Two series so far: what a placement means in a sidereal chart, and what the stem on your BaZi day pillar means. Each piece works through a chart that was actually calculated, degrees and all.
What a placement means in a sidereal chart, how it is read in practice, and what to do with it.
The stem on your day pillar is the single fact a BaZi reading is built around. Ten stems, ten articles, each one worked through a real birth chart.
Your kua number fixes four directions that help you and four that do not. Eight numbers, eight articles, each worked through a real chart.
The lines drawn between the planets in your chart. Nine aspects, nine articles, each one worked through a real chart and a scan of 600 more.
When three or four planets lock into one figure, the chart reads differently. How often each figure really occurs was measured, not guessed.
The second chart every Vedic calculator hands back, and the one nobody explains. Twelve navamsa ascendants, twelve articles, each worked through a real birth chart.
What the grid between two birth charts actually says, contact by contact. How often each one turns up was measured across 600 real pairs, not guessed — and there is no compatibility score, for a reason the series explains.
십성 — the ten ways a character in your chart can stand to your Day Master. Ten gods, ten articles, each worked through a real Korean chart.
The ascendant is the degree climbing over the eastern horizon at your birth. It changes every two hours, so it needs a birth time — twelve signs, twelve articles, each worked through a real chart.
Vedic marriage matching scores a couple out of 36 across eight kootas, and the heaviest three decide most of the result. Eight kootas, eight articles, each worked through two real charts.
Vedic astrology splits a life of 120 years between nine lords in a fixed order, and the Moon at birth decides where you enter it. Nine lords, nine articles, each worked through a real chart running that period now.
The two calendars cut the year at different points, so every animal covers the second half of one sign and the first half of the next — which is why the popular equivalence tables are wrong for about half their readers. Twelve animals, twelve articles, each worked through real charts.
A transit is a moving planet reaching a measurable angle to a fixed point in your birth chart. These pieces give the current position of each body, how fast it moves, how tight the orb has to be, the dates it turns retrograde, and worked examples with exact dates — all from the ephemeris, not from a table of meanings.
Purple Star astrology places fourteen major stars around twelve palaces, and the one holding your Life palace is where a reading starts. Fourteen stars, fourteen articles, each worked through a real chart with its lunar date, element class and decade limits.