ASastroway
BaZi (Four Pillars)

Symbolic stars (Shen Sha)

Changed on

Peach Blossom, Travelling Horse, Canopy, Heavenly Nobleman, Blade and Void, computed from BOTH the year and the day reference pillar because the transmissions disagree about which one the rules read from. Where two transmissions place a star differently, both placements ship and each names the other.

post/bazi/symbolic-stars

Request

  • Base URL
    https://api.astroway.info/v1
  • URL
    https://api.astroway.info/v1/bazi/symbolic-stars
  • Auth
    API key in header X-Api-Key

Query parameters

fieldsstring

Comma-separated dotted paths, relative to data, to keep in the response. A path is applied to every element of an array, so planets.name means the name of each planet. Paths that match nothing come back in _fields_unmatched; a list where nothing matches at all is a 400, because an empty object would be a confident wrong answer.

precisioninteger

Round every non-integer number in the response to this many decimal places. Integers are left alone, because an id is not a measurement. Ecliptic longitudes ship with fourteen decimals by default; 2 is about a tenth of an arcminute.

Request body

datestring required
timestring
timezoneOffsetnumber

Ignored when timezone is sent.

timezonestring

IANA zone name such as Europe/Kyiv, or auto to look the zone up from latitude and longitude. The server takes the offset that zone kept at this local date and time, summer time included, and uses it in place of timezoneOffset. A clock time that happened twice takes the first occurrence; one skipped when clocks went forward takes the offset from before the change. Abbreviations such as EST are refused. Before 1970 the tz database is not reliable for every place, so send timezoneOffset when the local clock is known.

longitudenumber
trueSolarTimeboolean
dayBoundary'23:00' | 'midnight'
languagestring
stageSchool'classical' | 'unified'
includeFullTableboolean
includeLuckboolean
gender'male' | 'female'

Example request

{
  "timezone": "Europe/Kyiv"
}

Response

Successful calculation

okboolean

Example response

{
  "ok": true
}

Changes

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  • b64222844186Revision changes
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      added the new optional query request parameter fields

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      added the new optional query request parameter precision