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Chinese astrology differs in important ways from Western astrology. It relies heavily on the Chinese lunisolar (moon and sun) calendar and a 60-year (sexagenary) cycle in which each year is assigned specific elemental and zodiacal qualities. Similar cycles apply to the months, days, and hours.
To start, first generate your Ba Zi astrology chart using our Free Four Pillars of Destiny Chart Calculator. Once you have generated the chart, understanding your Chinese astrology starts with the top line and the Celestial or Heavenly Stems. These elements represent "timeliness" and Heaven Luck.
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- Year Pillar. – Ten Heavenly Stems and Twelve Earthly branches combines and create a sexagenary cycle(See this chart to find the year pillar. If your birth year is not in the 60-year circle, it can be calculated by extrapolation from the figures.)
- Month Pillar. – Month pillar has fixed early branches, lunar January to October represented by Yin, Mao, Chen, Si, Wu, Wei, Shen, You, Xu, Hai, Zi and Chou.
- Day Pillar. – The recondition to know a day's stem and branch, one should remember the stem and branch of the first day of that year in Chinese lunar calendar.
- Hour Pillar. – Similarly, the heavenly branches of the hour pillar is fixed. Jia hour refers to 23:00-01:00, and so forth. The heavenly stem of each day is up to the stem and branch of the day pillar.
- BaZi Calculator. Full Name. Gender. Male Female. Date of Birth (Gregorian Date) Time of Birth. Bazi Marriage Compatibility Calculator.
- BaZi Applications. Eight Characters of Life, a kind of study that predicts people's career, marriage, fortune, study and health according to the theories of stem-branch calendar, Yin Yang and five elements, and evil spirit, is a time-honored fortune-telling method in China.
- Chinese Calendar. Su. Mo. Tu. We. Th. Fr. Sa. 25十六/16. 26十七/17. 27十八/18. 28十九/19. 29二十/20. 1廿壹/21. 2廿二/22. 3廿三/23. 4廿四/24. 5廿五/25. 6廿六/26. 7廿七/27. 8廿八/28. 9廿九/29. 二月 (Feb) 10初壹/1. 11初二/2.
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To generate a Four Pillars of Destiny chart, Heavenly Stems and Earthly Branches (commonly known as the twelve animals of the Chinese zodiac), are partnered to form what are known as "pillars". Multiplying the Five Elements with the Twelve Earthly Branches produces a cycle of sixty pillars.
Dec 23, 2022 · In this article, after addressing the meaning of the four pillars of destiny and the origins and functions of the earthly branches and celestial trunks, we offer two tables that will allow you to have a more complete understanding of your Chinese horoscope (birth chart).
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