Shen sha 12 / 36 · Heavenly Virtue

Heavenly Virtue (Tian De) — the Chinese astrology star 天德贵人

The Heavenly Virtue is one of the 36 shen sha, anchored on the birth month → one stem or one growth branch. Heavenly Virtue is read from the birth month and points to one stem or one of the four growth branches. The table below is the complete lookup — every row links to the branch or pillar page so you can verify it — and the picker repeats the same engine data for whichever anchor you choose.

This page is generated by engine v0.14.0, not hand-written; the table was cross-checked against external sources and against its own derivation (see methodology R32).

Computed facts (engine-verified)

Complete lookup table

Picker

School differences (both readings given)

The four directional trigrams (Qian, Kun, Gen, Xun) in the classical list are printed here as their host branches Shen, Hai, Yin and Si; some manuals keep the trigram letters. The stem entries are identical in both presentations.

What this page deliberately does not do

A note on what this page deliberately does not do: the popular versions of this material assign a fixed personality to each term — one character per branch, one destiny per stage. This site rejects that framing. What is published here is a structural position: which element sits where, on what kind of ground, with which tenants inside. The same term reads differently under a different month command, and no meaningful judgement exists without the other characters of the chart. Where the tradition offers a reading it is labelled as the tradition's; this site's own contribution is that every number and term on this page is computed, versioned and checkable against the methodology page.

FAQ

How is the Heavenly Virtue (Tian De) determined?

Anchor on the birth month → one stem or one growth branch. Heavenly Virtue is read from the birth month and points to one stem or one of the four growth branches. The full lookup is printed in the table above; the picker repeats the same data for the anchor you choose.

Does Heavenly Virtue appear in my chart?

Check the anchor against your four pillars: the day stem for stem-anchored stars, the year or day branch for trine-anchored ones, the birth month for month-anchored ones. The shen sha index page also has a scanner that reads a birth time and scans all 36 stars at once.

Does the Heavenly Virtue mean I am lucky or unlucky?

This site deliberately stops at the rule and the table. Classical texts attach auspicious or inauspicious readings to each star, but those readings assume a full chart analysis; printing a verdict from one tag is the kind of claim we refuse to make.

Reference index

Every enumerable component of ba zi has its own page here. Each page is computed by the same engine and can be checked item by item — none of it is a personality table.

• Chinese zodiac · 27 pages
• Sixty day pillars · 60 pages
• The twelve branches · 12 pages
• The twelve stages · 12 pages
• Ten gods by position · 30 pages
• The 64 hexagrams · 64 pages
• The 36 shen sha · 36 pages
• The 30 scenario pages · 30 pages
• The ten day masters · 10 pages
• The 8 stem & branch relations · 8 pages
• The five elements · 5 pages