2027 Flying Star Chart: The Year 9 Purple Enters the Center

Compiled by Haiyuan · AI-generated content · Updated 2026-10-14 · How we calculate

The 2027 Ding Wei annual chart puts 9 Purple You Bi in the center, flying forward through the nine palaces. 5 Yellow goes to the North, 2 Black to the West and 8 White to the Southeast. Along with the chart this page gives the full derivation, because a chart that shows you the result and not the method gives you no way to check it.

Star to center

9 Purple · You Bi

Flight

Forward

Chart changes at

Li Chunfrom 2027-02-04

5 Yellow

North

2 Black

West

8 White

Southeast

Laid out the traditional way, with South at the top. Click any palace for the full treatment.

Your zodiac sign is one character. Your BaZi chart has eight. Cast a free BaZi chart →

How the annual star is actually derived

This section gives the derivation, because most published annual charts give the result and not the method, which leaves you no way to check them. There are two steps.

Step one: find the star that enters the center. In the upper-era jia zi year of 1864, 1 White entered the center, and from then on the star steps back one place each year on a nine-year cycle. So 2024 was 3 Jade, 2025 was 2 Black, 2026 was 1 White and 2027 is 9 Purple. As a formula: take the year modulo nine, subtract from eleven, and fold the result back into the range one to nine. The same formula holds across all three eras, because a nine-year cycle and a hundred-and-eighty-year era are exact multiples.

Step two: fly forward through the nine palaces. The center star sits on Luo Shu 5 and the others follow the Luo Shu numbers in order: Center → Qian (Northwest) → Dui (West) → Gen (Northeast) → Li (South) → Kan (North) → Kun (Southwest) → Zhen (East) → Xun (Southeast), the number rising by one each step and wrapping from nine back to one. For 2027 that gives Center 9 Purple, Northwest 1 White, West 2 Black, Northeast 3 Jade, South 4 Green, North 5 Yellow, Southwest 6 White, East 7 Red, Southeast 8 White.

Two things to flag. First, the annual chart changes at Li Chun, not at 1 January and not at Chinese New Year: the 2027 chart runs from 2027-02-04 to 2028-02-04. Second, annual stars always fly forward; backward flight belongs to the mountain and facing stars of a full natal chart, not to this layer.

What 9 Purple in the center means

We are in Period 9 of the Lower Era (2024–2043), and its ruling star is 9 Purple, Fire. In 2027 that ruling star returns to the middle of the nine palaces, something that happens twice in a twenty-year period.

But entering the center is not the same as peaking. The center palace is Earth and 9 Purple is Fire; Fire feeding Earth is a drain. Our engine labels that relationship star drains into palace, star drained. In plain language: the ruling energy is not shining outward this year, it is sinking into structure. Institutions, foundations and things already built benefit; anything that lives on volume and exposure will find the year heavy going.

The three stars people ask about

5 Yellow in the North

The 5 Yellow is Earth and is treated in Xuan Kong as the star to watch most carefully. This year it flies into the Kan palace in the North (Water), forming star controls palace with the star pressing on the palace. Avoiding groundbreaking in the 5 Yellow sector is a broad consensus (see the groundbreaking table below); what schools disagree on is whether to place a cure and which one, and there we give no recipe. What we can offer is on the North sector page, and it is the part that needs nobody's endorsement.

2 Black in the West

The 2 Black is Earth and is counted among the unfavorable stars. This year it flies into the Dui palace in the West (Metal), forming star drains into palace with the star drained; within Period 9 it stands as Advancing: the 2 Black ruled Period 2, so late in Period 9 it is in the "on its way" group. That layer is usually skipped: unfavorable stars have a period standing too.

8 White in the Southeast

The 8 White is Earth, one of the auspicious whites, and governs wealth and property. It ruled the previous twenty years (Period 8, 2004–2023), so within Period 9 it stands as Receding, recently out of office, still carrying force but no longer ruling. This year it flies into the Xun palace in the Southeast (Wood), forming palace controls star.

2027 directions to avoid for groundbreaking: Tai Sui, Sui Po, Three Killings, Five Yellow, Hidden Sword

The flying star chart tells you which star sits in which palace. The groundbreaking taboos are a separate layer: a handful of directions where major construction is avoided each year. The two layers are calculated separately, and every entry below is computed from the year branch and the annual star chart, not copied by hand.

“Groundbreaking” means work that touches the structure: digging, knocking down or building walls, major renovation, drilling or piling. Moving a desk, changing a lamp or cleaning does not count. If the work cannot be moved, the usual answer is to choose the start date carefully, which is a date selection question.

Avoiding groundbreaking in the Five Yellow sector is a broad consensus across schools. Where the schools disagree is whether to place “cures” there and which ones (coins, gourds, brass bells and so on). We do not cover cures; we only make clear where groundbreaking is avoided.

A few overlaps in 2027: the Southwest holds both the Grand Duke (Wei mountain) and the Robbery Sha of the Three Killings (Shen mountain); the West is the Calamity Sha at the center of the Three Killings (You mountain) and also hosts the 2 Black star; in the Northwest only the Xu mountain (292.5°–307.5°) is the Year Sha, while the Qian and Hai mountains of the same palace are not. When the zodiac guides point to the 1 White in the Northwest, they mean everyday use such as a desk or bed, not construction. If you build in the Northwest, keep clear of the Xu segment.

How to measure: stand at the center of the home (or of the room being worked on) and read the direction with a compass. Each of the 24 mountains is 15° wide and each of the eight directions 45°. Phone compasses show magnetic north, which in Taiwan is about 4–5° off true north; Xuan Kong practice reads the luopan (magnetic) directly.

Beyond the annual chart: a monthly one that changes twelve times

The monthly stars are the same nine stars as the annual ones; only the period changes. The annual star steps back one place per year, the monthly star steps back one place per month, so the annual chart holds still for twelve months while the monthly chart is replaced wholesale at every solar term.

Which star enters the center depends on the year branch, in three groups: Zi, Wu, Mao and You years start the Yin month at 8 White; Chen, Xu, Chou and Wei years start at 5 Yellow; Yin, Shen, Si and Hai years start at 2 Black, and each following month steps back one. The "Yin month" here is the first solar-term month, beginning at Li Chun, not the first lunar month. 2027 is a Ding Wei year and Wei belongs to the Chen-Xu-Chou-Wei group, so the Li Chun month opens with 5 Yellow in the center, followed by 4, 3, 2, 1, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3.

One phrase is easily misread: "monthly stars fly backward" refers to the center star moving back from month to month, not to backward flight inside a chart. Within any single monthly chart the nine stars still fly forward along Center → Qian → Dui → Gen → Li → Kan → Kun → Zhen → Xun, exactly as in the annual chart. Only the starting star differs.

One month of the twelve is worth marking on its own: when the monthly center star happens to equal the annual center star, the whole monthly chart coincides with the annual one: all nine palaces carry the same number. That is not a coincidence; the offset between the two center stars applies to every palace equally, so an offset of zero means the charts overlap completely. In 2027 that month is Xiao Shu (Ding Wei, from 2027-07-07): the monthly center star and the annual center star are both 9 Purple, so all nine palaces match. It is marked in the table.

And that month is also the year’s Tai Sui month, whose pillar is identical to the year pillar. Two systems computed independently (stem-and-branch repetition on the BaZi side, nine-palace coincidence on the flying-star side) point at the same month. Worth noting, and no more than that: it predicts nothing. It only says the year’s thematic weight is heaviest there in both languages.

To be explicit: how to read an annual and a monthly star stacked together is exactly where schools disagree. Some treat the monthly star as a minor adjustment; others hold that only an annual and monthly affliction together counts. This page lays both charts out and points at where they coincide. What to conclude from the overlap is not ours to decide for you.

Flying stars and San Yuan Jiu Yun

They are two scales of the same system. San Yuan Jiu Yun divides time: twenty years to a period, a hundred and eighty to a cycle. Annual flying stars place the nine stars in space for a given year. The period decides which star rules (currently 9 Purple); the annual chart decides where each star sits this year.

That is why every flying-star page here carries a period standing: ruling, growing, advancing, receding, declining, dead or hostile, following the common grading in which only the out-of-season 5 Yellow is called hostile. Talking about a star's luck without its period is incomplete: the 8 White was the ruling wealth star in Period 8 and is receding in Period 9; 9 Purple was the coming star in Period 8 and only rules now. For the time layer, see San Yuan Jiu Yun and Period 9.