Year
甲戌
Jiǎ Xū
Heavenly Stem: 甲 (Jiǎ, Yang Wood)
Earthly Branch: 戌 (Xū, Dog)
BaZi 八字 · Four Pillars of Destiny
BaZi Birth Chart for July 10, 1994
This page opens with a complete example chart so the Four Pillars are visible before any form or account step: Year, Month, Day, and Hour, with the Day Master called out in the Day pillar.
Example BaZi Chart
Four Pillars for July 10, 1994
Day Master: Dīng (丁, Yin Fire)
Month
辛未
Xīn Wèi
Heavenly Stem: 辛 (Xīn, Yin Metal)
Earthly Branch: 未 (Wèi, Goat)
Day
Day Master丁酉
Dīng Yǒu
Heavenly Stem: 丁 (Dīng, Yin Fire)
Earthly Branch: 酉 (Yǒu, Rooster)
Hour
noon UTC example丙午
Bǐng Wǔ
Heavenly Stem: 丙 (Bǐng, Yang Fire)
Earthly Branch: 午 (Wǔ, Horse)
The Hour pillar is included so the first state is a complete example chart. If a reader does not know their birth time, the Year, Month, and Day pillars still compute from the birth date, and the Hour pillar can be treated as provisional.
Five Elements
Five Elements (五行) breakdown
Counting the four Heavenly Stems and four Earthly Branches in the example chart gives a quick view of the element balance.
木Wood
1
火Fire
3
土Earth
2
金Metal
2
水Water0
Dominant element: Fire (火). This count is a starting point, not the whole reading. A full BaZi analysis also weighs season, hidden stems, Day Master strength, and the Luck Pillar in force.
The 10-Year Luck Pillars (Da Yun)
The four pillars are fixed at birth; the Luck Pillars (大運) show the decade-by-decade sequence read against the natal chart. For a male born July 10, 1994 at noon UTC, they run forward from the Month Pillar, opening at age 9. The lit decade is the one in force today.
大運 · Luck Pillars
起運 age 9 · runs forward
9–18壬申Direct Officer2003
19–28癸酉Seven Killings2013
29–38甲戌Direct Resourcenow
39–48乙亥Indirect Resource2033
49–58丙子Rob Wealth2043
59–68丁丑Companion2053
69–78戊寅Hurting Officer2063
79–88己卯Eating God2073
89–98庚辰Direct Wealth2083
Each pillar governs a ten-year window; its Ten God names the decade’s grain — where it presses, where it opens. The lit pillar is the one in force now.
How to read this BaZi chart
In BaZi, every birth moment resolves to four Stem-Branch pairs called pillars. For this example, the computed pillars are Year 甲戌 (Jiǎ Xū) · Month 辛未 (Xīn Wèi) · Day 丁酉 (Dīng Yǒu) · Hour 丙午 (Bǐng Wǔ). Together these eight characters form the chart a BaZi reader interprets through Five Phase logic.
The Day Pillar 丁酉 is the most personal column. Its Heavenly Stem, 丁 (Dīng, Yin Fire), is the Day Master: the reference point for the rest of the chart.
The Hour Pillar requires a birth time. This example uses noon so the chart is visibly complete on first load; a real personal chart should use the reader's exact time when it is known.
Read against your real chart
BaZi is one of four traditions Zodiacs reads.
Zodiacs reads BaZi alongside Western astrology, Ziwei Doushu, and numerology against your real birth chart. Free to start, no card.