Nine Star Ki and your natal star

How the natal star is calculated

The natal star is assigned from the birth year, but a Nine Star Ki year begins at the Beginning of Spring, around February 4. Births before that instant use the preceding year's assignment. Some approaches use the boundary date; this site compares the actual times. As a guide, reduce the Gregorian year's digits to one digit and subtract it from 11, reducing as needed: 1990 → 1+9+9+0=19 → 1+9=10 → 1+0=1; 11−1=10 → 1 White Water.

Reading cycles through the annual chart

Each year, the nine stars move through nine positions. The position occupied by your star is read as a theme to explore that year. The circuit lasts nine years, but this does not mean life's events occur again in the same order. It is a perspective for choosing a stage of action or a stage of preparing the conditions.

• Kan Palace: Water（Checking quietly and restoring some space）：A period for slowly checking feelings and conditions not yet arranged. While preparing to step outward, you may regain your own pace. Begin moving a long-considered matter by choosing whom to consult. Add one unknown point to something whose conclusion you were rushing.
• Kon Palace: Earth（Preparing a foundation for recurring tasks）：Read this as a time for improving repeatedly used procedures rather than one major change. Alongside supporting others, check whether the form is sustainable for you. Choose one weekly task and gather its supplies in one place.
• Shin Palace: Thunder（Starting small and asking for feedback）：A time to turn a considered idea into a small action. Showing actual users may reveal questions invisible during thought alone. Alongside the first step, allow time to check afterward and choose what follows. If the schedule has room, add one experiment that ends in a single attempt.
• Son Palace: Wind（Reviewing connections and agreements）：Communication connecting people and places becomes the present theme. Sharing news with someone you want to see or revisiting an unsettled promise may reveal the next question. Begin coordination by briefly listing both people's wishes. For a stalled arrangement, ask only for the reply needed next.
• Central Palace（Reconsidering the tasks that have gathered）：A time to gather ongoing matters and choose the scope to continue. Seeing previously separate tasks together may reveal overlapping roles and parts to pass on. Place what you want to keep at the center to consider discussion order. List active work and choose one task that can reach a stopping point.
• Ken Palace: Heaven（Choosing a goal and the conditions for taking it on）：A time to align the intended form with the time and responsibility involved. Even a stretching goal may find a place in current life when you choose where to ask for help. For something you want to accept, check its endpoint and support together. State your available scope before replying to the next request.
• Da Palace: Lake（Sharing the results and carrying the conversation forward）：A time to appreciate what you finished and share enjoyment. Putting small achievements overlooked during busyness into words may recall why you want to continue. Use the moments of satisfaction in future plans. For a recently completed task, send concrete thanks to someone who worked alongside you.
• Gon Palace: Mountain（Separating the foundation to keep from the method to change）：A time to review an established form and distinguish what to retain from what to change. A once-helpful method may have a part needing adjustment to current life. Build on earlier ideas and try one next approach. For something to change, begin comparison within a small reversible scope.
• Ri Palace: Fire（Clarifying what you want to show）：A time to arrange experience and thoughts in a form that reaches others. Explaining familiar ideas to a newcomer may clarify the qualities to show. Placing completed parts beside parts still developing can make needed discussion easier. Before a presentation, write the one sentence you want the audience to take away.