What is BaZi?

BaZi (八字, "Eight Characters") is the Chinese Four Pillars system. Your chart is built from your year, month, day, and hour of birth — four pillars, each split into a Heavenly Stem and an Earthly Branch, giving eight characters in total.

Each stem and branch carries one of the five elements — Wood, Fire, Earth, Metal, and Water. The element at the center of your chart is your Day Master: the core energy that represents you. The balance of the five elements around it shows your natural strengths and what is scarce.

Unlike a Western sun sign, BaZi is calculated rather than looked up — your chart is built from your birth data, not a sign table.