What is the differences between Zi Wei Dou Shu and Ba Zi? Do they have the same purposes? Which is more accurate?
Under the Ba Zi, I believe there is a type of chart called "Fake Follow Power Type".(i.e. weak fire as self with mainly water in other stems/branches) Is this a normal chart and is having this birth chart consider bad? http://www.geomancy.net/wbimages/smiles/icon_rolleyes.gif

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On 3/7/2004 9:02:08 AM, Anonymous wrote:
What is the differences
between Zi Wei Dou Shu and Ba
Zi? Do they have the same
purposes? Which is more
accurate?

Zi Wei plots "stars" from a persons date and time of birth, and uses the position and strength of these stars to determine the fortune of a person. Ba Zi is similiar, but uses eight Chinese characters from the date and time of birth.
Both are used to determine a person's "Heaven Luck". What they were born with. In this regard, they are both the same. As to which is more accurate. I personally believe it is down to what you want to know. Some questions Ba Zi, or Zi Wei can handle. Some other questions, Zi Wei does a lot better than Ba Zi, and vice versa. And in some cases, neither is of really much help. So accuracy is (IMO) dependant on the competency of the person reading the charts.
Depending on what you are taught to use, you may also find that Ba Zi readings uses a different calendar system to the lunar system which is used for Zi Wei to find the month. At geomancy.net the lunar method is used.
Under the Ba Zi, I

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believe there is a type of
chart called "Fake Follow
Power Type".(i.e. weak fire as
self with mainly water in
other stems/branches) Is this
a normal chart and is having
this birth chart consider bad?
http://www.geomancy.net/wbimag
es/smiles/icon_rolleyes.gif
I believe it is considered one of the "special" types. Though I use the term "special" loosely, as there is no type that is really more special than the others.

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Kam