Consulting the cosmos...
Consulting the cosmos...
Enter your birth details for AI-powered destiny chart reading
Ba Zi — literally 'Eight Characters' — is built from the four pillars of your birth: Year, Month, Day, and Hour. Each pillar contains a Heavenly Stem and an Earthly Branch. The year pillar changes at Start of Spring, the month pillar at solar terms, and the hour pillar every two hours. From this we read Day Master strength, Ten Gods, hidden stems, and Major Luck Cycles.
TianJiGe's chart is free to generate without signing in. Switch between solar and lunar dates (including leap months), and optionally correct clock time to true solar time from the birth city. Near Zi hour or a solar-term boundary, check the calendar and correction options first. AI then interprets the chart step by step.
Choose solar or lunar calendar, then enter birth date and gender. Turn on true solar time if you know the birth city. Minutes are supported; treat 23:00 as the day boundary for Zi hour.
Generate the chart and check the Four Pillars, Day Master, Five Elements, Ten Gods, and Major Luck Cycles.
After the chart looks right, continue to the AI reading for personality, career, relationships, and luck cycles.
The Day stem stands for you and is the center of the chart. Identify it first; Five Elements and Ten Gods are all read relative to it.
Day pillar and Day MasterThe Month branch is the season of birth and shows whether the Day Master is in command. Strength comes from the month, roots in the branches, and support in the stems — not from counting elements.
How to judge Day Master strengthYear leans toward early background, Month toward youth and career roots, the Day branch toward self and partner, Hour toward later life and output. Read all eight characters together, not the zodiac year alone.
What Ba Zi meansThe natal chart is the base color. Major Luck sets a ten-year climate; the year stem-branch is the trigger. See whether the current luck cycle helps or pressures the Day Master, then whether the year lights Wealth, Officer, Resource, or Output.
How to read luck cyclesStrength and flow of Metal, Wood, Water, Fire, and Earth — missing does not mean you must add it.
Relationships around the Day Master: Officer, Wealth, Resource, Output, and Companion.
The force that lets the chart circulate, not simply the element that is absent.
Markers such as Noble, Peach Blossom, and Travelling Horse. They assist; they do not override Elements and Ten Gods.
A summary of the chart’s climate. Judge strength first, then whether a structure has formed.
Solar terms set the month; the hour sets the hour pillar. Errors here shift the whole chart.
The Four Pillars, Day Master, hidden stems, Nayin, Five Elements, Ten Gods, and Major Luck Cycles. You can switch solar/lunar input and correct true solar time from the birth city. The basic chart does not require an account.
Yes. Switch to the lunar calendar and enter year, month, and day; leap months can be marked directly. The engine converts to the matching solar moment before charting.
Understand the key concepts behind this tool before going deeper.
Chart Correction
True solar time does not make a chart more mystical. It converts civil clock time back to the sun's local position. It only changes the Hour Pillar when the birthplace is far from 120°E and the clock sits near a two-hour boundary.
Calendar Conversion
A leap month is an extra month in the lunar calendar, not an extra pillar in Ba Zi. Month Pillars follow solar terms. Convert the leap date to a solar moment, then see which term-month it lands in.
Day Pillar
The Day Pillar holds two things: the Day Stem—your Day Master, the 'you' of the chart—and the Day Branch, so often read as the spouse palace.
Chart Calculation
Calculating Ba Zi is less about memorizing rhymes and more about converting a birth moment into four accurate stem-branch pillars—especially around solar terms and the hour.
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