Start with the chart
Chart foundations
Begin with the Four Pillars, the Day Master, the month command, and the distribution of the Five Elements.
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Start with a real-life question.Then study the pattern.
BaZi is not a verdict. It is a language for looking at structure, timing, and real-world conditions. Find the question in front of you, then choose the lesson or topic that helps you read it.
The public desk covers knowledge and research direction. Birth details and personal charts stay inside the app, where you choose when to enter your own context.
Research topics · 01—09
Nine fields for life questions
You do not need to learn every term first. Start with the question closest to today, then bring chart reading back into daily life.
Understand your defaults
Patterns and temperament
Notice how pressure, choice, expression, and capacity show up through the interaction of the Day Master and the Ten Gods.
See the interaction
Relationships
Study attraction, commitment, conflict, and repair without replacing a real relationship decision with a single compatibility verdict.
Make work readable
Work and responsibility
Use the Officer, Output, and Wealth stars together with timing to understand position, responsibility, income, and the cost of change.
Start with capacity
Money and resources
Read income, spending, security, debt, and risk capacity alongside the resource structure shown by the chart.
Arrange your rhythm
Wellbeing and pace
Use the chart only to reflect on pressure, rest, and daily rhythm. This content is not a diagnosis or treatment plan.
Make responsibility visible
Family and care
Look at care, parenting, leadership, and the distribution of responsibility as questions that can be discussed and planned.
Choose the setting
Place and environment
Put a move, an overseas assignment, or a change of city beside timing, responsibility, work, and family constraints.
Put time back into decisions
Timing and cycles
Use Luck Pillars, annual luck, and monthly movement to decide when to push, adjust, wait, or protect your position.
Foundation primers · 01—05
Five short lessons to start
Put the Four Pillars, Five Elements, Day Master, Ten Gods, and Luck cycles on one map before you move into a personal question.
01
What are the Four Pillars?
BaZi, also called the Four Pillars, turns the year, month, day, and hour of birth into four pairs of Heavenly Stems and Earthly…
02
How do the Five Elements interact?
Wood, Fire, Earth, Metal, and Water describe relationships of support, movement, control, and depletion. The distribution is no…
03
What are the Day Master and chart strength?
The Day Master is the Heavenly Stem of the day pillar and acts as the chart's reference point. Chart strength asks whether it r…
04
What are the Ten Gods?
The Ten Gods classify the other chart elements by their relationship to the Day Master. They are often used to discuss responsi…
05
How do Luck Pillars and annual luck work?
A Luck Pillar is a broad ten-year backdrop, while annual luck describes the movement of a particular year. Read both with the n…
Latest from the library
Keep reading the pattern
Questions are the entry point. The library is the long-form layer, where each concept can be checked against a chart and a real situation.
Bazi basics
What is BaZi? A grounded guide to the Four Pillars
A clear introduction to the chart's structure, the Day Master, and the questions a useful reading can actually support.
Bazi basics
How to read a BaZi chart as a beginner
A calm reading order for your first chart, from the Day Master and month command to the wider pattern and current timing.
Day Master
The Day Master: start at the centre of the chart
Why the Day Master matters, how it relates to chart strength, and how to avoid turning one symbol into a fixed identity.
Wealth & career
Does a strong Wealth star mean you will be rich?
Wealth stars describe a relationship with resources. Read them with capacity, timing, cash flow, and risk instead of treating them as a promise of mo…
Luck cycles
What is a ten-year Luck Pillar?
Understand the broad backdrop of a Luck Pillar and how to connect it to the natal chart without turning ten years into a fixed forecast.
Luck cycles
How to read annual luck without overgeneralising
A practical way to compare annual timing with the natal chart, the current Luck Pillar, and the facts of your life.
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