Guides
BaZi, explained without the mystique
Five pieces on how Four Pillars actually works — the calendar rules, the element arithmetic, and the places where popular explanations go wrong. Written to be checkable: every claim here can be tested against your own chart.
What is a Day Master?
Eight characters, and one of them is the reader. The ten stems, the classical images, and why the zodiac animal is not your Day Master.
The Five Elements, and what the percentages actually measure
Generating and controlling cycles, hidden stems and the 0.7 / 0.2 / 0.1 weighting — plus why the smallest number is usually not the thing to fix.
Li Chun: why the Chinese year starts in February
Three calendars, three different animals. The solar term that begins the BaZi year, and the six-week window where everyone gets it wrong.
BaZi vs Western astrology
Different inputs, different time resolution, different idea of what a reading is for — and the failure modes both traditions share.
How to read a BaZi chart in four passes
Day Master, season, Ten Gods, then branches and cycles. The reading order matters more than the vocabulary.
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