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How to Read a BaZi ChartThe four pillars, the Day Master, the Ten Gods and the elements, step by step on one example chart.
BaZi vs Purple Star AstrologyTwo Chinese systems from the same birth: what each reads and where they differ.

Building blocks

Five Elements 五行

The five phases every stem and branch belongs to, in the order they produce one another.

Day Masters 日主

The ten Heavenly Stems, a Yang and a Yin for each element. The stem of your day pillar is your Day Master.

Twelve Branches 地支

The twelve Earthly Branches, each an animal, a season and the stems hidden inside it.

Reading the chart

Ten Gods 十神

How every other stem relates to your Day Master: five families, two roles each.

Sixty Day Pillars 六十甲子

Every day pillar of the sixty-day cycle, in order. Find yours on your chart's Day column.

Timing

Luck Pillars (大運) in BaZiThe ten-year pillars that move through a life: their direction, start age and how a decade meets the chart.

2027 forecast 丁未

The Fire Goat year for each Day Master.

The 2027 overview