Launching the Si Hua Zi Wei software online !

Some great news, I have ported the clunky Si Hua software into an experimental web application for Si Hua Zi Wei.

Currently I am reviewing different methods to plot the monthly chart, therefore if the monthly aspects looks weird, do not be alarmed.  

I will probably implement Rick Lim's Dou Jun method.  Rick Lim is one of those rare blokes who mastered the San He and Si Hua systems of Zi Wei Dou Shu.  You can visit the link to support our local author's third book if you are a Si Hua fan.

It is to my understanding that he is one of the strongest Zi Wei masters that I ever meet.

To fund the hosting fees, a token subscription may be necessary, but casual chart plotting will be made free.  

If you have any proposal for the fees, please send an email to zwdsflying@yahoo.com

New features will be introduced in Windows version to improve the weakness of the Si Hua system, stay tuned.

Some Observed Modern Ideas To Monetize Metaphysics After Taken For A Ride For Years

To purchasers of the Zi Wei Flying Stars application, I will be making some important UI changes to the Zi Wei application.   

No worries, all updates are free of charge and there are no plans for subscription fees and more on this.

But first, some clarifications.

I have been consistently told that the interfaces and features are suitable for use 

After the COVID pandemic, I received a request for a Flying Stars Zi Wei phone application.  

Unknown to me, the lady requestor was hoping that I port the app to the phone platform attempt to maximize profit using a inevitable subscription pay wall.  

A Si Hua Zi Wei phone app one of the dumbest idea anyone can conceive.

Reading 4x4 grid charts off a palm size phone screen is one of the strangest ideas floated, even if it is for convenience or emergency, you probably spend more time scrolling around the screen or reaching out for that pair of glass.

One wannabe chap trying his hand at it and failed miserably.  The phone app was disposed and the lady requestor managed to morph the remnants that phone app into a web application pay wall.

That requestor with her new disciple dismissed the 'clunky Windows application that is unsuitable for professional reading or teaching'.  

She apparently forgot that the clunky Windows application helped launched her sideline as Si Hua Zi Wei instructor in 2013. 

Welcome to the brand new world of software monetization aka subscription!  

The dots link up.

The problem with business folks is they cannot resist that innate business DNA to maximize profit off their customers.  

• Educate new cash cows with intuitive, accessible tools for $38 monthly or $365 annually.
• Monetise Zi Wei Dou Shu for today's digital world using "paid structured insights".

Software subscription is great for the developer in the monetary aspects.

Therefore, I will spend a few hours each week to modify the clunky Si Hua Zi Wei application to introduce some user interface changes and highlight some of the constraints when designing the Si Hua application.

In the existing application, the Si Hua transformer lines appear when your mouse hovers around English stems.   The first change will make the 4 transformers appears when you click on the English stems.

For registered users, please contact zwdsflying@yahoo.com for the latest copy and I repeat, no software subscription 8)

New Software

I am at the final stage of completing software that combines planets, stars and certain elements from East Asia astrology systems.  

The life palaces can be fixed using 七政四余 style or using astrological ascendant!  Interested parties can reach out to me for pricing!

I may opt to add these features into my existing Qi Men and Zi Wei software packages, stay tuned or drop an email to zwdsflying@yahoo.com!

Some updates for the Flying Stars Si Hua Zi Wei Software in Dec 2022

I made some UI changes to the software regarding the annual Si Hua transformers.  Take note, the annual transformers are indicated near the English stars' text.  

Sharp readers will notice that the software dynamically resizes the stars' text to make room for more stars.

For the annual Si Hua transformer, I picked a larger font with a circle border, to improve readability as some palaces may have more stars when you turn on the Research feature of the software.

Since it is near the end of the 2022 year, it will not hurt a bit to realise that the 18 major stars have a color scheme to provide hints to their elemental mature, for example Tan Lang is vibrant green, representing Yang Wood.

There are some amendments for the San He stars, they are not mainstream in Si Hua and are included for research purposes.

Gentle reminder that the Fei Lian star is not taken from the Bo Shi series.

On top of that, 3 extra stars added, namely 

1. Tian Chu

2. Xian Chi

3. Tian Wu

There are 18 major stars and 32 minor stars and a few more will join in the fray soon.

They will be useful if you are reading some books and their authors' throw in a few minor stars.

Happy charting for SGD $230!

This is a complementary update but I will require you to email your dongle number to get this release.

Not all Bazi applications are created equally

I usually get this question, why is BaziApp worth $180 when there are many free leisure magazine Bazi software in the market?

Strange, I do not get this question for my Si Hua Zi Wei, Qi Men or Date Selection apps.

Tonight, I decided to use one of my user's question to answer this question.

In this standard chart, BaziApp's artificial intelligence concluded that the bloke is a weak Yi day master with the officer/seven killing star acting as useful deity 用神.  

Take note, not all weak day masters loathe the officer/killing star.  As this is not the main dish, we will not spend half an hour explaining the dynamics of this statement, please consult your Bazi teacher if you are still unclear.

In this case, You 酉 metal is the seven killings 七杀 star and Shen 申 is the direct officer 正官star.

The user is puzzled why BaziApp marked Ding You 丁酉  (2017) as challenging but Bing Shen 丙申 (2016) as favourable? 

BaziApp highlights challenging annual years as black, green as tricky and red as generally useful.  This useful feature is one of the reason why the app is not peddled as free software.

Bug??

This is not a bug, an average Bazi analyst should not make this classical mistake and conclude Ding You 丁酉 is a great year.

In fact, the day master lamented he lost his job in Ding You 丁酉  2017 year with a string of bad luck going forward.

If an machine is able to come to that conclusion using expert systems, it won't be good if a human Bazi analyst makes this elementary mistake.

Classical Bazi is not that simple, neither citing poetry, climate analysis nor having a vague understanding of simple rules/formulae will cut it.

Any Bazi analyst must determine how the annual and 10 year luck pillars interact with the natal chart using classical combinations precisely. 

Some UI updates for the Flying Stars Si Hua Zi Wei software

Dear users,

There is some UI improvements for the Flying Stars Si Hua Zi Wei software.

Kindly drop me an email so that I can send you the latest copy of the software.  

In this example, we notice that the 4 transformers' are located in palaces with repeating stems, hence I denote repeating palaces' with dotted lines.

The Hua Ke transformer is not shown as there are feedback that the screen will be unwieldy too many lines throughout the chart.  If there is enough support, I will reintroduce the that feature back in the app.

To clear the incoming Si Hua lines, you can simply click on Tian Xiang or Qi Sha star.

New experimental feature for Zi Wei application .......

The Build 2019 March has a new experimental feature added, namely Annual Si Hua for the supplementary Class of 2019.

In this example, annual Ji stem sends a Hua Ji transformer to the Wen Qu palace!

As this release is for students who attended the March 2019 Class complementary, it will be released at later date.