Give me a time.
I'll give you four characters.
The chart is entirely free — four pillars, hidden stems, ten gods, five elements, luck cycles. What you pay for is the reading, not the data.
The red frame is the decade you are in now. The start age is derived from the days between birth and the nearest solar term — three days to one year.
Five more chapters,
and they are about time
Who you are is in the three sections above. What is actually worth money is — which year to move, which months not to, and how to supply the one thing you lack.
- Ch. 3 · Useful god and hostile god: the medicine, the poison
- Ch. 4 · The ten-year cycles, worked one by one
- Ch. 5 · The next 12 months, marked month by month
- Ch. 6 · Love and money: the specific moves
- Ch. 7 · The remedy: direction, colour, an actionable list
Why we insist on where you were born
Because this calendar runs on true solar time, not on clock time. Along the same parallel, every degree west pushes local noon four minutes later.
One degree, four minutes
Chengdu is about 68 minutes behind Shanghai. Cross one two-hour branch and the hour pillar changes — and the hour pillar rules children, late life, and the side of you that stays hidden.
The earth runs unevenly
Across a year, true solar time runs up to ±16 minutes ahead of or behind mean solar time. Most calculators skip this term entirely.
China had it too
China ran daylight saving from 1986 to 1991. Anyone born between June and September in those years was an hour ahead of standard time on the clock. We correct for it automatically.