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For instance, when the LUNAR LODGE matches your birthday, it will appear on the page in red text. This means that the YIN conditions of the day match your own YIN QI, and the outer world of your experience matches your inner nature and expectations. The observable world around you is displaying a very central part of your nature, producing smoother agreement between your aims and how they work out. You'll feel less need to "push", and more room to "take it easy." If you stay engaged and active in the world, make it in the most comfortable way for yourself. This will both produce good results, as well as deepen your understanding of how to rest your QI, and add to you own longevity.

Similarly, when the SOLAR INDEX matches your birthday it will appear on the page in red text. This means that the YANG conditions of the day match your own YANG QI, and your style of using energy to accomplish things is highly suitable for the working tasks of the day. Other conditions being equal, your attention will be easier to focus, and if you apply properly aimed "push", the results are more likely to be both satisfying, and effective.

For instance, when the BRANCH (or, ANIMAL) of the DAY PILLAR has a harmonic relationship with your birthday, it will appear with red background. This means that the character of the day is friendly to the way you think about yourself, and supportive of your "personal style". Expressing yourself will be more effective and efficient. Others around you will find it easier to help you, and to "fill in the blanks" in your actions or words.

Similarly, when the STEM (or, PHASE) of the DAY PILLAR has a harmonic relationship with your birthday it will appear on the page in red text. This means that the spirit or temperament of the day is supportive to the way you think about yourself, and will help to guide your actions and to shape your viewpoint in the world. Your vision of things will be both more open and more exact. Following your hunches is "lucky," and will most likely bring you both new information and favorable results.

For instance, when the BRANCH (or, ANIMAL) of the MONTH PILLAR opposes your birthday it will appear on the page with black background. This means that the flexibility or responsiveness of the QI of the month obstructs your own, making your presumptions more inappropriate, and your actions more off the mark. You may find a certain stiffness in your opinions or assessments, and a disagreement between the way things seem and the way you would like them. This is a time when your resources are "out of sync" with your sense of what is needed, and pushing your point of view will just produce more friction and disruption.

Similarly, when the STEM (or, PHASE) of the MONTH PILLAR opposes your birthday it will appear on the page in black text. This means that the atmosphere or receptivity of the QI of the month "attacks" your own, clouding affairs with crosscurrents and influences that prove difficult to read, and frustrating to try to accommodate. Other conditions being equal, it's better to avoid pressing forward, and wait for the fog to clear. Also, difficulties and annoyances are part of the natural character of the month for you. Don't make a big deal about them. This is a time for you to "eat bitter", and practice tolerance, forgiveness, and patience.

Personal ZI WEI Birth Chart

The Twelve Animals of Chinese Astrology are just one of a number of systems from Chinese tradition, which concern subject more broadly and correctly called MING LI or "Fate Calculation". MING (written with a character originally meaning "orders", is seen as the expression or command of Heaven placing each individual, each event, in its proper relationship with the entire cosmos. Each technique for calculating MING is viewed as rendering a map or diagram of the "Orders of Heaven" for the turning of events in time, or the lives of individuals on Earth.

Personal ZI WEI Charts contain a wide range of traditional systems used in China for centuries. Some of these systems are devoted to the considerations of XING (basic nature) and indicate personal character from several different points of view. The systems shown include: Lunar Date, Stems-and-Branches, Lunar Lodge (YUE XU), Solar Index, Nine-Star Numbers, Five-Phases (MING SHU), Inner and Outer Phases, and of course, the Twelve Animals.

The Personal ZI WEI Chart also includes the ZI WEI (Pole Star) system, used to consider MING specifically. Of great reputation in China, the ZI WEI system gives an authoritative view of the texture of an individual life, its obstructions and potentials, and is regarded as a definitive tool for recognizing Self-Nature, harboring energy, developing personal intelligence, and fostering longevity. The ZI WEI system shows the 12 Palaces, 37 Major and Minor Stars (in resident and borrowed positions), their Auspices and Degrees of Influence, and the cycles of Greater Limit and Lesser Limit.

Acupunture

•	for students and practitioners of Chinese healing techniques

•	includes the daily open channel and the hourly open channel

•	includes four systems of "open" points for each hour:

	ZI-WU LIU-ZHU
		"Midnight-and-Noon Flowing-and-Pooling"

	LING-GUI BA-FA
		"Spirit Turtle Eight-part Technique"

	FEI-TENG BA-FA
		"Flying-Soaring Eight-part Technique"

	Husband & Wife
		Pairing of Stems and Source Points