Notes on BaZi, Zi Wei & Qi Men

Plain-English guides to BaZi, Zi Wei Dou Shu and Qi Men, and the archetypes of the Inner Constellation.

Sky & Season · October 2, 2026 · 7 min

The Strategy Board: Reading the Terrain of This Hour

Your star map shows who you are. The Strategy Board shows the ground you are standing on this hour — and which way is open. A plain guide to reading it.

Sky & Season · October 2, 2026 · 10 min

The Four Layers of the Strategy Board

Five elements, four layers, thirty-four painted characters: the Grounds, Ways, Skies and Companions of the Strategy Board, and how to read them together.

Sky & Season · October 2, 2026 · 8 min

How to Read Your Natal Blueprint

Your birth moment in four parts, one core essence and ten inner forces. A plain, step-by-step guide to reading your natal blueprint.

Sky & Season · October 2, 2026 · 8 min

How to Read Your Star Map

Twelve rooms, the lights that live in them, and four small marks. A plain, step-by-step guide to reading your star map.

Sky & Season · September 26, 2026 · 9 min

The Energy of the Fourteen Great Lights

Fourteen great lights, fourteen ways energy moves through a life — some hold still at the centre, some flow like tides, some shine outward and some break new ground.

Sky & Season · September 26, 2026 · 6 min

The Energy of the Helping Lights and the Wandering Gifts

The quieter energies that move toward you — support, learning, timely rescue — and two gifts in motion: what gathers and keeps, and what rides the wind.

Sky & Season · September 26, 2026 · 6 min

The Energy of the Sharp Lights: Pressure, Friction and Release

Energy that cuts, binds, burns, rings, empties and clears. Six sharp lights, and how their pressure turns into movement when you know how to meet it.

Sky & Season · September 26, 2026 · 7 min

The Star Map Through a Modern Lens: Zi Wei Dou Shu for Today

A thousand-year-old map of twelve rooms, lit by the stars of the moment you were born — read not as fate, but as the floor plan of the life you are living.

Sky & Season · September 26, 2026 · 8 min

The Fourteen Main Stars: The Great Lights of Your Star Map

From the Pole Star to the Phoenix — the fourteen great lights that give each room of your life its character, each with its own portrait.

Sky & Season · September 26, 2026 · 6 min

The Six Helping Stars, the Treasure Jar and the Wind Horse

The quieter lights that stand beside the great ones — the hands that help you, the voices of learning, the patrons of dawn and dusk, and two wandering gifts.

Sky & Season · September 26, 2026 · 6 min

The Six Sharp Stars: Why the Fierce Lights Are Not All Bad

The old texts feared them. Look closer and every sharp light carries a gift — the horn that clears the way, the knot that holds, the wind that frees you.

Sky & Season · August 21, 2026 · 6 min

The Twelve Earthly Stages: The Slow Breathing of the Universe

The journey of a single seed through the turning year — twelve stages of potential, emergence, activation, stabilisation, and contraction, each with its own portrait.

Sky & Season · August 18, 2026 · 4 min

The Ten Elements of The Inner Constellation

A companion portrait gallery for the ten elemental archetypes behind the Day Master and Heavenly Stems — every core essence, illustrated, from the Steadfast Pillar to the Pervasive Mist.

Sky & Season · August 17, 2026 · 4 min

The Ten Faces of The Inner Constellation

A full illustrated portrait gallery — all ten persona archetypes, each with an image and description, from the Sovereign to the Mystic.

Sky & Season · August 16, 2026 · 5 min

The Ten Whispers of the Soul: A Psychological Map of Our Inner Elements

The other half of The Inner Constellation — the ten elemental archetypes behind the Day Master and Five Elements, reframed as core emotional temperament rather than fortune-telling.

Sky & Season · August 15, 2026 · 5 min

The Alchemy of the Soul: The Ten Shifting Echoes Within

An introduction to the ten behavioral archetypes of The Inner Constellation — the ten ancient forces classical BaZi calls the Ten Gods, reframed as psychological currents everyone carries.