BaZi & Birth Charts
A birth chart read as a description of temperament and timing — not a forecast.
What this section covers
BaZi, literally “eight characters”, writes the year, month, day and hour of birth as four pairs of Heavenly Stems and Earthly Branches. Everything in the system is derived from those eight characters.
What the practice is good for is language: a way of describing how a person is built, how they move through pressure, and when the rhythm of a life is likely to change. What it is not good for is certainty. Nothing here predicts events, and nothing here replaces a decision you have to make yourself.
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The Ten Heavenly Stems: A Plain-English Start to BaZi
Before you can read a BaZi chart, you have to recognise its alphabet. This is the first half of it.
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Dayun and Liunian: How Traditional Chinese Timing Actually Works
A chart tells you the terrain. The luck cycles tell you when you are walking uphill.