Transformation
Huà Quán
Authority
A chart describes tendencies in a traditional system. It cannot decide health, money, law, marriage or children.
In the classical sources
权星掌判生杀之神
The 權 star is the spirit that holds judgment over life and death.
紫微斗數全書 卷一
About this entry
化權 is the second change, and year by year it falls on 甲 破軍, 乙 天梁, 丙 天機, 丁 天同, 戊 太陰, 己 貪狼, 庚 武曲, 辛 太陽, 壬 紫微, 癸 巨門. The English label Authority is the calculator's. A mark is an attribute of the star, wherever that star sits in the chart.
權 is the power to weigh and decide, and the book's phrase about judging life and death is the language of an official with the right to pass sentence. The answer in 卷一 says that in the Life or Body palace with 化科 and 化祿 it makes a general or minister, and with 化科 literary eminence. Meeting the harsh stars, it warns, brings slander and demotion instead. 卷二 assigns the mark to wood and says it is pleased to meet 巨門 and 武曲.
The calculator's default chart matches the Wikisource verse in this column, as does the table on Chinese Wikipedia, and its two settings produce the same result here. The one place where the settings differ in the same year rows, 壬, concerns the third mark. This page does not claim that any one table is the settled one.
Where this text comes from
The Chinese follows the Wikisource text of 紫微斗數全書, whose base edition the page does not state. Statements about the calculator describe its own rules, and modern readings are labeled as modern.
- 紫微斗數全書 卷一
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- 紫微斗數全書 卷二
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- 紫微斗數 (Chinese Wikipedia)
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The English name and the wording here are our own. Quotations keep the stored text of the witness.