BAZI FOUNDATIONS
What Is BaZi? How Birth Time Becomes the Four Pillars
A clear introduction to the Year, Month, Day and Hour Pillars, what a BaZi chart actually calculates, and why no single character decides a life.
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Learn BaZi from the foundations
Clear guides to the Four Pillars, Day Master, Ten Gods, luck cycles, true solar time and the rules behind a BaZi chart.
BAZI FOUNDATIONS
What Is the Day Master in BaZi?
How the ten Day Masters are identified, and why strength must be judged through season, roots and the whole chart rather than one label.
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The Ten Gods in BaZi, Clearly Explained
The Ten Gods are not deities but ten relationship roles between the Day Master and other stems. Learn the five groups and their yin-yang distinctions.
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What Are BaZi Luck Pillars?
How ten-year Luck Pillars, direction and starting age are calculated—and why timing can never be read apart from the natal chart.
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What Is True Solar Time in BaZi?
How clock time, the time-zone meridian, birthplace longitude and the equation of time combine—and when they can change a pillar.
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Why Birthplace and Daylight Saving Matter in BaZi
A birthplace is not decorative metadata: it determines coordinates, historical time-zone rules, daylight saving and solar correction.
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Heavenly Stems, Earthly Branches and the 60-Pair Cycle
Understand the ten Heavenly Stems, twelve Earthly Branches, hidden stems and the sixty-pair cycle behind every Four Pillars chart.
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What Does a “Missing Element” Mean in BaZi?
An element absent from the eight visible characters is not automatically absent from the chart—and does not justify mechanically adding colors, objects or directions.
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Use your recorded local birth time and birthplace. We calculate the historical time zone and true solar time before setting the chart.