Shen sha 6 / 36 · Literary Star

Literary Star (Wen Chang) — the Chinese astrology star 文昌

The Literary Star is one of the 36 shen sha, anchored on the day stem → four branches (10-row table). The literary star is anchored on the day stem and lands one step past each stem’s prosperity seat. 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)

Star文昌 Wen Chang · Literary Star
Anchorday stem → four branches (10-row table)
Table rows10
Branch coverage8 of 12 branches covered

Complete lookup table

AnchorResult
甲 Jia巳 Si (Snake)
乙 Yi午 Wu (Horse)
丙 Bing申 Shen (Monkey)
丁 Ding酉 You (Rooster)
戊 Wu申 Shen (Monkey)
己 Ji酉 You (Rooster)
庚 Geng亥 Hai (Pig)
辛 Xin子 Zi (Rat)
壬 Ren寅 Yin (Tiger)
癸 Gui卯 Mao (Rabbit)

Picker

Other stars with the same anchor

Nobleman Star · Yang Blade · Prosperity Star · Golden Carriage · Supreme Ultimate Noble · National Seal Noble · Fortune Star Noble

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 Literary Star (Wen Chang) determined?
Anchor on the day stem → four branches (10-row table). The literary star is anchored on the day stem and lands one step past each stem’s prosperity seat. The full lookup is printed in the table above; the picker repeats the same data for the anchor you choose.
Does Literary Star 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 Literary Star 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.

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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.