theology where the chart stands

the creation-first frame

A chart describes the temperament God gave — a nature that was created good. Like all created things, that nature is distorted by the fall: strengths bent, gifts misaimed. The chart is a map of the given nature, not a sentence about the person.

Rebirth (重生, John 3:3; 2 Cor 5:17) does not discard the created nature — it kills its distortions and restores its direction. This is why the app carries a rebirth slot: before that date, the 大运 timeline binds; after it, the chart describes but no longer rules. The map remains readable; the chain is broken.

general and special revelation

The heavens declare the glory of God (Ps 19) — general revelation, given to everyone, readable by anyone, and incomplete. A birth chart sits on this shelf: it may describe patterns; it cannot save, command, or condemn. Special revelation — Scripture, and finally Christ himself — is the only voice with that authority.

When the two seem to disagree, the higher word wins. A chart is a telescope for observing the created order; it is not a substitute for the Creator's speech.

the Ricci fence

Matteo Ricci, the Jesuit scholar in Ming China, drew the line this way: 气 — the breath-like medium the Chinese classics speak of — is a created substance, part of the world God made. It is not God, not an emanation of God, and nothing to be worshipped. We hold the same fence: the 五行 phases and 气 they describe are creatures, doing what creatures do. Reading them is reading creation — never praying to it.

tool informs, user decides

This center computes maps, never sentences. Weather, not verdicts. No prediction here has the authority of certainty — not about health, death, or money, and never about your standing before God. Where a tool starts deciding outcomes for you, it has stopped being a tool and started being an oracle. We refuse that step.

the anti-idol clause

Even a good thing becomes a snare when worshipped. 2 Kings 18:4: Hezekiah smashed the bronze serpent Moses had made — because the people had burned incense to it. The serpent had healed; it was never meant to be adored. So with charts: read the map. Follow the Lion. (Rev 5:5)