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Iris Calder
14 Mar 1987 · 07:22 · London, United Kingdom · Aquarius Sun, Leo Moon, Aries rising
The sidereal zodiac on the Lahiri ayanamsha, read in whole signs.
Zi Wei Dou Shu
lunar 2-15 · hour of Dragon
命主 巨門 · 身主 天同
Metal 4 bureau
Life in Hai · Body in Wei
Twelve palaces read anticlockwise from the Life Palace, which is shaded. 身 marks the Body Palace. Large characters are the fourteen major stars; small are the assistants — the lucky eight in grey, the six malefics (擎羊, 陀羅, 火星, 鈴星, 地空, 地劫) in red.
The ages in each corner are its decade limit (大限): ten years a palace, counted from 4 in nominal years and running with the branches, Life to Parents for a woman born in a yin year. Age 40 now falls in Property, outlined; this year's palace (流年) is Health.
The birth year's four transformations
| 太陰 TaiYin | 化祿 prosperity | Moon: the private side, the mother, wealth kept quietly. |
| 天同 TianTong | 化權 power | Child: ease and enjoyment, a need to be looked after. |
| 天機 TianJi | 化科 recognition | Strategist: the quick mind, planning, restlessness. |
| 巨門 JuMen | 化忌 trouble | Great Gate: the mouth; argument, suspicion, the spoken word. |
Set by the year stem 丁: the four stars that carry prosperity, power, recognition and trouble through this chart.
This year's four transformations · 2026 丙午
| 天同 TianTong | 化祿 prosperity | in the 命宮 Life palace |
| 天機 TianJi | 化權 power | in the 官祿 Career palace |
| 文昌 WenChang | 化科 recognition | in the 疾厄 Health palace |
| 廉貞 LianZhen | 化忌 trouble | in the 子女 Children palace |
流年四化: the stem of the current year, 丙, lays a second set of transformations over the chart, marked 年 in the grid. Where this year's 化忌 falls is where the year bites; where its 化祿 falls, where it gives.