Zi Wei Dou Shu 10-Stem Sihua | Lu Quan Ke Ji Table

One of the most basic designs in Zi Wei Dou Shu is sihua. Every natal chart has four images stirred by a heavenly stem: Hua Lu, Hua Quan, Hua Ke, Hua Ji. The star is still that star. After it is transformed, the flavour changes.

Lu and Ke as good, Ji as bad, makes the chart thin. Sihua is “what this star is assigned to do in this life or this period.” Lu is receiving, sweetness, flow; Quan is holding, taking the lead; Ke is name, face, being seen; Ji is stuck, drain, a knot in the heart. The same Taiyin: Hua Lu is receiving money and feeling; Hua Ji is labour and suspicion.

Definitions of Lu, Quan, Ke, and Ji, flying stars, and the palace they land in: Sihua. This article takes the ten stems and says what each set of sihua looks like in feeling and in getting things done—so you can match a person, not copy the mnemonic again.

Always read sihua with the palace. Transformation in Life Palace is the native’s taste; in Spouse, the relationship’s taste; in Career, the work’s taste. Memorising only “this star Hua Ji is bad” scares people in the wrong place.

Zi Wei Dou Shu 10-stem sihua table

The table below follows Ziwei Doushu Quanji, also the set most modern software uses. Wu-stem Hua Ke is Youbi; Ren-stem Hua Ke is Zuofu. Those two are auxiliary stars. Beginners easily miss them.

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.

The birth-year stem sets natal sihua. Major luck and annual luck have their own stems, and fly another set. Natal is the base colour; major luck is the ten-year theme; annual luck is that year’s events. Three layers stacked on the same palace make matters concrete. Overlap: Palace overlap.

Jia stem: opening and pursuit

Jia is a year or a life that wants to move, open, and pursue.

Lianzhen Hua Lu: the person is more reserved, even shy, yet Lu on Lianzhen livens peach blossom and colour. Wanting to lead, wanting to put desire into the relationship, is common—just not always said plainly.

Pojun Hua Quan: inner ideas rush out of the mouth and the hand. Willing to try, not afraid to fail first. When mood and setting change, the person turns. The plus is adaptation. The minus is not yielding, not compromising—break first, then talk.

Wuqu Hua Ke: wants to be seen; name tastes larger than profit. Someone helps get the name out, and the surface looks good. Work this year easily becomes “everyone knows you,” not necessarily “everyone gives you money.”

Taiyang Hua Ji: drains the self most. Labour, coarse plans, impulse, a vexed mood. In feeling, easy to trap, easy to lose. Jia-year or Jia-born Taiyang is a lamp turned too high: it lights people and burns them.

Yi stem: planning and trying

Yi is finer than Jia. It thinks, tries, adjusts.

Tianji Hua Lu: the relationship starts going deeper. Helping the other person, making plans, and also turning over in the mind “could this feeling work.” Change is sweet, not chaotic.

Tianliang Hua Quan: becomes the one who inspects, corrects, speaks from experience. Can help the other person solve problems; can also become too rigid, tart, overbearing. Tianliang-Quan love is a lot like managing.

Ziwei Hua Ke: face, care for dignity, noblemen. Being looked after, having name and a share, status that can stand. Yi’s Ke on the emperor star: public rooms need face, and often truly have it.

Taiyin Hua Ji: labour, change, short drive, suspicion, cannot persist. Bitter inside; relationship trouble and stray peach blossom can both come. Yi’s Ji on Taiyin: money and mood go overcast together. How to read Taiyin itself: Taiyin star.

Bing stem: execution and inner demons

Bing has to make ideas into work, and at the same time Lianzhen Hua Ji enlarges the inner demon.

Tiantong Hua Lu: even, steady, easy to satisfy. Good rapport, being looked after, also greedy for enjoyment. Creativity, association, fantasy are there; actual action sometimes stops at “this is fine too.”

Tianji Hua Quan: the goal is clear; networking, managing, expanding the plan and carrying it out begin. Bing’s Quan on Tianji is the stretch of this set most able to get things done.

Wenchang Hua Ke: reason, a clear read of the situation, ideas that can be spoken into words others accept. Name, evaluation, recognition come. Public expression is a plus.

Lianzhen Hua Ji: darkness, dispute, a knot. Entanglement, mood swings, relationship trouble; matters go chaotic. What Bing-born people most need to guard is not lack of ability. It is an inner account not cleared.

Ding stem: holding what is there, and contradiction

Ding-stem sihua has its own article. Here, take the skeleton first.

Taiyin Hua Lu: money, storing, body and mind are fuller. Dealings go smoothly, relationships round out, and the thought of buying property stirs. Rapport and attraction rise. It adds on an existing base, not from zero.

Tiantong Hua Quan: likes ease, does not want a big change, yet still wants a little better inside the status quo. A bit stubborn, not much heed to dissent, enjoying what is already won. Quan on Tiantong: the way of leading is “don’t make a fuss; this is fine.”

Tianji Hua Ke: ideas lean steady; plans start to have return and name. At the same time they can also float; the next step still sits in calculation.

Jumen Hua Ji: insisting on one’s own view, drawing dispute, thinning existing ties. Unwilling to let go, entanglement, name in trouble. Ding-year or Ding-born people: the outside can be bright; the mouth and the piece of unfinished business inside have to be managed. Detail: Ding-year sihua.

Wu stem: running it like a business, and rumination

Wu is like treating the relationship and the home as a business to run, while Tianji Hua Ji jams the plan.

Tanlang Hua Lu: running the house, orderly; in feeling, pleasing, playing, finding more methods, and also weighting benefit. Lu on Tanlang: sweet, and mixed.

Taiyin Hua Quan: softness with a hard core. Will check laziness, run the books, take house and finance in hand. Wants to lead; the process easily gets muddy.

Youbi Hua Ke: an auxiliary star Hua Ke. Name sits on “helping, completing, being needed.” In feeling there is a flavour of unspoken crush, bitter love, admiration; analysis is plenty, talk can be good, only they dare not rush. Wu’s Ke is not on a main star. The person feels they are completing someone else’s room.

Tianji Hua Ji: the plan meets resistance, the mind is uneasy, something cannot be said clearly or thought through. Wu’s hardest part is not having nothing to run. It is running halfway and being unable to think it through.

Ji stem: risk, gain and loss

Ji’s Lu and Quan both sit on wealth and desire; Ke on Tianliang; Ji on Wenqu.

Wuqu Hua Lu: active, wanting to get, benefit-led. While adding flowers to brocade, luck hides harm. For people whose money comes fast, this line should be a motto.

Tanlang Hua Quan: able to take, and wanting to take more. Ambition, speculation, possessiveness, competition all rise. Quan on Tanlang: the gambling streak is larger than usual.

Tianliang Hua Ke: noblemen, rapport, solving trouble, ideas recognised; sympathy also rises. This Ke on a Ji stem is the seatbelt when taking a risk. Someone advising, someone catching, so it is not only Wuqu Lu and Tanlang Quan colliding.

Wenqu Hua Ji: too much thinking, careless error, not rational; imagination larger than fact. A flavour of cheating, slipping, taking shortcuts comes out. Ji’s Ji on Wenqu: documents, promises, verbal agreements all have to be written dead.

Geng stem: advancing and harvest

Geng wants to open out. Taiyang Hua Lu comes fast; Tiantong Hua Ji takes ease away.

Taiyang Hua Lu: wants to expand, generous, open, thinking open—and draining the self. Name and profit can both come; matters do not last, they come quickly. Suits opening. Do not think once opened, it is done for good.

Wuqu Hua Quan: weights gain and harm, subjective, will not admit defeat; feeling is easily ranked second. Drive is full, wants more. In a relationship it becomes “I am contributing; why don’t you appreciate it.”

Taiyin Hua Ke: name with softness, face, home and storing being seen. Looked on well in the circle. In Quanshu, a Geng year switches to Tiantong Hua Ke and Taiyin Hua Ji. Confirm before you read a chart. Do not put Gui-stem Taiyin Hua Ke straight onto a Geng-year Quanji chart.

Tiantong Hua Ji: ease is gone, duty is heavy, the spirit tires easily. Geng-born people are bright outside; sleep and rest should be homework, not a prize.

Xin stem: drawing people in, and name

Xin is good at speaking, good at standing at the front; Wenchang Hua Ji then lets ideas cross the line.

Jumen Hua Lu: feeling words can make people accept you, and can make others stand on your side. Rapport, competition, initiative are all there. Lu on Jumen: the mouth is capital.

Taiyang Hua Quan: urgent, wanting control, wanting ideas shown. Becomes an authority in the other person’s mind, and also seeks their support. Xin’s Quan on Taiyang: the will to lead in public rooms is obvious.

Wenqu Hua Ke: talent and expression affirmed. Wants more good reviews. This year or this life, work and speech are plus items.

Wenchang Hua Ji: many ideas, high ideals, high rhetoric; easy to cross the line, take a loss, feel unwilling, get matters stuck. Xin’s most common tuition: talk and plans are pretty; details were not held.

Ren stem: leading and collaborating

Ren has Tianliang Lu, Ziwei Quan, Zuofu Ke—much like being the person others depend on—while Wuqu Hua Ji bites on money and pressure.

Tianliang Hua Lu: sharp, recognised by elders, able to teach, able to be a pillar; even in trouble, more able to turn. A flavour of self-appointed loftiness will be there. Tianliang is a yin star. Help often is not announced, yet inside the person knows they are helping.

Ziwei Hua Quan: likes to lead, will not admit defeat, solitary and high. Wants to be at the top; also easy to over-trust the self, change likes, lose righteousness for profit. Ren’s Quan on the emperor star: hunger for a seat is this set’s engine. Ziwei: Ziwei star.

Zuofu Hua Ke: a craft, a specialised skill, noblemen, doing things as a system. Ke on an auxiliary star: name comes from “I can complete this room,” not from fighting alone. In Quanshu, a Ren year switches to Tianfu Hua Ke.

Wuqu Hua Ji: overspending, books that will not balance, many difficulties; sometimes an all-or-nothing throw, a wrong estimate. The more a Ren-born person wants to lead, the more the accounts need someone watching. Otherwise Quan on Ziwei, Ji on Wuqu: rank goes up, money leaks out.

Gui stem: control and gathering in

Gui turns Pojun into Lu, so the swing gathers in a stretch; Tanlang Hua Ji then pulls desire and peach blossom back.

Pojun Hua Lu: rapport, service, innovation; needs less lacking, swings down. Marriage ties can be good; also watch losing money through colour. Pojun with Lu: breaking becomes opening a road, less injuring.

Jumen Hua Quan: persuasion, wanting people to submit, advancing, showing off. Gui’s Quan sits on the mouth and on principle. Debate, negotiation, lecturing all fit; at home it easily becomes “only what I said is right.”

Taiyin Hua Ke: development even, rapport and standing steady. Gui’s Ke on Taiyin: name with softness; the public image will not be too fierce.

Tanlang Hua Ji: cultivation, peach-blossom calamity, side-door methods, unrest with the status quo. When feeling is tangled, separating to cool down is more useful than clinging. A Gui year most fears treating desire as fate. That hands the little stability Pojun Lu earned back to Tanlang Ji.

How to use this table in class

First memorise natal sihua, then see which palaces they land in. The palace Lu enters: that class of matter has more receiving, rapport, flow. The palace Quan enters: you want to decide. The palace Ke enters: you are seen. The palace Ji enters: you drain the mind, get stuck, cannot think it through.

Only then see where major-luck and annual sihua fly. Natal Ji in Spouse: feeling already costs mind. Annual Lu then entering Spouse that year is like adding sugar; it does not necessarily change the structure. Natal Lu in Wealth, annual Ji entering Wealth: money sticks that year. It does not mean a life without wealth.

Star nature, palace, temple-bright or fallen, assistants and malefics still get a look before sihua. Sihua is seasoning, not the whole dish. Flying stars and sanhe: Analysis logic.

Charting: MingMing3 Ziwei section.

Zi Wei Dou Shu sihua FAQ

Does Hua Ji always have to be resolved, always a disaster?

Ji is cost of mind and resistance. It can also force a craft. People with Wenchang Hua Ji who read a document three times have fewer accidents. Fright at the sight of Ji treats usable pressure as catastrophe.

Can auxiliary stars take sihua?

They can. Wu Ke on Youbi, Ren Ke on Zuofu, are examples. Auxiliary Hua Ke: name often comes from assisting, a craft, completing—not from being the first lead.

Natal and major-luck sihua entering the same palace—how to read?

As added weight. Double Lu is very sweet, and also easy to greed; double Ji is very stuck, and also easy to train that palace into a specialism. Added weight is not doubled luck or ill luck. It is that those ten years you can hardly not face this palace.

Must the sihua table be memorised cold?

Your own natal set must be fluent. All ten stems fluent makes annual luck fast to read. First fluent in yourself, then this year, is far more useful than memorising forty combinations once and not knowing how to use them.