紫微 Zi Wei

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- Yin Earth (Ji 己)

- enables 尊 zūn = to respect, venerate, honour; senior, of a senior generation

- lord of the Career palace

- capable of dissolving difficulties and distress, and extending life



Looks, appearance: The native of Zi Wei has a majestic and honourable appearance. The body is thickset. The person is dignified and composed in temperament and manners.

Disposition: The individual is honest and considerate, and mature and sophisticated. He or she is polite and modest, and upright and just. Although the native is of an admirable temperament, he or she is easily influenced, being impressionable.

Personality type: Leader (having leadership abilities).

Individuality: The person of this star is a leader. He or she is moreover arrogant, proud, and aloof. The native is domineering. The individual emphasises what's honourable and respected; dignity and esteemed greatness. Zi Wei stands for 孝順 xiào​shùn = filial piety, obedience to one's parents. The native... [?]. The Zi Wei person does not easily listen to other people. He or she is persistent and stubborn. The individual is awfully effective in leading a team to reach and accomplish its goal, and to get other people to accept his or her ideas and thoughts.

Romance: In love the person is broad-minded and magnanimous.

Merits: The individual is kind and honourable. He or she is akin to a benevolent lord overlooking the land under heaven. The native possesses a vigorous desire for knowledge. The person is competitive and strongly eager to win. The individual is solid, steady, and earnest. He or she is neither too fast nor too slow. The native cherishes his or her own good name; to conduct oneself with dignity. The person attaches importance to quality.

Shortcomings: The native is obstinate and self-opinionated. He or she has high standards but is of little ability; to be fastidious but incompetent. The individual is seriously vain. The person has strong desires to own and possess. He or she is conceited, headstrong, and uninhibited. The native bosses people around.



      Zi Wei represents 帝君 dìjūn = [emperor]. This star is of the ability to subdue and tame sha, what is baleful and malignant, and to regulate and control what's sinister and harmful.

Zi Wei betokens 工作 gōng​zuò = work, to handle (affairs); 事業 shì​yè = undertaking, occupation, project, activity. There is the capability of doing away with distress and calamity, and extending the life span.

The native of Zi Wei is a leader. He or she is honourable, dignified, noble, and magnanimous. The person is of the ability to command and direct and lead. The individual is moreover capable of assuming personal responsibility; to take charge of a section.

The native possesses plentiful of vitality. The individual feels superior, that there is honour and glory within, and that he or she is on a mission.

The person is fond handing out orders, of being a commanding officer. The native controls and dominates other people; to allocate, to take the reins.

The individual is awfully interested in having a career. He or she is very ambitious. Now and then the person becomes [because of this] quite stubborn and unbending.

The native is very subjective and of a markedly high self-respect. The individual keeps things on the inside to preserve an honourable outer surface. The person of Zi Wei does not customarily request the help of other people. He or she is of much vitality and life-force. In the instance of a predicament or difficulty, the native tends toward 逆來順受 nì​lái​shùn​shòu = to grin and bear it; to resign oneself to adversity; to submit meekly to insults, maltreatment, humiliation. Sometimes the person can also/[therefore] feel lonely.

The individual is fond of flattery. He or she has a 'soft ear', loving compliments.

The native appreciates outer surface honour, his or her reputation and self-respect, and does not enjoy 'losing face'. He or she attaches importance to pomp and ceremony; ostentation and extravagance.

Zi Wei puts forth power and prestige, and the individual appears noble and grand. Although he or she can hardly escape from being somewhat arrogant and haughty. Yet in the matters of career and occupation, the native is very effective.

The Zi Wei star is dependent on being saluted by other stars in the horoscope to be wholly efficient. If there are no helping hands, the emperor is lonely and unable to fully put to use talents and skills.

Should Zi Wei be alone in the chart, the emperor won't be able to 'pioneer a frontier area and open up new territory for development '.

The star should meet with either Tian Fu, Tian Xiang, Zuo Fu, You Bi, Wen Chang, Wen Qu, Tian Kui, or Tian Yue. Zi Wei is the most fond of being assisted by Zuo Fu and/or You Bi. If Zi Wei is not accompanied by any of these stars in the horoscope, the native becomes irritable, ill-tempered, and impatient.

Zi Wei dreads Di Kong and Di Jie the most.

The person of Zi Wei is of a sympathetic heart and mind, and when other people err and make a mistake, the native is magnanimous and tolerant. In conduct and behaviour the individual is honest and sincere, and stubborn and unbending. The person is of the mien of someone generous and easy-mannered, refined and courteous. The individual possesses the demeanour of a chief/elder. However, the native should guard against getting caught up in mere show, because otherwise there will easily be hurts and wounds what with love, romance, and relationships.

This star enables being conceited and vain; to think highly of oneself; to be self-important; to be pretentious; to be or get too big for one's boots. The native tends to worrying too much, being over-anxious. He or she is fickle and apt to change. Treating other people the person is a bit too focused on outer surface only. The individual is moreover of an extremely strong subjective consciousness. These are the native's weak points.

The person has on the whole pretty good money luck. The individual is able to have money coming in, and money going out, spending it. But in the course of such events there will be many challenges.



Pros and cons


- The individual of Zi Wei is practical, down-to-earth, realistic, and steadfast.

- He or she lacks imagination.



- The native is principled.

- The person is obstinate and stubborn; to be set in one's ways.



- The individual is particular about methods and means.

- The native becomes exhausted due to worries and concerns; to be a tax on one's mind.



- The person is particular about facts and circumstances.

- He or she... [?] ...data and information.



- With Zi Wei the individual is brimming with self-confidence.

- The native is opinionated, self-willed and conceited; to act and show overconfidence in oneself.



- The person is disposed to analysis.

- The individual nitpicks; to be picky and fussy.



- The native... [?].

- The person... [?].



- The individual is good at calculations; to figure, plan, consider.

- The native is stingy and penny-pinching.



- The person attaches importance to momentum, prestige, influence, fame and power.

- The individual is seriously vain.



- The native is of much self-respect and self-esteem.

- He or she is excessively arrogant and proud.



Additional associations (personages):


- 伯邑考 Bo Yikao

- 劉備 Liu Bei

- 皇帝 emperor

- 孤芳自賞的尊貴王者 an honourable king who is partial to 孤芳自賞 gūfāngzìshǎng = to indulge in self-admiration; a lone soul admiring its own purity; a solitary flower in love with its own fragrance

- 龍 dragon