Minor Fortune Chart, also known as "Minor Fate Chart" or "Minor Limit," is a tool used in Zi Wei Dou Shu to predict an individual's annual fortune. So what does the Minor Fortune Chart mainly focus on? Let's follow the editor to take a deeper look.

What does the Minor Fortune Chart mainly focus on?

Annual Fortune:
The Minor Fortune Chart can help predict the direction of an individual's annual fortune, including fluctuations in career, wealth, health, and emotions.

Judgment of Auspicious and Inauspicious:
By analyzing the combination of stars in the palace where the Minor Fortune is located, it is possible to determine whether there are auspicious stars assisting or inauspicious stars interfering, thus predicting possible opportunities and challenges.

Annual Star Influences:
The Minor Fortune Chart also introduces annual star influences. These stars have an impact on the person during the year, which can further refine the prediction of their fortune.

Key Palaces:
The palace where the Minor Fortune is located, as well as the palaces forming a family relationship with it (such as the Marriage Palace, Wealth Palace, and Illness Palace), are the focus of the annual fortune analysis, revealing changes in specific areas.

Four Annual Transformations:
The Four Annual Transformations (Luzong, Wenyu, Wuyue, Pujun's transformation into auspicious, honor, power, and misfortune) are also important factors in the analysis of the Minor Fortune Chart. Their changes directly affect the individual's fortune.

Interaction between Auspicious and Inauspicious Stars:
The interaction between auspicious and inauspicious stars in the Minor Fortune Chart, such as the illumination of auspicious stars or the impact of inauspicious stars, can more specifically analyze the opportunities and risks that may be faced that year.

Annual Major Limit:
The Minor Fortune Chart can also be analyzed in conjunction with the Annual Major Limit. The Major Limit is a ten-year cycle, while the Minor Limit changes every year. Combining both can provide a more comprehensive understanding of the individual's fortune trends at different periods.

Does the Zi Wei Dou Shu Minor Fortune Chart use the birthday as the basis?

Yes, in Zi Wei Dou Shu, the calculation of the Minor Fortune is indeed based on the individual's lunar birthday. The Minor Fortune is an important tool for predicting the changes in an individual's annual fortune, representing the state of fortune from one lunar birthday to the next.

The calculation method of the Minor Fortune is as follows:

1. Determine the birthday: It is necessary to determine your lunar birthday, which serves as the starting point for calculating the Minor Fortune.

2. Calculate the age: The age of the Minor Fortune is calculated using the formula "“current year - birth year + 1”. Here, “current year” refers to the year in which the Minor Fortune is being calculated, and “birth year” refers to the lunar birth year.

3. Locate the palace: On the Zi Wei Dou Shu chart, the age of the Minor Fortune corresponds to a certain palace on the chart. Starting from the Life Palace, each palace represents one year in a clockwise direction until the palace corresponding to the calculated age is found.

4. Analyze the stars in the palace: The palace where the Minor Fortune is located, as well as the combination of stars within the palace, will reflect the characteristics of the fortune for that year. This includes emotional fluctuations, changes in temperament and appearance, desires and needs, as well as the support or obstacles encountered when achieving personal desires.

5. Combine with the annual star influences: The analysis of the Minor Fortune also takes into account the influence of the annual stars to comprehensively assess the fortune for that year.