Zi Wei Dou Shu Timing | Natal, Major Luck, Annual Luck

A chart has two layers: the innate structure, and the change once time is stacked on it. Natal, major luck, annual luck, and monthly luck answer questions at different scales. Charting and sihua: Charting guide, Sihua.

Natal chart

The fixed chart from the birth moment: character, the baseline of each palace, and lifelong direction. The Life Palace main star is style of action; Happiness Palace shows whether the inner life feels enough. The natal chart is the base color; star positions do not move with the calendar year.

Major luck

Major luck moves one palace every ten years. The starting age equals the five-element bureau: water-2 starts at age two; wood-3, metal-4, earth-5, fire-6 likewise (charts often show “5–14” for earth-5; that is not how everyone’s chart is written).

Direction: yang male and yin female clockwise; yin male and yang female counterclockwise. A Career decade weights work; a Spouse decade brings relationship issues to the front. Major luck has its own sihua. Read the major-luck layer first, then stack the natal chart.

Annual and monthly luck

Annual luck adds a layer from the year’s stem-branch. Where the annual Life Palace falls on the natal chart is that year’s focus; then see where the year’s stem sihua flies.

Monthly luck is finer—for contracts, travel, and money choices within a month. It still sits on natal, major luck, and annual luck. Do not judge by one month’s auspicious stars alone.

2026 Bing-Wu year

The annual stem is Bing: Tiantong Hua Lu, Tianji Hua Quan, Wenchang Hua Ke, Lianzhen Hua Ji.

• Tiantong Hua Lu: ease in relationships and daily rhythm; less hard collision.
• Tianji Hua Quan: planning, technique, and execution have more force.
• Wenchang Hua Ke: exams, documents, reputation, and work produced.
• Lianzhen Hua Ji: emotional tangles, contract terms, disputes, minor illness; double-check important decisions.

Where these land on your palaces must be stacked with your natal chart and major luck. The four lines above are not everyone’s year luck.

How to judge favorable vs challenging periods

Stack charts: natal + major luck + annual (and monthly when needed). Read main-star strength, sanfang sizheng, and sihua flow (Lu and Quan as support, Ji as lesson). Method: Sanhe, flying stars, and self-transformation.

Doushu gives a timing reference, not a verdict. When natal, decade, and annual palaces stack, the theme shifts—see Palace overlap. Action palaces for career, marriage, and wealth: Action palaces. Charting: MingMing3 Ziwei section.