Birth Chart — Bazi · Four Pillars of Destiny
Your four pillars,
from the moment you arrived.
Bazi — literally eight characters — maps the year, month, day, and hour of your birth to eight classical symbols. Four Heavenly Stems, four Earthly Branches. Your Day Master, your Ten Gods, your five elements in balance or in tension. This is the oldest and most precise of Chinese personal charts.
Four Pillars
Year, month, day, hour — each with its Stem and Branch.
Day Master
The element that is you. The center of gravity for the reading.
Ten Gods
The ten classical relations between your Day Master and every other element in your chart.
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What is Bazi (Four Pillars of Destiny)?
Bazi (八字), also called the Four Pillars of Destiny (四柱), is a Chinese astrological system that maps your exact birth year, month, day, and hour to eight classical characters — four Heavenly Stems and four Earthly Branches. Each character carries one of the five elemental energies (Wood, Fire, Earth, Metal, Water) in its Yin or Yang form. Practitioners have used this framework for over two thousand years to understand personality, relationships, career aptitude, and auspicious timing.
The Day Master: The Element That Is You
The Day Master is the Heavenly Stem of your Day Pillar and represents your core self. It is one of ten classical Stems — each associated with a particular elemental energy (Yang Wood, Yin Wood, Yang Fire, Yin Fire, Yang Earth, Yin Earth, Yang Metal, Yin Metal, Yang Water, Yin Water). Every other element in your chart is interpreted in relation to your Day Master through the Ten Gods (十神) — a set of ten classical relationships that describe how each element supports, produces, controls, or challenges your core self.
Favorable Elements (喜用神) and the AI Reading
Favorable elements (喜用神, xǐ yòng shén) are the elemental energies that support and strengthen your Day Master based on the overall balance of your chart. Knowing your favorable elements guides practical decisions — career direction, environments, colors, and the timing of major life moves. Satellite Feng Shui computes your chart with a canonical bazi engine and then generates a full AI narrative in English that explains what the bazi reading means for you personally. Every reading is free — no account required.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is Bazi (Four Pillars of Destiny)?▾
Bazi, or Four Pillars of Destiny (四柱八字), is a Chinese astrological system that uses your birth year, month, day, and hour to build a chart of four pillars. Each pillar contains a Heavenly Stem and an Earthly Branch, together encoding the five elemental energies — Wood, Fire, Earth, Metal, and Water — present at the moment of your birth. Classical practitioners interpret these relationships to understand personality, life path, and auspicious timing.
What is a Day Master in Bazi?▾
The Day Master is the Heavenly Stem of your Day Pillar and represents your core self. It is one of the ten Heavenly Stems (Jiǎ, Yǐ, Bǐng, Dīng, Wù, Jǐ, Gēng, Xīn, Rén, Guǐ), each associated with a particular elemental energy (Yin or Yang Wood, Fire, Earth, Metal, or Water). All other elements in your chart are interpreted in relation to your Day Master.
What are favorable elements in Bazi?▾
Favorable elements (喜用神, xǐ yòng shén) are the elemental energies that support and strengthen your Day Master based on the overall balance of your chart. Knowing your favorable elements guides decisions about career direction, colors, directions, and the timing of major life moves. Satellite Feng Shui's AI identifies your favorable elements as part of every reading.
Is Satellite Feng Shui's Bazi reading free?▾
Yes. Satellite Feng Shui provides free Bazi chart generation and AI interpretation. Enter your birth date, birth time, and gender to receive a complete Four Pillars chart with Day Master analysis, Ten Gods mapping, favorable element identification, and major luck cycle overview.