Natal Board
本命盤
In simple terms
the single map completed by placing all the stars across the twelve palaces for your moment of birth — the lifelong base board on which Zi Wei interpretation rests.
At a glance
A little deeper
The natal board is the innate, unchanging board of a lifetime; onto it the flow of time — major and yearly cycles — is overlaid to read fortune moment by moment. It follows the same principle as adding luck cycles onto the natal chart in Saju.
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Related terms
an Eastern star astrology that sets up twelve palaces from your birth year, month, day and hour and places stars in them to read each area of life. Instead of constellations, it draws a map of destiny through the symbolism of stars.
the most central of the twelve palaces, showing a person’s innate character and the broad direction of life — a seat much like the Day Master in Saju.
the palaces that divide life into twelve areas — Life (self), Wealth, Spouse, Career and more — each palace responsible for one part of life.
a way of reading a palace together with the three palaces that face and triangulate it — the key being to read not one palace alone but its web of relationships.