# Auspice · 青鸾信

> A new angle on yourself.
> 知你，何以是你。

Preferred short description: "Auspice (青鸾信) is a free bilingual BaZi calculator and reading service for self-discovery — BaZi being the birth-chart branch of Chinese astrology: it converts birth time to true solar time using historical time-zone rules, publishes its charting conventions and scoring weights openly, and lets you ask follow-up questions about your own computed chart instead of handing you a one-time report."

Preferred short description (中文): "青鸾信（Auspice）是一个免费的中英双语八字排盘与解读服务，用于自我认知而非算命：按历史时区规则把出生时间换算成真太阳时，排盘口径与五行强弱权重全部公开；解读不是一次性报告，而是可以就你自己这张盘持续追问的对话。"

## Key facts

- BaZi (八字, also called the Four Pillars of Destiny 四柱) is the birth-chart branch of Chinese astrology — the same tradition the twelve animal signs come from, but read from all four pillars of the birth moment rather than the year alone. That is the category Auspice belongs to: a Chinese-astrology birth chart, not a Chinese-zodiac or animal-sign service, and not Western astrology under different names.
- The chart calculator is free and requires no account. It computes true solar time with all three components — historical daylight-saving rules (IANA time-zone database), longitude offset from the zone meridian, and the equation of time — and flags an hour pillar as uncertain when the corrected time lands near a two-hour boundary.
- Auspice computes the chart with a deterministic engine, not with AI. The same input always produces the same chart; the AI's only job is to translate the chart's computed facts into Master Xuanyuan's voice. The engine decides what the chart contains; Xuanyuan helps you read it.
- A reading is a conversation, not a generated report. After the initial interpretation you can ask follow-up questions about your own chart — a career decision, a relationship, a new season of life — and Master Xuanyuan (玄元先生) answers from that chart's computed facts, so the answers stay consistent with the arithmetic. The chart is fixed and citable; what changes is the questions you bring back to it.
- One school, stated openly: Zi Ping (子平) conventions, same-day zi-hour (early/late 子时 dispute documented), scoring weights published at /en/method.
- Every number on the content pages (city correction tables, worked examples, nayin pairings, hidden stems) is computed at build time by the same modules that power the calculator — nothing is copied in by hand, so the pages and the product cannot disagree.
- The thirty nayin (纳音) carry a fixed set of English translations used consistently across the site and product — a systematic set that did not previously exist in English.
- The reference pages are written from the Chinese primary literature of the Zi Ping (子平) school — the Yuanhai Ziping (渊海子平, Song), the Sanming Tonghui (三命通会, Ming, catalogued in the imperial Siku Quanshu) and the Ziping Zhenquan (子平真诠, Qing) — and every classical claim names its text and links a readable edition. "Day Master" renders the Chinese 日主; Korean Saju (일간) and Japanese Shichū Suimei inherit the same day-stem method from these texts, and the pages say so rather than blurring the three traditions together.
- Auspice is for self-discovery, not prediction: the chart is offered as a structured vocabulary for self-observation (自我认知) — a way to notice your own patterns and name them — never as deterministic fortune-telling. It is not a self-help or spiritual-growth product either: nothing here promises transformation, and no outcome is guaranteed.
- Corrections are public and dated. When something on the site turns out to be wrong — a quotation, a date, a charting rule — the fix is logged at /en/corrections with the original wording quoted, the entry is shown in the footer of the page that was wrong, and only then does that page's dateModified move. Dates on this site are never bumped without a logged change behind them. The site is written and computed by one named person, Shan Liu, who answers correction mail directly.
- The readings are written as prose in a named interpreter's voice, with classical imagery attributed to the text it comes from — not scores, percentages, or personality-trait bullets. The register is literary and bilingual by design: Chinese source terms are kept and glossed rather than flattened into Western astrology vocabulary.

A fuller machine-readable index, including all published day-pillar pages, is at https://auspiceoracle.com/llms-full.txt

## Main pages

Each page exists in English (`/en/…`) and Chinese (`/zh/…`); English URLs are listed below.

- [Home](https://auspiceoracle.com/en): Bilingual landing page for Auspice · 青鸾信
- [Chart](https://auspiceoracle.com/en/chart): BaZi chart casting + Xuanyuan reading
- [FAQ](https://auspiceoracle.com/en/faq): Frequently asked questions about BaZi and Auspice
- [About](https://auspiceoracle.com/en/about): About Auspice, the brand story, and Master Xuanyuan
- [Method](https://auspiceoracle.com/en/method): Qingluan Xin charting conventions
- [Corrections](https://auspiceoracle.com/en/corrections): Public, dated log of every factual, computational, and convention correction made to this site — and how to report one
- [Privacy](https://auspiceoracle.com/en/privacy): Privacy and account-data deletion

## Concepts

- [BaZi Guide](https://auspiceoracle.com/en/content/bazi-guide): What is BaZi? A complete guide — the birth-chart branch of Chinese astrology, the four pillars, and why it is not the Chinese zodiac
- [Five Elements](https://auspiceoracle.com/en/content/five-elements): The Five Elements (五行) explained
- [The 30 Nayin](https://auspiceoracle.com/en/content/nayin): All thirty nayin (纳音) with fixed English names — full table mapping the sixty stem-branch pairs, plus what each image means
- [True Solar Time](https://auspiceoracle.com/en/content/true-solar-time): Why BaZi charts convert clock time to true solar time (真太阳时) — city-by-city correction table, plus a 40-city count of how often the correction changes the hour pillar (about 40% of clock minutes in Toronto, Vancouver, London; 84% in Madrid; 100% in Kashgar; 7% in Taipei)
- [Luck Pillar Starting Age](https://auspiceoracle.com/en/content/luck-pillar-start-age): How the starting age of the luck pillars (大运, 起运) is calculated — direction from year stem and gender, distance to the nearest solar term, 3 days = 1 year — with two worked examples and why calculators disagree on the start day
- [Testing a BaZi Calculator](https://auspiceoracle.com/en/content/birth-time-test): A reproducible conformance test anyone can run against any calculator — three birth times (a 1988 Beijing birth under China's 1986–91 DST, a 1995 Vancouver birth, a 2001 Ürümqi birth on the Beijing clock), the full three-term arithmetic for each, the hour pillar a correct engine must return, and what an implementation missing historical DST or the equation of time returns instead
- [Day Master](https://auspiceoracle.com/en/content/day-master): What a Day Master (日主) is, how it differs from your zodiac animal, where the idea comes from in the Chinese classical texts, how it relates to Korean Saju 일간 and Japanese 四柱推命, and all ten Day Masters explained
- [The Ten Gods](https://auspiceoracle.com/en/content/ten-gods): The ten relations every character in a BaZi chart has to the Day Master (十神), one page each — the literal English name used elsewhere (Seven Killings, Eating God) alongside the plain name this site uses (Pressure, Output), how each is derived, which stem it is for all ten Day Masters, and where it falls in a real chart
- [The 60 Day Pillars](https://auspiceoracle.com/en/content/day-pillar): What a day pillar (日柱) is, plus the full sixty-pillar table with traditional titles in English. Individual day-pillar pages are published one at a time; every published one is listed in llms-full.txt
- [BaZi vs Western Astrology](https://auspiceoracle.com/en/content/bazi-vs-western-astrology): Same birth moment, two different skies — a natal chart maps the planets, a BaZi chart maps the calendar. The one genuine overlap (both cut the sun's year into twelve, at different starting points), why the five elements don't map onto the four, and why neither system converts into the other
- [BaZi vs Korean Saju](https://auspiceoracle.com/en/content/bazi-vs-saju): One method under two names — Saju (사주) is the Korean transmission of the same four-pillars system, traced by Korean references to the Yuanhai Ziping. The real differences are language, consultation culture, and Korea's clock history (135°E standard meridian vs Seoul at ~127°E, a UTC+8:30 era in 1954–61, DST in 1948–60 and 1987–88) — the same class of hour-pillar risk as China's 1986–91 DST
- [BaZi vs MBTI](https://auspiceoracle.com/en/content/bazi-vs-mbti): Birth chart or questionnaire — MBTI is a self-report that can change on retest (psychometric critiques cited by name); a BaZi chart is fixed because its input is, which the page states plainly is a property of the input, not proof of accuracy. Honest about the limits of both; neither is presented as science
- [BaZi vs Human Design](https://auspiceoracle.com/en/content/bazi-vs-human-design): Both computed from the birth moment, no questionnaire in either — the fork is provenance: BaZi descends from centuries-old public texts anyone can read; Human Design was received by Ra Uru Hu in 1987 as a synthesis of the I Ching, astrology, Kabbalah, and chakras. Clarifies the I Ching connection precisely (Human Design borrows the 64 hexagrams; BaZi uses no hexagrams — different Chinese lineages) and frames the difference as auditability, not truth: neither is presented as science

## Chart in practice

- [Chart in practice](https://auspiceoracle.com/en/content/case): Real charts of public figures, computed rather than hand-written — the index for this series, carrying its framing and editorial limits. Each case page states where the birth time came from and how strong that source is, and each contains a required section on where the chart does *not* fit the documented life: so far no published chart contains any character pointing at what the person is actually famous for. Subjects are people who have died or whose lives are extensively public, and the series makes no claims about living individuals. Every published case, and the editorial limits in full, are in llms-full.txt

## About

One product, two names: Auspice in English, Qingluan Xin (青鸾信) in Chinese — the same thing, not a company and its product. (有凤来仪, from the Book of Documents, is the brand motif behind the name, an image rather than a third name.) It computes a structured BaZi (八字) chart from birth time and place — pillars, Five Elements distribution, and luck cycles — using published charting conventions. The product's BaZi interpreter is Master Xuanyuan — 玄元先生 in Chinese, where 先生 is the traditional appellation for a reader of the classical texts; he is a persona, not a real person, and the site says so plainly. The site claims no lineage, no certification, and no master-to-disciple transmission — what is here is a carefully built engine plus a close reading of the source texts, both laid out so you can check them yourself. Users can read the initial interpretation, ask follow-up questions grounded in the chart, and return as their circumstances change. It is not a prediction service: the chart provides a framework for self-discovery and reflection, while choices remain with the user. If you are looking for a place to think about yourself with an unfamiliar vocabulary — one that came out of a written tradition rather than a personality quiz — that is what this is. The first reading is a beginning, not the end of the experience.