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Knowledge articles (20)

What Is Bazi (Four Pillars of Destiny)? Reading Fate Through Eight Characters

An overview of Bazi (Four Pillars of Destiny): four pillars of Year, Month, Day and Hour, each with a Heavenly Stem and Earthly Branch, used to analyze fate and the Five Elements.

BaZi

The Twelve Stages of Growth in Bát Tự: A Life-Cycle Model of Rise and Decline

An explanation of the Twelve Stages of Growth (Trường Sinh cycle) in Bát Tự, from Birth through Nurture, used to measure the strength of a Heavenly Stem across the twelve Earthly Branches.

Zodiac animals

What Are the 12 Zodiac Animals? Meaning and How to Calculate Age by Earthly Branches

An overview of the 12 Vietnamese zodiac animals: origins of the Earthly Branches, meaning of each animal, age calculation, and the relationships of tam hop, luc hop, tu hanh xung and luc hai in folk belief.

Date selection

How to Read Good and Bad Days in the Traditional Vietnamese Almanac

A basic guide to reading good and bad days in the traditional Vietnamese almanac: day Stems-and-Branches, Yellow/Black Path days, and factors to cross-check.

Saju

Saju: Korean Four Pillars Astrology – Origins, Calculation, and Its Place in Korean Life

Explore Saju, Korea's Four Pillars astrology: its roots in Chinese Bazi, how the Heavenly Stems and Earthly Branches are calculated, and its living role in Korean marriage and career decisions.

Vietnamese astrology

BaZi (Four Pillars) , Reading Destiny through Birth Hour, Day, Month, Year

Explore the BaZi (Four Pillars) theory in detail: Heavenly Stems and Earthly Branches structure, chart casting, Five Elements analysis, and applications in Eastern astrology.

Feng shui

The Yi Mountain in the 24 Mountains of Feng Shui: Meaning and In-Depth Interpretation

Explore the Yi Mountain in the 24-mountain system: its geographic position, five-element attributes, stems and branches, trigram associations, good and bad meanings, and how to interpret it for homes or burials.

Zodiac animals

The Chinese Zodiac , Meanings of the 12 Animals in Eastern Culture

Explore the symbolic meanings, origins in the Heavenly Stems and Earthly Branches, and characteristic personalities of the 12 zodiac animals in Eastern culture, from Rat to Pig.

Glossary

What is Nạp Âm?

Na Yin is a system that assigns names and Five Elements attributes to each pair of Heavenly Stems and Earthly Branches in the Sixty Jiazi cycle, used for interpreting destiny and fortune.

Glossary

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 in traditional East Asian calendrics, each combination paired with a Na Yin Five Element.

Glossary

What is Thập Thần?

The Ten Gods are ten relationships of generation and control between the Day Master (the heavenly stem of the birth day) and the other stems and branches in a Four Pillars chart, used to interpret personality, career, wealth, and relationships.

Glossary

What is Can Chi?

Can Chi is the system that pairs the Ten Heavenly Stems (Giáp, Ất, Bính, Đinh, Mậu, Kỷ, Canh, Tân, Nhâm, Quý) with the Twelve Earthly Branches (Tý, Sửu, Dần, Mão, Thìn, Tỵ, Ngọ, Mùi, Thân, Dậu, Tuất, Hợi) to record years, months, days and hours in the traditional East Asian calendar.

Folk belief

What Does Vietnamese Folk Belief Encompass?

Vietnamese folk belief includes ancestor worship, deity worship, Mother Goddess religion, agricultural beliefs, and rituals of many ethnic groups. An overview of main branches.

Glossary

What is Thiên Can?

The Heavenly Stems are ten symbols (Jia, Yi, Bing, Ding, Wu, Ji, Geng, Xin, Ren, Gui) in the Stem-Branch system, used to record days, months, years, and hours in East Asian calendrics, each stem associated with a Yin-Yang and Five Elements attribute.

Zodiac animals

Rat - Goat Harm: The Six Harms Pair in the 12 Zodiac Animals

Explore the Rat - Goat harm pair in the Six Harms of the 12 zodiac animals: origins in Earthly Branches, personality perspectives, and applications in work and life according to Eastern philosophy.

Zodiac animals

Dần - Ngọ - Tuất Triple Harmony (Fire Group): The Triple Harmony Groups in the 12 Zodiac Animals

An in-depth analysis of the Dần - Ngọ - Tuất triple harmony group (Fire group) in the 12 zodiac animals: origins in the Earthly Branches, the principle of triple harmony, personality traits, and applications in life.

Glossary

What is Con giáp?

The zodiac animal system is the set of twelve Earthly Branches (Rat, Ox, Tiger, Cat/Rabbit, Dragon, Snake, Horse, Goat, Monkey, Rooster, Dog, Pig) used to reckon years, months, hours and ages in East Asian culture.

Glossary

What is Địa Chi?

Earthly Branches is a system of 12 symbols (Rat, Ox, Tiger, Rabbit, Dragon, Snake, Horse, Goat, Monkey, Rooster, Dog, Pig) used to mark time, direction, and interactive relationships in East Asian calendrics and the Stem-Branch cycle.

Glossary

What is Tứ Hành Xung?

Four conflicting zodiac signs are four Earthly Branches forming two opposing pairs, including Rat-Horse-Rabbit-Rooster, Tiger-Monkey-Snake-Pig, and Dragon-Dog-Ox-Goat, traditionally believed to be prone to conflict in marriage or partnership.

Glossary

What is Lục Hại?

Lục Hại (Six Harms) refers to six pairs of Earthly Branches that are in latent conflict within the 12 zodiac animals system, including Rat Goat, Ox Horse, Tiger Snake, Rabbit Dragon, Monkey Pig, Rooster Dog, often consulted for marriage and business relationships.