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BaZi Basics
How the twelve earthly branches work in BaZi: months and hours, hidden stems, storage branches, roots, and why a branch is a bundle of elements rather than one.
BaZi Calculator · 2026/10/13
BaZi Basics
A guide to the ten heavenly stems of BaZi: element and polarity, classical images, stem combinations and clashes, and how stems behave as visible characters in a chart.
BaZi Calculator · 2026/10/13
Methodology
Why the BaZi year starts at Li Chun (Start of Spring) rather than 1 January or Chinese New Year, how the exact instant is found, and what it means for births in January and early February.
BaZi Calculator · 2026/10/13
I Ching Tools
How Plum Blossom Numerology turns the date, hour or chosen numbers into a hexagram, how body and use trigrams are read, and what the mutual and changed hexagrams add.
BaZi Calculator · 2026/10/13
BaZi Basics
What each of the four pillars represents in BaZi — year, month, day and hour — including the palaces, life stages and family relations traditionally linked to each.
BaZi Calculator · 2026/10/13
I Ching Tools
An introduction to Qi Men Dun Jia (奇门遁甲): the nine palaces, the four plates of stars, doors, deities and stems, yin and yang dun, and how to read a chart for a question.
BaZi Calculator · 2026/10/13