Polestar Astrology ~ 紫微斗數

What is Polestar Astrology?

Polestar Astrology, also known as Purple Star Astrology / Zi Wei Dou Shou (紫微斗數), is a medieval Chinese system of astrology that uses birthdate and time to create a map of the two primary components of our lives - our character and our fate.

Zi Wei Dou Shou is based on the simple and profound understanding that the cosmos is a complete whole and that all of its parts are interconnected. This complete interconnectedness allows us to use the time and the position of stars at birth to calculate their continuing effects on our lives. More than an astrological system, Zi Wei Dou Shu places our personal lives within a grand cosmic context. A Polestar reading’s ultimate goal is to affirm our lives, lives made up of character - the way we tend to be - and fate - the things that tend to happen to us.

Polestar Astrology is a complete “astro-chronomantic” system. Using the Heavenly Stems and Earthly Branches of classical Chinese culture (often referred to as the 12 zodiac animals), Polestar astrology draws a complete picture of a person’s character and describes the constitutional tendencies we bring to the world. Using a system of 12 ‘palaces’ or ‘houses’, like those found in popular western astrology, Zi Wei Dou Shou also maps out the events that we are prone to experience in the major arenas our lives - partnership, career, family, health, wealth, and ancestry. In a Polestar chart we get a glimpse of who we are as determined by our personality and circumstances.

Ultimately, a Polestar Astrology chart reading is a fun way to examine our unique selves and lives, to affirm our past, present, and future circumstances, and locate our lives as completely integrated with the cosmos within which we naturally arise.