[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":258},["ShallowReactive",2],{"article:annual-flying-star-positions:en":3,"article-topic:chinese-astrology-annual:en":131,"related-articles:en:chinese-astrology-annual:annual-flying-star-positions:bazi-four-pillars":217},{"slug":4,"title":5,"description":6,"category":7,"topicSlug":8,"legacyPath":9,"authorId":10,"publishedAt":11,"updatedAt":12,"noindex":13,"summary":14,"sections":15,"references":97,"relatedTools":111,"seo":113,"contentImage":117},"annual-flying-star-positions","Annual Flying Stars: The Arithmetic Behind the Chart","How the annual flying star chart is computed from the year digits, how the 2026 grid fills, and which layer of Xuan Kong actually describes your building.","Chinese Astrology","chinese-astrology-annual","\u002Fpages\u002Farticles\u002Fnianfei-xing-weizhi.html","chen-jun","2026-03-14","2026-10-19",false,"The annual flying star chart is arithmetic, identical for every building on earth. The 2026 grid puts the five yellow in the south and the eight white in the east.",[16,22,29,76,83,89],{"heading":17,"body":18},"Three charts stacked, and only one moves",[19,20,21],"Xuan Kong feng shui works with three layers at once. The period star changes every twenty years; the base chart is fixed when a building is completed, from its facing direction and construction period; the annual star changes every year.","The current period is the ninth, which began in 2024 and runs to 2043; the eighth ran from 2004 to 2023. A building completed in 2015 therefore carries an eighth-period base chart for the whole of its life, whatever the annual stars say.","The annual chart is the fastest layer and the least specific. In a given year it is identical for every building on earth. Whatever it tells you, it does not tell you anything about your house in particular. That is not a reason to ignore it; it is a reason to know which layer you are reading.",{"heading":23,"body":24},"The centre star is arithmetic",[25,26,27,28],"The annual centre star is computed, not observed. Add the digits of the year until one digit remains, subtract that from eleven, and reduce anything above nine by nine.","For 2026: 2+0+2+6 = 10, then 1+0 = 1. Eleven minus one is ten, which reduces to one. So yi bai takes the centre in 2026.","The neighbouring years confirm the method. 2024 gives 8, so 11 − 8 = 3 and san bi sits in the centre; 2025 gives 9, so 11 − 9 = 2 and er hei does. The centre star steps down by one each year, wrapping from one back to nine.","The constant eleven belongs to the years 2000 to 2099. Earlier centuries use a different constant, which is why two pieces of software can disagree about a chart for 1890 and both be following a rule. If a chart is being used to argue about a building older than the twentieth century, the base chart matters more than the annual one anyway.",{"heading":30,"body":31,"table":34},"Filling the nine palaces",[32,33],"From the centre the numbers run in the Luoshu order: centre, north-west, west, north-east, south, north, south-west, east, south-east. Put one in the centre and count up along that path and the whole grid follows.","The five yellow lands in the south in 2026 and the eight white in the east. Both placements are consequences of the arithmetic, not of anything about a particular building.",{"headers":35,"rows":39},[36,37,38],"Sector","Star in 2026","What the tradition asks for",[40,44,48,52,56,60,64,68,72],[41,42,43],"Centre","1 White","Nothing structural; the reference point for the rest",[45,46,47],"North-west","2 Black","Keep quiet; avoid demolition and drilling",[49,50,51],"West","3 Jade","Argumentative placement; avoid confrontation there",[53,54,55],"North-east","4 Green","Study and writing; the one sector to furnish deliberately",[57,58,59],"South","5 Yellow","The year’s disruptive placement; leave it undisturbed",[61,62,63],"North","6 White","Authority and career; a desk or a decision made here",[65,66,67],"South-west","7 Red","Loss and gossip; secure valuables, check contracts",[69,70,71],"East","8 White","The period’s wealth star; use the sector actively",[73,74,75],"South-east","9 Purple","Celebration and future plans; gather here",{"heading":77,"body":78},"What the numbers are said to do",[79,80,81,82],"Two stars carry most of the practical weight. Wu huang is treated as the year’s most disruptive placement and er hei as the illness star. The instruction for both is the same: keep the sector quiet, avoid demolition and drilling, and do not make it the busiest room.","Both are earth stars in the five-element scheme, which is why the traditional remedy is metal rather than fire or water: metal drains earth, and a drain is the mildest intervention the system has. The object recommended is usually something small and heavy — a brass vessel, a coin stack — on the reasoning that it works continuously without being noticed.","At the other end, ba bai is the wealth star of the current period and jiu zi the star of celebration. The instruction is to use those sectors — put the desk there, hold the gathering there.","Notice that the advice is a use-map rather than a list of objects. It says which rooms to leave alone and which to occupy, and both of those are decisions a household was going to make anyway.",{"heading":84,"body":85},"The part that is not about your house",[86,87,88],"Because the annual chart is the same everywhere, it cannot separate two homes on the same street. What separates them is the base chart, which is fixed at construction and never changes.","A reading that uses only the annual chart is therefore a yearly review with a fixed template. That is a legitimate thing to do — a template you actually run once a year beats an analysis you never run at all — as long as nobody mistakes it for a diagnosis of the building.","In 2026 the five yellow sits in the south, which in a northern-hemisphere house is often the brightest and most-used room. That collision is exactly what the tradition asks you to notice: the sector it wants left alone is the one you live in.",{"heading":90,"body":91,"bullets":92},"An annual review you can run in an hour","The annual chart is worth its keep as a checklist rather than as a prediction. Four steps cover it.",[93,94,95,96],"Walk the nine sectors and write down what is in each one: bed, stove, desk, storage, nothing.","For the two sectors holding the five yellow and the two black, ask whether anything there is noisy, hot or under repair. If it is, move the activity rather than buying an object.","For the sectors holding the eight white and the nine purple, ask whether they are used at all. An unused auspicious sector is a spare room with a good reputation.","Write the date on the list. Next year the numbers move, and the comparison between two years says more than either list alone.",[98,106],{"id":99,"kind":100,"title":101,"detail":102,"publisher":103,"url":104,"accessedAt":105},"sanmingTonghui","traditional","Sanming Tonghui (三命通会)","A historical compilation used to cross-check traditional BaZi concepts; it is not scientific validation.","Wikisource digital text","https:\u002F\u002Fzh.wikisource.org\u002Fwiki\u002F%E4%B8%89%E5%91%BD%E9%80%9A%E6%9C%83","2026-07-14",{"id":107,"kind":100,"title":108,"detail":109,"publisher":103,"url":110,"accessedAt":105},"huangdiZhaijing","Huangdi Zhaijing (黄帝宅经)","Historical context for traditional residential orientation and spatial vocabulary. Modern recommendations are judged against real conditions.","https:\u002F\u002Fzh.wikisource.org\u002Fwiki\u002F%E9%BB%83%E5%B8%9D%E5%AE%85%E7%B6%93",[112],"bazi-four-pillars",{"title":114,"description":115,"path":116},"Annual Flying Stars: How the 2026 Chart Is Calculated","The five steps that turn a year number into the annual flying star chart, with the 2026 grid and the sectors to leave quiet.","\u002Farticles\u002Fannual-flying-star-positions",{"src":118,"srcByLocale":119,"alt":121,"altByLocale":122,"captionByLocale":125,"width":129,"height":130},"\u002Fimg\u002Farticles\u002Fannual-flying-star-positions.svg",{"tw":120},"\u002Fimg\u002Farticles\u002Fannual-flying-star-positions-tw.svg","Five numbered steps computing the 2026 annual flying star chart from the year digits, ending with the sectors to leave undisturbed.",{"zh":123,"tw":124},"五步算出 2026 年飞星盘：年份数字相加得一位，用十一去减，超过九减九，再按洛书次序填满八宫。","五步算出 2026 年飛星盤：年份數字相加得一位，用十一去減，超過九減九，再按洛書次序填滿八宮。",{"en":126,"zh":127,"tw":128},"Every step is arithmetic. Nothing here depends on the building, which is why the annual chart is the least specific of the three layers.","每一步都是算术。这里没有一项跟具体房子有关，所以年星是三张盘里最不具体的一层。","每一步都是算術。這裡沒有一項跟具體房子有關，所以年星是三張盤裡最不具體的一層。",1280,960,{"topic":132,"articles":166,"tools":206},{"slug":8,"title":133,"eyebrow":134,"description":135,"relatedTools":136,"articleIdeas":138,"seo":143,"sections":147},"Annual Chinese Astrology","The year layer","How the year layer of Chinese astrology actually works: fixed branch pairings, tai sui as a compass position, the arithmetic behind the annual star chart, and why a branch month starts at a solar term.",[112,137],"zi-wei-dou-shu",[139,140,141,142],"Annual animal forecasts: a twelve-cell table","Tai sui: a coordinate with a direction","Annual flying stars: the arithmetic behind the chart","Monthly trends: which month?",{"title":144,"description":145,"path":146},"Annual Chinese Astrology: What the Year Layer Says","Fixed branch pairings, tai sui as a direction, the annual star calculation, and solar-term months — what the year layer can and cannot answer.","\u002Ftopics\u002Fchinese-astrology-annual",[148,151,154,157,160,163],{"heading":149,"body":150},"Four clocks, one of which this topic uses","The same word, year, means different things at different layers. The year pillar turns once every twelve years, the month pillar twelve times a year, the day pillar every sixty days, and the hour pillar every two hours. This topic handles the slowest layer only: the year pillar. Mixing the layers is the most common defect in annual writing — a conclusion drawn from the year pillar and applied to a month is aimed at the wrong clock.",{"heading":152,"body":153},"The labels come from fixed pairings","Sitting on, clashing, harming, breaking and punishing are not judgements; they are positions in a table. Each branch has exactly one partner in each relation, so two branches settle the label with no second lookup and no weighting. The table is short enough to memorise, and that is the point: it is a lookup, not a theory. In the 2026 Horse year four of the twelve signs carry one: the Horse sits on it, the Rat clashes, the Ox harms and the Rabbit breaks. One person in three — that is the real scale of fan tai sui in any given year.",{"heading":155,"body":156},"Tai sui is a direction","Each branch maps to a compass sector, and wu is south. That sector is the tai sui direction; the opposite one, north in 2026, is sui po. The instruction attached to both concerns ground-breaking: no digging, no demolition, no major works. It governs construction, not which room you sleep in. The Jupiter in the English name explains where the count came from, not why the sector would matter.",{"heading":158,"body":159},"The annual star is computed","The annual flying star chart is not observed. Add the digits of the year until one remains, subtract from eleven, reduce anything above nine. For 2026 that gives one white in the centre, five yellow in the south and eight white in the east. No parameter of your building enters the calculation, so the chart is identical for every building on earth that year. What separates two houses is the base chart, not the annual star.",{"heading":161,"body":162},"What a year can actually answer","The year pillar answers one question: which fixed relation your birth branch falls into this year. It does not answer anything individual — that requires the day pillar. The usable form is a review prompt: which months turn at a solar term, which two sectors should not be dug, which room to leave alone and which to use. Those questions have answers, and the answers can be checked. A useful test of any annual write-up is whether it can be checked at all: a date, a direction, a count. A claim that cannot be checked is not more spiritual than one that can; it is only harder to argue with.",{"heading":164,"body":165},"How the four articles fit together","The four articles take the same year from four angles. One reads the relation table and shows why the same paragraph returns every twelve years. One follows the year branch into a compass sector and the construction rule attached to it. One works through the arithmetic of the annual star chart. One drops a layer to the month and shows that a branch month begins at a solar term rather than on the first of the calendar month. Together they cover what the year layer can say, and where it stops. A year described without any of those four angles is usually a template with the year number swapped in.",[167,179,191,194],{"slug":168,"title":169,"description":170,"category":7,"topicSlug":8,"legacyPath":171,"authorId":10,"publishedAt":172,"updatedAt":12,"summary":173,"relatedTools":174,"seo":175},"annual-animal-forecast","Annual Animal Forecasts: A Twelve-Cell Table","What an annual animal forecast actually computes: the fixed pairing between your birth branch and the year branch, why the answer repeats every twelve years, and what the other seven characters of a chart add.","\u002Fpages\u002Farticles\u002Fshengxiao-nianyun-yuce.html","2026-03-10","An annual animal forecast is a lookup, not a prediction: one fixed pairing between two branches, twelve possible answers, and a twelve-year cycle that returns the same paragraph.",[112],{"title":176,"description":177,"path":178},"Annual Animal Forecasts: What the Table Can Tell You","How annual zodiac forecasts are built from fixed branch pairings, why they repeat every twelve years, and what a full chart adds.","\u002Farticles\u002Fannual-animal-forecast",{"slug":180,"title":181,"description":182,"category":7,"topicSlug":8,"legacyPath":183,"authorId":10,"publishedAt":184,"updatedAt":12,"summary":185,"relatedTools":186,"seo":187},"tai-sui-guide","Tai Sui: The Year's Position, Not a Planet","Tai sui explained as a calendar coordinate: the year branch, its compass sector, the construction rule attached to it, and the four signs labelled in 2026.","\u002Fpages\u002Farticles\u002Ftaisui-jiangjie-zhinan.html","2026-03-12","Tai sui names the year's branch as a governing position. It has a direction and a set of labels, but no agency — and four of twelve signs carry one in 2026.",[112],{"title":188,"description":189,"path":190},"Tai Sui Explained: Direction, Labels and Limits","Tai sui as a calendar coordinate: its direction, the construction rule attached to it, and the four signs labelled in a Horse year.","\u002Farticles\u002Ftai-sui-guide",{"slug":4,"title":5,"description":6,"category":7,"topicSlug":8,"legacyPath":9,"authorId":10,"publishedAt":11,"updatedAt":12,"summary":14,"relatedTools":192,"seo":193},[112],{"title":114,"description":115,"path":116},{"slug":195,"title":196,"description":197,"category":7,"topicSlug":8,"legacyPath":198,"authorId":10,"publishedAt":199,"updatedAt":12,"summary":200,"relatedTools":201,"seo":202},"monthly-trends-animal-signs","Monthly Trends by Animal Sign: Which Month?","Month branches begin at solar terms, not on the first of the month. Why a monthly forecast keyed to the calendar is off by days, and why the animal relation never changes.","\u002Fpages\u002Farticles\u002Fshengxiao-yueyun-fenxi.html","2026-03-16","A branch month starts at a solar term, so the month you think you are in may be the previous one — and the animal relation to your birth sign never changes at all.",[112],{"title":203,"description":204,"path":205},"Monthly Zodiac Trends: Solar Terms, Not Calendar Months","Where a branch month really starts, how far calendar-month forecasts drift, and why the animal relation to your sign never changes.","\u002Farticles\u002Fmonthly-trends-animal-signs",[207,213],{"slug":112,"title":208,"shortTitle":209,"description":210,"category":211,"status":212},"Four Pillars BaZi Calculator","Four Pillars","Enter a Gregorian birth date and local time to see the four pillars, hidden stems, Ten Gods, Na Yin, branch relations, and element counts, with clear calendar and time-boundary limits.","BaZi","live",{"slug":137,"title":214,"shortTitle":215,"description":216,"category":7,"status":212},"Zi Wei Dou Shu Chart","Zi Wei Dou Shu","Enter a Gregorian birth date, time branch, and traditional chart-direction rule to see 12 palaces, stems, branches, stars, transformations, body palace, and decade ranges without personality or event predictions.",{"articles":218},[219,233,248],{"slug":220,"title":221,"description":222,"category":211,"topicSlug":223,"legacyPath":224,"authorId":10,"publishedAt":225,"updatedAt":105,"summary":226,"relatedTools":227,"seo":229},"bazi-five-elements-lookup","BaZi Five Elements Lookup","A practical introduction to the five elements in BaZi and how Wood, Fire, Earth, Metal, and Water are used in birth profile interpretation.","bazi","\u002Fpages\u002Farticles\u002Fbazi-wuxing-chaxun.html","2025-09-01","The five elements are one of the easiest ways to begin reading BaZi. 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