Section 1 The Origin and Basic Principles of Ziwei Dou Shu
Understand the traditional background, birth chart formation and basic uses of Ziwei Dou Shu, and understand how it establishes the symbolic system of stars and palaces through birth time.
Section 2: How the birth chart is formed
Understand the twelve houses, fourteen main stars, auxiliary stars, evil stars and the four transformations in the birth chart, and understand the basic relationship between different elements.
Section 3 Possibilities and Choices in Numerology Judgment
Understand the relationship between innate tendencies, acquired environment and personal choices, and avoid taking the natal chart as an unchangeable conclusion.
Section 4 Reading Framework of Personality Model
Establish six observation dimensions: core personality, external performance, internal needs, emotional reactions, relationship patterns and action choices.
ZiWei Star & Personality
Understand yourself and others from the Eastern Astrology Chart
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ZiWei Star & Personality
The self you know may be only the outward image formed through years of adapting to the world around you. ZiWei Dou Shu arranges the stars and twelve palaces from the moment of birth to observe core personality, emotional rhythms, relationship needs, and ways of acting. As the stars in the chart are understood layer by layer, the psychological forces hidden behind behavior also come into view.
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Do you truly know yourself? Faced with the same thing, some people act immediately, some weigh repeatedly, some need recognition, and some care more about safety and boundaries. Many behavioral differences do not come from ability, but are related to individuals' long-term stable psychological tendencies, emotional reactions and relationship needs.
Zi Wei Dou Shu and Personality Model is the basic introductory course of the Zi Wei Dou Shu series of courses, and is also the starting point for subsequent courses on Zi Wei Dou Shu and mental health and business management courses. The course takes the twelve palaces, including Life Palace, Body Palace, Fortune Palace, Migration Palace, Couple Palace, Officials Palace and Friendship Palace as the main line, and combines the fourteen main stars, lucky stars, evil stars and the four transformations to establish a multi-level personality analysis framework.
The course will lead students to distinguish between core self, external performance, inner emotions, stress responses and relationship patterns. Students will learn to observe a person's strengths, limitations, value preferences, communication styles and potential conflicts from the natal chart, and use this information for self-understanding, interpersonal communication, intimacy and teamwork.
Course Series Context
ZiWei Star Astrology Series
ZiWei Dou Shu, also called Zi Wei Dou Shu or Zi Wei Star Astrology, is an important branch of traditional Chinese numerology. It builds a personal chart from the year, month, day, and hour of birth, placing fourteen main stars, supporting stars, the Four Transformations (Prosperity, Authority, Reputation, and Obstruction), and twelve palaces on one star chart to observe the connections among personality, relationships, career, wealth, family, and life stages.
The distinctive feature of ZiWei Dou Shu is holistic reading. A single star cannot independently determine a person's destiny. The links among palaces, combinations of stars, brightness, and changes over time jointly shape the judgment. The chart therefore becomes a symbolic map of life through which learners can understand inner motivation and outward choices from multiple dimensions.
After a long transmission, ZiWei Dou Shu has extended from traditional numerology consultation into self-knowledge, psychological observation, relationship communication, team management, environmental choice, and life planning. This series begins with the personality model and gradually enters mental health, Feng Shui, business management, and destiny prediction, allowing learners to build a complete ZiWei Dou Shu analysis system from learning to read one star.
Course Features
- Using the twelve houses and fourteen main stars as the main lines, a clear and reusable personality analysis framework is established.
- Transform Xingyao's language into real behaviors, emotional reactions and communication methods, reducing abstract and vague expressions.
- Combining the symbolism of Eastern numerology with modern observations of personality, enabling foreign learners to understand core concepts.
- Set up self-portraits, portraits of others and case training to enable students to move from knowledge memory to actual interpretation.
- It lays the foundation for subsequent courses such as Ziwei Dou Shu’s mental health, business management, synastry and destiny prediction.
- Understand your core personality
Identify the basic personality tendencies shown by the natal palace and the main star, and understand your own strengths, sensitive points, modes of action, and value preferences.
- Observe emotions and inner needs
Combined with the Palace of Fortune, the Four Transformations and Evil Stars, we analyze emotional rhythms, sources of stress, needs for security and psychological patterns that are prone to recurring.
- Understand the behavioral logic of others
Observe the other person’s expression, decision-making habits, relationship boundaries and real concerns through their horoscope, so as to reduce the risk of making judgments based solely on superficial behavior.
- Improve communication and intimacy
Identify the differences in rhythm, needs, and expression between the two parties, adjust communication methods, and reduce misunderstandings, control, and emotional confrontation.
- Applied to teams and management
Determine the more suitable roles, motivation methods and collaboration models for different members, and provide auxiliary reference for recruitment, division of labor and leadership communication.
- Independently complete basic personality analysis
According to the standard process, the twelve houses, main stars, auxiliary stars, evil stars and four transformations are combined to form a complete personality portrait for yourself or others.
Ziwei Dou Shu provides an oriental symbol system. It expands the perspective on people but is not a substitute for standardized psychological assessment, clinical diagnosis, or professional treatment. The course emphasizes proposing possibilities based on the natal chart and verifying them through real experiences, avoiding turning horoscope interpretations into fixed labels.
Course Curriculum
ZiWei Star & Personality
Section 1 The basic meaning of the twelve houses
Systematically understand the Palace of Life, Palace of Brothers, Palace of Couples, Palace of Children, Palace of Wealth and Silk, Palace of Disasters, Palace of Migration, Palace of Friendship, Palace of Officials and Luxury, Palace of Land and Property, Palace of Fortune and Palace of Parents.
Section 2: Life Palace and Core Self
Learn how the life palace presents personality tone, value preferences, behavioral styles and basic ways of facing the world.
Section 3 Body Palace and Action Pattern
Understand the real investment, action inertia and life focus reflected by the body palace, and observe where a person will ultimately put his energy.
Section 4: Palace of Fortune and the Inner World
Observe a person's spiritual needs, approach to solitude, sources of satisfaction, emotional resilience and underlying anxieties.
Section 5: Palace of Illness and Mood Fluctuations
How the body and emotions interact with each other, the main stars, evil stars and the four transformations in the palace of illness will affect the rhythm and expression of emotional fluctuations.
Section 1 Ziweixing and Tianfu Star
Understand the coordination, dignity and control tendencies of Ziwei Star, and the stability, tolerance and resource management characteristics of Tianfu Star.
What You Can DoDistinguish authority orientation and stability orientation in leadership personality.
Section 2 Sun Star and Lunar Star
Analyze the Sun star's outward expression, sense of responsibility and publicity, and the Lunar star's delicate feelings, safety needs and inner judgment.
What You Can DoIdentify the different dynamics of extroverted and introverted personalities.
Section 3 Tianji Star and Tianliang Star
Understand the thinking, change and strategic tendencies of Tianji Star, as well as the principles, protection and moral responsibility of Tianliang Star.
What You Can DoAnalyze quick-thinking and principled caring personalities.
Section 4 Wuquxing and Tianxiangxing
Observe Wuquxing’s execution, efficiency and result awareness, and Tianxiangxing’s coordination, rules and image management characteristics.
What You Can DoDetermine a person's strengths in task advancement and relationship coordination.
Section 5: Tiantongxing and Jumenxing
Understand Tiantong’s gentleness, enjoyment and conflict-avoiding tendencies, and Jumen’s questioning, expression and analytical abilities.
What You Can DoIdentifying soft-adapted and verbally analytic personalities.
Section 6: Lian Zhenxing and Greedy Wolf Star
Analyze Lian Zhenxing's boundaries, desires and self-control, and Tanlangxing's social interaction, interests, charm and diverse experiences.
What You Can DoUnderstanding the relationship between attraction, desire management, and social adjustment.
Section 7 Seven Killing Stars and Pojun Stars
Understand the decisiveness, pressure tolerance and independence of the Seven Kills Star, and the tendency of change, risk-taking and breaking the old order of the Pojun Star.
What You Can DoIdentify high-pressure action type and change-breaking personality.
Section 1 Core Self and Social Mask
Combining the Life Palace, Body Palace and Migration Palace, observe how a person knows himself, how he presents himself to the outside world, and how the outside world responds to him.
What You Can DoExplain the gap between self-perception and other people's evaluations.
Section 2 Emotional tone and recovery methods
Observe emotional sensitivity, thinking style, need for solitude and recovery rhythm by combining the stars of Fortune Palace, Taiyin, Tiantong and Jumen.
What You Can DoFind a way to rest, express, and organize your emotions that suits you better.
Section 3: Sense of security, control and value
Analyze the needs of different stars for order, recognition, resources, relationships, and freedom, and understand the core driving forces behind behaviors.
What You Can DoIdentify the real concerns of yourself and others.
Section 4: Defensive response under pressure
Observe the performance of evil stars, evil stars and related houses in stressful situations, including avoidance, control, aggression, overthinking and sudden severing of relationships.
What You Can DoRecognize the signs of conflict escalation in advance.
Section 5 Personality Strengths and Overuse
Understand that strengths, when out of balance, can turn into stubbornness, ingratiation, aggression, control, or overcommitment.
What You Can DoUse personality analysis for self-adjustment rather than fixed evaluation.
Your Teacher
Learn With Dr. Phoenix Chao
BaZi, Zi Wei Star Astrology & Holistic Wellness
Dr. Phoenix Chao, Doctor of Laws, has studied traditional Chinese culture since childhood. He works with BaZi and Zi Wei Star Astrology to explore personality, customised life planning, and forward-looking counsel, while drawing on traditional Chinese medicine and wellness practices to support balance between body and mind.
Meet Dr. Phoenix ChaoRead Before Your Next Lesson
Understanding the ZiWei Twelve Palaces
A map for reading relationships between life areas rather than treating stars and palaces as isolated labels.
Personality Through ZiWei
How personality models can organize observation without turning a living person into a permanent chart label.
What Is Dao?
An introductory reflection on change, relationship, and the limits of the language used to describe the Dao.
Five Elements & Body Organs
A careful introduction to traditional correspondences between the Five Elements, seasonal change, and bodily systems.
Structured LearningClear course progression
Context FirstHistory, concepts, and cases
Direct EnrollmentEmail and WhatsApp support
Educational FocusReflective and responsible study