Di Kong in Zi Wei Dou Shu: Daydreams, unworldliness and unconventional thinking
Di Kong is a Sha star standing for “emptiness”: ideas that roam freely and ignore convention, plans that tend to fall through, and money that comes and goes.
What Di Kong is
Di Kong also stands for creativity, inspiration and detachment from the worldly; in the charts of many people in creative work, research, religion or philosophy, Di Kong is prominent.
- Free-roaming ideas
- Unworldly, not materialistic
- Plans that tend to fall through
How Di Kong is placed
Di Kong is placed by the birth hour: start the Zi hour at Hai and count backward to your birth hour; wherever you stop, that is Di Kong’s palace.
| Birth hour | Di Kong in |
|---|---|
| Zi | Hai |
| Chou | Xu |
| Yin | You |
| Mao | Shen |
| Chen | Wei |
| Si | Wu |
| Wu | Si |
| Wei | Chen |
| Shen | Mao |
| You | Yin |
| Xu | Chou |
| Hai | Zi |
The table was worked back from real charts cast by this site’s engine, the same rules as the chart tool. Zi Wei changes years at Chinese New Year, and births after 23:00 count as the Zi hour of the next day.
Di Kong and Di Jie
Di Kong and Di Jie share a palace only for people born in the Zi and Wu hours; in every other hour they are apart. In our sample, about 2.7% of people have the Life Palace flanked by Di Kong and Di Jie, one on each side.
Further reading: Di Jie, the six auspicious and six Sha stars.
Di Kong in the twelve palaces
| Palace | Di Kong in this palace |
|---|---|
| Life Palace | Original, unconventional thinking and plenty of ideas, sometimes more thinking than doing. |
| Siblings Palace | Loose ties with peers; each of you lives in your own world. |
| Spouse Palace | An idealistic view of love, with frequent gaps between reality and expectation. |
| Children Palace | Unusual ideas about the next generation. |
| Wealth Palace | Money comes and goes; a conservative approach to finances suits you. |
| Travel Palace | Plans away from home often change. |
| Friends Palace | Friends come and go. |
| Career Palace | Suited to creative, research or unconventional work. |
| Property Palace | Little interest in owning property, or frequent changes in where you live. |
| Mind Palace | A rich inner world with an interest in philosophy and faith. |
| Parents Palace | A wide gap in outlook between you and your elders. |
| Health Palace | Not covered: this site does not do health readings. |
What the data says
How we counted: this site’s engine cast one Zi Wei chart for every day from 1960 to 2005 (birth hour drawn by a fixed-seed random sample), 16,802 charts in all. These figures describe how chart structures are distributed; they do not measure anyone’s good or bad fortune.
Advice
Write your inspirations down, then bring them to earth one step at a time.
The other auspicious and Sha stars
A straight word: a Sha star is a quality, not a verdict
The six Sha stars show where qualities such as drive, delay, haste or emptiness land. This site does not adopt the negative verdicts of the classics and does not read the Health Palace. Many people’s strengths and breakthroughs are ground out precisely in the palace of a Sha star. Everything here is for reference and entertainment and is not investment or financial advice.
Where is Di Kong in your chart?
Enter your date and time of birth to cast your chart, then tap any palace to see its minor and Sha stars.
Di Kong: FAQ
Do Di Kong and Di Jie in the Wealth Palace mean no money?
Kong and Jie in the Wealth Palace show a tendency for money to come and go and to be handled unconventionally; they do not predict how much you will have. Nothing on this site is investment or financial advice.
How common is Di Kong in the Life Palace?
In our sample of 16,802 charts, about 8.2% of people have Di Kong in the Life Palace, and about 33.6% have it somewhere in the Life Palace’s group.
How do I find my Di Kong?
Di Kong is placed by the birth hour; the full table is on this page. You can also cast your chart with our free Zi Wei tool.