Nine Star Ki Fortune Calculator

How to use it

What this calculator shows you

• Your Principal Star and characterIt derives your Principal Star from your date of birth and shows the temperament and the fields said to suit it.
• Fortune biorhythmToday's, this month's and this year's wave of fortune, scored from the year, month and day charts and drawn as a graph.
• CompatibilityHow you match with someone, read from the generating and controlling cycles of the Five Elements.
• Comparing two biorhythmsYour fortune and theirs side by side, so you can see whose day is rising and whose is dipping.
• Good days to actIt picks out the coming days that favour action and the ones to hold back on.
• The reasoning behind the resultWhy this result — explained from the symbolic meaning of the I Ching. Not a guess, but a stated reason.

The nine stars

In Nine Star Ki, your year of birth (among other things) fixes which of the nine stars is your "Principal Star".

• One White Water StarWaterA flexible, patient intellect with cool judgement.
• Two Black Earth StarEarthA generous, hard-working type — the one who holds things up from below.
• Three Jade Wood StarWoodAn energetic pioneer, rich in drive and ideas.
• Four Green Wood StarWoodSociable, and a keeper of connections — a harmoniser.
• Five Yellow Earth StarEarthStrong command; the leader among the nine stars.
• Six White Metal StarMetalNoble and perfectionist — a capable person with high ideals.
• Seven Red Metal StarMetalBright company who knows how to entertain.
• Eight White Earth StarEarthA tenacious reformer with unshakeable conviction.
• Nine Purple Fire StarFirePassion and an eye for beauty — someone who draws attention.

Where it comes from, and how it works

Nine Star Ki traces back to the I Ching, to yin-yang and Five-Element thought, and to the magic square known as the Luo Shu, in which every row, column and diagonal sums to fifteen. Mapping the nine stars, the eight trigrams and the compass directions onto that arrangement of numbers is the skeleton of the system.

It was codified in Japan as its own system of destiny study in the Taisho era. Once the date of birth and the calendar are fixed — a calendar of the nine stars that begins at Risshun — the Principal Star, and which "palace" it occupies in a given year, month and day, all follow from a fixed set of rules.

That calendar is based on the twenty-four solar terms, which track the sun. So the year begins at Risshun (around 4 February), and each month begins at its own solar term rather than on the first of the calendar month. Your monthly fortune therefore turns over at the solar term, not on the 1st.

Nine Star Ki is not a prophecy to be scored right or wrong; it is a system with regularities. That is exactly why a calculator can take your birthday and derive your character and the wave of your fortune automatically.

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