The things people ask before they trust a site like this.

A fair question to ask of any site like this one. The free reading has no card field, and the chart is produced by published, documented arithmetic — run the same date in another BaZi calculator and the four pillars should match. The interpretation is written by the I Ching Agent, which we identify on every page. Digital works that are available or being prepared show their price, contents and delivery before any checkout begins.

It is AI, and no person reads your chart. Two layers: the chart itself is calculated by a program following classical rules, which is arithmetic and would give the same answer on paper. The words about the chart are written by an AI system working from your figures and from templates we wrote. Most sites in this category present a named master and stay quiet about the software. We went the other way, because a claim you can disprove is worth less than a limitation you admit.

Two questions live inside that word. The chart is reproducible: given correct birth details, the pillars and the element proportions are arithmetic, and another calculator should agree with ours. The reading is interpretation. It describes tendencies the tradition associates with a chart like yours, it is written by a machine, and different schools of BaZi would read the same chart differently. It is a lens for thinking about your own patterns, not a measurement and not a forecast of events. Anyone who tells you their reading is precise about the future is selling you something.

Yes. Most people who ask this were simply never told, or the certificate never recorded it, so it is the most common question we get. Without an hour we calculate three pillars instead of four: the year, month and day. You still get your Day Master, your element balance and your archetype. What you lose is the hour pillar, which is the part traditionally read for the private and late-life side of a chart. We label the reading as a three-pillar reading at the top rather than filling the gap with a guess.

Calculate your chart with it, store it against your reading so the link still works when you come back, and nothing else. We ask for a city only to resolve your time zone, never a street address. We do not sell personal data, we do not buy it, and we do not use your birth details for advertising. You can ask us to delete everything we hold about you and we will, without asking why. The full detail — what we keep, for how long, and which third parties are involved — is in the privacy policy.

Not yet, and we would rather say so than run a checkout that does not work. Right now the prices on this site are real prices for things we have specified but not finished. The list is how we decide what to build first: if enough people want the bracelet, the first run gets made and everyone on the list gets an email with that same price. If we decide not to build something, you get an email saying that instead.

BaZi is Chinese and we say so on every page rather than repackaging it as something Western with the labels filed off. We keep its own vocabulary — four pillars, Day Master, the five elements — because the translation is usually where the meaning goes missing. We do not claim a lineage, a title or an initiation we have not earned; we are people who grew up inside this tradition and who write in English, which is a different thing from being masters of it. Where a practice is closed or ritual, we describe it rather than perform it.

The citrine is heat-treated amethyst, like nearly all citrine sold anywhere, and we print that on the card instead of calling it natural. The jade is nephrite, not dyed quartzite, and our purchasing spec excludes dyed and polymer-filled stone. The pixiu is solid brass with a PVD vacuum-plated finish rather than the dipped plating that goes patchy in a season. If a detail like this is not on the page, ask us and we will put it there.

Literally "eight characters". Your birth year, month, day and hour are each written as a pair of characters — a heavenly stem and an earthly branch — which gives four pillars and eight characters in total. Each character carries one of the five elements, and what a practitioner reads is the balance between them: which element stands for you, which are abundant, which are scarce. It is roughly two thousand years old and is still used across Chinese-speaking regions for questions about temperament, timing and work.

No. This site is offered for entertainment and self-reflection, and nothing on it is financial, medical or legal advice. We describe what a tradition says about a chart, and we describe the materials and craft of an object. We do not claim that reading a page or wearing a bracelet changes what happens to your money. Anyone in this category who does claim that is making a claim they cannot support.

No. There is no signup, no password and no app. Your reading lives at a private link, and you can keep that link or ask for it by email. An email address is only requested when you want the full reading sent to you, and one click in that email removes you from the list for good.