The Special Stars Atlas: All 32 Names in Qiora

Short answer: Qiora tracks 32 Special Stars (신살, 神煞). Each one is found by checking your chart against a fixed lookup rule, not by interpretation. This page gives every name with its Hanja, what the rule checks, and what the star is actually asking you to look at.

Looking up one name? Use the index below, or search the page with Ctrl+F (Cmd+F on a Mac).

Read this first. Special Stars come last in a chart reading. They can add texture to a conclusion that already exists; they cannot create one or overturn one. And a name is not a forecast. White Tiger and Spirit Gate sound alarming, but they are technical labels produced by lookup tables, and none of them diagnoses an injury, a disorder, or a disaster.

Came here because a name sounded frightening? Caution-leaning stars is the section you want.

Hanja appears in parentheses because when two names come out looking alike in English, the Hanja is the one part that never collides.

A-Z index

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Arrived with a different spelling? Other sites use these names for the same stars.

• White Tiger: Bai Hu, White Tiger Star
• Spirit Gate: Ghost Gate, Gui Men Guan, Demon Gate
• Peach Blossom: Tao Hua, Flower of Romance
• Heavenly Noble: Tian Yi Gui Ren, Nobleman, Noble Star
• Void: Kong Wang, Void Emptiness, Emptiness
• Traveling Horse: Yi Ma, Post Horse, Travelling Horse
• Yang Blade: Yang Ren, Goat Blade
• Canopy Star: Hua Gai, Elegant Seal
• Academic Star: Wen Chang, Scholar Star
• Solitude Star: Widow Star, Solitary Star

A: Academic Star · Allure Star

B: Blessing Star

C: Calamity Star · Canopy Star

D: Di Sha

G: General Star · Golden Carriage

H: Hall of Learning · Heavenly Calamity · Heavenly Kitchen · Heavenly Noble · Heavenly Official · Heavenly Virtue · Hidden Patron

K: Kui Gang

L: Loneliness Star

M: Moon Virtue · Mounted Saddle

P: Peach Blossom

R: Resentment Star · Robbery Star

S: Six Harms · Solitude Star · Spirit Gate

T: Tai Ji Nobleman · Traveling Horse

V: Void

W: Wang Shen · White Tiger

Y: Yang Blade · Yue Sha

How a Special Star is found

Every Special Star in this atlas is a lookup, not a judgment. A fixed character in your chart is matched against a table, and no interpretation enters the process.

Twelve of the 32 come from a single cycle, the Twelve Shen Sha (십이신살, 十二神煞). Sha is the character that ends many of these names, including Yue Sha and Di Sha below. It marks the name as part of this family and carries no verdict on its own.

Once the Year or Day Branch fixes a three-Branch group, twelve names are assigned to the twelve Branches in order. Those twelve are Di Sha, Peach Blossom, Yue Sha, Wang Shen, General Star, Mounted Saddle, Traveling Horse, Six Harms, Canopy Star, Robbery Star, Calamity Star, and Heavenly Calamity. Several of them pair off or sit opposite each other for that reason.

Which character each rule reads (all 32)

One reference point is fixed, and then the four Pillars are checked against a table. Your Day Master explains the first of these.

Reference	How many	What gets matched
Day Stem	11	The Day Master fixes a Branch, which is then looked for among the four Branches
Month Branch	2	The Month Branch fixes a Stem. Heavenly Virtue accepts a Stem or a Branch. These two are the only rules in the set that read Stems
Year Branch	6	The group the Year Branch belongs to fixes a Branch
Day Branch	2	A Branch that pairs with the Day Branch
Day Pillar	3	These three work differently from each other. Kui Gang requires the Day Pillar itself to be on a list. White Tiger is present if any of the four Pillars matches a listed combination. Void takes the sixty-cycle group the Day Pillar belongs to and looks for the two Branches missing from it
Year or Day Branch	8	Either one can trigger it, through the three-Branch group it belongs to

Two consequences worth knowing before you read your own list.

The same star can appear more than once, because all four Pillars get checked. Finding Canopy Star twice does not double its meaning. It means two positions matched the same rule.

And a star that depends on the Hour Pillar is only as reliable as your birth time. If your birth time is unknown, treat every Hour-Pillar-dependent Special Star as provisional. What If I Do Not Know My Birth Time? explains which parts of the chart remain uncertain.

Support-leaning stars

Traditionally read as helpful or steadying. Take them as small favorable notes rather than guarantees.

Korean	Hanja	Qiora English	Found by	What it asks you to look at
천을귀인	天乙貴人	Heavenly Noble	Day Stem	Where useful help, mediation, or a well-timed connection might appear. It does not install a guardian angel who cancels problems.
문창귀인	文昌貴人	Academic Star	Day Stem	Where study, writing, and organizing thought find an outlet. It promises no exam result and no degree.
학당귀인	學堂貴人	Hall of Learning	Day Stem	Where the appetite for learning itself grows. Academic Star leans toward outcome; this one leans toward process.
태극귀인	太極貴人	Tai Ji Nobleman	Day Stem	Where a subject gets pursued all the way down, traditionally scholarship, religion, or philosophy.
천덕귀인	天德貴人	Heavenly Virtue	Month Branch	Where difficulty tends to soften or route around. It does not exempt anyone from difficulty.
월덕귀인	月德貴人	Moon Virtue	Month Branch	Where support shows up in the open. The same softening family as Heavenly Virtue, but this rule reads only the visible Stems, so it marks help that is out where you can see it.
복성귀인	福星貴人	Blessing Star	Day Pillar only	Where ordinary life stays stable without needing to be spectacular.
천주귀인	天廚貴人	Heavenly Kitchen	Day Stem	Where the basics get covered, traditionally food, shelter, and daily provision. Not a wealth forecast.
금여귀인	金輿貴人	Golden Carriage	Day Stem	Where comfort arrives through people and favorable conditions. Traditionally discussed alongside a supportive spouse.
천관귀인	天官貴人	Heavenly Official	Qiora current rule	Where institutions and formal roles tend to be supportive. It guarantees no promotion.
암록귀인	暗祿貴人	Hidden Patron	Day Stem	Where support arrives without being visible. It does not mean every crisis resolves.
장성	將星	General Star	Year or Day Branch	Where the drive to take charge comes from. It sits on the peak Branch of the three-Branch group.
반안살	攀鞍煞	Mounted Saddle	Year Branch	Mounting the saddle: where a step up becomes available. The name carries 煞 but tradition reads it favorably.

[!note] Qiora calculation scope The current Qiora engine checks Blessing Star from the Day Pillar only, evaluates Resentment Star across every pair among the four natal Branches, and uses the revised Heavenly Official mapping. Other calculators may use a different reference position or table, so compare the rule before comparing the result.

What none of these tells you. Whether help actually arrives, whether an exam is passed, or whether money comes. They mark a traditional association. Day Master strength and the Ten God relationships decide far more, and what a chart actually needs is a question for Useful God.

Two-sided stars

These carry both a favorable and an unfavorable reading in the tradition. Which way they read depends on the rest of the chart, and that is the whole point of the category.

Korean	Hanja	Qiora English	Found by	What it asks you to look at
도화살	桃花殺	Peach Blossom	Year or Day Branch	Where attention, charm, sociability, and aesthetic expression might grow. Not promiscuity, not infidelity.
홍염살	紅艷殺	Allure Star	Day Stem	Where personal magnetism shows up as style and taste rather than as sociability. The same attraction family as Peach Blossom, found by a different rule. Not a claim about anyone's romantic life.
역마살	驛馬殺	Traveling Horse	Year or Day Branch	Where movement, travel, relocation, and changes of role become significant. The movement tends to come to you rather than start with you.
지살	地煞	Di Sha (Earthly Sha)	Year Branch	Where self-started movement begins. It pairs with Traveling Horse, which is movement that comes to you.
화개살	華蓋殺	Canopy Star	Year or Day Branch	Where depth grows inward rather than outward. Art, study, and religion, the work that rewards going alone and going long. The cost is a layer of distance from the people around you.
양인	羊刃	Yang Blade	Day Stem	Where forceful drive and decisiveness come from. The same push read the other way is impulsiveness.
괴강	魁罡	Kui Gang (Dominant Authority)	Day Pillar	Where an intense, all-or-nothing quality sits. The textbook two-sided star: leadership from one angle, inflexibility from the other.

Peach Blossom and Allure Star are different entries. Peach Blossom comes from the Branch group and Allure Star from the Day Stem. Qiora keeps them separate, and neither describes anyone's morals or romantic history.

Two notes on Yang Blade. First, the word blade does a great deal of unearned work in English. This marks intensity, and intensity is not violence. Second, the Special Star and the Yang Blade Structure are not two different things. It is the same character: when it is present anywhere in the four Pillars it registers as the Special Star, and when it lands in the Month Branch and shapes the chart's structure it is called the Yang Blade Structure. Books write the Hanja as both 羊刃 and 陽刃.

Classical practice assigns Yang Blade to the Yang Stems only. Qiora also marks it for Yin Stems, and says so where it appears, because that is a modern extension rather than a classical rule.

On Canopy Star. The name comes from the ornate canopy carried above a ruler's carriage. What is under a canopy is not easily seen, so the growth turns inward instead of outward. Art, scholarship, religion, and research, the work that rewards going alone and going long, is where this reads well. The cost is a layer of distance from the people around you, which is why tradition read this star alongside solitude. The same classical text says both "Canopy Star is the star of the arts" (華蓋為藝星) and "Canopy Star governs solitude" (華蓋主孤).

Canopy Star also sits on the storage Branches, Dragon, Dog, Ox, and Goat. Things are put away there and taken out again, which gives the star a quality of doing something a second time. Returning to a field, or trying again, attaches here more readily than elsewhere.

Nothing about it is decided in advance. What decides it is what you point it at.

Caution-leaning stars

Traditionally read as pressure, friction, or something to watch.

Every entry below is a label from a lookup table. None is a diagnosis, a prediction, or a warning about your safety.

Korean	Hanja	Qiora English	Found by	What it asks you to look at
겁살	劫殺	Robbery Star	Year or Day Branch	Traditionally about things being taken or shared out. Where the boundary around what is yours might blur. Not a theft forecast.
재살	災殺	Calamity Star	Year or Day Branch	Sits directly opposite the peak Branch of the same three-Branch group, which is why tradition reads it as constraint, as being held in place. Where the variables you do not control get larger.
천살	天煞	Heavenly Calamity	Year Branch	If Calamity Star is constraint, this one is impact from outside. Where you are exposed to change you had no hand in.
월살	月殺	Yue Sha (Month Sha)	Year or Day Branch	The name contains "month" but the rule reads the Year or Day Branch, not the Month. Where momentum might stall or slow.
망신살	亡神煞	Wang Shen (Self-Undoing)	Year Branch	Traditionally about mistakes that follow from overconfidence. Where you might overestimate your position. It does not predict humiliation.
육해살	六害殺	Six Harms	Year or Day Branch	The harm here is quiet friction rather than a large accident. Where unspoken conflict accumulates. Distinct from the Branch Harm table.
백호살	白虎殺	White Tiger	Day Pillar	Traditionally about force that arrives fast and hits hard. Whether that Pillar's affairs tend to move abruptly rather than gently. Not an injury diagnosis, and not a warning about your safety.
귀문관살	鬼門關殺	Spirit Gate	Day Branch	Traditionally about acute sensitivity and deep absorption. Where the nerves concentrate too much. Not a mental-health diagnosis.
원진살	怨嗔殺	Resentment Star	all four Branch pairs	About distance that resists explanation. Where things go subtly wrong without a stated reason. Not evidence of resentment.
공망	空亡	Void	Day Pillar	Where a position's normal expression is muted, so what should have landed there lands lighter. It does not mean an empty life.
고진	孤辰	Loneliness Star	Year Branch	Where stretches of being on your own might run longer. Not proof of loneliness.
과숙	寡宿	Solitude Star	Year Branch	The counterpart to Loneliness Star, read with a thread of independence rather than deprivation. Not a sentence about relationships.

These get misread often enough to name directly.

White Tiger has the most frightening name on this page and the mildest actual content. It is a Stem-and-Branch combination that appears on a list of seven. Nothing in the rule refers to injury, accident, or death, and no reading can get there from the label alone. Mechanically, it is present when any of the four Pillars matches one of the seven, so it can appear outside the Day Pillar and in two positions at once. Finding it twice does not double its weight; it means the label matched twice.

Spirit Gate has a frightening name and no clinical meaning whatsoever. It is not a mental-health signal, and a reading that treats it as one has left the boundary of what a chart can say. If you are worried about your mental health, that belongs with a clinician rather than a lookup table.

The rule pairs the Day Branch with one other Branch. The six pairs are Rat and Rooster, Ox and Horse, Tiger and Goat, Rabbit and Monkey, Dragon and Pig, Snake and Dog. Unlike most entries in this atlas, this table does not descend from the Chinese classics with the same method attached. It is a table that settled in Korean practice and is now widely used there, and that difference in provenance is worth knowing.

It often appears together with Resentment Star. The two tables share four of their six pairs, so a single chart carrying both is common and not a sign that something went wrong. Resentment Star was read as friction in relationships and Spirit Gate as sensitivity in the nerves, so the two describe different things.

Resentment Star here is a label inside your own chart. The Resentment relationship used in compatibility, where two people's Branches are set against each other, is a different subject and lives in Love and Gunghap. Confusing the two turns one label in your own chart into a verdict about someone else.

Loneliness Star and Solitude Star sit on opposite sides of the seasonal group your Year Branch belongs to, and that position is the only thing separating them mechanically. Tradition also assigned them by gender, Loneliness Star to men and Solitude Star to women. Solitude Star in particular was used to prejudge women's lives, which says more about the era than about any chart. Neither predicts that anyone ends up alone.

Void marks the two Branches missing from the sixty-cycle group your Day Pillar belongs to. The Day Branch can never be Void, by definition. And the two Void Branches may simply not appear anywhere else in the chart, so many charts do not contain their own Void Branches at all.

The three rules that keep this page from being misused

Special Stars come last. Day Master strength, Chart Structure, Useful God, and the Branch interactions are the reading. A Special Star adds texture to a conclusion that already exists.

A star behaves differently in different layers. The same name in your natal chart, in a Luck Pillar, or in a daily reading is not the same statement. This atlas describes the label, not what it does in a given layer.

Counting is not reading. The count reflects how many lookup rules happened to match, which is a fact about the tables rather than about a person.

For the reading method itself, Special Stars works through five of them in depth.

What to do after you find the name

If you arrived here from a name in your own reading, go back and work in this order.

1. Find which Pillar the name landed on. Your reading should print the position next to the star. If it does not, write down not shown and treat the star as unplaced rather than guessing.
2. Read that Pillar's Ten God and your Day Master strength first. That is the main text.
3. Now add the Special Star. It should shade what you already read, not change it. If it changes your conclusion, go back to step 2, because something there was misread.
4. If a reading told you the star means one specific thing will happen, ask which part of the chart structure that claim rests on. If the answer is only the star's name, there is nothing underneath it.

Quick questions

How many Special Stars does Qiora use?

Thirty-two. Some traditions track many more and some track fewer, so if another service shows you a different set, that is a difference in which tables were selected, not an error on either side.

Why is there no Samjae or Hyeonchim Sal?

Samjae (삼재, 三災) is a three-year run of caution counted from your birth year, so it moves with the calendar instead of sitting in your natal chart, and it falls outside this atlas. Hyeonchim Sal (현침살, 懸針殺) and a few others are held back because their lookup tables differ sharply between schools; they go in once Qiora settles on a rule. This atlas covers the set that Korean services broadly agree on.

Is it bad to have many caution-leaning stars?

No. The count says how many lookup rules matched your Pillars, nothing more. A chart with several caution-leaning names and a well-supported Day Master reads better than a chart with none and a serious structural problem.

Are Peach Blossom and Allure Star the same thing?

No. They come from different rules and Qiora lists them separately. Neither describes anyone's behavior.

Why does the same star appear twice in my chart?

Because all four Pillars are checked against the same rule, so two positions can match. The repetition tells you where the label landed, not that its meaning doubled.

My birth time is unknown. Can I use this page?

Yes, with a caution. Stars that depend on the Hour Pillar are provisional until the time is confirmed, and a placeholder hour can both add and remove names. Read the list, and mark anything involving the Hour as unverified.

A reading told me a Special Star means something specific will happen. Is that reliable?

No. A single Special Star cannot support a specific prediction about health, money, relationships, or safety. Ask which part of the chart structure the claim rests on. If the answer is only the star's name, there is nothing underneath it.

Sources and editorial notes

• The 32 English names follow 영어사전.md, Qiora's terminology source of truth. Other books and sites romanize or translate these differently.
• The "Found by" column reflects Qiora's actual calculation rules, read from the engine's lookup tables on 2026-07-31 and checked line by line before publication. No trigger on this page was inferred.
• The "What it asks you to look at" column renders the area each name traditionally covered as a beginner-level question. Definitions of the terms themselves belong to the glossary; this atlas covers what to look at when you meet the name.
• Qiora's engine defines 33 Special Stars but leaves one inactive, so 32 are checked. The inactive entry is not listed here.
• The category grouping follows the engine's own three-way classification, with the public labels rewritten so a category name does not read as a verdict.
• Canopy Star was confirmed as two-sided by outside authority review on 2026-07-31. The classics describe it as both the star of the arts and the star that governs solitude, and a star whose outcome turns on conditions is what the two-sided category is for.
• The Spirit Gate table was settled in the same review. An earlier table had values from a different Special Star mixed into it. The corrected table rests on prevailing Korean practice rather than on a classical text.
• Birth-time uncertainty follows the same scope described in What If I Do Not Know My Birth Time?.
• Several names here (華蓋殺, 驛馬殺, 桃花殺) carry a modern Korean 殺 that classical sources omit, so an old text lists 華蓋 rather than 華蓋殺. Others end in the variant 煞. Neither character changes the meaning of the entry.
• Individual pages for each Special Star are not part of this release.

Find the name, see what it asks you to look at, then go back to the chart. A label is not a diagnosis.