This article records tradition as it has been passed down and reported. Its sources are not yet part of the atlas's verified catalogue.
A Zi Wei star entry records one of the fourteen major stars of Zi Wei Dou Shu, a Chinese fate calculation system that places these stars into the twelve houses of a natal chart based on a person's birth data, each star carrying its own Chinese name, a Five Phase element, a yin or yang polarity and a traditional governing domain. This practitioner reference catalogues all fourteen with those specific attributions, cross checked here against two further independent practitioner sources, with points of genuine disagreement between them marked debated rather than silently smoothed over.
An entry records a star's documented Chinese name and English gloss, its assigned element and polarity, and the life domain the tradition associates with it, since a star's placement and character are what the whole system's calculation actually depends on.
Where the atlas's consulted practitioner sources disagree on a star's specific attribution, an entry states that disagreement honestly, since the source itself is a commercial practitioner reference rather than an academic or peer reviewed work, and its own documented cross checking against independent sources is part of what an entry should record about its basis.