Feng Shui
陽宅十書, a Ming manual on houses, assigns each birth year to one of eight palaces and gives every direction a name from that palace. Enter a birth date to see them, or look up the nine stars of any year below.
These pages report what named old Chinese books state and what a calculator works out from them. They give no advice about a home, and they cannot decide health, money, law or family matters.
The book's two tables
陽宅十書 prints one table for men and one for women, so these labels are the book's. Calculated in your browser. The date and the choice are not sent anywhere or saved. The date is read as a calendar date in China standard time (UTC+8).
The nine stars of a year
This chart needs no personal data. It places the nine stars of 星厯考原 in the Lo Shu for a solar year, and for one of its months if you pick one.
Read further
- What it isHistory, sources and where the record runs out.
- How it worksThe books, the calculator and what is left out, in plain English.
- The eight palaces福元, the birth palaces of 陽宅十書.
- The eight positions大遊年, the names the verse gives between palaces.
- The nine stars紫白, the stars of the year and month charts.