Tian Kui
Its heavenly-stem placement, paired relation with Tian Yue, hosting palace, co-stars, and a documented application or invitation show whether an opening is actually available.
Deterministic placement check: iztro「紫微鬥數安星訣」第14節「安魁鉞訣」：依生年天干配對安天魁. After that position is reproduced, ask which palace relations actually support visible openings, recognition, formal assistance, and access created through an acknowledged channel; the calculation does not output a guaranteed benefactor, elite status, admission, promotion, or rescue.
- Placement proof: iztro「紫微鬥數安星訣」第14節「安魁鉞訣」：依生年天干配對安天魁
- Evidence question: visible openings, recognition, formal assistance, and access created through an acknowledged channel
Worked example and near miss
In an illustrative Career Palace, Tian Kui with an actual interview invitation can describe access through a published selection process, not a guaranteed offer.
Near miss: remove the palace or modifier named in the example but still assert a guaranteed benefactor, elite status, admission, promotion, or rescue. That erases the evidence needed to connect Tian Kui (天魁星) with visible openings, recognition, formal assistance, and access created through an acknowledged channel.
- Example check: Tian Kui (天魁星) · visible openings, recognition, formal assistance, and access created through an acknowledged channel
- Rejected leap: a guaranteed benefactor, elite status, admission, promotion, or rescue
School variants and interpretation limits
Noble-helper language and pair weighting differ by lineage; Tian Kui does not guarantee admission, elite status, promotion, rescue, or a named benefactor.
Historical comparison starts at 《紫微斗數全書》卷一「諸星問答論」1.9.20「問天魁天鉞星所主若何？」之天魁段. Read that passage beside the declared placement rule instead of treating one classical phrase as a universal calculator setting.
- Historical locator: 《紫微斗數全書》卷一「諸星問答論」1.9.20「問天魁天鉞星所主若何？」之天魁段
- Variant decision: Noble-helper language and pair weighting differ by lineage; Tian Kui does not guarantee admission, elite status, promotion, rescue, or a named benefactor.
Interpretation limits, boundary, and verification loop
This page may organize questions about visible openings, recognition, formal assistance, and access created through an acknowledged channel. It must stop before claiming a guaranteed benefactor, elite status, admission, promotion, or rescue; that conclusion needs independent real-world evidence.
Verification loop for Tian Kui (天魁星): reproduce iztro「紫微鬥數安星訣」第14節「安魁鉞訣」：依生年天干配對安天魁; inspect the example's named modifier and counter-signals; record what would falsify the reading before using it.
- Allowed interpretive scope: visible openings, recognition, formal assistance, and access created through an acknowledged channel
- Stop rule: a guaranteed benefactor, elite status, admission, promotion, or rescue
Complete topic index
Every workbook topic assigned to this canonical page appears at a stable anchor. Each entry records scope, inputs, flags, and alias ownership as an auditable reference—not a standalone interpretation. Duplicate backlog rows resolve to the same anchor instead of creating duplicate URLs.
- Conditions and inputs
- Missing-input rule: if a listed input or verified chart value is unavailable, stop at the definition; do not infer, calculate, or predict the missing value.
- Calculation flag: yes. Reproduce the required inputs and versioned rule before interpretation.
- School-variant flag: sometimes. Check whether the page’s named rule or school condition applies before using this component.
- Category and guidance boundary
- Apply this only under the named calculation or school policy, and compare alternate rules before treating the result as reproducible.
- Read this cell as an interaction, not a verdict: combine its entities with co-stars, Four Transformations, palace geometry, brightness, and the active timing layer.
- Source inheritance
- Complete topic index does not assert an atom-specific citation. It inherits this canonical page’s bibliography and locator notes as page-level context only; verify the relevant cited passage before relying on a claim.
Tian Kui (天魁) in Zi Wei Dou Shu
- Topic-specific scope
- Entity 1: 天魁
- Conditions and inputs
- Calculation state: Yes
- School-variant state: Sometimes
- Stable reference
- ZW-PUB-0263
- Inventory classification
- 08 固定星曜資料庫 · 十四輔星／六吉星
Tian Kui in the Life Palace
- Topic-specific scope
- Entity 1: 天魁 · Context: 命宮
- Conditions and inputs
- Calculation state: Yes
- School-variant state: Sometimes
- Stable reference
- ZW-PUB-0961
- Inventory classification
- 14 輔星 × 宮位矩陣 · 六吉星 × 十二宮
Tian Kui in the Siblings Palace
- Topic-specific scope
- Entity 1: 天魁 · Context: 兄弟宮
- Conditions and inputs
- Calculation state: Yes
- School-variant state: Sometimes
- Stable reference
- ZW-PUB-0962
- Inventory classification
- 14 輔星 × 宮位矩陣 · 六吉星 × 十二宮
Tian Kui in the Spouse Palace
- Topic-specific scope
- Entity 1: 天魁 · Context: 夫妻宮
- Conditions and inputs
- Calculation state: Yes
- School-variant state: Sometimes
- Stable reference
- ZW-PUB-0963
- Inventory classification
- 14 輔星 × 宮位矩陣 · 六吉星 × 十二宮
Tian Kui in the Children Palace
- Topic-specific scope
- Entity 1: 天魁 · Context: 子女宮
- Conditions and inputs
- Calculation state: Yes
- School-variant state: Sometimes
- Stable reference
- ZW-PUB-0964
- Inventory classification
- 14 輔星 × 宮位矩陣 · 六吉星 × 十二宮
Tian Kui in the Wealth Palace
- Topic-specific scope
- Entity 1: 天魁 · Context: 財帛宮
- Conditions and inputs
- Calculation state: Yes
- School-variant state: Sometimes
- Stable reference
- ZW-PUB-0965
- Inventory classification
- 14 輔星 × 宮位矩陣 · 六吉星 × 十二宮
Tian Kui in the Health Palace
- Topic-specific scope
- Entity 1: 天魁 · Context: 疾厄宮
- Conditions and inputs
- Calculation state: Yes
- School-variant state: Sometimes
- Stable reference
- ZW-PUB-0966
- Inventory classification
- 14 輔星 × 宮位矩陣 · 六吉星 × 十二宮
Tian Kui in the Travel Palace
- Topic-specific scope
- Entity 1: 天魁 · Context: 遷移宮
- Conditions and inputs
- Calculation state: Yes
- School-variant state: Sometimes
- Stable reference
- ZW-PUB-0967
- Inventory classification
- 14 輔星 × 宮位矩陣 · 六吉星 × 十二宮
Tian Kui in the Friends & Networks Palace
- Topic-specific scope
- Entity 1: 天魁 · Context: 僕役／交友宮
- Conditions and inputs
- Calculation state: Yes
- School-variant state: Sometimes
- Stable reference
- ZW-PUB-0968
- Inventory classification
- 14 輔星 × 宮位矩陣 · 六吉星 × 十二宮
Tian Kui in the Career Palace
- Topic-specific scope
- Entity 1: 天魁 · Context: 官祿／事業宮
- Conditions and inputs
- Calculation state: Yes
- School-variant state: Sometimes
- Stable reference
- ZW-PUB-0969
- Inventory classification
- 14 輔星 × 宮位矩陣 · 六吉星 × 十二宮
Tian Kui in the Property Palace
- Topic-specific scope
- Entity 1: 天魁 · Context: 田宅宮
- Conditions and inputs
- Calculation state: Yes
- School-variant state: Sometimes
- Stable reference
- ZW-PUB-0970
- Inventory classification
- 14 輔星 × 宮位矩陣 · 六吉星 × 十二宮
Tian Kui in the Fortune & Inner Life Palace
- Topic-specific scope
- Entity 1: 天魁 · Context: 福德宮
- Conditions and inputs
- Calculation state: Yes
- School-variant state: Sometimes
- Stable reference
- ZW-PUB-0971
- Inventory classification
- 14 輔星 × 宮位矩陣 · 六吉星 × 十二宮
Tian Kui in the Parents Palace
- Topic-specific scope
- Entity 1: 天魁 · Context: 父母宮
- Conditions and inputs
- Calculation state: Yes
- School-variant state: Sometimes
- Stable reference
- ZW-PUB-0972
- Inventory classification
- 14 輔星 × 宮位矩陣 · 六吉星 × 十二宮
Sources and editorial basis
- 《紫微斗數全書》 (Ziwei Doushu Quanshu)《紫微斗數全書》卷一「諸星問答論」1.9.20「問天魁天鉞星所主若何？」之天魁段A searchable transcription of the transmitted three-volume text, used for named rules, palace chapters, and historical star descriptions—not as scientific validation.
- iztro 紫微鬥數安星訣iztro「紫微鬥數安星訣」第14節「安魁鉞訣」：依生年天干配對安天魁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.