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General Introduction
The twelve branches
The ruling planets
The twelve houses
Planets
Aspects
Casting a
Books

1.General Introduction
The Chinese astrology is called 'Qi Zheng' or 'Qi Zheng Si Yu' (QZSY). 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

1st house self

2nd house poverty
3rd house brothers, sisters
4st house inheritance
5th house friendship, love
service,
6th house
contribution
7th house marriage
8th house health
9th house talent, moving
10th
business, job
house
11th
unconsciousness
house
12th
appearances
house

Meanings
Self analysis. To find essential qualities, fatal capacities and potentialities of
personality.
Related with ownership.
Brothers, sisters, colleagues and so on. Near relationship with people who stand on
a par.
House, real estate. Properties inherited from.
Possibility to have many friends, good friends or few, bad ones.
Relationship with seniors, or one's bosses.

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
Chen

Wu
7
MOON:24

Wei
6

Shen
5
stem

branch

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SUN:21
VINUS:17
Mao
10
MERCURY:04
Yin
11

Year
Month
Day
Time
Place

Chou
12

:
:
:
:
:

1998
10
15
14:40
TOKYO

Wu
Ren
Yi
Gui

Ying
Xu
Wei
Wei

Zi
1
ASCENDANT:27

You
4
SATURN:00
Xu
3
Hai
2
JUPITER:19

more, to be continued.
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