Gunghap Compatibility 궁합
궁합 gunghap: the Korean practice of laying two saju side by side.Gunghap is the old Korean practice of laying two saju side by side before a marriage. Not to pass a verdict on a couple, but to see how two charts behave in the same room.
This does it the traditional way. Both charts are computed separately and read on their own terms first, then laid over each other. You get where the two of you feed each other, where you compete, and what each pattern looks like on an ordinary week.
Friction is named, not smoothed over. A reading that only tells you what you want to hear is worthless, so the places your two charts genuinely rub are stated plainly, each paired with what tends to defuse it.
What is inside
6 sectionsEach of you, on your own terms first. Both charts read separately, so the overlay rests on two real readings rather than a single compatibility score.
Where you feed each other, and where you compete. The overlay itself, described as it looks on an ordinary week.
The friction, named. The particular places these two charts rub, each paired with what tends to defuse it. Not generic relationship advice.
What's quietly working. Where one chart supplies what the other runs short of. The strengths easiest to stop noticing.
How your timings run together. Both daeun cycles side by side, and what the next few years favour for the two of you.
The working, printed. Both charts, every character translated, both Korean solar time corrections documented. Your document closes with a one-page classical appendix: what a traditional practitioner, reading the same charts strictly by the old texts, would have ruled. Unsoftened, clearly framed, and separate from the reading's own guidance.
Friction is named rather than smoothed over, and each place the two charts rub is paired with what tends to defuse it. This reads two charts, never one person’s private feelings about the other.
Who this reading is for
From the listing- set on knowing how the two of you work, past the compatibility score
- reading it alone first, and deciding later whether to say so
- asked about gunghap before a wedding and never given a straight answer
- able to hear where the friction sits without taking it as a verdict
- new to saju, and starting with the relationship because that is what is live
- in something good that keeps catching on the same snag
- wondering whether the problem is the timing, or the pairing
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
NotesWill this tell me how the other person feels about me?
No. It reads two birth charts against each other and describes how the two patterns behave in the same room. It is not a way to find out what someone privately thinks, and it will not be written that way.
Does it work for same-sex couples?
Yes. The calculation basis sets the direction of the traditional cycle only, it is chosen per person, and the written reading is gender neutral throughout.
Is this a compatibility score?
Gunghap was never a verdict, and this document does not produce a number or a percentage. It reads each saju on its own terms first, then names where the two feed each other, where they compete, and how the timings run together.
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 Korean Saju →Career Path, Korean Saju 사주
The same eight sections, read the Korean way, with the daeun 대운 cycles marking which decades favour a move and which favour staying put. Read the page →Korean Saju Reading 사주팔자
Your ilgan 일간, the element balance holding it up, your daeun 대운 cycles, and the sinsal worth knowing about. Every hanja translated where it sits. 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
Both charts are computed separately and deterministically, each corrected for true solar time at its own birth longitude, and each is read on its own terms before the overlay is written. The reading is grounded in the classical texts named in the document and reviewed before the file is issued.
Read against the same Ziping canon Korean practice reads, under Korean conventions:
- 滴天髓 Ditian Sui Drops of Heavenly Marrow
- 子平真詮 Ziping Zhenquan The True Interpretation of Ziping
- 三命通會 Sanming Tonghui A Comprehensive Treatise on the Three Fates