2027 annual flying stars: Five Yellow in due north, Two Black in due west, Wen Chang in due south

The annual flying stars of the 2027 Ding Wei year take effect from the Start of Spring (around February 4): Nine Purple enters the center palace, Five Yellow in due north, Two Black in due west, Wen Chang Four Green in due south, Three Jade in northeast. In addition, due west is also this year Three Sha direction, Tai Sui is in southwest, and Sui Po is in northeast.

In other words, the due south to watch in 2026 is handed over to due north after the Start of Spring in 2027; the northwest where Two Black sat in 2026 changes to One White. Arrangements made in due south last year need to be reviewed again next year.

Below we first list the nine directions, then discuss three things that are more prone to error than the directions themselves: the handover date, the overlap in due west, and where to measure the directions from.

The annual flying stars change the star entering the center palace once a year, and the annual star retreats by one each year: in 2025 Two Black entered the center, in 2026 One White entered the center, and in 2027 it is the turn of Nine Purple. After Nine Purple enters the center, it flies in order according to the Luo Shu sequence: center palace Nine Purple, northwest One White, due west Two Black, northeast Three Jade, due south Four Green, due north Five Yellow, southwest Six White, due east Seven Red, southeast Eight White.

This order can be checked yourself. Flying in order according to the Luo Shu sequence, in a year when Nine Purple enters the center, Five Yellow falls in due north; the last time Nine Purple entered the center was 2018, and the next time is 2036. If you have a 2018 flying star chart on hand, the nine directions will be exactly the same as in 2027.

We checked this set of numbers against the calculation program actually used by the platform, and the results matched. The annual chart is not an interpretation, it is calculated, and different schools should not disagree at this level; disagreements usually arise later in how to interpret and how to remedy.

Five Yellow is in due north, and Two Black is in due west. Five Yellow is traditionally called the disaster sha, and Two Black is called the illness talisman; both belong to the earth element, their remedy directions are similar, both drain earth with metal, and both favor stillness over movement.

Five Yellow and Two Black are two different stars, a point that is often conflated online. If a piece of advice points the illness talisman position to due north, following it means due west is left unhandled. In 2027 these two directions are ninety degrees apart, not on the same line, and must be viewed separately.

Favoring stillness in practical arrangements means this direction should not have ground broken, walls drilled, or large-scale renovation during the year. If due north happens to be the main door or a frequently used spot, the traditional approach is to reduce objects that make noise or vibration there, rather than sealing off the whole direction.

Because due west has two things overlapping in 2027: the annual Two Black, and the Three Sha. The Three Sha is determined by the year branch: in Shen, Zi, and Chen years the Three Sha is in the south; in Yin, Wu, and Xu years it is in the north; in Si, You, and Chou years it is in the east; in Hai, Mao, and Wei years it is in the west. 2027 is a Wei year, so it falls in due west.

Two Black belongs to the flying star system, and the Three Sha belongs to the earthly branch system; the two sets of rules are calculated separately, and this year they happen to fall in the same direction. This kind of overlap does not happen every year: in 2026 Two Black is in the northwest and the Three Sha is in due north, so the two are separate.

The traditional saying about the Three Sha is that one may sit but not face it, meaning it is fine to sit with your back to the Three Sha direction, but not advisable to face it. If due west in your home is a bedroom or study, the head of the bed or the desk may back onto the due west wall, but should not face due west. As for Two Black, the traditional approach is to drain earth with metal, placing metal objects in this direction. This direction should not have ground broken, walls drilled, or large-scale renovation this year; if it must be done, schedule it to finish before the Start of Spring.

The annual Wen Chang Four Green is in due south. In 2026 Four Green was in the northeast, so a desk or Wen Chang arrangement placed in the northeast last year no longer corresponds to the annual Wen Chang after the Start of Spring in 2027.

Note that the annual Wen Chang is only one kind of Wen Chang position. There is also the house Wen Chang calculated from the main door orientation, and the personal Wen Chang calculated from the year of birth; the three positions are usually different. Moving your desk based only on the annual layer easily overrides the other two layers.

If due south happens to be a window, placing the desk here also requires handling the light. When the window is directly in front, it is easy to be backlit during the day, and the screen or paper will reflect light, forcing the eyes to adjust constantly. This problem has nothing to do with flying stars, but it directly affects whether you can sit still; you can refer to the lighting section of the article on desk placement.

From the Start of Spring, not January 1, and not the first day of the lunar new year. The Start of Spring in 2027 is around February 4; before this day, the home is still calculated according to the 2026 flying stars, and Five Yellow is still in due south.

The Start of Spring and the lunar new year are not necessarily the same day; in some years the Start of Spring is before the first day of the lunar new year, and in others after. If you are used to rearranging around the first day of the lunar new year, check that year Start of Spring date first to confirm the new flying stars have taken effect.

The day for changing arrangements traditionally also avoids days that clash with the zodiac sign of the household head, that is, when the day earthly branch clashes with the household head zodiac sign, for example Zi clashes with Wu, and Chou clashes with Wei. This layer has nothing to do with flying stars; it belongs to the scope of date selection, and for details you can see The almanac says suitable for marriage, why that day may be inauspicious for you.

All directions take the center of the house as the starting point, then define the eight directions according to the main door orientation. The most common mistake is facing indoors when measuring the main door degrees, resulting in a difference of exactly 180 degrees, with due north becoming due south and the entire flying star chart reversed.

The correct way to measure is to stand on the inner side of the main door, with your back to the interior and facing outside the door, hold the phone flat, and point the top end toward the door to read the degrees. The details of the method and how to verify it are given in full steps in the article 2026 Five Yellow in due south, and the same applies in 2027.

Another often overlooked issue is the difference between true north and magnetic north, and the fact that the top of a floor plan is not necessarily north. Some floor plans draw the main door at the bottom, and readers intuitively take the top as north, so the nine palaces drawn from the start are skewed.

One question we do not yet have an answer to is how the center point should be determined when a house has an irregular shape with a large missing corner. Several methods each have their own basis, and the resulting nine palaces can differ by a few degrees; at the boundaries between directions, those few degrees are enough to place a single object in a different palace.