BaZi Symbolic Stars: Fourteen Rules and Chart Matches
Symbolic stars use a named reference stem, branch or solar month to select target characters. This lookup shows fourteen rules and the exact natal pillars matching their targets.
Reference: day 庚辰. Solar-month rules keep their own month reference; Red Beauty always uses the day stem.
| Star | Target | Derivation | Matching pillars | Traditional meaning |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Peach Blossom 咸池 | 酉 | 辰 belongs to 申子辰; use its bathing branch. | None | Social attraction and expression in the traditional star vocabulary. |
| Travelling Horse 驿马 | 寅 | 辰 belongs to 申子辰; the opposite seasonal opening is 寅. | None | Movement and activity away from a settled position. |
| General 将星 | 子 | Use the central branch of the 申子辰 trine. | None | Leadership and organized responsibility. |
| Heavenly Nobleman 天乙 | 丑未 | The San Ming stem rule maps 庚 to 丑 and 未. | None | Aid and support within the traditional star vocabulary. |
| Academic 文昌 | 寅 | The San Ming Wen Chang verse maps 庚 to 寅. | None | Writing and literary accomplishment as a traditional association. |
| Prosperity 禄 | 申 | The stem 庚 has its Lu at 申. | None | The stem’s established-position correspondence. |
| Golden Carriage 金舆 | 戌 | Advance two branch positions from the Lu branch 申. | None | The carriage image associated with rank and support. |
| Solitary 孤辰 | 巳 | Use the branch after the seasonal trio 寅卯辰. | Month 辛巳; Hour 辛巳 | Separation at a seasonal corner in the classical naming system. |
| Lonesome 寡宿 | 丑 | Use the branch before the seasonal trio 寅卯辰. | None | The complementary retreating seasonal-corner label. |
| Monthly Virtue 月德 | 庚 | The birth solar-month branch 巳 belongs to 巳酉丑, whose virtue stem is 庚. | Year 庚午; Day 庚辰 | A virtue correspondence associated with the month’s trine. |
| Heavenly Virtue 天德 | 辛 | Use the Tian De target for solar-month branch 巳. | Month 辛巳; Hour 辛巳 | The month’s heavenly-virtue correspondence; trigram positions use their paired branch in this table. |
| Tai Ji Nobleman 太极 | 寅亥 | The phase-pair rule maps 庚 to 寅, 亥. | None | Beginning and completion positions in the traditional phase reading. |
| Heavenly Doctor 天医 | 辰 | Li Kui Ming’s birth-month rule takes the branch before solar month 巳: 辰. | Day 庚辰 | Care and healing imagery in the traditional star vocabulary. |
| Red Beauty 红艳 | 戌 | The Xing Xue Da Cheng verse, read from day stem 庚, assigns 戌. This row keeps its day-stem reference. | None | Charm and romantic expression in the Red Beauty star vocabulary. |
Heavenly Doctor · birth solar month
In Li Kui Ming’s BaZi rule, Tian Yi is the branch immediately before the birth month. An Ox month targets Rat; a Tiger month targets Ox. A matching year, day or hour branch appears in the result above. The solar month opens at its Jie term, rather than on the first day of a lunar month.
| Solar-month branch | Tian Yi target |
|---|---|
| 子 | 亥 |
| 丑 | 子 |
| 寅 | 丑 |
| 卯 | 寅 |
| 辰 | 卯 |
| 巳 | 辰 |
| 午 | 巳 |
| 未 | 午 |
| 申 | 未 |
| 酉 | 申 |
| 戌 | 酉 |
| 亥 | 戌 |
Red Beauty · day stem
Hong Yan uses a stem-to-branch register, while Xian Chi Peach Blossom starts from a branch’s trine. This register follows Wan Minying’s Xing Xue Da Cheng Hong Yan verse, with the day-stem reading taught by Shangguan. Jia targets Horse and Yi targets Monkey; Geng targets Dog and Gui targets Monkey. Keep those four assignments when comparing another register.
| Day stem | Hong Yan target |
|---|---|
| 甲 | 午 |
| 乙 | 申 |
| 丙 | 寅 |
| 丁 | 未 |
| 戊 | 辰 |
| 己 | 辰 |
| 庚 | 戌 |
| 辛 | 酉 |
| 壬 | 子 |
| 癸 | 申 |
Select the reference
Peach Blossom, Travelling Horse and General use the selected day or year branch’s trine. Stem-based stars use that pillar’s stem. Monthly Virtue, Heavenly Virtue and Heavenly Doctor use the birth solar month. Red Beauty keeps the day stem, even when the other rows use a year reference.
Nobleman and Wen Chang tables
This lookup follows the San Ming Tong Hui verses: Geng has Nobleman targets Chou and Wei, and Wen Chang maps Yi to Hai. Some modern tables instead give Geng Yin/Wu and Yi Wu. Keep the named table with the result when comparing charts.
Stars within a chart
Read a match with the pillar carrying it and that pillar’s other relationships. The traditional meanings describe the star vocabulary: a star target and a complete chart reading are different levels of detail.