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A modern gateway to Chinese metaphysics

Decode Your Chinese Destiny Map

Explore BaZi, the Five Phases, Chinese naming, and personalized life reports through the classical language of Chinese metaphysics — calculated from your true solar birth time using classical sources.

BaZi 八字 · Five Phases 五行 · Yin & Yang 阴阳 · Four Pillars 四柱

How it works

Three steps to your destiny map

Enter your birth moment

Your birth date, time and place — the coordinates of your chart. We accept both Gregorian and lunar calendars.

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Your Four Pillars chart, element balance, and personality themes — calculated from the real lunar calendar, never approximated.

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Choose focused reports for love, career, wealth, health and family — with symbolic remedy suggestions woven in.

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Insights for every question

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Free snapshot

A first look at your element balance and dominant sign — enough to start your journey.

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A meaningful name aligned with your birth elements — with pinyin, meaning, and elemental intent.

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Your complete Four Pillars of Destiny — element strengths, personality, and life rhythm.

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合

Two charts, one harmony — the classical reading of a couple's elemental bond.

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Annual Fortune Report

How this year's energies interact with your chart — monthly rhythm, opportunities and cautions. In development, not yet available.

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Everything currently available: your name report, full Four Pillars chart, compatibility reading and I Ching consultation, in one bound volume.

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Your birth coordinates

Enter your birth details to generate your Four Pillars of Destiny chart. No account, no email — the chart is calculated in your browser and stays on your device.

An exact or near-exact time lets the Hour Pillar stand. If it crosses a two-hour boundary, the Hour Pillar changes entirely — and with it the Day Master's support, the Ten Gods pattern and the luck-cycle reading.

Recognised cities are corrected from clock time to true solar time (longitude plus the equation of time). This matters most near a two-hour boundary. A city we do not recognise falls back to clock time exactly as entered, so the Hour Pillar may shift — the reading says so when that happens.

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Culturally accurate

Every report is calculated from your exact chart using the classical Zi Ping method — real astronomical data, not generic sun-sign text.

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Real calendar math

Pillars are computed from the actual lunar calendar and solar terms — never guessed from a Gregorian date.

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Private & secure

Your birth data stays in your browser. It is never uploaded to our servers, never sold, and you can clear it at any time.

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Honest boundaries

Readings are cultural and reflective insights — never medical, financial, or legal advice.

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Four Pillars of Destiny · 八字命盘

Four Pillars of Destiny

Enter your birth details to generate your chart

Your Four Pillars 四柱

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Day Master: - Zodiac: - Computed from your entered birth time

Element Balance 五行分布

Your Day Master 日主

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Your full reading

Your full reading includes Ten Gods 十神, Da Yun 大运, your current-year 流年, and a personalized AI reading — all free. Enter your birth details above, then generate your report.

Ten Gods 十神

Da Yun 大运

Current Year 流年 ·

AI Reading Report 命理解读

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Full report 完整报告

Your complete BaZi reading, chapter by chapter

The Element Snapshot is the front page of the chart. The full report is the document behind it — the Ten Gods pattern, the ten-year luck cycles, the annual layers and the life-area readings, laid out in a fixed order you can revisit.

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At a glance

A one-page summary: the chart, the Day Master, the dominant and deficient phases, and the headline structural finding. Read it first, and again at the end.

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Day Master portrait

What your specific stem signifies in the classical texts — its element, polarity, season of strength, and the temperament traditionally attributed to it.

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Ten Gods pattern 十神

The structurally most important chapter. Ten relationships any character can bear to your Day Master — what you attract, produce, are supported by, and are constrained by.

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Luck cycles 大运

Charts are not static. Ten-year cycles shift the balance as life proceeds. This chapter maps yours from birth and says which decades are supported.

The order

How the chapters are meant to be read

They answer different questions. The snapshot tells you what your chart is made of: the four pillars, the element counts, your Day Master, and which phases help or hinder. The report tells you what that structure does over time. Reading the report without the snapshot is like reading a diagnosis without the test results.

The five phases landscape

How Wood, Fire, Earth, Metal and Water distribute across your eight characters, and what each concentration implies. This is where the practical consequence of an uneven chart becomes concrete: a chart with three phases represented and two absent behaves differently from one spread evenly across all five.

Life-area readings

Career and vocation, wealth and resources, relationships and partnership, family and household, and health and energy. Each is read from the specific pillars and structures that traditionally govern it — the spouse palace for relationships, the wealth star for resources — rather than from the general tone of the chart. Where the chart is silent on a life area, the text says so.

Annual cycles 流年

On top of the ten-year cycle, each calendar year contributes its own stem and branch. This layer explains why two years inside the same luck cycle can feel so different. We present it as a rhythm to be aware of, not a schedule of events.

The life curve

A visual summary: four dimensions scored year by year to eighty, plotted as curves. It is the fastest way to see the shape of a life in this system. Read it after the Da Yun chapter, not before — the curve is a picture of that chapter, and on its own it invites over-reading.

Nothing is locked behind payment. The full report and the PDF export are free, as is the Element Snapshot. MingPath is funded by display advertising. There is no checkout anywhere on the site.
Getting the most from it

Four habits that help

  • Read the snapshot before the report. The report assumes you know what the Day Master and the useful element are.
  • Do not read all thirteen chapters in one sitting. The life-area chapters are worth returning to when an actual question arises.
  • Note the dates in the Da Yun chapter. The transition points between cycles are the most practically useful output in the whole document.
  • Treat disagreements as information. Where a chapter does not describe you, that is a legitimate finding about the system's limits — not a failure on your part to understand it.

The PDF carries the chart, the element bars, the life curve and the chapter text laid out for print, and is generated in your browser — the same privacy rule as everywhere else on this site applies. The closing chapter states plainly what the reading does not claim: charts describe tendency and structure, they do not schedule events, and they cannot predict what a person will choose to do inside the conditions they describe.

Questions

Common questions

Is the report really free?

Yes. The full report and the PDF export are free, as is the Element Snapshot. There is no checkout anywhere on the site.

How long does it take to generate?

Seconds. The whole calculation runs in your browser, so there is no queue and no waiting on a server.

Can I generate reports for other people?

Yes — keep multiple profiles in the hub and switch between them. Each generates its own report.

What if I do not know my birth hour?

The report still generates on the three known pillars and marks the hour-dependent sections as provisional. The Day Master and element distribution stay meaningful; the spouse-palace reading is affected most.

Why does it not give dates for events?

Because that would be a claim we cannot support. The Da Yun and annual chapters describe the character of a period in the system's terms. Converting that into "you will get a promotion in March" is not the tradition's claim, and we do not manufacture it.

Can the report be wrong?

Any reading can fail to describe a person. The calculation is deterministic and follows the classical rules; the interpretation is a tradition's interpretation, not a measurement. See the methodology page.