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Bazi Four Pillars

Your destiny chart in eight characters. The classical Chinese answer to who you are.

Bazi (八字, "eight characters") is the Four Pillars of Destiny — Year, Month, Day, and Hour, each expressed as a Heavenly Stem and Earthly Branch from the sexagenary cycle. Together these eight characters reveal your Day Master (日主, the self-element at the center of your chart), your Five Element constitution, and which elements to nurture or suppress for balance. Classical Bazi has been practiced in China since the Tang dynasty and is the foundation for everything from career guidance to feng shui element tuning.

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Step 1 of 4: What year were you born?

Step 1 of 4

What year were you born?

What This Tool Does

  • +Generates all four pillars — stem + branch in Chinese and pinyin
  • +Identifies your Day Master (日主) and its elemental polarity
  • +Tallies the five elements across all pillars (including hidden stems)
  • +Assesses Day Master strength (strong/weak) to recommend favorable elements
  • +Shows an element radar chart for balance assessment

How to Use

  1. 1Enter your birth year, month, day, and hour (local time, 24-hour)
  2. 2If you don't know your hour, use 12 — Year/Month/Day pillars stay valid
  3. 3Read your Four Pillars chart and Day Master
  4. 4Note your favorable and unfavorable elements — use them for feng shui element tuning

Classical Basis

“The stems and branches are the roots from which all fortune grows.”

Source: Yuan Hai Zi Ping (淵海子平), Xu Ziping, Song dynasty

“The Day Master is the pivot — know it, and you know yourself.”

Source: San Ming Tong Hui (三命通會), Wan Minying, Ming dynasty

“A balanced chart of Five Elements is a life of harmony; an imbalanced chart is remediable through the missing element.”

Source: Qiong Tong Bao Jian (窮通寶鑑), Xu Leyao, Qing dynasty

Common Use Cases

  • +Choosing colors, materials, and water features for your home that reinforce favorable elements
  • +Understanding your natural strengths and which seasons energize or drain you
  • +Pairing with the Eight Mansions (Kua) tool: Kua tells you which directions, Bazi tells you which elements
  • +Career and relationship compatibility analysis

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