Chinese astrology of the four pillars
Your BaZi chart, calculated from your exact time of birth
Four pillars — hour, day, month, year — describe your energetic balance, your natural supports and your ten-year cycles. The calculation takes two minutes and costs nothing.
The four pillars
Example · 01.07.1995Hour
Yang Metal
Monkey
Hidden
壬戊
Day · Master
戊
Yang Earth
寅
Tiger
Hidden
甲戊
Month
壬
Yang Water
Horse
Hidden
己
Year
乙
Yin Wood
未
Goat
Hidden
己乙
Fictional data shown as an example — this is not your chart.
BaZi, or the Four Pillars of Destiny — what is it?
BaZi (八字), also known as the Four Pillars of Destiny or Chinese astrology, is an ancient system based on your date and time of birth. It maps your energetic profile through four pillars — year, month, day and hour — revealing your deep personality, your natural talents, your challenges and the major cycles of your life.
The balance of the five elements
Your eight characters spread across five forces
None of them is good or bad. It is their proportion, and the way they nourish or temper each other, that gives the reading.
Distribution shown as an example.
- 土EarthYour Day Master28 %
- 木Wood22 %
- MetalYour supporting element19 %
- 水Water16 %
- FireYour element to watch15 %
The green arrows read like a sentence: Wood nourishes Fire, Fire nourishes Earth, Earth nourishes Metal, and so on. The red arrows cross the circle: Water puts out Fire, Fire melts Metal, Metal cuts Wood. The larger a disc, the more that element weighs in your chart.
What the chart sheds light on
A reading grid, not a verdict
BaZi does not predict. It describes a configuration and the periods that reinforce or work against it. What you do with it is up to you.
木
Your natural supports
The elements that strengthen you and those that drain you, deduced from the distribution of your eight characters.
金
Your recurring patterns
The alliances and oppositions written between your pillars, and what they ask you to arbitrate.
水
Your relationships
The dynamic your Day Master creates with other profiles, and the kind of partner your chart points to.
土
Your relationship to work
What the month pillar says about your professional path and your relationship to hierarchy.
火
Your ten-year cycles
Nine successive periods, including those that carry your supporting element and those that work against it.
命
Your next twelve years
Year by year, with what changes and what is best undertaken then.
Excerpt — in-depth reading
Excerpt from a sample report, written for a chart other than yours.
You are the Mountain (戊土) — Yang Earth. Solid, reliable and imposing, you are a pillar others lean on. Your Yang nature means your expression of Earth is expansive: you create movement rather than follow it.
The branch of your day — the Tiger (寅) — describes your inner world. Its hidden stems add dimensions the pillar alone does not reveal, particularly about your relationship to authority and to structured commitments…
Three levels of reading
Your first revelation is free. Going deeper is not.
Start with the calculation: you will see your four pillars before deciding anything.
Mini analysis
- Your four pillars calculated
- Your Day Master
- Your dominant element
- One support, one point of caution
Full analysis
- Detailed distribution of the five elements
- Interactions between your pillars
- Strengths, talents and hidden talent
- Areas of blockage
- Career and money reading
- Relationship reading
- Downloadable PDF report
Strategic reading
- Everything in the full analysis
- Your nine ten-year cycles, commented
- Your next twelve years, one by one
- Your 7 personalised recommendations
- An answer to a question of your choice
What the calculation rests on
A method, not an impression
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characters derived from your date, time and place of birth
True solar
the time correction applied to your exact place of birth, not just your time zone
9
ten-year cycles derived from the month pillar and its direction of progression
BaZi is a traditional Chinese system of interpretation. It has no demonstrated predictive value and replaces neither medical, psychological nor financial guidance.
Frequently asked questions about BaZi and Chinese astrology
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