八字 · The Four Pillars of Destiny

Your birth moment, mapped onto the ancient solar calendar: year, month, day and hour, each a pillar of one Heavenly Stem and one Earthly Branch. From these eight characters (八字) come your Day Master, your element balance, your decade luck cycles, and your 三世书 reading of past, present and future lives.

Date of birth (solar / western calendar)

Hour of birth 时辰

The hour completes the fourth pillar. Without it the reading still works, using three pillars, but the hour pillar (children, later years, inner aspirations) is left blank.

Gender (used only to set the direction of your luck cycles 大运)

Calculated with true solar terms: the year turns at 立春 (Start of Spring), the month at each 节 (major term), exactly as classical BaZi requires.