Fate · 命
The pattern you were born with: temperament, gifts, and the blind spots that come with them.
A seed carries its own kind: oak, willow, pine. None is better than another; each grows into its own shape.
BaZi · The Four Pillars · Free chart
Read your BaZi chart,
choose your path.
A thousand years of Eastern practice, applied to your chart. Find out how you are wired, what work suits you, who you love well, and when to move.
- Four Pillars
- Year · Month · Day · Hour
- Ten Gods
- Character · Career · Wealth
- Luck Cycles
- One cycle every ten years
01 · Begin
Start with the moment you were born
Date, hour and place are all the chart needs. It takes under a minute, and no account is required.
- Day Master
- the center of your chart
- Five Elements
- your inner balance
- Ten Gods
- how you meet the world
02 · The idea
Fate is your nature. Fortune is your timing.
BaZi separates what you arrived with from what the years bring. One is the instrument; the other is the weather it plays in.
Fortune · 运
The seasons you move through: years that ask for action, and years that ask for patience.
The same tree meets sun, storm and frost. It does not become a different tree; it learns when to grow and when to rest.
A chart is a weather report for the life you are already living. The clearer you read it, the more choice you have.
03 · Go deeper
From a chart to a conversation
Start free with the chart. Continue with the reading that fits the question in front of you.
01
Fate Codex · 命书
A chapter-by-chapter reading of the life you are actually living.
- Nine chapters cover your Day Master, personality, career, wealth, love, family, health and the road ahead — written for your chart alone.
- Every insight points back to a specific stem, branch or ten god, so you learn the language of BaZi as you read yourself.
02
Fortune Ledger · 运书
The seasons of your timeline, translated into plain language.
- See your ten-year luck cycles and the year-by-year weather inside them — when to push, when to wait, when to change course.
- Time, space and the four seasons are read side by side, marking the meetings and turning points each stretch of the road may bring.
03
Divination · 占卜
A specific choice in front of you, a direction for this moment.
- Based on the 64 hexagrams of the I Ching, cast on a concrete question about work, love or travel, and read a short-term tendency and a caution.
- It addresses only the step in front of you. It does not decide for you, and it does not overpromise.
04
Ask Your Chart · 司命
Ask your chart whenever life asks you a question.
- A quiet conversation about career crossroads, relationships, timing, or a decision you keep circling.
- Answers stay grounded in your own chart, with no generic horoscopes, no flattery and no fear.
04 · Why trust it
A reading should leave you clearer, not dependent.
Three standards we don’t compromise on.
Precise charting first
A reading is only as good as its chart. We calculate the four pillars with a dedicated calendar engine — solar terms, time zones and true solar time included — not with a language model’s guess.
Show the reasoning
Every insight is tied to a stem, branch or ten god you can see. You should finish understanding more about the system, not just believing us more.
Respect the limits
A chart can show tendencies and timing. It cannot decide your life. We say that plainly, and we never use fear to sell certainty.
05 · Readers
Read across time zones
Different cities, one shared sky.
I grew up hearing my grandparents talk about BaZi without ever understanding it. Reading my own chart was the first time the whole system clicked: it explained my chart, then explained itself. I showed it to my mother, and all she said was, “this sounds like you.”
MMei L.Product designer · Singapore
I’m still a skeptic. But the Day Master chapter described how I work more precisely than personality assessments I’ve paid for — especially the part about needing to think it through before I start. My team would probably agree. I don’t accept every conclusion, but at least the reasoning is on the table.
DDaniel R.Engineer · Berlin
The Fortune Ledger told me spring was for momentum and winter was for rest. I thought it was a platitude until I actually slowed down last winter — and handed in my most complete draft that spring. That reframing lowered my anxiety more than a year of productivity apps.
CChenxi W.Graduate student · Toronto
The reading is honest about what a chart cannot answer. It never promised I’d succeed; it told me when I’m prone to distraction and which collaborations drain me. That restraint is why I trust the rest of it — and why I finally learned to say no to commissions.
HHana K.Illustrator · Osaka
I edit books in London and have seen too many mystical pamphlets dressed up as Eastern wisdom. This one reads like a patient editor: each claim is sourced, and the uncertain parts are left uncertain. I finished wanting to learn the language, not lean on a conclusion.
EElena V.Editor · London
The Bay Area runs on data, so I mostly wanted to see how vague it would be. Instead it described my two years of job-hopping with uncomfortable precision — when to push, when to wait. I don’t know if that’s fate, but it made me pause before a decision. That pause was worth it.
MMarcus T.Product manager · San Francisco
06 · Questions
Questions, answered
BaZi (literally “eight characters”) reads the year, month, day and hour of your birth as four pairs of elements. It is less a prediction machine than a structured map of personality, timing and relationships — a way to see your tendencies clearly enough to make better choices.
The chart describes the map. You still choose the route.