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  1. General Introduction
  2. The twelve branches
  3. The ruling planets
  4. The twelve houses
  5. Planets
  6. Aspects
  7. Casting a
  8. Sample readings



1.General Introduction

The Chinese astrology is called 'Qi Zheng' or 'Qi Zheng Si Yu'. Qi means seven. Zheng means a star in this case. Si means four, and Yu means others. In this case, it means other calculated points for . Thus, The name of the Chinese astrology means, The Astrology using seven planets and four calculated points.

I've found many points similar to western astrology when I've been learning Qi Zheng. About this, some scholars write western astrology came in China in ancient age, and evolved uniquely. Others write it was invented in China originally. In any case, its organization is far different from western, even some aspects are likely.



2.The twelve branches and western zodiac signs

Like twelve signs of western zodiac, there are twelve branches in Qi Zheng. Branches are used in most of Chinese oracles. Although they are introduced as if a kind of pronoun of animals too oftenly , they have much more important meanings in themselves.





3.The ruling planets of the twelve branches

Each branch has its own ruling planet like western astrology's zodiac signs. There are six pairs of branches. Their relation is like husband and wife. Yang branch is a husband, and Yin branch is a wife of every pair. And each couple has their ruling planet. Element of each planet is the same with Qi the couple generates(couple-meeting of branches, trine, quadrangle-meeting).





To see far detailed stories about branches themselves, open THIS PAGE.



4.The twelve houses

In Qi Zheng method, twelve houses are like following:






Each house has its ruling category and several meanings for interpretation.

House Category Meanings
1st houseself Self analysis. To find essential qualities, fatal capacities and potentialities of personality.
2nd housepoverty Related with ownership.
3rd housebrothers, sisters Brothers, sisters, colleagues and so on. Near relationship with people who stand on a par.
4st houseinheritance House, real estate. Properties inherited from.
5th housefriendship, love Possibility to have many friends, good friends or few, bad ones.
6th houseservice, contribution Relationship with seniors, or one's bosses.
7th housemarriage
8th househealth
9th housetalent, moving
10th housebusiness, job
11th houseunconsciousness
12th houseappearances



5.Planets

Originally, we can use seven planets, five moving planets and sun and moon. Five moving planets are Mercury(Water star), Venus(Metal star), Mars(Fire star), Jupiter(Wood star) and Saturn(Earth star). Five moving stars represents Wu Hang( or five elements ), and they have the same name of their elements. Sometimes, they are called Wh Hang Xing( five elements stars ).

6.Aspects

In Qi Zheng method, we use several kinds of aspects to interpret s. Each aspect has its own meanings like following:




Hui is 0 degree. It means meeting. When planets meet each other, it should not be instantly determined good luck or bat luck.



7.Casting a horoscope

In Qi Zheng method, we use rectangle horoscope. Each square of the chart, there are some parts of it like following:

 
 Branch name.

 House number.

 PLANET:degrees


Sample horoscope
Si
8
MARS:4		Wu
7
MOON:24		Wei
6		Shen
5
Chen
9
SUN:21
VINUS:17

                stem     branch 

 Year  : 1998   Wu       Ying   
 Month : 10     Ren      Xu     
 Day   : 15     Yi       Wei    
 Time  : 14:40  Gui      Wei    
 Place : TOKYO
You
4
SATURN:00
Mao
10
MERCURY:04		Xu
3
Yin
11		Chou
12		Zi
1
ASCENDANT:27		Hai
2
JUPITER:19

8.Sample readings