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The chart below is computed by the same engine that generates paid readings — true solar time correction, Four Pillars, Ten Gods, symbolic stars, and decade cycles. The interpretation is a shortened sample.

1990-06-15 · 14:30 · Shanghai, China

This is a sample chart, not your own. Your reading is generated from your birth data.

Your Four Pillars

YearYang Metal庚Wu Horse午Rivalry and bold risk-taking
MonthYang Water壬Wu Horse午Expression and sharp wit
Day · YouYin Metal辛Hai Pig亥Your core self and anchor
HourYin Wood乙Wei Goat未Opportunistic windfalls and trade

The Hanzi (庚午 · 壬午 · 辛亥 · 乙未) are the original Chinese characters — each encodes a yin/yang phase of one of the Five Elements.

Day Master · Yin Metal 辛

Born in a Wu Horse month, your Day Master reads weak.

Five Elements Balance

  • Fire火22%
  • Metal金21%
  • Wood木19%
  • Earth土19%
  • Water水19%

Favorable elements (balance-based, 扶抑): Metal 金, Earth 土 - invite more of these into your environment, colors, and decisions. Classical readings use more than one method to choose these elements; where the methods differ, this reading follows the balance-based one.

How your pillars interact

4 supporting links and 3 frictions sit between your pillars. Support is where these life areas work together; friction is where they pull against each other.
YearMonthDay · YouHour
Year庚午庚午TensionBranch—合BondStem合BondBranch
Month壬午壬午—合BondBranch
Day · You辛亥辛亥ClashStemFrictionStemHalf TriangleBranch
Hour乙未乙未
SupportingFriction

4 supporting links and 3 frictions sit between your pillars. Support is where these life areas work together; friction is where they pull against each other.

Symbolic Stars

  • Heavenly Nobleman (Tian Yi Gui Ren) · 天乙贵人Year
  • Heavenly Nobleman (Tian Yi Gui Ren) · 天乙贵人Month
  • Elegant Canopy (Hua Gai) · 华盖Hour

Luck Pillars · Decade Cycles

3
Yin Metal
辛巳
13
Yang Metal
庚辰
23
Yin Earth
己卯
33
Yang Earth
戊寅
43
Yin Fire
丁丑
53
Yang Fire
丙子
63
Yin Wood
乙亥
73
Yang Wood
甲戌

※ marks the ten-year cycle you are in now.

Current decade: ages 33–42 · Yang Earth 戊寅

Life areas

Life areaWho it stands forStar on the seat
RootsYearAncestorsThe Competitor
CareerMonthParents · Siblings & PeersThe Performer
PartnershipDay · YouYou · PartnerDay Master
LegacyHourChildrenThe Venture Seeker
  • Where each relationship star sits in your chart:
  • The Venture Seeker · Hour
  • The Scholar
  • The Peer
  • The Steward
  • The Maker

Your decade rhythm

  • Balanced辛巳3
  • Balanced庚辰13
  • Balanced己卯23
  • Balanced戊寅33
  • Balanced丁丑43
  • Weak丙子53
  • Weak乙亥63
  • Balanced甲戌73

※ marks the ten-year cycle you are in now.

Each bar is one ten-year cycle - taller means that decade's element supports your Day Master more. A tone to work with, not a verdict.

See the traditional detailHidden stems · Na Yin · life stages · void branches
PillarGodInner qualitiesSelf seat
Year庚午The Competitor丁 The Challenger · 己 The Intuitive路旁土WeakeningAwakening戌亥
Month壬午The Performer丁 The Challenger · 己 The Intuitive杨柳木WeakeningNew Seed申酉
Day · You辛亥Day Master壬 The Performer · 甲 The Steady Earner钗钏金AwakeningAwakening寅卯
Hour乙未The Venture Seeker己 The Intuitive · 丁 The Challenger · 乙 The Venture Seeker沙中金DeclineNurture辰巳

Chart structureChallenger Structure

Born in a 午 month, the month command sets the Challenger Structure - its principal stem stays hidden, so this structure reads more through circumstance than open display.

The killings attack the self and seem no fine thing, yet structures of great rank mostly keep the seven killings. When controlled properly the killings are put to my use, like a great hero or champion who seems hard to bridle but, handled with method, accomplishes world-shaking deeds in a moment. This is why kings, lords, generals and ministers so often keep the seven killings.

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煞以攻身,似非美物,而大贵之格,多存七煞。盖控制得宜,煞为我用,如大英雄大豪杰,似难驾驭,而处之有方,则惊天动地之功,忽焉而就。此王侯将相所以多存七煞也。

Source: Zi Ping Zhen Quan (Authentic Guide to ZiPing) · On the Oblique Officer (Lun Pian Guan)

The killings structure also takes several forms. Killings controlled by the food god rank first: with killings prosperous, food strong and the body healthy it is a structure of the highest rank — yi hai, yi you, yi mao, ding chou, a rank of the very highest.

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七煞之格局亦不一:煞用食制者,上也,煞旺食强而身健,极为贵格。如乙亥、乙酉、乙卯、丁丑,极等之贵也。

Source: Zi Ping Zhen Quan (Authentic Guide to ZiPing) · On the Oblique Officer (Lun Pian Guan)

Quoted from the classics in our library for context - a traditional framework to read the chart with, not a verdict.

Seasonal balance

Born in a 午 month, the classic seasonal reading favours 壬 Yang Water, supported by 己 Yin Earth · 癸 Yin Water.

Primary: 壬 Yang WaterSupporting: 己 Yin Earth · 癸 Yin Water

A traditional seasonal-balance reference (Qiong Tong Bao Jian tradition) - context for the chart's climate, not a verdict.

Reading at a Glance

This chart belongs to a woman born on a summer afternoon in Shanghai. The engine converts her birth moment to true solar time — here the clock shifts back by about 54 minutes — and then lays out the Four Pillars: year, month, day, and hour, each pairing a Heavenly Stem with an Earthly Branch.

Two signals stand out immediately. The Day Master is Yin Metal: precise, aesthetic, and quick to notice what does not fit. Around it, Fire carries the most weight — and the strongest element here is also the one that disciplines this Day Master, so the reading keeps returning to standards, visibility, and being measured in public.

Day Master — the element that stands for you. Five Elements — where the chart runs rich, and where it runs thin. Ten Gods — the role each pillar plays in work, money, and relationships. Luck Pillars — the ten-year cycles that reset the tone of a decade.

The Day Master

Your Day Master is the Heavenly Stem of your birth day — the single character that stands for you. Born in a Wu Horse month, it reads weak: the chart offers more challenge than support, so the useful move is not to push harder but to build a floor underneath it.

This is the metal of jewellery and fine instruments rather than the axe. It works by refinement, discernment, and finish. Under-supported, the same gift can turn into over-editing — holding a decision long after the information has arrived, or discounting work that is genuinely good.

Strength reads weak — support arrives through Metal 金, Earth 土, not through more Fire. Natural mode: assess first, then commit; the risk is assessing for too long. What helps: routine, mentors, and finished output rather than more input.

Five Elements in Balance

The five elements in this chart sit within four points of one another — an unusually even spread. Even charts read as adaptable: no single season dominates, so the person can move between modes without losing their footing.

Evenness has its own cost. When every element is present, nothing is loud enough to force a decision, so the useful elements have to be chosen deliberately. Here Metal 金, Earth 土 are the elements that steady the Day Master, which is why the guidance leans toward structure, patience, and craft rather than speed.

Strongest: Fire — pressure, standards, and being held to a visible mark. Favourable: Metal 金, Earth 土 — the resources that support the Day Master. Watch: elements this close together pull between speaking up and holding back.

The Ten Gods

The Ten Gods are not deities — they are ten relationships between your Day Master and everything else in the chart. They are how a reading turns four columns of characters into a story about work, money, family, and public life. In this chart the loudest voices are Rob Wealth in the year pillar and Hurting Officer in the month pillar. Rob Wealth in the year often reads as early independence — learning to hold your own before you felt ready. Hurting Officer in the month is the expressive, critical edge that shows up in how you speak and what you refuse to accept.

Year · Rob Wealth — Independence, competition, siblings and peers

Month · Hurting Officer — Expression, taste, and a refusal of the second-rate

Hour · Indirect Wealth — Late-arriving opportunities and speculative gains

Luck Pillars · Your Decades Ahead

Luck Pillars divide life into ten-year chapters. Each chapter has its own stem and branch, and each one changes which parts of the chart are activated — which is why the same person can read differently at thirty and at forty.

The current decade is Yang Earth 戊寅, running from age 33 to 42. A resource-heavy decade favours study, mentorship, and building systems; it is usually a better decade for depth than for spectacle.

Luck cycles start from the month pillar and run forward or backward depending on gender and year polarity. The highlighted cell in the timeline is the decade you are in now. A decade is a tone, not a verdict — it describes what the years reward.

Year Forecast

A year forecast layers the annual stem and branch on top of the current decade. Where the decade sets the tone, the year sets the tempo: which months open, which months ask for patience.

The twelve months below are this year's own pillars, set inside the current decade. In a year whose branch supports the Day Master, the reading tends to favour consolidation — finishing what is already in motion, deepening an existing relationship or skill rather than starting a new one. When the branch challenges the Day Master, the useful advice flips to protection: fewer commitments, more margin.

February — GengYin 庚寅 · Metal/Wood · Feb 3 – Mar 4

March — XinMao 辛卯 · Metal/Wood · Mar 5 – Apr 3

April — RenChen 壬辰 · Water/Earth · Apr 4 – May 4

May — GuiSi 癸巳 · Water/Fire · May 5 – Jun 4

June — JiaWu 甲午 · Wood/Fire · Jun 5 – Jul 6

July — YiWei 乙未 · Wood/Earth · Jul 7 – Aug 6

August — BingShen 丙申 · Fire/Metal · Aug 7 – Sep 6

September — DingYou 丁酉 · Fire/Metal · Sep 7 – Oct 7

October — WuXu 戊戌 · Earth/Earth · Oct 8 – Nov 6

November — JiHai 己亥 · Earth/Water · Nov 7 – Dec 6

December — GengZi 庚子 · Metal/Water · Dec 7 – Jan 4

January — XinChou 辛丑 · Metal/Earth · Jan 5 – Feb 3

Annual cycles are read against the decade, never on their own. Favourable windows: periods when the annual element supports Metal 金, Earth 土. The full reading maps these windows month by month across the year you order in — including the months already past.

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