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Flying Star Chart Calculator

This is the calculation a classical consultation is built on. Give it your home's facing direction (measured per our compass guide) and the year it was built or last fully renovated, and it casts the natal chart — all nine palaces, mountain and water stars, flown by the classical rules. We publish it because we'd rather show you the machinery than ask you to take it on faith.

What the chart is

In Xuan Kong method, a building takes a fixed chart at construction: the period star of its 20-year era enters the center, and two further stars — the mountain star (people, health, relationships) and water star (activity, income) — fly through the nine palaces, forward or backward according to the polarity of the facing mountain. Nine palaces, three numbers each: the building's constitution for its lifetime, until a renovation deep enough to "change its breath" recasts it.

This is also why classical and template feng shui disagree: two homes a few degrees or a few years apart get different charts, and different advice.

Related: identify your facing mountain · this year's annual overlay · glossary.

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