Learn BaZi, one idea at a time
Clear guides to Four Pillars, five elements, Ten Gods, birth-time uncertainty and calculator differences.
Learn what BaZi means, how Four Pillars are calculated, and what a birth chart can and cannot tell you.
How to read a Four Pillars chart ↗Identify the year, month, day and hour pillars, Heavenly Stems, Earthly Branches and the Day Master.
Five elements in BaZi: counts are not strength ↗Understand Wood, Fire, Earth, Metal and Water, generation and control cycles, and the limits of percentage charts.
Ten Gods in BaZi, explained without the jargon ↗Learn how Ten Gods describe the element and polarity relationship between the Day Master and another stem.
Can you calculate BaZi without a birth time? ↗See which parts of a BaZi chart can be shown without an hour, and where solar terms and midnight create uncertainty.
Why do BaZi calculators give different results? ↗A checklist for comparing time zones, solar terms, true solar time, late-Zi conventions and element-count methods.
Ten Day Masters, ten starting points
Yang Wood
A tree with room to grow
Yin Wood
Flexible growth, patient progress
Yang Fire
Light that makes things visible
Yin Fire
A flame worth tending
Yang Earth
Stability with a wider view
Yin Earth
Conditions that let things flourish
Yang Metal
Shape, resolve and refinement
Yin Metal
Attention to what is worth keeping
Yang Water
Movement that finds a direction
Yin Water
Small observations, deeper understanding