Qi Sha 七杀
Vanguard. Qi Sha 七杀 governs self-direction, bold moves, resilience, command, and the tendency that comes with it is over-hard, isolating, restless for a fight.
What Qi Sha is
Qi Sha is decisive independence. Its palace is where you would rather act than consult, and where pressure tends to produce your best work rather than your worst.
The classical reading pairs it with movement: this is one of the three stars of the 殺破狼 pattern, and where it sits, that part of life is unlikely to stay settled for long. The tendency to watch is a preference for the hard version of a problem, taken on alone, when an easier version was available.
The other 七杀
BaZi uses the same characters for something else: a ten god, the relation between your day master and a stem that controls it, which the readings call Pressure. Here 七杀 is one of the fourteen major stars, called Vanguard. The English names differ precisely so the two do not get read across, and a document touching both systems names which one it is speaking from.
How it reads in a chart
A star on its own is a tendency with no subject. What gives it one is the palace it lands in, which of the twelve areas of a life that palace covers, and how brightly the star sits there, since the same star at its strongest and at its weakest are not describing the same person. A reading states the brightness before it states the meaning.
Common questions
NotesIs Qi Sha a good star to have?
No star in this system is good or bad on its own. Each one is a set of tendencies with a matching cost, and what decides the reading is the palace it lands in, how brightly it sits there, and what else is in the palace with it.
What does Qi Sha mean in my career palace, or my wealth palace?
The star supplies the tendency and the palace supplies the subject, so the same star reads differently in each of the twelve. That combination is what a full Zi Wei Dou Shu reading walks through, one palace at a time.
Have Qi Sha 七杀 read in your own chart
Which palace this star landed in, how brightly it sits there and what shares the palace with it are chart facts, not general ones. A reading walks all twelve palaces, one at a time.
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Method and sources
The characters, readings and English names on this page are generated from the same star table the readings themselves use. What each star governs follows the classical treatment listed below, and the astrolabe is computed with a deterministic library, never estimated.
Read against the classical treatment of the stars and the twelve palaces:
- 紫微斗數全書 Ziwei Doushu Quanshu The Complete Book of Zi Wei Dou Shu