Purple Star Astrology traces its origin to Chen Tuan 陳摶 in the Song dynasty, and over nearly a thousand years divided into many lines. This page is a complete map, with 12 articles on the schools and close to a hundred in-depth articles on chart structures, techniques, foundational concepts, classical texts and great masters: from the two great lines, the Southern School which weighs the stars and the Northern School which weighs the Four Transformations, through to the modern schools. research sources. If you are starting out, read the Overview of the Schools first.
★ The Overview Article
★ The Two Classical Lines: Southern and Northern
Southern School · Three Harmonies 三合Weighs the stars, the four linked palaces, and the chart structuresZhong Zhou School 中州派Wang Ting Zhi, the most systematic body of workNorthern School · Flying Stars and Four Transformations 飛星四化The Khâm Thiên 欽天 Four Transformations, flying stars and flying palaces
★ The Modern Schools of Taiwan and Hong Kong
Tử Vân School 紫雲派The Three Great Discourses, and the Grand Duke entering the trigramThiên Cơ School 天機派Favourable and unfavourable spirits in Purple Star, and the theory of palace QiThiên Vận Hợp Tham School 天運合參Reading the Four Pillars together with Purple Star AstrologyThe Modern School of Liễu Vô Cư Sĩ 了無居士Returning Purple Star Astrology to what it truly isThẩm Thị School 沈氏派Star transformation, the three-limit method, and the palace-crossing methodEmpirical Verification School 占驗派Weighs empirical verification, and draws in Qi Men Dun Jia
★ Transmission Abroad and the Vietnamese Line
★ Purple Star Chart Structures: the Auspicious and the Inauspicious
★ The Four Transformations and Flying Star Technique
The Four Transformations, an OverviewEmolument, Power, Merit and Obstruction, the ground of every schoolBirth Year Four TransformationsThe Four Transformations by the stem of the birth year, the ground of a whole lifeFlying Palace Four TransformationsThe Four Transformations by the stem of a palace, the heart of the Northern SchoolSelf-TransformationA palace transforming its own QiFlying TransformationStars flying between palaces, the thread of cause and effectThe Origin PalaceTracing a matter back to where it beganFixing the Moment of FulfilmentCatching the moment at which a matter comes to passPalace Position and Shifting ImageOne palace carrying several layers of meaningThe Four Transformations Across the 12 PalacesEmolument, Power, Merit and Obstruction in each palaceThe Four Transformations in the Southern and Northern SchoolsThe two ways of using the Four Transformations compared
★ Foundational Concepts
The Three Sides and Four UprightsFour linked palaces, the frame of every readingTemple, Prosperous, Attained and FallenHow bright or dim, how strong or weak a star standsThe Five Phase BureausFrom the Water Two Bureau to the Fire Six BureauPlacing the Life Palace and the Body PalaceHow the Life Palace and the Body Palace are fixedYin, Yang and the Five PhasesThe generating and controlling ground beneath every ruleThe Sound Element in Purple Star AstrologyThe Na Yin 納音 Five Phase of a birth yearThree Harmonies, Six Unions and Six ClashesHow the twelve Earthly Branches relate to one anotherFlanking PalacesTwo adjacent palaces pressing the one between themSame Palace and Facing PalaceStars sharing a palace, and stars shining across into itThe Ranks of the StarsMajor stars, minor stars, Sha stars and auspicious stars
★ Technique for Fortune Cycles and Star Systems
The Decade Limit and the Annual LimitThe ten-year cycle and the yearly cycleFlowing StarsStars that flow with the year and the monthThe Flowing Month and the Flowing DayThe monthly cycle and the daily cycleYin, Yang and the Direction of the CycleWhich way the decade cycle runs, for a man and for a womanThe Grand Duke CycleTwelve spirits set by the branch of the birth yearThe Twelve Life StagesThe twelve stages of rise and decline across a lifetimeThe Northern Dipper and Southern Dipper StarsThe two great star systems of a chartThe Four Major Star SystemsTử Phủ 紫府, Sát Phá Tham 殺破狼, Cơ Nguyệt Đồng Lương 機月同梁, and Nhật Nguyệt 日月The Life Lord and the Body LordThe two governing stars of a chart
★ The Classical Texts
Tử Vi Đẩu Số Toàn Thư 紫微斗數全書The foundational classic of the disciplineTử Vi Đẩu Số Toàn Tập 紫微斗數全集The companion collection to the Toàn Thư 全書Thập Bát Phi Tinh Sách Thiên 十八飛星策天An early text of the flying star traditionĐẩu Số Tuyên Vi 斗數宣微A Northern School work of the early twentieth centuryTử Vi Đẩu Số Tân BiênA Vietnamese textbook of Purple Star AstrologyTử Vi Tổng HợpThe compendium of Nguyen Phat Loc
★ The Great Masters of Purple Star Astrology
Chen Tuan 陳摶, Master Xi Yi 希夷先生The patriarch to whom Purple Star Astrology is traditionally ascribedLuo Hong Xian 羅洪先Held to be the compiler of the Toàn Thư 全書Van Dang Thai Thu LangAuthor of Tử Vi 紫微 Đẩu Số 紫微斗數 Tân 辛 BiênThiên Lương 天梁The man who established the Vietnamese empirical methodNguyen Phat LocAuthor of Tử Vi 紫微 Tổng HợpWang Ting Zhi 王亭之The leading figure of the modern Zhong Zhou school