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Every term we use — across Human Design, Western Astrology, Ba Zi, Zi Wei Dou Shu, Numerology, Feng Shui, Qi Men Dun Jia, Xuan Kong Da Gua, and Water Formula — defined plainly, cross-linked, and tagged by system.
The 12 life domains in a Zi Wei Dou Shu chart: Life (Ming), Siblings, Spouse, Children, Wealth, Health, Travel, Friends, Career, Property, Fortune (Mental), and Parents. Stars placed in each palace describe how that area of life unfolds.
The 14 primary stars in Zi Wei Dou Shu: Zi Wei (Emperor), Tian Ji (Messenger), Tai Yang (Sun), Wu Qu (Finance), Tian Tong (Blessing), Lian Zhen (Purity), Tian Fu (Treasury), Tai Yin (Moon), Tan Lang (Greedy Wolf), Ju Men (Giant Gate), Tian Xiang (Minister), Tian Liang (Beam), Qi Sha (Seven Killings), Po Jun (Army Breaker). Their palace placements define your personality and life themes.
The 24 compass directions used in Chinese Feng Shui, each spanning 15°. They combine the 12 Earthly Branches, 8 of the 10 Heavenly Stems, and 4 trigrams to create a detailed directional framework for analyzing site orientation, water flow, and Qi movement.
The 64 six-line symbols from the I Ching, each composed of two trigrams (upper and lower). In Xuan Kong Da Gua, these hexagrams map onto the compass rose to analyze directional Qi. In Human Design, they correspond to the 64 gates of the BodyGraph.
Also called the Rising Sign. The zodiac sign on the eastern horizon at the exact moment of birth. It determines the 1st house cusp and strongly influences how you present yourself to the world, your physical appearance, and first impressions.
Configurations formed when three or more planets aspect one another in a closed geometric figure — the Grand Trine (three trines), T-Square (two squares meeting an opposition), Grand Cross (four squares, two oppositions), Yod (two quincunxes on a sextile), and the Stellium of three or more planets bunched together. A pattern binds its planets into one functional circuit, so it is read as a unit rather than aspect by aspect.
Angular relationships between planets in a birth chart. Major aspects include conjunction (0°), opposition (180°), trine (120°), square (90°), and sextile (60°). Each aspect describes how planetary energies interact — harmoniously (trine, sextile) or with tension (square, opposition).
Water Formula classifies water directions into levels of favorability based on the relationship between your Kua number and the water mouth direction. Ratings range from highly auspicious to inauspicious, guiding decisions about water feature placement.
Your personal decision-making mechanism in Human Design. Types include Emotional (wait for clarity), Sacral (gut response), Splenic (intuitive knowing), Ego (willpower), Self-Projected (talking it out), Mental (environmental sounding board), and Lunar (wait a full moon cycle).
The supporting stars of a Zi Wei Dou Shu chart beyond the 14 majors. The four classical assistants are the scholarly pair Wen Chang 文昌 and Wen Qu 文曲 (placed by birth hour) and the helper pair Zuo Fu 左輔 and You Bi 右弼 (placed by lunar month). They refine the palaces they occupy: a major star states the theme, the auxiliaries say whether it is helped, polished, or examined.
The Eight Mansions system in Feng Shui. Divides people into East Life Group and West Life Group based on their Kua number. Each group has four favorable and four unfavorable directions, determining optimal desk facing, sleeping direction, and room placement.
The day of the month you were born, reduced to a single digit (or Master Number). Represents innate talents and gifts you carry throughout life. For example, born on the 23rd = 2+3 = 5.
The relationships the 12 Earthly Branches form with one another: Combinations that bind two branches, San He triads that unite three into one elemental frame, Clashes that oppose, Harms that undermine quietly, and Penalties that turn pressure inward. Ba Zi reads a day or a year against the natal pillars through exactly these channels — they are how a date touches a chart.
In Zi Wei Dou Shu, most stars carry a brightness grade set by the palace they occupy. KAXANTA uses the seven-tier 全書派 scale, strongest first: 廟 Miao (temple-bright), 旺 Wang (prosperous), 得地 De (obtaining), 利益 Li (advantageous), 平和 Ping (level), 不得地 Bu (unsupported) and 陷 Xian (fallen). The grade describes how well the position supports the star, not whether the outcome is good — and the two helper stars 左輔 Zuo Fu and 右弼 You Bi carry no grade, because this lineage grades no palace for them.
The nine energy centers in the Human Design BodyGraph: Head, Ajna, Throat, G (Self), Heart (Ego), Sacral, Solar Plexus, Spleen, and Root. Each center can be defined (colored, consistent energy) or undefined (white, absorbing and amplifying energy from others).
The largest body of the asteroid belt and the first of the four major asteroids used in modern astrology. Ceres is the archetype of nourishment — how you feed and are fed, literally and emotionally — together with the cycles of loss and reunion drawn from the Demeter myth. Her sign shows your style of care; her house shows where care is given and needed most.
Four numbers derived by subtraction from the birth date, one for each long arc of life. Where Pinnacles describe what a period offers, Challenges describe what it tests — the recurring lesson that must be worked rather than avoided. A Challenge that repeats across periods marks a lifelong theme.
Gates are the 64 positions in the Human Design BodyGraph corresponding to I Ching hexagrams. When a gate on one end of a channel connects to a gate on the other end, the channel is activated, creating a defined energy flow between two centers.
Structural classifications of a Ba Zi chart by how power sits around the Day Master. A Normal pattern balances support and drain and is read through favorable elements. Follow patterns — Follow Wealth, Follow Officer, Follow Output — arise when the Day Master is too weak to stand and surrenders to the dominant force; the Dominant pattern is the mirror case, a Day Master so strong the chart serves it. The pattern decides which elements help, and advice that fits a Normal chart can invert for a Follow one.
A minor planet between Saturn and Uranus, called the Wounded Healer. Its sign and house mark where an early injury never quite closes — and where, precisely because you know the terrain, you can help others through the same ground. Chiron's gift is competence bought at cost: the skill is real, and so is the tenderness underneath it.
The Major Limit periods in Zi Wei Dou Shu, typically spanning 10 years each. Each Da Xian activates a different palace in your chart, bringing its stars and themes into prominence. The sequence of Da Xian periods maps out the major chapters of your life.
The Heavenly Stem of your Day Pillar — the single most important element in your Ba Zi chart. It represents your core identity and the lens through which all other elements are analyzed. There are 10 possible Day Masters (5 elements × Yin/Yang).
The judgment of whether the Day Master stands Strong or Weak — whether the chart's season, roots, and companions feed the day stem or drain it. Strength is not quality: a Strong chart benefits from the elements that tame and employ it, a Weak one from those that feed and shelter it. Nearly every prescription in Ba Zi — favorable elements, luck-pillar readings — flows from this single call.
A daily quality indicator in the Chinese almanac (Tong Shu) that classifies each day into one of 12 officers: Establish, Remove, Full, Balance, Stable, Initiate, Destroy, Danger, Success, Receive, Open, Close. Each has specific activities it favors or discourages.
How the defined centers of a bodygraph connect into circuits: Single (one connected group), Split (two islands), Triple or Quadruple Split (three or four), or No Definition (a fully open chart — the Reflector). Definition describes how energy travels internally: a Single definition processes self-contained, while splits experience a gap that other people naturally bridge.
The core methodology of Water Formula Feng Shui. Dragon Gate assesses water direction relationships based on your Kua number, determining which water mouths (entry/exit points of water flow) are auspicious or inauspicious for your property.
The point exactly opposite the Sun — wherever you were born, the Earth sits 180° away. Human Design gives it equal weight: the Sun carries the imprint's expression while the Earth carries its grounding, the base that lets the Sun's theme stand. The conscious and design Earth gates form half of the Incarnation Cross and show where you find stability.
The 12 cyclical characters (子丑寅卯辰巳午未申酉戌亥) used in Chinese metaphysics. Each branch corresponds to an animal (Rat through Pig), a two-hour period, a compass direction, and one or more of the Five Elements. They form the bottom row of each Ba Zi pillar.
Eight spiritual forces in Qi Men Dun Jia that occupy the 9-palace grid: Zhi Fu (Chief), Teng She (Serpent), Tai Yin (Moon), Liu He (Harmony), Gou Chen (Hook), Zhu Que (Red Bird), Jiu Di (Nine Earth), Jiu Tian (Nine Heaven). Each deity modifies the energy of its palace.
Eight symbolic doors in the Qi Men Dun Jia 9-palace grid: Open, Rest, Life, Injury, Obstruction, Scenery, Death, Shock. Each door carries specific energy — Open, Rest, and Life are generally auspicious; Death and Injury are generally challenging.
In Xuan Kong Da Gua, hexagrams have elemental associations. The relationship between the element of the sitting hexagram and the facing hexagram (productive, reductive, controlling, or same) determines compatibility and the flow of Qi in a building.
In Qi Men Dun Jia, the palace where the Envoy (Zhi Shi) resides. While the Chief (Zhi Fu) represents the querent or the main force, the Envoy represents the action to take or the method of approach. Its position guides strategic decisions.
A numerology cycle number derived from your current age and name. It represents the combined vibrational influence you experience during a specific year of life, blending your Personal Year with your name vibrations.
The classical system grading a planet's strength by sign: domicile (its own sign), exaltation (its honored-guest sign), detriment (opposite its domicile), and fall (opposite its exaltation). A dignified planet acts with its full vocabulary; a debilitated one works through compensation. Mars in Aries is Mars at home — Mars in Libra must negotiate for what it would rather take.
Also called the Destiny Number. Calculated from the full birth name by converting each letter to its Pythagorean number value and reducing. Reveals your natural abilities, talents, and the path of personal development you are drawn toward.
The element-and-number pairing — Water 2, Wood 3, Metal 4, Earth 5, Fire 6 — assigned to a Zi Wei Dou Shu chart from the Life Palace's stem and branch. The Bureau sets the tempo of the whole map: its number fixes the age at which the first ten-year Da Xian cycle begins, and its element colors the chart's underlying constitution.
The foundational framework of Chinese metaphysics: Wood (growth), Fire (expansion), Earth (stability), Metal (contraction), Water (flow). They interact through productive (Wood→Fire→Earth→Metal→Water→Wood) and controlling (Wood→Earth→Water→Fire→Metal→Wood) cycles. Used in Ba Zi, Feng Shui, QMDJ, and ZWDS.
A time-based Feng Shui system (Xuan Kong Fei Xing) that maps nine stars onto a 3×3 grid. Each 20-year period, each year, and each month shifts the star positions, creating layers of energy that interact with the building's base chart. Stars 1, 6, 8 are generally auspicious; 2, 5, 7 are generally challenging.
The core structure of a Ba Zi chart: Year Pillar, Month Pillar, Day Pillar, and Hour Pillar. Each pillar consists of a Heavenly Stem (top) and an Earthly Branch (bottom), producing 8 characters total. Together they encode your elemental makeup, timing patterns, and destiny structure.
Four dynamic influences in Zi Wei Dou Shu that modify star behavior: Hua Lu (wealth/opportunity), Hua Quan (authority/power), Hua Ke (fame/knowledge), and Hua Ji (trouble/obstacles). Each year activates different transformations based on the annual stem.
In Human Design, the 64 gates correspond to the 64 hexagrams of the I Ching. Each gate carries a specific theme and is activated by planetary positions at birth and 88 days before birth. Gates are located within the nine centers of the BodyGraph.
The 10 cyclical characters (甲乙丙丁戊己庚辛壬癸) used in Chinese metaphysics. Each stem is associated with a specific element and polarity: Jia/Yi (Wood), Bing/Ding (Fire), Wu/Ji (Earth), Geng/Xin (Metal), Ren/Gui (Water). They form the top row of each Ba Zi pillar.
The 12 divisions of the birth chart in Western Astrology, each governing a life domain: self (1st), money (2nd), communication (3rd), home (4th), creativity (5th), health (6th), partnerships (7th), transformation (8th), philosophy (9th), career (10th), community (11th), spirituality (12th). House system depends on birth time and location.
Your life purpose in Human Design, derived from the Sun and Earth gate positions at both your birth time and Design time (88 days prior). There are 192 possible Incarnation Crosses, each describing a unique purpose theme. It is considered the deepest layer of your chart.
The number 1–9 that, together with Yang or Yin Dun, names a Qi Men Dun Jia chart's structure — Yang Dun 3 Ju seats the lead stem Wu 戊 in palace 3 and arranges everything else from there. The Ju is selected by solar term and the Three Yuan era of the day, so plates repeat on a fixed cadence: two moments sharing Dun, Ju, and hour share the same chart.
The third of the four major asteroids, named for Jupiter's wife. Juno is the marriage asteroid — not romance but the contract of partnership: fidelity, fairness, what you require in order to stay, and what betrayal means to you. Her sign and house show the shape of committed bonds and where power inside them must stay balanced.
The planet of expansion, meaning and good fortune. Its sign shows how you grow, what you believe, and where confidence comes easily; its house shows the area of life that keeps opening. Jupiter takes about twelve years to circle the zodiac, spending roughly a year in each sign. Its excess is overreach — the belief that more is always better.
Four double-digit numbers — 13, 14, 16, and 19 — that carry an extra lesson when they stand behind a core number's reduction. Each marks a specific overcorrection: 13 work avoided, 14 freedom abused, 16 ego in love, 19 power hoarded. A karmic debt does not doom the number it rides on; it names the tax to be paid before that energy runs clean.
A personal number derived from your birth year and gender in Feng Shui. Determines your Life Group (East or West) and your eight personal directions — four auspicious (Sheng Qi, Tian Yi, Yan Nian, Fu Wei) and four inauspicious (Ho Hai, Wu Gui, Liu Sha, Jue Ming). Used in Ba Zhai and Water Formula.
In Feng Shui Ba Zhai, people are divided into East Life Group (Kua 1, 3, 4, 9) and West Life Group (Kua 2, 6, 7, 8). Each group shares the same four favorable directions. East Group people thrive facing East, South, North, or Southeast; West Group people thrive facing West, Northwest, Southwest, or Northeast.
The most important number in Pythagorean Numerology, calculated by reducing your full birth date to a single digit (or Master Number 11, 22, 33). It reveals your life purpose, natural tendencies, and the path of experiences you will encounter. Life Path 1 = leadership; 7 = seeker; 9 = humanitarian.
Black Moon Lilith, the lunar apogee — the point where the Moon's orbit is farthest from Earth. Not a body but a calculated point. Its sign and house mark what you refuse to domesticate: the appetite, anger or independence that will not be made convenient, and the part of a chart most often exiled before it is owned.
The six divisions of every gate, numbered 1–6, drawn from the six lines of an I Ching hexagram. The line a planet occupies refines its gate's theme: line 1 investigates foundations, 2 holds natural gifts awaiting a call, 3 learns by trial, 4 works through networks, 5 projects and is projected upon, 6 climbs from role model to observer. The Sun/Earth lines of the personality and design sides compose the Profile.
Annual (Liu Nian) and monthly (Liu Yue) cycles in Zi Wei Dou Shu. Each year activates a Small Limit palace, and each month within that year activates a sub-palace. These short-term cycles layer on top of the 10-year Da Xian to reveal detailed timing of events.
Also called Da Yun. 10-year periods in Ba Zi that shift the elemental landscape of your life. Calculated from the Month Pillar, they progress either forward or backward through the stems and branches depending on gender and year stem polarity. Each Luck Pillar brings new elemental influences that can strengthen or challenge your chart.
The planet of drive, assertion and appetite. Its sign shows how you pursue what you want and how you handle conflict; its house shows where you spend that energy. Mars takes about two years to circle the zodiac. Its shadow is force applied to the wrong problem — and, unexpressed, it turns inward as irritation rather than disappearing.
Special double-digit numbers in Numerology (11, 22, 33) that are not reduced to a single digit. They carry amplified energy: 11 = intuitive visionary, 22 = master builder, 33 = master teacher. Encountering these in a Life Path or core number indicates heightened potential and responsibility.
The sum of the Life Path and Expression numbers, reduced — the theme that ripens in the second half of life, usually felt from the mid-30s onward. Early life is spent living the Life Path and the Expression separately; the Maturity Number describes what they add up to once both are owned.
The planet of mind, language and exchange. Its sign shows how you think, learn and speak — quickly or deliberately, in pictures or in arguments; its house shows the subject matter your attention keeps returning to. Mercury never strays far from the Sun, so it sits in your Sun sign or one of its neighbours.
The three-week stretch, three or four times a year, when Mercury appears to move backwards through the zodiac from Earth. The planet never reverses; the two orbits overtake each other. Traditionally read as a time to revise, review and re-read rather than launch — contracts, travel and messages are where the misunderstandings cluster. In a natal chart, a retrograde Mercury describes a mind that works inward first and speaks second.
Also called the MC (Medium Coeli). The highest point of the birth chart, marking the cusp of the 10th house. Represents your public image, career aspirations, and how you are perceived in your professional life. One of the four angles of the chart.
The fastest-moving body in the chart and the counterweight to the Sun. Its sign describes your emotional weather, what soothes you and what you need in order to feel safe; its house shows where that need plays out. Because the Moon changes sign every two to three days, an accurate birth time matters more here than for any other placement.
The current illumination stage of the Moon: New Moon, Waxing Crescent, First Quarter, Waxing Gibbous, Full Moon, Waning Gibbous, Last Quarter, Waning Crescent. In astrology, the Moon phase at birth and current transits influence emotional cycles and optimal timing.
The zodiac sign the Moon occupied at your exact birth moment. Represents your emotional nature, instinctive reactions, inner needs, and how you process feelings. Changes signs approximately every 2.5 days, making birth time important for accuracy.
The ring of a Chinese geomantic compass that carries hexagrams against directions. In KAXANTA the bearing is placed on the 24 Mountains, reduced to the mountain trigram, and stacked with the opposite trigram to give the sitting and facing hexagrams — so the reading resolves to eight orientations of 45°. Classical practice subdivides the ring further and weighs the result against the 20-year Period; that finer ring is not computed here.
The planet of imagination, longing and dissolution. Its sign is shared by everyone born within a fourteen-year stretch, so the house placement carries the personal meaning: the area of life where boundaries blur, where inspiration arrives, and where you are most willing to see what you hope for rather than what is there.
The 3×3 Lo Shu grid on which every Qi Men Dun Jia chart is cast. Each palace holds a compass sector, a trigram, and a native element, and receives a door, a star, a deity, and stems as the chart turns. Palace 5, the center, has no door of its own — what lands there is read through palace 2. Reading a chart is reading the palace that matters for the question: the direction of travel, the counterparty, the hour.
Nine celestial influences in the Qi Men Dun Jia 9-palace grid: Peng (Canopy), Ren (Duty), Chong (Charge), Fu (Assistant), Rui (Bird), Ying (Prominence), Zhu (Pillar), Xin (Heart), Qin (Celeste). Each star modifies the quality of its palace — some are auspicious (Peng, Ren, Chong), others are challenging (Rui, Zhu).
A calculated point where the Moon's orbit crosses the ecliptic northward. In Western Astrology, represents your soul's growth direction — the qualities you are developing in this lifetime. The opposite point (South Node) represents past-life patterns and comfort zones.
The emotional signal that a Human Design type is living against its mechanics: anger for Manifestors, frustration for Generators and Manifesting Generators, bitterness for Projectors, disappointment for Reflectors. The not-self theme is diagnostic, not moral — its presence means decisions are being made from the open centers rather than from strategy and authority; its fading is the signature returning.
The allowable degree range within which an aspect is considered active. A conjunction with a 0° orb is exact; most astrologers use orbs of 6-10° for major aspects and 2-3° for minor aspects. Tighter orbs indicate stronger influence.
The second of the four major asteroids, named for Pallas Athena. She is the pattern-seer: strategy, craft, and the intelligence that wins without force. Her sign shows how you solve problems and perceive patterns; her house shows where that wisdom is most at home — and where mentor themes tend to gather.
A calculated point, not a body, combining the chart's three pillars: Ascendant plus Moon minus Sun for a day birth, with the Moon and Sun swapped for a night birth. It marks where horizon and luminaries agree, and is read as a well of ease, health, and worldly luck. Activity in its sign and house tends to feel unearned in the best sense — the current runs with you there.
In Flying Star Feng Shui, time is divided into 20-year periods. The current Period 9 (2024-2043) is governed by the Li trigram (Fire). Each period shifts which flying stars are most timely and powerful, affecting the base chart of every building.
The seven-step verdict Qi Men Dun Jia issues for a time window or sector, from Greatly Auspicious through Neutral to Greatly Inauspicious. It compresses a palace's whole configuration — door, star, deity, and stem relations — into one grade, so two hours with the same door can still differ when their supporting cast does.
A 9-year repeating cycle in Numerology. Your Personal Year is calculated from your birth month and day combined with the current year. Each year (1-9) carries a distinct theme: 1 = new beginnings, 5 = change, 9 = completion. The cycle then restarts.
Calculated from the consonants in your full birth name. Represents the outer you — the face you show the world, how others perceive you before they know you deeply. Acts as a filter between your inner self (Soul Urge) and the outside world.
Four long chapters of life, each ruled by a number derived from the birth date. The first Pinnacle runs from birth to roughly the mid-30s (36 minus the Life Path number), the second and third for nine years each, the fourth to the end. Each Pinnacle's number describes what its era asks for and rewards; the transitions between them are classic turning-point years.
The 10 celestial bodies used in Western Astrology: Sun, Moon, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, Pluto. Each planet governs specific life themes (Sun = identity, Moon = emotions, Mercury = communication, etc.) and its sign and house placement shape your chart.
The planet of depth, power and transformation. Generational by sign — it takes up to two and a half decades to cross one — so the house shows where the pressure lands for you personally: what gets stripped down, what will not stay buried, and where you are handed power you did not ask for.
A two-number code in Human Design (e.g., 3/5, 6/2) derived from the line positions of your conscious and unconscious Sun gates. There are 12 profiles, each describing your life theme, role, and how you learn. The first number is conscious (Personality); the second is unconscious (Design).
The four seasons of the Rave Mandala's 64 gates, sixteen gates each, named by theme: the Quarter of Initiation (purpose fulfilled through mind), Civilization (through form), Duality (through bonding), and Mutation (through transformation). The quarter holding the personality Sun colors the whole incarnation; the Sun's passage through the quarters also structures the Human Design year.
When a planet appears to move backward through the zodiac from Earth's perspective. In astrology, retrograde periods are associated with review, revision, and delays in the planet's domain. Mercury retrograde (communication/travel delays) is the most widely known.
The Three Killings — an annual Feng Shui affliction that occupies one cardinal sector (90°). Disturbing this sector through renovation, digging, or sitting with your back to it can bring setbacks. Unlike Tai Sui, San Sha shifts to a new cardinal direction each year.
The planet of structure, limits and earned mastery. Its sign shows the shape of your discipline; its house shows where life asks for patience and repeated effort before it yields. Saturn takes about twenty-nine years to circle the zodiac — the basis of the Saturn Return, when it comes back to its birth position and asks what you have built.
The moment transiting Saturn comes back to the zodiac degree it held at your birth — first near 29, again near 58, and a third time near 87. Because Saturn governs structure and earned mastery, the return is read as an audit: what you built in the preceding cycle is tested, and what was borrowed rather than earned tends to fall away. It is a deadline, not a punishment. The exact date comes from the transit, so two people born a week apart can meet it months apart.
In Xuan Kong Da Gua, evaluating a property's compass sectors by their hexagram placements. Each sector is assessed for compatibility with the sitting and facing hexagrams, considering elemental relationships and trigram harmony.
The felt confirmation that a type is living its mechanics: peace for Manifestors, satisfaction for Generators and Manifesting Generators, success for Projectors, surprise for Reflectors. Where the not-self theme is the alarm, the signature is the green light — not an achievement to chase but a by-product of correct strategy and authority.
In Feng Shui and XKDG, the sitting direction is where the building's back rests; the facing direction is where it opens to the world. These two directions determine the base chart of a property and are measured with a compass to the nearest degree.
The 24 divisions of the solar year (jieqi 節氣), each spanning 15° of the Sun's longitude — about fifteen days from Spring Begins through Grain Rain, Major Heat, White Dew, and Winter Solstice. They are load-bearing across Chinese metaphysics: Ba Zi changes its month pillar at the twelve sectional terms, and Qi Men Dun Jia selects its chart structure from the term and its Three Yuan era.
Also called Heart's Desire. Calculated from the vowels in your full birth name. Reveals your innermost motivations, deepest desires, and what truly drives you at the core. Often describes what you want in life but may not outwardly express.
The lunar node opposite the North Node — the point where the Moon's orbit crosses the ecliptic heading south. In karmic astrology it holds what you arrive already knowing: gifts, habits, and attachments that feel effortless and can become a rut. It is read as the counterweight of the North Node's assignment — drawn on, not lived in.
The correct way for your Human Design Type to engage with life. Generators and Manifesting Generators wait to respond. Projectors wait for invitations. Manifestors inform before acting. Reflectors wait a full lunar cycle. Following your Strategy aligns you with your design.
The centre of the chart: the identity you are built to express, and the thing you are most yourself while doing. Its sign is what people mean by "your star sign"; its house shows the area of life where that identity gets worked out. The Sun takes a year to circle the zodiac, spending about a month in each sign.
The zodiac sign the Sun occupied at your birth — the most widely known astrological placement. Represents your core identity, ego expression, and vitality. When someone says "I'm a Leo," they mean their Sun Sign is Leo.
Additional stars in Ba Zi derived from pillar interactions: Peach Blossom (romance/charisma), Nobleman (helpful people), Traveling Horse (movement/change), Academic Star (scholarship), and others. They add nuance to the chart beyond the core elemental analysis.
The Grand Duke Jupiter — an annual Feng Shui affliction that sits in the Earthly Branch direction of the current year. For example, in a Dragon year, Tai Sui occupies the Southeast (Chen). Never face Tai Sui directly or disturb the sector with renovation.
The relationship framework in Ba Zi. Each element in your chart has a relationship to your Day Master: Direct/Indirect Resource (support), Companion/Rob Wealth (peers), Direct/Indirect Officer (discipline), Direct/Indirect Wealth (earnings), Eating God/Hurting Officer (output). These 10 relationships describe every dynamic in your life.
Three special Heavenly Stems in Qi Men Dun Jia: Yi (乙, Wood Wonder), Bing (丙, Fire Wonder), and Ding (丁, Earth Wonder). When a Three Wonder appears in a palace alongside a favorable Door, it indicates an especially auspicious combination for that sector.
The three five-day eras — Upper, Middle, and Lower (上元, 中元, 下元) — into which each solar term divides. The era of the day, found from its stem-branch pair, combines with the solar term to select the chart's Ju. The same hour on different days can therefore cast different plates: the Yuan is the calendar's fine adjustment.
The current positions of planets in the sky, analyzed relative to your natal chart. Transits are the primary timing tool in Western Astrology — when a transiting planet aspects a natal planet, it activates that area of your life. Used for daily, monthly, and yearly forecasts.
In Xuan Kong Da Gua, two hexagrams are compared by examining the relationship between their component trigrams (upper and lower). Compatible trigrams share harmonious elemental or structural relationships, contributing to auspicious Feng Shui.
The life cycle every element traverses through the twelve branches: Birth and Bath, Crown, Prime, and Peak, then Decline, Sick, Death, Tomb, and Void, closing with Embryo and Nurture — growth, flourishing, ebb, and gestation. Ba Zi reads the Day Master's stage in a pillar or a day as its vitality there: the same stem is a different creature at Prime than at Tomb.
Your fundamental energy category in Human Design. There are five Types: Manifestor (initiating energy, ~9%), Generator (sustainable life-force, ~37%), Manifesting Generator (multi-passionate builder, ~33%), Projector (guiding wisdom, ~20%), and Reflector (community mirror, ~1%). Your Type determines your Strategy.
The numerological theme of the calendar year, calculated by reducing the year to a single digit (e.g., 2026 = 2+0+2+6 = 10 = 1). A Universal Year 1 signals new global beginnings. It sets the backdrop against which personal cycles play out.
The planet of disruption and independence. Its sign is shared across a seven-year cohort, so the house is the personal part: the area of life where you break pattern, refuse inherited terms, and change suddenly rather than gradually. Uranus describes where you are least willing to be predictable, including to yourself.
Four arrows in the Human Design BodyGraph that indicate cognitive and behavioral orientation: Digestion (diet), Environment (ideal surroundings), Perspective (how you see the world), and Motivation (what drives you). Each arrow points left (strategic/active) or right (receptive/passive).
The planet of value, attraction and taste. Its sign shows what you find beautiful, how you show affection and what you consider worth having; its house shows where you seek it. Like Mercury, Venus stays close to the Sun — never more than two signs away — so it sits in or beside your Sun sign.
A calculated point where the ecliptic meets the prime vertical in the west of the chart — often called the angle of fate. It almost always falls in houses 5 through 8, and turns up highlighted in synastry and in charts for meetings that feel appointed rather than arranged. Modern practice reads it as a door other people open: activated by contact more than by intent.
The fourth major asteroid, named for the keeper of the sacred flame. Vesta is devotion — the capacity to tend one thing with whole attention: a craft, a practice, a cause, a hearth. Her sign shows the style of dedication; her house shows what is worth the vigil. Her shadow is the flame turned inward — work as refuge, purity as armor.
A period when the Moon has made its last major aspect in the current sign and will not make another until entering the next sign. During void-of-course Moon, astrologers advise against starting new projects or making important decisions — things initiated may not go as planned.
In Water Formula Feng Shui, any body of water visible from or near a property: rivers, streams, ponds, fountains, drains, or even roads (which carry Qi like water). The direction from which water approaches and exits the property determines its auspiciousness.
The compass direction where water enters or exits a property's visible environment. In Water Formula (Dragon Gate Eight Method), the water mouth direction is cross-referenced with your Kua number to determine auspiciousness. This is one of the most practical applications of Feng Shui.
The foundational duality in Chinese philosophy: Yin (receptive, dark, cool, internal) and Yang (active, bright, warm, external). Every element, stem, branch, and star has a Yin or Yang polarity. Balance between Yin and Yang is a central goal in all Chinese wisdom traditions.
The two modes of Qi Men Dun Jia chart construction. Yang Dun charts are used for the warmer half of the year (spring/summer solstice cycle); Yin Dun charts for the cooler half (autumn/winter solstice cycle). The mode determines how stars and stems are arranged in the 9-palace grid.
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