Your Four Pillars of Destiny
Year, month, day and hour — four pillars, eight characters, one elemental map of you. Enter your birth details; nothing is stored or sent anywhere, the chart is computed in your browser.
Hours use local solar-time convention; if you were born near midnight, try the adjacent hour too.
Reading your chart
The Day Pillar’s top character — your Day Master — is the heart of a BaZi chart: the element and polarity of your core self. The surrounding pillars describe your roots (year), your growth environment (month) and your inner life and legacy (hour).
A balanced chart is not necessarily a fortunate one; practitioners look for useful elements — the ones that restore balance — and time their decisions to seasons when those elements are strong. New to all of this? Start with our beginner’s guide.