Tử Vi: how the palaces connect
See how the areas of your life connect on a Tử Vi chart: what feeds what, where you tend to get stuck, and what is hard to hold on to. Enter your birth date, birth hour and sex to get the forty-eight links between the twelve palaces, summed up in a few plain sentences.
Where this comes from
The reading of the flying Four Transformations school on a Tử Vi chart: each palace carries a stem, that stem transforms four stars as Lộc, Quyền, Khoa and Kỵ, and the source palace is said to fly to wherever those stars sit. The school developed mainly in Taiwan from the mid-20th century, much later than Tử Vi Đẩu Số itself, which tradition credits to Chen Tuan of the Song dynasty. Nhật Nguyệt has no original text of the school to check against.
What this answers
The twelve areas of life do not stand apart. After you enter a birth date you will see four things:
- Where your life leans most.
- What supports you and what drains you.
- Whether self, money and work are linked.
- Which areas cannot hold what arrives.
The birth hour matters: it fixes the Life palace, and every link is counted from there.
This tool is part of Tử Vi (Purple Star astrology). See every tool and article on Tử Vi (Purple Star astrology).
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The Four Transformations for the stems Canh, Tân and Nhâm
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No study has shown that the flying paths on a chart correspond to a person's life. The machine only guarantees that each palace's stem is computed correctly and the Four Transformations table is applied correctly.
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What are the flying Four Transformations, and how do you read the links?
The usual way to read Tử Vi takes one palace at a time: the Wealth palace for money, the Career palace for work. That cannot tell you why money and work are tied together. The flying Four Transformations school answers exactly that.
Every palace on the chart has its own stem. Each stem "transforms" four stars: Hóa Lộc, Hóa Quyền, Hóa Khoa and Hóa Kỵ. Wherever those four stars sit, the source palace is said to "fly" there. Twelve palaces with four paths each make forty-eight links.
Read a path with four verbs: Lộc feeds, Quyền pours effort into, Khoa supports, Kỵ gets tangled in. If the Career palace flies Hóa Lộc into the Wealth palace, for example, it reads as work feeding money; if the Spouse palace flies Hóa Kỵ into Wealth, love gets tangled up with money.
When a palace transforms a star that sits in the very same palace, it is called self-transformation. Followers of the school read it as an area that is hard to hold on to: gains spent quickly, snags mostly of one's own making.
The four transformations from the birth-year stem form a lifelong base layer, read apart from the flying paths. The tables for the stems Canh, Tân and Nhâm differ between schools; for Canh the page uses Thiên Đồng as Hóa Khoa and Thái Âm as Hóa Kỵ, so people born under those stems may see paths that differ from a book at home.
Tử Vi Đẩu Số is traditionally credited to Chen Tuan of the Song dynasty, while the flying-transformation school developed much later, mainly in Taiwan from the mid-twentieth century. The birth hour still matters most: one double hour off moves the Life palace and every path with it.
| Transformation | Core meaning | When palace A flies into palace B | When self-transformed |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hóa Lộc | Gain, opportunity, ease | A feeds B: gain from area A flows into area B | Had but hard to keep, spent on the spot |
| Hóa Quyền | Authority, effort, initiative | A pours effort into B: B is where you push hardest | Self-directed, hard to share |
| Hóa Khoa | Reputation, support, smoothness | A supports B: standing and helpers appear in area B | Keeping face for itself, rarely spreading outward |
| Hóa Kỵ | Snagging, clinging | A gets tangled in B: area A drains area B | Making trouble for oneself, circling inside that area |
Frequently asked questions
How is the flying method different from ordinary Tử Vi reading?
The usual way reads each palace on its own. The flying method uses each palace's stem to transform four stars, sees where they land, and links the twelve palaces with forty-eight paths, showing which area pulls on or drains which.
What does self-transformation mean?
It is when a palace transforms a star that sits in that same palace. Self-transformed Lộc usually reads as having without keeping, self-transformed Kỵ as making trouble for yourself.
How does the birth-year layer differ from the flying paths?
The birth-year layer is the four transformations from the birth-year stem, a base for the whole life. Flying paths come from each palace's stem and describe how areas of life relate.
Can I use it without knowing my exact birth hour?
You can, but one double hour off moves the Life palace and most paths with it, so treat the result as loose reference.
Why do the stems Canh, Tân and Nhâm have several tables?
Because the schools disagree on these three. Canh alone has three versions for Khoa and Kỵ: Thiên Đồng Khoa with Thái Âm Kỵ (the one used here); Thái Âm Khoa with Thiên Đồng Kỵ; Thiên Phủ Khoa with Thiên Đồng Kỵ.
Is the flying school an old tradition?
Tử Vi Đẩu Số is traditionally credited to Chen Tuan of the Song dynasty, with the earliest surviving text printed under the Ming. The flying-transformation school developed much later, mainly in Taiwan from the mid-twentieth century.