Western astrology gives you a wheel. Purple Star astrology gives you a house.

For a thousand years the Chinese imperial court kept a system of astrology that reads a life not as a single sign but as twelve rooms: the Self, Siblings, Partnership, Children, Wealth, Health, Travel, Friends, Career, Home, Inner Life, and Parents. Fourteen major stars, each one a character with a temperament, take up residence in those rooms at the hour of your birth. Where they sit, who they share a room with, and how brightly they shine is the whole story of a chart, and it is a story you can learn to read.

Your Life in Twelve Rooms is the first book in The Purple Court series, and it assumes you have never seen a Zi Wei Dou Shu chart before. Kaede, an entrepreneur who has read charts for more than twenty years, walks you through the palace one room at a time, using one real chart carried from the first chapter to the last, until a grid of boxes becomes a person you feel you have met. Along the way she builds the bridge to what you already know, showing where the Purple Star chart agrees with your Western birth chart and where it sees something the wheel cannot.

Inside:

The twelve rooms and what each one governs

The fourteen major stars as fourteen people you will recognize

How to read brightness, and why the same star behaves differently in different charts

The four transformations that turn a good year into a great one, or a hard one

One whole life read end to end, then the people you live and work beside

Illustrated throughout, with a QR code to cast your own chart free

If you have ever felt that your sign describes you only halfway, this is the other half.