README-en_US.md

A lightweight astrolabe generator of The Purple Star Astrology(Zi Wei Dou Shu).

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Summary

It's used to obtain the data of The Purple Star Astrology (Zi Wei Dou Shu).

• Input

  • birthday（support solar date and lunar date）
  • birth time
  • gender

• Feature list

  • get 12 palaces data of Zi Wei Dou Shu.
  • get Chinese zodiac
  • get sign
  • get birth time by Chinese date
  • get horoscope(decadal, turnly, yearly, monthly, daily, timely)
  • get horoscope stars (dacadal and yearly)
  • check if one palace includes specific stars
  • check if surrounded palaces of specific palace include specific stars
  • check if surrounded palaces of specific palace include specific mutagen
  • check if spedific star is mutaged
  • check if surrounded palaces of specific star include specific mutagen
  • check star brightness
  • get mutagen by heavenly stem
  • get palace by star
  • get surrounded palaces by palace
  • get surrounded palaces by star
  • get opposite palace by star

• Other

  • multilingual input/output

    you can mix multiple languages when passing parameters and specify output language. we support Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, English, Japanese, Korean and Vietnamese. however, English translation is not stardand. so I just translate them by meaning. if you're good at English and well known about Zi Wei Dou Shu, welcome to PR. any language is welcome.

  • chain invoking

    if you want to check if the surrounded palaces of emperor is focused, you can do it like this:

    import { astro } from 'iztro';
    
    const astrolabe = astro.astrolabeBySolarDate('2000-8-16', 2, 'male', true, 'en-US');
    
    astrolabe.star('emperor').surroundedPalaces().haveMutagen('focused');

Quick link

• Document
• Discussions
• Issues

Installation

you can choose any package manager to install iztro.

• NPM

  npm install iztro -S
  

• Yarn

  yarn add iztro
  

• pnpm

  pnpm install iztro -S
  

Simple example

This is a very simple example to show how to use iztro to get the astrolabe data. please visit develop document for details.

• ES6 Module

  import { astro } from 'iztro';
  
  // get astrolabe data by solar date
  const astrolabe = astro.astrolabeBySolarDate('2000-8-16', 2, 'male', true, 'en-US');
  
  // get astrolabe data by lunar date
  const astrolabe = astro.astrolabeByLunarDate('2000-7-17', 2, 'male', false, true, 'en-US');

• CommonJS

  var iztro = require('iztro');
  
  // get astrolabe data by solar date
  var astrolabe = iztro.astro.astrolabeBySolarDate('2000-8-16', 2, 'male', true, 'en-US');
  
  // get astrolabe data by lunar date
  var astrolabe = iztro.astro.astrolabeByLunarDate('2000-7-17', 2, 'male', false, true, 'en-US');

CONTRIBUTING

If you're interested in iztro and wish to join us,it's very welcome. You can contribute by:

• create an issue here if you have any good ideas or suggestions.
• report a bug here if you found any bugs.
• you can also fork this code to your repository and create PRs for your changes.
• also, you can contribute the localization files. please refer to locales and create the localization files for your lanuage.
• additionally, buy me a coffee is another great way to support me

Summary

You can generate an astrolabe by using the returned data. Of course it's just an example. You can focus on astrolabe design or data analyzation. This program solves the most tedious work for you, so that you can put more energy on the things you need to pay attention to.

Star History

LICENSE

MIT License

Copyright © 2023 Sylar Long