乾 · i.
No "broken chart" talk.
Some practitioners weaponize phrases like "low quality chart" to upsell rituals and remedies. We reject this entirely. Every configuration is a starting point, never a verdict — and certainly never a sales pretext.
Western astrology gives you
twelve archetypes.
518,400.
Four pillars. Ten thousand combinations of heavenly stems, earthly branches, and ten gods — a self-map far more granular than any sun sign. The catch: most English calculators get the math wrong, treat Chinese metaphysics as a fortune-telling theater, or hide the method behind a paywall. We are building the version that doesn't.
Three things this site refuses to do — and one it insists on.
兑 · ii.
No date-specific predictions.
We will not tell you that you will fall ill in March 2027 or marry by 35. That is not classical BaZi; it is theater. We translate energetic patterns and tendencies, not deterministic verdicts about your future.
离 · iii.
No silent wrong math.
Most calculators ignore true solar time, mishandle the lichun year boundary, and quietly pick a zi-hour school without telling you. We surface every choice, document the trade-off, and let you switch.
震 · iv.
We insist on showing our work.
Every interpretation page on this site shows our review date, version number, and the sources we relied on. Our methodology page documents the algorithm choices and references. When we change our mind, the version history shows it. This is what serious means.
Calculators that name their school and show their working.
Three core tools today. A compatibility reader and a date-selection picker are next.
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Four Pillars
Your Day Master, ten gods, hidden stems, five-element balance, and ten-year luck cycles — the most granular self-map in the Chinese tradition.
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openPurple Star
Zi Wei Dou Shu — China's most architecturally elegant astrology. Fourteen major stars distributed across twelve life palaces. Almost nothing exists for it in English.
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openChinese Name
A Chinese name chosen for sound, meaning, and — if you want it — five-element balance with your BaZi chart. Three candidates with full reasoning, not a random generator.
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openCompatibility
Two BaZi charts, read together across five classical dimensions: Day Master, year branch, spouse palace, elemental balance, life-phase rhythm. Descriptive — never a doomed-match verdict.
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"I grew up reading the Four Pillars on my own family. The English-language tools either gave me the wrong day pillar, refused to explain the math, or tried to sell me a $500 'cure.' This is the version I wished existed."
— Ming Wu, bilingual researcher of Chinese metaphysics