What Is A Tử Vi Chart?

A Tử Vi chart is a map of 12 squares arranged in a ring, built from a person's birth date and time using the Tử Vi Đẩu Số method. Each square is called a palace and covers one specific area of life: the Life palace describes a person's nature, the Wealth palace covers money, the Spouse palace covers marriage. "Casting" a chart means calculating which palace each star lands in; "reading" it means interpreting how those stars combine within each palace.

What Are The 12 Palaces On A Tử Vi Chart?

Every chart has exactly these 12 palaces:

A cast Tử Vi chart example showing all 12 palaces, from Tử Vi AkiNet
  • Life (Mệnh): a person's core nature and tendencies, at the center of the chart.
  • Parents (Phụ Mẫu): relationship with one's parents.
  • Fortune & Virtue (Phúc Đức): inner life and spiritual well-being.
  • Property (Điền Trạch): home and real estate.
  • Career (Quan Lộc): professional path.
  • Friends (Nô Bộc): friends, subordinates, and peer relationships outside the family.
  • Travel (Thiên Di): travel and changes of environment.
  • Health (Tật Ách): physical health.
  • Wealth (Tài Bạch): money, how one earns and keeps it.
  • Children (Tử Tức): one's children.
  • Spouse (Phu Thê): marriage and one's life partner.
  • Siblings (Huynh Đệ): one's siblings.

Beyond these 12, a chart also marks Body (Thân). Thân is not a 13th palace, it is an overlay on one of the 12 palaces above, showing which area later life leans toward more.

How Is Tử Vi Different From I Ching?

Both are traditional Eastern practices but answer different questions. Tử Vi builds one fixed map from your birth date and time, describing overall life tendencies, like a topographic map drawn once. I Ching answers one specific question at one specific moment by casting a hexagram right then, like checking real-time traffic before a trip. Tử Vi looks long-term, I Ching looks at the situation right in front of you.

How To Read Your Own Chart On Tử Vi AkiNet

  1. Enter your gender and birth date and time at tuvi.akinet.me, no sign-up needed.
  2. Get your 12-palace chart, cast automatically.
  3. Read the AI interpretation for the palace matching your actual question, such as Wealth for money or Career for a work decision.