How we read your chart

Saju writes the year, month, day and hour of your birth as four pillars, each made of two characters — a heavenly stem above and an earthly branch below. Eight characters in all. That set is your natal chart.

One of the eight matters more than the rest. The stem of the day pillar stands for you; it is called the day master. Almost everything this service shows is measured from that single character — the other seven describe the conditions it sits in.

Every stem and branch belongs to one of the five elements — wood, fire, earth, metal and water. Counting them across the chart shows which energy runs thick and which runs thin. We do not simply count characters: the month of birth pushes some elements up and holds others down, and that seasonal standing is applied first.

From those weights we judge whether the day master is strong or weak, and from that, which energy it needs now. That last value is what the daily reading leans on most.

The branch of the current day is laid against each branch in your chart and judged with this table. These are the actual numbers the service uses.

Note that the floor is 45, not zero. In this tradition a clash is a collision, not an ending. Scoring it near zero would let the service pronounce a verdict on a relationship, which is not what it is for.

Every number above is a rule. Nothing is generated by a language model and nothing is random, so the same two birth dates always produce the same result. Since we store nothing, that determinism is what stands in for a saved record.

When we change a scoring rule we raise the engine version, which is printed under your result. That tells you which set of rules produced the number you are looking at.

The birth time is optional. Without it we leave out the hour pillar and mark the result accordingly. If you do know it, please also pick the city — clock time and solar time differ by up to half an hour, and the hour pillar changes in two-hour steps, so people born near a boundary land in the wrong pillar without the correction.

This is a reading offered from the perspective of a traditional East Asian system. It is not a scientific prediction, and it is not a verdict on any relationship. Read it as one angle on two people, not as an answer.

For what happens to the dates you type, see what we store.