[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":103},["ShallowReactive",2],{"content-topic-chinese-astrology-annual:en":3},{"topic":4,"articles":40,"tools":92},{"slug":5,"title":6,"eyebrow":7,"description":8,"relatedTools":9,"articleIdeas":12,"seo":17,"sections":21},"chinese-astrology-annual","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.",[10,11],"bazi-four-pillars","zi-wei-dou-shu",[13,14,15,16],"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":18,"description":19,"path":20},"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",[22,25,28,31,34,37],{"heading":23,"body":24},"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":26,"body":27},"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":29,"body":30},"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":32,"body":33},"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":35,"body":36},"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":38,"body":39},"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.",[41,56,68,80],{"slug":42,"title":43,"description":44,"category":45,"topicSlug":5,"legacyPath":46,"authorId":47,"publishedAt":48,"updatedAt":49,"summary":50,"relatedTools":51,"seo":52},"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.","Chinese Astrology","\u002Fpages\u002Farticles\u002Fshengxiao-nianyun-yuce.html","chen-jun","2026-03-10","2026-10-19","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.",[10],{"title":53,"description":54,"path":55},"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":57,"title":58,"description":59,"category":45,"topicSlug":5,"legacyPath":60,"authorId":47,"publishedAt":61,"updatedAt":49,"summary":62,"relatedTools":63,"seo":64},"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.","\u002Fpages\u002Farticles\u002Ftaisui-jiangjie-zhinan.html","2026-03-12","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.",[10],{"title":65,"description":66,"path":67},"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",{"slug":69,"title":70,"description":71,"category":45,"topicSlug":5,"legacyPath":72,"authorId":47,"publishedAt":73,"updatedAt":49,"summary":74,"relatedTools":75,"seo":76},"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.",[10],{"title":77,"description":78,"path":79},"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":81,"title":82,"description":83,"category":45,"topicSlug":5,"legacyPath":84,"authorId":47,"publishedAt":85,"updatedAt":49,"summary":86,"relatedTools":87,"seo":88},"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.",[10],{"title":89,"description":90,"path":91},"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",[93,99],{"slug":10,"title":94,"shortTitle":95,"description":96,"category":97,"status":98},"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":11,"title":100,"shortTitle":101,"description":102,"category":45,"status":98},"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.",1792388730736]