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From the Sixty Jiazi to symbolic stars and hidden stems, pick a topic to dig into:
Meet Your Day Master
Your Day Master is the Heavenly Stem that represents "you" in your chart, and the key to reading your personality. Explore the personality, career and love profiles of all ten Day Masters:
Jia Wood Yi Wood Bing Fire Ding Fire Wu Earth Ji Earth Geng Metal Xin Metal Ren Water Gui Water
Which Element Are You Missing?
Which element is missing from your chart? See the personality and ways to strengthen a missing Wood, Fire, Earth, Metal, or Water:
Missing Wood Missing Fire Missing Earth Missing Metal Missing Water
Ten Gods Structure
Friend, Hurting Officer, Direct Officer, Direct Resource… which Ten Gods appear in your chart? See the personality, career, and love traits of all ten:
Friend Rob Wealth Eating God Hurting Officer Indirect Wealth Direct Wealth Seven Killings Direct Officer Indirect Resource Direct Resource
BaZi · Getting Started
How to Calculate a BaZi Chart
Work out the Four Pillars by hand: the year by the Start of Spring, the month and hour by two classic rhymes, the day by counting. Step by step.
Show me step by step →Birth Time Correction
Daylight saving time, true solar time, early and late Zi hour, solar-term boundaries: turn the clock time on your birth certificate into BaZi time.
Correct my birth time →Don't Know Your Birth Hour?
Cast all twelve hours at once and see which conclusions hold without an hour pillar; what three pillars can tell you and how to recover the hour.
Cast all twelve hours →BaZi Glossary
Hurting Officer meets Officer, Seven Killings with Resource, the year repeating the luck pillar: every BaZi term in one sentence, linked to the full explanation.
Look up a term →BaZi · Stems & Branches
The Ten Stems
Jia Wood reaching for the sky, Yi Wood soft but tough: the Di Tian Sui verses on the ten Heavenly Stems, line by line, checked against your own chart.
Check my Day Master →The Sixty Jiazi
The sixty pairings of stems and branches are the basic unit of the Four Pillars. See the full sixty-jiazi table, the thirty nayin elements and the Void (kong wang):
Sixty Jiazi guide & nayin table →Branch Relations
Earthly Branches combine, clash, punish and harm one another. These seven relations decide which characters in your chart ally and which collide. All 35 pairings, one by one, with a twelve-branch wheel:
The seven Branch relations →Earthly-Branch Hidden Stems
Each Earthly Branch hides one to three Heavenly Stems (the Hidden Stems, or human element). Read the Main, Middle, and Residual Qi to see whether your Day Master has a "root" and which Ten Gods lie buried:
The twelve-branch Hidden Stems table →What Are the Symbolic Stars?
Nobleman, Peach Blossom, Yang Blade, the Void… Symbolic Stars are labels attached to a chart; the reading itself still comes from the elements and the Ten Gods. Four groups explained, with the ominous ones read as reminders:
The Symbolic Stars guide →Nayin: What Element Is Your Year?
Gold in the Sea, Fire in the Furnace, Great Forest Wood…: all 30 Nayin, and how your year element differs from your zodiac and favorable elements.
Find my Nayin →The Twelve Life Stages
Birth, Bath, Cap and Belt, Coming of Age, Peak…: which stage your Day Master is in at each branch, the full table, both schools, and your luck pillars.
Check my life stages →BaZi · Reading a Chart
Strong or Weak Day Master
A "hard fate" is really about which way your chart leans. See which side weighs more, support (Peers + Resource) or drain (Output + Wealth + Authority), and why a strong chart wants draining and a weak one wants support:
How to read strong vs. weak →Your Favorable Elements
Which elements your chart actually needs, layer by layer: support and suppression, climate, illness and remedy, bridging, and follow structures.
Find my favorable elements →Strengthen, Drain & Control
Favor Fire? No torch required; favor Earth? No sleeping in the dirt. Here is how to strengthen, drain and control each element, with real things to do at work and in daily life:
Putting the five elements to work →BaZi Chart Structures
Take your structure from the month command, Zi Ping style: Officer, Seven Killings, Wealth, Resource, Output, Jian Lu and Yang Blade, and what makes or breaks it.
Find my structure →Special BaZi Structures
Transformation, dominant-element and follow structures: the rare charts not read by strong and weak, with their conditions checked one by one.
Check my chart →Ten God Combinations
Hurting Officer meets Officer, Seven Killings with Resource, Eating God controls Killings and more: seven classic combinations checked at once.
Check my combinations →Climate Adjustment by Month
The Qiong Tong Bao Jian table: what each Day Master needs in each of the twelve months, and how it compares with a whole-chart reading.
Find my climate favorable element →Conception Pillar and Life Palace
Four auxiliary pillars beyond the Four Pillars: how the Conception Pillar, Conception Breath, Life Palace and Body Palace are calculated.
Calculate my auxiliary pillars →How to Read Personality in BaZi
Day Master first, then the Ten Gods. Read Peers, Output, Wealth, Authority, and Resource as one "motivation map". No chart is absolutely good or bad, only fitting or not to its era:
Reading personality · the Ten Gods motivation map →Celebrity Charts
Elon Musk, Jensen Huang, Van Gogh, Marie Curie, Anita Mui and more — 43 famous people’s BaZi, Zi Wei and birth charts, cast from public birth data and set against their lives, including where the chart doesn’t fit:
See celebrity charts →BaZi · Career & Wealth
BaZi & Career
Actors and singers were outcasts, merchants ranked last — that was the job ladder of the imperial-exam era. Our Ten Gods career engine re-reads your chart for today's work and shows the path that actually fits you now:
Career · how status flipped from then to now →BaZi Wealth Luck
Having Wealth stars is one thing; carrying them is another. Strength, whether Wealth is favorable, wealth storage, and your wealth years ahead.
Check my wealth profile →Work Partners
Which Ten God is the other person to you, and do your elements balance? Compare two charts for partners, coworkers and bosses.
Compare our charts →Moving Abroad
Are you built to move? Your favorable directions, whether warm or cool climates suit you, and which of the next ten years bring a move.
See my moving years →Buying a Home
Is property in your chart? Your wealth vault, Resource star and Wealth star read together, with the next ten years marked for buying or caution.
See my home-buying years →Study and Exam Luck
Resource for absorbing, Output for expressing, Wealth breaking Resource for distraction, and your better exam years ahead; five learning types.
Check my study profile →BaZi · Love & Family
Peach Blossom or the Real Thing
Plenty of Peach Blossom, yet the right person can still show up late. Separate charm from the real thing, read your Spouse Star and Spouse Palace, and use the Luck Pillars and years to spot when love arrives:
When the right partner arrives →BaZi Marriage Match
Are you two a match? Three layers: how your day pillars combine or clash, whether your favorable elements complement each other, and the state of the spouse palace and spouse star.
Check our match →Six Relations: Parents, Siblings, Children
Direct Resource for mother, Indirect Wealth for father, Peers for siblings: read the Ten Gods and the four pillar palaces together.
Read my six relations →Your Child's BaZi
Four things for parents: your child's temperament, parenting by Ten Gods, whether a missing element needs adding, and when luck pillars begin.
Read my child's chart →BaZi Baby Names
Find the favorable elements first, then choose characters. Three ways of assigning a character's element, side by side, with a character-by-character check.
Check my favorable elements →Why Twins Have Different Fates
Twins share a chart, yet their lives diverge. Sort out identical, fraternal and boy-girl twins, and see the split points BaZi itself predicts, especially for boy-girl twins, whose Luck Pillars run in opposite directions:
Why twins' fates differ →BaZi · Timing
Luck Pillars: Your 10-Year Cycles
When your luck pillars start, which way they run, and whether each decade is favorable; what the classic clash and repeat patterns really mean.
See my luck pillars →Annual Pillars
Is this year, or next, working for you? The Ten God of each year, which pillar it clashes or combines with, and how it sits on your luck pillar, with a ten-year and twelve-month view.
See my annual pillars →Job Change Timing
Which years bring movement, and is it a tailwind or a headwind? Month-pillar clashes, the Traveling Horse and luck-pillar changes, read against your favorable elements for the next ten years.
See my job change years →Tai Sui
The five ways your zodiac year can meet Tai Sui, a 2026–2037 table by animal, and which years touch the other pillars of your BaZi chart.
See my Tai Sui years →2027 Ding Wei Year
The Goat year begins at Li Chun on 4 February 2027, not at Chinese New Year on 6 February. All twelve signs against Tai Sui, the annual flying star chart, the four signs that offend Tai Sui, and every solar-term month:
The full 2027 forecast →Astrology
Free Birth Chart
Sun, Moon and Rising in one go, plus which sign and house each of the ten planets falls in, with an aspect table and synastry.
Cast my birth chart →Mercury Retrograde Calendar
Is Mercury retrograde right now? Find out at a glance, with every retrograde from 2025 to 2030, its signs and shadow periods, and a check for the day you were born.
Is Mercury retrograde now? →Eastern & Western Stars
How the 28 Chinese lunar mansions line up with Western constellations, how to find the Big Dipper, Orion and the Summer Triangle, and tonight’s sky map.
See tonight’s sky →Folk & Calendar · Almanac & Dates
Daily Chinese Almanac
What is today good for, and what should wait? Clashes, the fetal god, Pengzu’s taboos, the wealth god’s direction and the luck of each double-hour, plus monthly almanacs.
See today’s almanac →Lunar Calendar Converter
Convert between the Chinese lunar calendar and the Gregorian calendar (leap months included), find your lunar birthday each year, and look up Chinese New Year, Dragon Boat and Mid-Autumn dates.
Convert a date →24 Solar Terms
When do the Start of Spring, Pure Brightness and the Winter Solstice fall? Exact times for all 24 solar terms, their three pentads, and why BaZi starts the year at Lichun.
See this year’s solar terms →Auspicious Date Finder
Weddings, moving house, opening a business, signing contracts: pick the event and zodiac signs, and get dates that suit it without clashing with anyone.
Find good dates →Deities’ Birthdays
When are the birthdays of the Jade Emperor, the Earth God, Mazu and Guan Gong this year? Common deity festivals converted to Gregorian dates for this year and next.
Look up a deity’s birthday →Folk & Calendar · Temple Oracles
Sixty Jiazi Fortune Sticks
The 60 fortune poems most often found at Mazu and Earth God temples, in full with plain-English meanings, plus how to draw a stick and cast moon blocks.
Read the fortune poems →Guanyin Fortune Sticks
All 100 Guanyin fortune poems in full, with their upper, middle or lower rank, the poem’s imagery and the oracle’s answers, each explained in plain English.
Read the fortune poems →Mazu 100 Fortune Sticks
The 100 fortune poems of Mazu, Holy Mother of Heaven, from the Tainan Grand Mazu Temple tradition: original text, hexagram names and readings, each with a plain-English meaning.
Read the fortune poems →Yue Lao Love Fortune Sticks
The matchmaker god's love lots: the Lot King and 100 lots, each quoting the Book of Songs, Confucius or classic drama, with sources and plain-English meanings.
Read the love lots →Folk & Calendar · Zodiac, Names & Feng Shui
Chinese Zodiac
Which animal are you, and which years belong to it? A full zodiac year chart, why the sign changes at Lichun rather than Chinese New Year, and each sign’s harmonies and clashes.
Find my zodiac sign →Chinese Name Analysis (Five Grids)
Enter a Chinese name to look up its Kangxi stroke counts and work out the five grids and the 81 numbers, with the points where schools disagree marked plainly.
Analyze my name →Numerology: Life Path Number
What does your birth date add up to? Free Life Path number, the nine-grid lines and missing numbers, this year’s Personal Year, and how it differs from BaZi.
Find my Life Path number →Eight Mansions (Ming Gua)
East group or West group? Enter your birth date to find your Ming Gua and its four lucky directions, and how to place your bed, desk and front door.
Find my Ming Gua →San Yuan Jiu Yun
180 years to a cycle, cut into nine periods of twenty. At Lichun 2024 the world entered Period 9, Li Fire. See the full timeline, the history of each period, and how the era reads against your own chart:
The full 180-year timeline →FAQ
What is BaZi?
BaZi (Four Pillars astrology) is an Eastern system of astrology passed down for thousands of years. It converts the year, month, day, and hour of your birth into eight characters of Heavenly Stems and Earthly Branches, used to reveal your personality traits, Five Elements makeup, and natural talents.
Can I get a chart if I don't know my birth hour?
Yes. Choose "I don't know the hour" in the Hour field and your chart is built from three pillars (year, month and day), which still show your Five Elements makeup and Day Master personality. Recalculate once you know your birth hour for the full picture.
How do I choose the midnight Zi hour (23:00–01:00)?
The Zi hour spans midnight, so the hour menu offers three choices. "Early Zi hour" (00:00–00:59): the Day pillar is the birth date itself. "Late Zi hour" (23:00–23:59) is the site default and follows the widely used convention of rolling the day over at the start of Zi: the Day pillar counts as the next day, and the Hour pillar's Zi is derived from the next day's stem as well. "Night Zi hour" (23:00–23:59, same day pillar) is for the school that only changes the day after midnight: the Day pillar stays on the birth date, while the Hour pillar is still the next day's Zi. If you were born after midnight, choose Early Zi. If you were born between 23:00 and 23:59, the two schools give you different Day Masters; unless you follow a particular school, choose Late Zi, or run both and compare.
Is my birth data stored?
Not unless you sign in and save them. Your chart is calculated entirely within your browser, and when you are not signed in your birth details are never sent to our servers. If you sign in, the birth details you save to your account and any extra charts you save are kept in our database. You can delete saved charts one at a time, and deleting your account erases all of it. See our Privacy Policy.
Are the chart results accurate?
The Four Pillars' stems and branches are derived from standard calendars (including the solar terms and the Start of Spring boundary), so the calculations are accurate. The interpretations draw on widely accepted classical BaZi teachings and are meant for reference, so read them in a lighthearted spirit.