Zi Wei Dou Shu Four Transformations (Si Hua) Guide

Sihua falls on designated stars by the birth-year heavenly stem, then flies again from major-luck and annual palace stems. Main stars are the base color; sihua is the plus or minus for that star in that palace during that period. If you are not yet at home with main stars, see Fourteen main stars.

Heavenly stems and sihua

The table below follows Ziwei Doushu Quanji, also the set most modern software uses:

Quanshu and Quanji differ on Hua Ke for Geng and Ren. In Quanshu, a Geng year has Tiantong Hua Ke and Taiyin Hua Ji; a Ren year has Tianfu Hua Ke and Wuqu Hua Ji. Confirm which table a reading uses; do not mix the two. Auxiliary stars such as Zuofu, Youbi, Wenchang, and Wenqu can also take sihua.

Birth-year sihua is the lifelong tone; major luck and annual luck fly another layer from each palace stem.

Lu, Quan, Ke, Ji

Do not reduce them to lucky and unlucky.

Hua Lu: more, opportunity, rapport, enjoyment. The palace tends to have “extra”; in excess, greed, laziness, and emotional tangles.

Hua Quan: lead, take on, execute. Decisions are strong; stubbornness and pressure are easy too.

Hua Ke: name, exams, documents, noblemen, image. Favors exposure and study.

Hua Ji: stuck, draining, a turning point. It is a lesson, not destined bad luck.

Short memory: Lu adds, Quan leads, Ke names, Ji blocks.

Flying stars

1. Birth-year sihua: fixed at birth.
2. Palace-stem sihua: major-luck and annual palaces each fly from their heavenly stem, deciding who links to whom in that period.
3. Read the palace where the transformation lands together with its opposite and sanhe palaces.

Example: if a palace stem is Jia, Lianzhen Hua Lu and Pojun Hua Quan land where those two stars sit, and the two life domains are read as linked. How flying stars and sanhe divide labor: Analysis logic.

Same transformation, different palaces

Auspicious stars meeting Lu, Quan, or Ke: support is strengthened. Malefic stars meeting Lu, Quan, or Ke: the drive can sometimes be put to use. Auspicious stars meeting Ji: they still perform, but with a lesson. Malefic stars meeting Ji: pressure is heavy, and people are often forced to change course.

The same Hua Lu: in Wealth, more often read as inflow; in Health, watch food and drink harming the body; in Spouse, emotional resources are rich—also watch being too attached.

Taiyang Hua Ji in Career: effort and return are uneven, or communication with bosses and clients is rough. Adjust the post or the platform; do not write it off as simply unlucky.

Wuqu Hua Lu in Wealth: a wealth star plus Lu—strong chance of inflow. Still check whether sanfang has a storehouse, and whether investment is too aggressive.

Tianji Hua Quan in Life Palace: strategy plus decision—suited to planning; also easy to lock horns with others.

How each of the ten stems feels in love and work: Ten-stem sihua. Ding-year Taiyin Hua Lu and Jumen Hua Ji: Ding-year sihua.

Find where Lu, Quan, Ke, and Ji land in your chart with the free Zi Wei Dou Shu calculator.