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Most people arrive with a specific question rather than a term to look up. Each line below is a question we have actually been asked; behind it is the full write-up.

First, what is this
What is BaZi, and how is it different from a zodiac sign?Where the eight characters come from, and why your zodiac animal is only one eighth of them.Read →Someone told me I am "missing Water" — what does that mean?The generating and controlling cycles, and what being "missing" an element actually refers to.Read →What is my Day Master, and why is it said to stand for me?All ten stems, and how the grain of this differs from a zodiac animal or sun sign.Read →
How my chart is calculated
I only know my birthday — how do eight characters come out of that?The four pillars derived step by step, including which two steps are convention rather than fact.Read →I was born abroad, or far from my time zone — does my hour need correcting?True solar time: a twelve-city table with the longitude, DST and equation-of-time parts shown separately.Read →What is the nayin shown on my chart?The full sixty-to-thirty mapping, with what each image means.Read →
Can I trust the result
Two sites gave me different charts — which one is wrong?Three birth times you can run yourself, each with a checkable correct answer.Read →Are AI and LLM Skills accurate for BaZi?They fail at the arithmetic, not the reading — three worked cases showing why.Read →My day pillar is 庚午 — what does its traditional title mean?The full sixty-pillar table with nayin; individual pillar pages are being published over time.Read →
All entries

The same 9 guides by name, in reading order.

What it is3
What is BaZiStart hereFive ElementsFoundationDay MasterCore
How it is derived4
How to calculateMethodTrue solar timeCorrectionNayinTable60 Day Pillars1 / 60 publishedIndex
How to check it2
Calculator testConformanceWhy AI gets it wrongNew

Every convention and scoring weight the engine uses is published on the method page, and every correction we have made is logged at corrections. Or cast your chart — free, no account.