Chart Legend
The full readings answer what your chart means. This answers what it is, permanently, at a glance, on your wall.
One printable sheet with your whole chart laid out and labelled: your four pillars, your day master boxed in red, your element balance, your ten gods counted, your compass directions, your favourable colours and numbers, your clash and harmony years, and your decade timeline with NOW marked. Every Chinese character is glossed in plain English beside it, so anyone standing in front of it can read it.
It's the reference you check before a year turns, the answer to "what's your element?", and the one piece of astrology on the wall that was computed from a birth moment rather than printed by the thousand.
What is inside
8 sectionsYour four pillars 四柱, drawn large. Year, month, day and hour with hidden stems, and your day master (the "you" the whole chart is read against) boxed in red.
What you're made of, charted. Element balance 五行 and five forces 十神五類: what your chart carries in strength, what it carries lightly, and how you approach the world.
The roles you play, counted. All ten gods 十神 including hidden stems, as bars you can read from across a room.
Your directions 方位. Your Kua number and all eight compass bearings from the Eight Mansions tradition, labelled favourable 吉 or manage 凶.
The markers actually in your chart. Classical markers 神煞: Noble People, Intelligence, Peach Blossom, Sky Horse and more, each glossed in plain English, and only the ones you have.
Your colours and numbers 喜用色數. Derived from a documented strength assessment of your chart, not a generic element list.
The years that move, and the people who fit. Clash and harmony years 冲合 plus chemistry 生肖關係: your allies, your secret friend, and the pairings that take more negotiating.
Your decades 大運, with NOW marked. The luck-pillar schedule on a timeline.
Everything on the sheet is labelled in English beside its character, so it can be read by someone who has never seen a chart before.
Who this reading is for
From the listing- re-deriving your own chart basics every single time they come up
- new to BaZi, and after the facts of your chart before the theory
- looking for a birth chart print computed from your data, not generic zodiac art
- the one who gets asked “so what’s my element?” at dinner
- already read up on your chart and wanting all of it on one page
- after something to frame that means something to you
- tired of screenshotting a calculator result you cannot fully read
How ordering works
Four steps- You order on Etsy and enter your birth details in the personalisation box. Checkout, delivery and buyer protection are handled there.
- The chart is computed from your exact birth minute by the same deterministic library every time, corrected for true solar time at your birth longitude.
- The reading is written against the classical texts named below, then checked against your own chart before anything is issued.
- A designed PDF arrives within 24 hours, yours to keep and read again later.
The listing gallery
6 imagesCommon questions
NotesIs this personalised or a general chart?
Personalised. Every value is computed from your own birth details. The layout is fixed, the contents are yours.
What size does it print at?
It is vector drawn in A-series portrait, so it prints cleanly at A4, A3, A2 or A1 without softening.
What if I do not know my birth time?
Write unknown. The hour pillar is withheld and the reading says plainly which parts it can and cannot speak to. Nothing is invented to fill the gap.
How is this different from a free chatbot reading?
Ask a chatbot for your chart and it invents one, then invents a different one tomorrow. The chart here is calculated by the same deterministic library every time, and the working is printed in the back so you can check it.
Does a caesarean or induced birth change the chart?
No. The chart is cast from the time you were born, however that happened.
Around this reading
All of BaZi →BaZi Reading 八字
The four pillars read in full, with the ten gods translated into everyday roles and the luck pillars drawn as a timeline. Read the page →Career Path, BaZi 八字
Eight sections on the working question: what the chart favours you doing, the conditions you do it badly under, and when the window is open. Read the page →Hehun Compatibility 合婚
The same overlay read the Chinese way, with two red threads drawn through the document and knotted together on the closing sheet. Read the page →Work the chart out for free first: the BaZi calculator draws all four pillars, and the Day Master Finder needs only your date.
Method and sources
Every value on the sheet is derived from your birth details with the true solar time correction applied, so the same details always produce the same sheet. The colours come from a documented strength assessment of your chart rather than a general rule of thumb.
Read against the classical commentaries on stem strength and chart structure:
- 滴天髓 Ditian Sui Drops of Heavenly Marrow
- 子平真詮 Ziping Zhenquan The True Interpretation of Ziping
- 淵海子平 Yuanhai Ziping The Deep Sea of Ziping
- 三命通會 Sanming Tonghui A Comprehensive Treatise on the Three Fates
- 窮通寶鑑 Qiongtong Baojian The Precious Mirror of Seasons