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A Bát Tự chart from your birth date and hour, with luck pillars.
Child's birth year by parents' ages
Which birth year, month and hour suit the parents' ages, by folk belief.
What Is Hidden Stems (Tang Can), Which Stems Each Earthly Branch Contains, and Why Is a Branch Character Usually Heavier Than a Stem Character?
Hidden stems are the heavenly stems concealed inside each earthly branch, layered as main qi, middle qi and residual qi.
What Do Thấu Can and Thông Căn Mean in Bát Tự, and Why Do They Matter?
Thấu can is a stem exposed among the four pillars; thông căn is a stem rooted in a branch. Together they show whether that stem has real strength.
Tuần không in Lục Hào: how to find the two void branches and what it means when a line falls into it, according to Tăng san bốc dịch
Tuần không in Lục Hào: the two branches missing from a ten-day cycle, how to find them for the six Giáp cycles, and what Tăng san bốc dịch says.
What is Địa Chi?
Địa Chi is a system of 12 symbols, from Rat to Pig, used to mark time, direction and relationships in East Asian calendrics and the Stem-Branch cycle.
Earthly Branch combinations, clashes, punishments, and harms in a Ba Tu chart: reading by palace position and interaction with Dai Van and Luu Nien
How the four Earthly Branches in a Ba Tu chart combine, clash, punish, or harm one another, read by palace position and links to Dai Van and Luu Nien.
Why Do Childbirth Year Compatibility Checkers Give Different Results? Heavenly Stems, Earthly Branches and Nạp Âm in the Tam Mệnh Thông Hội
The same parents' years match on one site and clash on another because each site compares a different part of can chi: heavenly stem, branch or nạp âm.
Looking Up Dịch Mã by Tam Hợp: The 12-Branch Table for Finding the Dịch Mã Branch, and Why Mã Always Falls on Dần, Thân, Tỵ, Hợi
Dịch Mã lookup by Tam Hợp: a 12-branch table, why Mã always falls on Dần Thân Tỵ Hợi, and the schools that root it on the year or day branch.
What Are the 12 Zodiac Animals? Meaning and How to Calculate Age by Earthly Branches
The 12 Vietnamese zodiac animals and their Earthly Branches, what each animal means, how to calculate age, and the folk relationships.
Hidden Movement and Day Break in Zeng Shan Bu Yi: How Is a Static Line Struck by the Day Read?
Ám động is a strong static line clashed by the day; nhật phá is a weak one. How Tăng San Bốc Dịch tells the two apart when reading a hexagram.
Where to Start When Setting Up a Liu Yao Hexagram: How the 64 Hexagrams Divide Into Eight Palaces, From the Pure Hexagram to the Fifth Generation, Wandering Soul and Returning Soul, What Element Each Palace Carries, and How Na Jia Assigns Heavenly Stems and Earthly Branches
The 64 hexagrams divide into eight palaces, from the pure hexagram through the fifth generation to Wandering Soul and Returning Soul.
Hidden Spirit in Lục Hào: When the Useful Spirit Does Not Appear, What Tang San Buo Dich Says About Finding and Judging It
When a Lục Hào hexagram lacks the needed relative, Tang San Buo Dich chapter 28 shows how to find the hidden spirit and judge when it is useful.
What Is the Six Clashes of Earthly Branches? The Six Pairs and the 'Clash Opens the Storehouse' of Thìn Tuất Sửu Mùi
The six clashes of the twelve earthly branches, from Tý Ngọ to Tỵ Hợi, and how Tăng san bốc dịch reads clash as dispersal or as opening a storehouse.
How Are Thiên Khốc and Thiên Hư Placed by Year Branch, What Do They Mean, and When Do Texts Call Them Auspicious?
Thiên Khốc counts backward and Thiên Hư counts forward from the Ngọ palace in a Tý year, so the two stars stay symmetric across the Tý Ngọ axis.
Where Ba Tu Reads Marriage From: Spouse Star, Spouse Palace at the Day Branch, and Its Combination and Clash Relations with Major and Annual Luck
Ba Tu reads marriage through the spouse star and the spouse palace at the day branch, plus how that branch combines or clashes with major and annual luck.
Đào Hoa (Hàm Trì) in Bát Tự: How to Find It by the Year or Day Branch Triad, and Đào Hoa Inside and Outside the Wall
Đào Hoa, or Hàm Trì, is found by the year or day branch triad and always falls on Tý Ngọ Mão Dậu. See inside and outside the wall.
Why the Same Hexagram Cast This Month Differs Next Month: Month Leader, Day Spirit, and the Three States of Void in the Decade, Month Breaker, and Hidden Movement in Liu Yao
Month leader and day spirit set each line's strength in a Liu Yao hexagram, covering void in the decade, month breaker, and hidden movement.
The Twelve Stages of Growth in Bát Tự: A Life-Cycle Model of Rise and Decline
The Twelve Stages of Growth in Bát Tự form a life-cycle model from Birth to Nurture, gauging how strong a Heavenly Stem is across the twelve Earthly Branches.
What Are Annual Palaces and Annual Stars in Vietnamese Astrology, and in What Order Do You Read a Specific Year on a Chart?
Annual palaces carry the exact earthly branch of the year, while annual stars are placed by that year's stem and branch.
What Time Is the Hour of the Rat? A Table Converting the 12 Traditional Watch-Hours (十二時辰) to Clock Time
The Hour of the Rat runs from 11 p.m. to 1 a.m. A table of all 12 watch-hours in clock time, plus the two ways of setting the day boundary at midnight.
What is the Hour Pillar in BaZi (Four Pillars)?
The Hour Pillar is one of the four pillars in BaZi, representing the birth hour and reflecting late-life fortune, children and later relationships.
What is Lục Thập Hoa Giáp?
The Sixty Jiazi is a cycle of 60 sexagenary combinations of Heavenly Stems and Earthly Branches used to number years, months, days and hours.
What is Can Chi?
Can Chi pairs the Ten Heavenly Stems with the Twelve Earthly Branches to record years, months, days and hours in the traditional East Asian calendar.
How Are the Heavenly Stems of the Twelve Palaces on a Tử Vi Chart Calculated and What Are They Used For?
The twelve palaces of a Tử Vi chart get their heavenly stems through the Ngũ Hổ Độn method, counted forward from the Dần palace.
What is Nạp Âm?
Nạp Âm assigns names and Five Elements to each pair of Heavenly Stems and Earthly Branches in the Sixty Jiazi cycle, used to interpret destiny and fortune.
What is Thiên Can?
The Heavenly Stems are ten symbols in the Stem-Branch system, used to record days, months, years and hours in East Asian calendrics.
What Is Bazi (Four Pillars of Destiny)? Reading Fate Through Eight Characters
Bazi (Four Pillars of Destiny) explained: the Year, Month, Day and Hour pillars, each with a Heavenly Stem and Earthly Branch.
What is the Year Pillar in BaZi (Four Pillars)?
The Year Pillar in BaZi covers ages 0 to 16, bonds with grandparents and ancestors, and the social setting of early childhood.
Couple Age Matching: Can Chi, Nạp Âm or Cung Phi?
Couple age matching has three main methods: earthly branch, nạp âm and cung phi, which often disagree. With a worked example and what old books say.
The Meaning of the Four Clashing Signs Ty - Ngo - Mao - Dau in Eastern Folk Belief
The Four Clashing Signs Ty, Ngo, Mao and Dau form two opposing pairs on the Earthly Branch cycle, shaped by the five elements and yin-yang rules.
What is Bát Tự?
BaZi, or Four Pillars, is a traditional destiny analysis system built on the birth year, month, day, and hour, each with a Heavenly Stem and Earthly Branch.
Văn Xương Quý Nhân in Bát Tự by Day Stem: Table of Ten Stems to Branches, and How It Differs from Lưu Niên Văn Tinh and Học Đường
Văn Xương Quý Nhân is found by day stem to yield one branch, but its weight depends on thap than and position, not a promise of exam success.
What is Ẩn Chính?
The Major Arcana is a group of 22 trump cards in a Tarot deck, numbered 0 to 21, representing the soul's journey and major life lessons.
What is Lục Hại?
Lục Hại is six pairs of Earthly Branches in latent conflict in the 12 zodiac system, such as Rat Goat and Ox Horse, often consulted for marriage and business.
What is the Day Pillar in BaZi (Four Pillars)?
Learn about the Day Pillar in BaZi: how to determine it, the role of the Day Stem and Day Branch, and its significance in destiny analysis.
Heavenly stem clash and conflict in Bát Tự: Stem clash pairs and how to read them according to Uyên Hải Tử Bình and Trích Thiên Tủy
The heavenly stems in Bát Tự: the four clashing pairs, the pairs that only overcome one another, and how Trích Thiên Tủy speaks of stems at war.
Cự Môn (Giant Gate Star) in Purple Star Astrology: Meaning and Interpretation
Cự Môn in Purple Star Astrology: its origin in speech and controversy, a sharp yet doubting nature, dignity meanings, and Life and Career palace readings.
How Are Ba Tu Chart Structures Determined by the Month Command and Stem Revelation? The Main Structures and Conditions for Formation or Destruction
Ba Tu chart structures come from the month command and stem revelation. This analysis covers the main structures and where interpretation schools differ.
What is the 'Useful God' (Yong Shen) in BaZi (Four Pillars)?
The Useful God (Yong Shen) is the element that balances a BaZi chart. See how it is found and how it guides luck cycles, feng shui and career advice.