Chi Charts

A Chi chart represents the types of chi which ‘condensed’ to form a particular person, business, etc. To create one, use birth information. At its simplest this shows you:

  • Amounts of yin and yang
  • Whether the person is dominated by creative or destructive energies
  • Which types of elemental chi are present and absent
The chi chart of one person may be compared to that of another, which partners and families find particularly useful explanatory tools. Line thickness is used to indicate the relative quantity of a particular kind of chi. Since we are showing that chi may be water, wood, fire, earth, or metal, we use five different colors respectively (black, green, red, yellow, white)

Supplementary charts allow you to construct your own chi chart here on the Water Dragon site. You are welcome to use this material to construct your own charts. Once you have your chi chart, you may want to overlay it on a floor plan of a particular room, a house lot, building footprint, etc. This may help you decide which rooms and spaces, times and seasons, are the most powerful ones for you or your chosen activity.

Constructing a Chi Chart - a Step-By-Step Example
STEP 1 - Birth Year

1946: We begin with the year because it is considered to be the largest amount of chi in the chart. 1946 is the year of the yang fire dog (See "The Exact Lunar Years"). The dog is, "by nature’ made of metal (See "The Animal Cycle"). Here we see that yang fire and metal, part of the destructive cycle, form the dominant type of energy. This information is written as:

  • 1946 year of yang fire dog W/NW
  • dog inherently yang metal
 STEP 2 - Birth Time

4:26 am: The time is considered the next most important type of chi to record. Each of the twelve animals of the Chinese zodiac governs several time periods. For example, each gives its name and its chi to one year every twelve, (this approximates the travels of the planet Jupiter), to one moon per year, and to one block of 2 hours every twenty four (See "The Animal Cycle"). This is written as:

  • 4:26am hour of yang wood tiger E/NE
STEP 3 - Birth Date

December 20: The date is actually the moon under which the event happens (in this case the moon under which I was born) (See "The Animal Cycle"). This is written as:

  • 12-20 moon of yang water rat N
 STEP 4 - Analysis

Taken all together, the chart reads:

  • 1946 year of yang fire dog W/NW
  • dog inherently yang metal
  • 4:26am hour of yang wood tiger E/NE
  • 12-20 moon of yang water rat N

We can see that I am all yang, my energies are all northern, and I have four out of five elemental energies present. Stated another way, I am yin deficient, do not like warm weather, and lack earth energy.

Like my chi chart, my energy begins in the northwest (where I actually was born) and moves to the northeast (where I now reside). Even on cross country trips I avoid traveling in the south as much as possible. Creative and destructive cycles are both present and water is a dominant element. (metal produces water = nw; water produces wood=ne). That I was raised on an island and have spent most of my life living near oceans (salt water=n) makes sense. My interest in competitive swimming as an adolescent never left me, and doing laps continues to be a pleasant meditation. The concentration of energy in the north indicates an ability to concentrate, but the focus is as wide as possible. As a western woman I wanted to add the earth and yin to give balance to my life. Among the ways I have manifested this are :
  • Work as a clay artist (earth is inherently yin)
  • Married a yin male
  • Gave Birth to one child, a yin male
  • Work as a geomancer (Feng Shui is a particular kind of geomancy, i.e., earth measuring)
  • Design Asian (eastern) gardens
  • Live in a tan/yellow house made of earth materials (stucco over cinder block)

Hopefully this little exercise gives you an idea of how creating a chi chart can show you some of the energy you naturally have available to you, and how life choices can be influenced by this knowledge.

If you are going to create "group" chi charts (e.g. for family members, business partners, friends, etc.), you may find the Group Analysis Worksheet helpful in constructing and analyzing multiple chi charts.

You may also purchase the bound and published "Chi Chart Handbook" as a resource to help you construct your chi charts.