BAZI KNOWLEDGE
These entries explain the core concepts of BaZi, the order in which they are read, and where schools genuinely disagree. Each one states why a judgement is made instead of only giving a conclusion.
Starting from the Four Pillars, Heavenly Stems and Earthly Branches, Five Elements and the Day Master, what BaZi actually analyses — and how it is best used.
What information each of the four pillars carries, and why no pillar can be read on its own, apart from the whole chart.
What generation and control, seasonal strength, flow and regulation really mean — and why a BaZi chart is not an element census.
What makes the ten Day Masters different, and why the Day Master is a reference point rather than a personality label.
How the Ten Gods follow from the Day Master's element relationships and polarity, and why names like Direct Officer or Seven Killings are not verdicts.
How the month command, roots, support and drain combine to decide strength — and why two apps can reach different conclusions.
What the useful god and favourable elements actually do, and why a missing element and a needed element are not the same thing.
How climate adjustment reads the cold, heat, dryness and damp of the birth season — and how it differs from strength and useful-god analysis.
What the five stem combinations, the branch six combinations, triple combinations and directional meetings, the six clashes, the three punishments, harms and destructions each change — and why a clash is not automatically bad.
How a pattern is taken from the month command, what each of the eight patterns from Direct Officer to Indirect Resource describes, and how formed patterns, broken patterns and support-and-restraint relate.
Birthplace, time zones, daylight saving, hour boundaries and the true solar time dispute — and why casting a chart should be separate from AI interpretation.
How solar terms decide the year and month pillars, how the solar-term instant and leap months are handled, and how true solar time relates to standard time.
The most direct way to test any of this is to cast your own chart: the algorithm produces the four pillars and Five Elements, the AI explains them, and every item described here can be checked in the result.
Open the AI BaZi Life Book →This page sets out how we cast a chart and how we read it, which conventions we adopt, where the schools genuinely disagree, and what we deliberately do not do. It should be checkable, not marketing copy.
Calculate, Evidence, Interpret, Validate →