Zi Wei Dou Shu (紫微斗数) arranges your life into twelve palaces — Self (命), Wealth (财帛), Career (官禄), Relationships (夫妻), Health (疾厄), and more — each lit by stars that describe its structure and tendencies.
Major stars like 紫微 (the Purple/Emperor star) and 天府 anchor the chart; supporting stars colour each palace. The pattern of which stars fall in which palace is the reading.
Four transformations — 化禄 (fortune), 化权 (power), 化科 (reputation), 化忌 (friction) — attach to specific stars in your chart and show where energy concentrates and where it snags. They turn a static map into a living one — patterns to reflect on, never fixed fate.