FateTell甲jia
Yang Wood
Jia is Yang Wood. Its familiar image is a large tree, with an upright trunk supporting branches that spread outward.
FATETELL · FOUR PILLARS
Free BaZi Calculator.
Your birth moment. Your Four Pillars.
Enter your birth date, local time and birthplace. Start with the essentials, then explore the full chart.
02 BaZi Natal Chart
This is an example. Enter your birth details to calculate your own chart.
Year
Heavenly Stems己jiEarthEarthly Branches卯maoWoodMonth
Heavenly Stems丙bingFireEarthly Branches子ziWaterDayDay Master
Heavenly Stems戊wuEarthEarthly Branches午wuFireHour
Heavenly Stems戊wuEarthEarthly Branches午wuFireDay Master
戊Yang Earth
The Day stem is the reference for all Ten Gods relationships.
Five Elements
Wood1
Fire3
Earth3
Metal0
Water1
Each stem and branch main element counts once. The bars show how often an element appears, not how strong it is.
- Chart time · Local clock time
- 2000-01-01 12:00:00
- Lunar date
- 1999 · 冬月廿五
- Time adjustment
- +0.00 min
The ten BaZi Day Masters
Example Day Master · not your personal result戊 · Yang Earth
The Day Master is the upper stem of the Day pillar, the reference for reading the other stems and branches. Find the Day stem in the chart and match it with an entry below.
The ten stems form Yin and Yang pairs within Wood, Fire, Earth, Metal and Water. The natural images below are traditional associations that help distinguish them; they do not establish someone’s personality or life experience.
乙yi
Yin Wood
Yi is Yin Wood, pictured as a vine or slender branch that bends and grows with support from its surroundings.
丙bing
Yang Fire
Bing is Yang Fire, pictured as the sun: bright, warm and reaching over a wide area.
丁ding
Yin Fire
Ding is Yin Fire. Think of an oil lamp lighting the space nearby, its flame kept alive by fuel and shelter.
戊wu
Yang EarthExample
Wu is Yang Earth, represented by a thick wall that stands firmly and marks a boundary.
己ji
Yin Earth
Ji is Yin Earth. Its image is cultivated soil, holding seeds and water and giving plants a place to take root.
庚geng
Yang Metal
Geng is Yang Metal, pictured as an axe or hammer. The image emphasizes hard metal and the work of forging it into shape.
辛xin
Yin Metal
Xin is Yin Metal, pictured as a fine blade. Alongside Geng’s heavier tool, it draws attention to the sharpness and precision of an edge.
壬ren
Yang Water
Ren is Yang Water: rivers joining into a broad flow, carrying a large volume of water.
癸gui
Yin Water
Gui is Yin Water, pictured as fine rain settling on plants and gradually soaking into the soil.
A first look at your BaZi chart
What are the Four Pillars?
Your year, month, day and hour of birth each form a pair: a Heavenly Stem and an Earthly Branch. Together, they make the eight characters known as BaZi.
What does Simple view show?
Find your Day Master, then explore the other pillars and their Five Elements. Element counts describe the chart’s composition; they do not determine strength or what you should add to your life.
What does Professional view add?
Switch between Natal, Transits and Palaces to compare the Four Pillars with luck/year/month pillars or Tai Yuan, Shen Gong and Ming Gong. Explore hidden stems, life and self stages, void, Na Yin, Tai Yuan, Ming Gong and Shen Gong. Select a symbolic star to see its lookup rule, or a stem/branch relationship to locate its pillars.
Calculation rules you can check
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Calendar & solar terms
Enter a Gregorian date from 1900–2099. Years change at Li Chun and months at the twelve Jie solar terms. Birth and solar-term instants share the same time basis; when enabled, solar correction also affects these boundaries. For the Southern Hemisphere, the month branch changes to its opposite; the month stem is recalculated with the Five Tigers rule using the original year stem.
Birth time
The selected IANA time zone accounts for historical offsets and daylight saving. True solar time uses longitude and an approximate equation of time. Repeated times use the first occurrence; skipped times use the offset before the clock change. The corrected time is used for all four pillars and luck onset.
Midnight & luck cycles
The Day pillar changes at 23:00; the Hour pillar uses the new Day stem. Yang-year males and Yin-year females progress forward; others reverse. Luck onset scales the interval to the relevant solar term as a proportion of the full solar-term month to ten years.
What the result means
The calculator provides traditional calendar fields. It does not determine Pattern, Supporting Qi or life outcomes. Schools differ on day boundaries and luck onset; check original birth records near a boundary.
BaZi calculator questions
Is this BaZi calculator free, with no sign-up?
Both Simple and Professional charts are free and require no account. AI readings and the full FateBook are separate products. You do not need to purchase anything to calculate this chart.
Can I calculate BaZi without a birth time?
Yes. We use local noon (12:00) for all four pillars and luck onset, mark the hour as assumed, and skip solar correction. On a solar-term date, noon also determines the year and month pillars. Recalculate when you obtain the actual birth time.
Why do BaZi calculators give different results?
Compare the date, time zone, daylight saving and true solar time settings first. This calculator changes the Day pillar at 23:00. Luck onset methods also differ: this page scales a proportion of the solar-term month to ten years. Match the rules before comparing results.
Should I use true solar time?
You can choose either convention. True solar time adjusts the local clock for longitude and the equation of time; this may change the hour pillar near a boundary. Use the same convention when comparing charts.
Can I enter a Chinese lunar birthday?
This version takes Gregorian dates and displays the corresponding lunar date. Convert a lunar birthday first, taking particular care with leap lunar months.
Does a missing element mean I need more of it?
There is no need to decide that from a zero. It means the element is absent from this simple count, but it may still appear among hidden stems. Looking at the Day Master, season and hidden stems gives that number more context.
A chart is the beginning of a reading.
See how FateTell turns the Four Pillars into an explanation you can follow.