[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":229},["ShallowReactive",2],{"article:tai-sui-guide:en":3,"article-topic:chinese-astrology-annual:en":102,"related-articles:en:chinese-astrology-annual:tai-sui-guide:bazi-four-pillars":188},{"slug":4,"title":5,"description":6,"category":7,"topicSlug":8,"legacyPath":9,"authorId":10,"publishedAt":11,"updatedAt":12,"noindex":13,"summary":14,"sections":15,"references":80,"relatedTools":96,"seo":98},"tai-sui-guide","Tai Sui: The Year's Position, Not a Planet","Tai sui explained as a calendar coordinate: the year branch, its compass sector, the construction rule attached to it, and the four signs labelled in 2026.","Chinese Astrology","chinese-astrology-annual","\u002Fpages\u002Farticles\u002Ftaisui-jiangjie-zhinan.html","chen-jun","2026-03-12","2026-10-19",false,"Tai sui names the year's branch as a governing position. It has a direction and a set of labels, but no agency — and four of twelve signs carry one in 2026.",[16,22,28,35,67,74],{"heading":17,"body":18},"Tai Sui is the year’s position, not a planet",[19,20,21],"Tai sui names the branch of the current year treated as a governing position. 2026 is bing-wu, so tai sui is wu: the Horse, and the south.","The usual English rendering, Grand Duke Jupiter, is a misleading shortcut. The name comes from a count that was once tied to Jupiter, but what it names is a coordinate in the calendar. There is no object in the sky called tai sui.","The distinction is not pedantic. A position can be located on a compass and compared with a building; a planet cannot be propitiated. Most of the confusion around tai sui comes from sliding between those two readings, and most of the commercial product around it depends on the slide.",{"heading":23,"body":24},"Why the count is twelve when Jupiter is not",[25,26,27],"Jupiter’s orbit is not twelve years. NASA gives 4,333 Earth days, which is 11.86 years.","A twelve-year schematic therefore drifts against the real planet by roughly one position every 86 years. The classical calendar handled this by separating the two counts: the suixing count followed Jupiter and needed periodic correction, while the taisui count ran in the opposite direction and was fixed to the stem-branch cycle used for record-keeping.","The correction had a name. When the suixing count had drifted a full position, an extra position was inserted, and the insertion is recorded as chao chen. A calendar that needs an occasional correction is a calendar built on observation; one that never needs it is built on arithmetic. The stem-branch cycle is the second kind, which is why it kept time for two thousand years without an observatory.",{"heading":29,"body":30},"A position has a direction",[31,32,33,34],"Each branch maps to a compass sector, and wu is south. The tai sui direction for the year is that sector; sui po is the sector directly opposite, north in 2026.","The traditional instruction attached to those two sectors concerns ground-breaking rather than residence: avoid digging, demolishing or starting major works in them. It is a rule about construction, which is why it appears in almanacs beside breaking ground and renovating rather than in advice about where to sleep.","It is worth being precise about what a direction is here. A compass bearing is a real measurement, and eight sectors are a coarse but usable way to describe where a wall faces. What the tradition adds is the claim that one sector is occupied by the year itself. The first part is survey work; the second is the convention.","San sha is a separate set of three directions, computed from the year branch by a different rule, and it is often quoted in the same breath as tai sui. The two are not the same calculation and they do not always point the same way.",{"heading":36,"body":37,"table":40},"Four signs, one person in three",[38,39],"In a wu year the labels fall on four branches: wu sits on tai sui, zi clashes with it, chou harms it and mao breaks it.","Four of twelve is one person in three. That is the honest scale of fan tai sui in any given year: not a rare mark, but a third of everyone. The Horse also self-punishes, so it carries two labels while occupying one place; counting labels rather than signs is how the number gets inflated to five or six in popular accounts.",{"headers":41,"rows":46},[42,43,44,45],"Label","Branch in 2026","Sign","Traditional instruction",[47,52,57,62],[48,49,50,51],"Sitting on tai sui (zhi)","wu","Horse","The year’s own sign: high visibility, avoid overreach",[53,54,55,56],"Clashing with tai sui (chong)","zi","Rat","Opposition: postpone irreversible commitments if you can",[58,59,60,61],"Harming tai sui (hai)","chou","Ox","Attrition: check agreements and follow up on details",[63,64,65,66],"Breaking tai sui (po)","mao","Rabbit","Breakage: expect endings and clear them deliberately",{"heading":68,"body":69},"What the customs are actually doing",[70,71,72,73],"The practices are modest and specific: red clothing in the benming year, offerings at a temple, a visit to a tai sui shrine, and a decision to postpone major building work by a year.","The shrine visit is worth describing because it is often imagined as private superstition. In practice it is a scheduled public event: you go once, near the start of the year, and queue with everyone else who shares one of the four branches. Whatever else it does, it puts a third of a neighbourhood in the same place at the same time with the same question.","Read as a set, the customs do three things. They mark the start of a year, they give a household a shared date to review plans, and they make caution socially legible. None of that requires the position to be an agent.","The red underwear is the clearest example. It is cheap, visible to the people who matter, and reversible in twelve months — which is a good description of most calendrical customs, and also the reason they survive.",{"heading":75,"body":76},"A coordinate is not an agent",[77,78,79],"Used as a coordinate, tai sui is a scheduling vocabulary: name the two sectors, check whether you were already planning work there, and decide on the merits.","What it cannot do is identify a person. Four signs cover a third of the population, and the calculation never touches the day pillar — the character a BaZi reading would use to say anything individual.","That is the whole of it. The direction is a real direction, the year is a real year, and the step from one to the other is a convention. Conventions are worth knowing precisely because they are conventions.",[81,89],{"id":82,"kind":83,"title":84,"detail":85,"publisher":86,"url":87,"accessedAt":88},"sanmingTonghui","traditional","Sanming Tonghui (三命通会)","A historical compilation used to cross-check traditional BaZi concepts; it is not scientific validation.","Wikisource digital text","https:\u002F\u002Fzh.wikisource.org\u002Fwiki\u002F%E4%B8%89%E5%91%BD%E9%80%9A%E6%9C%83","2026-07-14",{"id":90,"kind":91,"title":92,"detail":93,"publisher":94,"url":95,"accessedAt":12},"nasaJupiter","practical","NASA Science: Jupiter Facts","The orbital figure behind the tai sui explanation: NASA gives Jupiter one orbit in about 4,333 Earth days, which is 11.86 years rather than the twelve the schematic cycle assumes. Cited for the period only; nothing in the source supports a claim about fortune.","NASA Science","https:\u002F\u002Fscience.nasa.gov\u002Fjupiter\u002Fjupiter-facts\u002F",[97],"bazi-four-pillars",{"title":99,"description":100,"path":101},"Tai Sui Explained: Direction, Labels and Limits","Tai sui as a calendar coordinate: its direction, the construction rule attached to it, and the four signs labelled in a Horse year.","\u002Farticles\u002Ftai-sui-guide",{"topic":103,"articles":137,"tools":177},{"slug":8,"title":104,"eyebrow":105,"description":106,"relatedTools":107,"articleIdeas":109,"seo":114,"sections":118},"Annual Chinese Astrology","The year layer","How the year layer of Chinese astrology actually works: fixed branch pairings, tai sui as a compass position, the arithmetic behind the annual star chart, and why a branch month starts at a solar term.",[97,108],"zi-wei-dou-shu",[110,111,112,113],"Annual animal forecasts: a twelve-cell table","Tai sui: a coordinate with a direction","Annual flying stars: the arithmetic behind the chart","Monthly trends: which month?",{"title":115,"description":116,"path":117},"Annual Chinese Astrology: What the Year Layer Says","Fixed branch pairings, tai sui as a direction, the annual star calculation, and solar-term months — what the year layer can and cannot answer.","\u002Ftopics\u002Fchinese-astrology-annual",[119,122,125,128,131,134],{"heading":120,"body":121},"Four clocks, one of which this topic uses","The same word, year, means different things at different layers. The year pillar turns once every twelve years, the month pillar twelve times a year, the day pillar every sixty days, and the hour pillar every two hours. This topic handles the slowest layer only: the year pillar. Mixing the layers is the most common defect in annual writing — a conclusion drawn from the year pillar and applied to a month is aimed at the wrong clock.",{"heading":123,"body":124},"The labels come from fixed pairings","Sitting on, clashing, harming, breaking and punishing are not judgements; they are positions in a table. Each branch has exactly one partner in each relation, so two branches settle the label with no second lookup and no weighting. The table is short enough to memorise, and that is the point: it is a lookup, not a theory. In the 2026 Horse year four of the twelve signs carry one: the Horse sits on it, the Rat clashes, the Ox harms and the Rabbit breaks. One person in three — that is the real scale of fan tai sui in any given year.",{"heading":126,"body":127},"Tai sui is a direction","Each branch maps to a compass sector, and wu is south. That sector is the tai sui direction; the opposite one, north in 2026, is sui po. The instruction attached to both concerns ground-breaking: no digging, no demolition, no major works. It governs construction, not which room you sleep in. The Jupiter in the English name explains where the count came from, not why the sector would matter.",{"heading":129,"body":130},"The annual star is computed","The annual flying star chart is not observed. Add the digits of the year until one remains, subtract from eleven, reduce anything above nine. For 2026 that gives one white in the centre, five yellow in the south and eight white in the east. No parameter of your building enters the calculation, so the chart is identical for every building on earth that year. What separates two houses is the base chart, not the annual star.",{"heading":132,"body":133},"What a year can actually answer","The year pillar answers one question: which fixed relation your birth branch falls into this year. It does not answer anything individual — that requires the day pillar. The usable form is a review prompt: which months turn at a solar term, which two sectors should not be dug, which room to leave alone and which to use. Those questions have answers, and the answers can be checked. A useful test of any annual write-up is whether it can be checked at all: a date, a direction, a count. A claim that cannot be checked is not more spiritual than one that can; it is only harder to argue with.",{"heading":135,"body":136},"How the four articles fit together","The four articles take the same year from four angles. One reads the relation table and shows why the same paragraph returns every twelve years. One follows the year branch into a compass sector and the construction rule attached to it. One works through the arithmetic of the annual star chart. One drops a layer to the month and shows that a branch month begins at a solar term rather than on the first of the calendar month. Together they cover what the year layer can say, and where it stops. A year described without any of those four angles is usually a template with the year number swapped in.",[138,150,153,165],{"slug":139,"title":140,"description":141,"category":7,"topicSlug":8,"legacyPath":142,"authorId":10,"publishedAt":143,"updatedAt":12,"summary":144,"relatedTools":145,"seo":146},"annual-animal-forecast","Annual Animal Forecasts: A Twelve-Cell Table","What an annual animal forecast actually computes: the fixed pairing between your birth branch and the year branch, why the answer repeats every twelve years, and what the other seven characters of a chart add.","\u002Fpages\u002Farticles\u002Fshengxiao-nianyun-yuce.html","2026-03-10","An annual animal forecast is a lookup, not a prediction: one fixed pairing between two branches, twelve possible answers, and a twelve-year cycle that returns the same paragraph.",[97],{"title":147,"description":148,"path":149},"Annual Animal Forecasts: What the Table Can Tell You","How annual zodiac forecasts are built from fixed branch pairings, why they repeat every twelve years, and what a full chart adds.","\u002Farticles\u002Fannual-animal-forecast",{"slug":4,"title":5,"description":6,"category":7,"topicSlug":8,"legacyPath":9,"authorId":10,"publishedAt":11,"updatedAt":12,"summary":14,"relatedTools":151,"seo":152},[97],{"title":99,"description":100,"path":101},{"slug":154,"title":155,"description":156,"category":7,"topicSlug":8,"legacyPath":157,"authorId":10,"publishedAt":158,"updatedAt":12,"summary":159,"relatedTools":160,"seo":161},"annual-flying-star-positions","Annual Flying Stars: The Arithmetic Behind the Chart","How the annual flying star chart is computed from the year digits, how the 2026 grid fills, and which layer of Xuan Kong actually describes your building.","\u002Fpages\u002Farticles\u002Fnianfei-xing-weizhi.html","2026-03-14","The annual flying star chart is arithmetic, identical for every building on earth. The 2026 grid puts the five yellow in the south and the eight white in the east.",[97],{"title":162,"description":163,"path":164},"Annual Flying Stars: How the 2026 Chart Is Calculated","The five steps that turn a year number into the annual flying star chart, with the 2026 grid and the sectors to leave quiet.","\u002Farticles\u002Fannual-flying-star-positions",{"slug":166,"title":167,"description":168,"category":7,"topicSlug":8,"legacyPath":169,"authorId":10,"publishedAt":170,"updatedAt":12,"summary":171,"relatedTools":172,"seo":173},"monthly-trends-animal-signs","Monthly Trends by Animal Sign: Which Month?","Month branches begin at solar terms, not on the first of the month. Why a monthly forecast keyed to the calendar is off by days, and why the animal relation never changes.","\u002Fpages\u002Farticles\u002Fshengxiao-yueyun-fenxi.html","2026-03-16","A branch month starts at a solar term, so the month you think you are in may be the previous one — and the animal relation to your birth sign never changes at all.",[97],{"title":174,"description":175,"path":176},"Monthly Zodiac Trends: Solar Terms, Not Calendar Months","Where a branch month really starts, how far calendar-month forecasts drift, and why the animal relation to your sign never changes.","\u002Farticles\u002Fmonthly-trends-animal-signs",[178,184],{"slug":97,"title":179,"shortTitle":180,"description":181,"category":182,"status":183},"Four Pillars BaZi Calculator","Four Pillars","Enter a Gregorian birth date and local time to see the four pillars, hidden stems, Ten Gods, Na Yin, branch relations, and element counts, with clear calendar and time-boundary limits.","BaZi","live",{"slug":108,"title":185,"shortTitle":186,"description":187,"category":7,"status":183},"Zi Wei Dou Shu Chart","Zi Wei Dou Shu","Enter a Gregorian birth date, time branch, and traditional chart-direction rule to see 12 palaces, stems, branches, stars, transformations, body palace, and decade ranges without personality or event predictions.",{"articles":189},[190,204,219],{"slug":191,"title":192,"description":193,"category":182,"topicSlug":194,"legacyPath":195,"authorId":10,"publishedAt":196,"updatedAt":88,"summary":197,"relatedTools":198,"seo":200},"bazi-five-elements-lookup","BaZi Five Elements Lookup","A practical introduction to the five elements in BaZi and how Wood, Fire, Earth, Metal, and Water are used in birth profile interpretation.","bazi","\u002Fpages\u002Farticles\u002Fbazi-wuxing-chaxun.html","2025-09-01","The five elements are one of the easiest ways to begin reading BaZi. 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The limits that follow cover health, finance, law, and relationship decisions.",[97],{"title":221,"description":222,"path":228},"\u002Farticles\u002Fis-bazi-fortune-telling-accurate",1792388733680]