Bazi Basics Hub

Decode your Bazi chart structure through Day Master strength, Ten Gods, favorable elements, and Luck Pillars for clearer career, wealth, relationship, and timing insight.

Decode your Ziwei chart through the 12 palaces, major stars, and transformations for clearer life phase, career, wealth, relationship, and timing insight.

Search any date in the Huangli and review auspicious activities, solar terms, hourly signals, clashes, Tai positions, and annual feng shui directions.

Compare ChatGPT and OpenFate for astrology and Bazi: web citations, birth-chart calculation, reproducibility, declared settings, and the role of AI.

Compare DeepSeek reasoning, APIs, web search, tool calls, and JSON output with OpenFate’s reproducible birth-chart and Bazi calculation workflow.

Compare Gemini and OpenFate for astrology and Bazi across research, sources, chart calculation, reproducibility, settings, and AI explanation.

Primary sources show the official 2027 Goat year begins February 6, while a Li Chun-based Bazi year pillar changes February 4 at 09:46 HKT.

Evaluate modern Bazi AI tools through reproducible chart settings, True Solar Time, Four Pillars structure, AI explanation, open-source MCP access, and public user feedback.

Learn how birth longitude, timezone history, and the Equation of Time adjust civil time—and when crossing an hour or day boundary can change a Bazi pillar.

A chart with no visible Lu or noble star can still "virtually summon" one through the arrangement of its branches. Learn how Gong Lu, Jia Lu, and noble variants form, their conditions, and why a virtual spirit fears being filled or clashed.

Ancient Lu Ming centers on the Year Pillar and Na Yin, using three-tier analysis, Shen Sha, Tai Yuan, and virtual patterns to read macro fortune and family destiny — a different paradigm from Day-Master-centered Zi Ping.

Ancient Lu Ming splits every pillar into Heaven, Earth, and Human tiers and anchors the whole chart on the Year Pillar Na Yin. Learn the method, the reading order, and why Na Yin imagery is not a shortcut to useful gods.

Beyond the four pillars, ancient Lu Ming adds Tai Yuan, Ming Gong, and Shen Gong to fill in conception, destiny, and standing. Learn how each is derived, what it means, and how to read them alongside the chart.

Use lunar cycles and natal-chart themes as traditional planning prompts for goals, constraints, action, and feedback—not as guarantees of external outcomes.

Is Bazi absolute fatalism? This guide uses hardware, software, and systems language as metaphors for stable chart patterns and adjustable choices—not as scientific prediction.