May 2027 Flying Star Forecast: School-Run Plans in the Southwest
The May chart takes over at 1:25 a.m. on May 6, 2027 (UTC+8), and runs until 5:25 a.m. on June 6. This month the 5 Yellow comes to rest in the Northeast, which puts both 5 Yellows on the north side of the plan: the year's in the North and the month's right beside it. Those two rooms, the central room, and the West are the ones to leave alone.
The south side carries the month. The Southeast holds the year's 8 and gains the month's 1. The South gets one good month between a Caution April and a Caution June, with the month's 6 over the year's 4. The Southwest keeps the year's 6 and takes the month's 8, though the year's Tai Sui sits in it.
The East is the month's in-between room: the 9 comes in, and the year's 7 stays put. Five sectors carry limits on building work, listed in the callout below. All five stay limited for the rest of the annual chart; only the Northeast's monthly 5 Yellow leaves, on June 6.
Your own home's stars, which this chart can't show, come from its facing direction and the year it was built or you moved in; the Flying Star calculator draws them.
Effective window: May 6, 2027 at 1:25 AM UTC+8 to June 6, 2027 at 5:25 AM UTC+8
May 2027 Flying Star Chart
- Monthly
- Annual
- Period
- Favorable
- Mixed
- Caution
- Southeast1M8A8PFavorableGive the Southeast the long evenings of work that move your career on.
- South6M4A4PFavorableTake the conversations where your say carries weight into the South.
- SouthwestTai SuiSan Sha8M6A6PFavorableSort out household arrangements in the Southwest, and keep structural work out of it.
- East9M7A7PMixedHold a short, small occasion in the East if you have one, and keep the room orderly while you do.
- Center2M9A9PCautionGive the central room its ordinary upkeep and no new jobs: keep it clean, in order, and in repair.
- WestSan Sha4M2A2PCautionKeep your time in the West brief, and if someone sleeps there, keep the bedroom restful.
- NortheastSui Po5M3A3PCautionHand the Northeast over to stored things.
- North7M5A5PCautionLeave the North out of daily use and give it nothing to do.
- NorthwestSan Sha3M1A1PMixedTake your job search into the Northwest, and keep arguments and anything of value out of it.
Favorable: put it to use · Mixed: use it, mind the cautions · Caution: keep it still, clean, and lit
Large number: monthly star; medium: annual; small: period. Select a sector for its details.
This year each sector's Annual star is the same number as its Period star.
Annual disturbance directions for 2027
- Tai Sui (Grand Duke) — 未 / SW1: 202.5°–217.5°
- Sui Po (Year Breaker) — 丑 / NE1: 22.5°–37.5°
- San Sha (Three Killings) — 申 (Southwest) / SW3: 232.5°–247.5°; 酉 (West) / W2: 262.5°–277.5°; 戌 (Northwest) / NW1: 292.5°–307.5°
These mark cautions for optional drilling, digging, and demolition. Necessary safety work takes priority.
Building limits. Keep elective construction, the kind that opens a wall, lifts a floor, or digs into the ground, out of five sectors: the Southwest (Tai Sui, the Grand Duke, and San Sha, the Three Killings), the West (San Sha), the Northwest (San Sha), the Northeast (Sui Po, the Year Breaker, and the month's 5 Yellow), and the North (the year's 5 Yellow). The Northeast's monthly 5 Yellow leaves on June 6; every other limit here, Sui Po included, runs until the annual chart changes on February 4, 2028. Repairs a room needs are done first, in any sector.
Southeast Favorable
Period 8 (retiring) · Annual 8 · Monthly 1
- This month: Give the Southeast the long evenings of work that move your career on.
The Southeast starts a Favorable stretch this month, and the chart holds it there through July. The month's 1 White [一白] is the star of career, the ongoing work of getting somewhere. Here that might be the first weeks of a new job, when you are still learning the systems and everyone's names.
The year's 8 White [八白] belongs to money and to the household. Going through a loan repayment schedule line by line, with whoever shares the payments, is the kind of job this room is for.
Nothing afflicts the Southeast this year and neither layer puts a 5 Yellow here, so it is the traditional spot for a refresh you've had in mind.
South Favorable
Period 4 (untimely) · Annual 4 · Monthly 6
- This month: Take the conversations where your say carries weight into the South.
April left the South at Caution and June returns it there, so May is the one month in this stretch to make use of it. Standing and authority are the business of the month's 6 White [六白]. Writing the review of someone who reports to you, the one that decides how their year is judged, belongs at a desk in this room.
The year's 4 Green [四绿] is a helpful star of study. An evening literature class, with its set novels stacked by the chair, has a home here for as long as the month lasts.
Southwest Favorable
Period 6 (untimely) · Annual 6 · Monthly 8
- This month: Sort out household arrangements in the Southwest, and keep structural work out of it.
The month's 8 White brings money and family to this room. Working out with your partner who covers which school pickups over the summer is an 8 job, and the Southwest is a good place to do it. The 8 sits opposite its home sector [衝] this month, which makes its help here more modest than usual.
A first meeting with a new manager, at which they lay out what they expect from you, suits the year's 6 White.
Tai Sui and San Sha both fall here for 2027, and a good month does not lift them: elective work on walls, floors, or foundations is kept out of the Southwest until the annual chart changes, while anything that needs mending gets mended.
East Mixed
Period 7 (untimely) · Annual 7 · Monthly 9
- This month: Hold a short, small occasion in the East if you have one, and keep the room orderly while you do.
- Watch for: Injury & accidents · Theft & loss · Conflict & lawsuits
This month brings the 9 Purple [九紫] to the East. The East's Wood feeds it, so it comes through strongly in this room. The 9 brings occasions and recognition: a lunch for a graduate in the family, with the diploma propped against the bookshelf, is the right scale for the East this month.
The year's 7 Red [七赤] is still in the sector, a troublesome star of cuts and falls, missing things, and sharp words. That is why the occasion stays brief and the floor stays clear of bags and cables. Once the plates are cleared, let the East go back to being an ordinary room.
Center Caution
Period 9 (reigning) · Annual 9 · Monthly 2
- This month: Give the central room its ordinary upkeep and no new jobs: keep it clean, in order, and in repair.
- Watch for: Health · Family & people
The month's 2 Black [二黑] signals illness and strain among the people at home. It shares the Center's Earth, which lets it work at strength here. The year's 9 Purple remains a fortunate star, but it feeds that same Earth and loses ground in the process, so the occasions it would otherwise favor are better held in another room.
Treat the 2's tie to illness as a reason to keep up with everyday care, like the checkup you've postponed or the cold you've been ignoring, and not as a verdict on anyone's health.
A central room that is wiped down, put straight, and asked to do no more than usual is the right way to carry it through May.
West Caution
Period 2 (growing) · Annual 2 · Monthly 4
- This month: Keep your time in the West brief, and if someone sleeps there, keep the bedroom restful.
- Watch for: Health · Family & people
The year's 2 Black is a difficult star, read for illness and for friction in the family. The month's 4 Green is supportive and stands for study, but with the West at Caution it is no reason to set up a desk here. A book picked up on the way through is fine; a course of study belongs in another room.
San Sha falls in the West this year. Building work you don't strictly need, the sort that opens a wall or lifts a floor, is kept out of it; anything that breaks is mended.
A bedroom here can stay a bedroom. Keep it quiet in the evenings and free of the work and screens that would turn it into a second office.
Northeast Caution
Period 3 (untimely) · Annual 3 · Monthly 5
- This month: Hand the Northeast over to stored things.
- Watch for: Health · Family & people · Conflict & lawsuits
The 5 Yellow [五黄] comes to the Northeast this month. It is a malefic star, linked with illness and with trouble at home.
Then there is the year's 3 Jade [三碧], a star of quarrels, disputes, and loss.
Sui Po sits in the Northeast for the year, and the 5 adds its weight this month: no optional digging, demolition, or floor work here, and anything already broken gets fixed first.
Camping gear, spare folding chairs, and the paint tins from last year's touch-ups are the right tenants for this room.
North Caution
Period 5 (untimely) · Annual 5 · Monthly 7
- This month: Leave the North out of daily use and give it nothing to do.
- Watch for: Injury & accidents · Conflict & lawsuits · Health
The North has not had a month better than Caution this year. Since Li Chun [立春] on February 4, the year's 5 Yellow has held it there, and the grid runs the same way through December 2027 and perhaps past it. The 5 is a harmful star, read for illness and for strain in the family.
The month's 7 Red brings its own trouble: accidents, sharp words, and theft.
With the year's 5 in the sector, structural work you could do without has no place here for the rest of the annual chart, and a repair the North needs is carried out first.
The best use of the North in May is no use at all.
Northwest Mixed
Period 1 (rising) · Annual 1 · Monthly 3
- This month: Take your job search into the Northwest, and keep arguments and anything of value out of it.
- Watch for: Conflict & lawsuits · Theft & loss
The year's 1 White is a lucky star of career. Answering a recruiter's message, and looking over which weeks you'd be free to talk, is the sort of task to bring here.
San Sha is in the Northwest for the year. Renovation that disturbs the structure and could be skipped stays out, and mending what has worn out takes priority.
Quarrels and loss come with the month's 3 Jade. The Northwest's Metal holds it back, which lightens it. Keep tense calls elsewhere, and don't leave a wallet or an unopened delivery lying here.
How to use this forecast
Use the good rooms, leave the cautious ones still. The classical texts treat activity as an amplifier: a good sector gives nothing until it is used, and a caution sector does no harm until it is disturbed. Where two caution stars share a sector, keeping it quiet lowers the risk without removing it. By the same logic, a busy room, at home or at work, with people, pets, and conversation, counts as use.
When a room can't move. A desk or a bed is not always easy to move. If yours sits in a Caution sector, keep it tidy and quiet, spend less time there where you can, and take the work that matters to a Favorable room.
Your own building's stars. This chart is the same for every home and workplace. Yours has its own stars, set by when it was built and which way it faces, and they decide where water, a stove, or a bed belongs.
The era. We are in Period 9 (2024–2043). Its reigning star is the 9 and its rising star the 1, which is why each sector's Period star carries a label such as reigning, rising, or retiring. The year's and month's stars on this page are read by their own natures, not by the period.
How to find each sector in your home or workplace
- Mark the middle of your whole floor plan. That area is the Center.
- Stand there with a compass, or a phone compass held away from metal and appliances, and find North.
- Each of the eight directions covers a 45° slice running out from the Center, 22.5° either side of its compass point.
- Note which rooms fall in each slice: bedrooms, desks, offices, the main door, the kitchen, a counter or till. Those are the rooms each sector section on this page is talking about.
The diagram uses the chart's orientation, South at the top. Tai Sui, Sui Po, and San Sha are narrower: Tai Sui and Sui Po each cover one 15° mountain, San Sha three, all listed under the chart at the top.
Treat the sector guidance as traditional planning symbolism. It does not replace medical, safety, legal, or financial advice, and urgent repairs or care should never be delayed for a symbolic timing preference.
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