A sample chart. Yellow border marks your birth palace; teal, most auspicious sector this year; red, the sector calling for offering and care.
How jungtsi works
Every person, every day, and every direction has a parkha (one of eight trigrams inherited from the Chinese Ba Gua) and a mewa (one of nine numbers arranged in the classical Lo Shu magic square). At birth you receive your life parkha and life mewa — these travel with you through every year of the sixty-year cycle.
Each new year, the parkha and mewa rotate through the eight directions and nine palaces. A skilled Tibetan astrologer reads the intersection of your personal parkha/mewa with the year's rotation, and can tell you:
- Which direction to travel for auspicious meetings this month
- Which sector of your home is holding tension and needs a sang offering
- Which day of the week your klung rta is strongest
- Which years of your life are ripe for retreat, and which for outward work
The five elements — Tibetan style
Tibetan jungtsi keeps the five-element system (Wood, Fire, Earth, Metal, Water) inherited from China, but reads the cycles through the twelve-animal calendar of the Kālacakra tradition. Your birth-year element and your parkha element generate or overcome each year's rotating element — that relationship is what an astrologer reads to name the year's dominant note.
What it is good for
Timing bold moves. When to sign the lease, when to begin the retreat, when to travel and when to stay. Traditional nomad families consult the yearly lo tho (almanac) at Losar before choosing pasture-moves.
Interactive jungtsi calculator arriving with launch
Enter your birth year and today's date. We will compute your life parkha and mewa, the year's rotation, and the auspicious/challenged directions this month — with a bilingual reading drawn from the Vaidurya Karpo. Coming with the Stillpoint launch in early 2027.
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