Calculated chart · four time scales
Your layered profile
15 February 2018Asia/Shanghai birthplace zoneUTC+08:00 at birthChinese New Year outer yearLi Chun Four Pillars chart
Start with the familiar Rooster year, then read inward through month, day and hour. Every coordinate below opens into the guide that explains it.
Start with your Day Master and chart relationships
Your shown Day Master is 戊 Wu, Yang Earth. It is the day stem against which the chart names other stems. Without a birth time, a 23:00–23:59 birth may move the day pillar under this site's late-Rat convention.
- Year stem 戊 Wu: Friend because Earth matches the Day Master's Earth, with matching polarity.
- Month stem 甲 Jia: Seven Killings because Wood controls the Day Master's Earth, with matching polarity.
Read all four pillars → Then open the stems inside each branch →
Four coordinates · one moment
Your chart at a glance
The familiar zodiac year is shown first. Month, day and hour then place the same birth inside progressively smaller cycles.
- 01Outer · Chinese zodiac year
Yin Fire Rooster
28 January 2017 – 15 February 2018
- 02Inner · Month
Yang Wood Tiger
Opens 4 February 2018 at 05:28 (Asia/Shanghai) · Start of Spring (立春 Lìchūn)
- 03Day · Day Master
Yang Earth Tiger
Day stem 戊 Wu is the chart's Day Master.
- 04Secret · Hour
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Time not supplied
Use a local birth time to calculate the fourth pillar.
Outer-year record
How 2017 gets its name
The year name joins one Heavenly Stem to one Earthly Branch. Open any underlined value to follow that coordinate into the reference.
- Heavenly Stem
- 丁 Ding · Yin Fire
- Earthly Branch
- 酉 You (Rooster)
- Five phase
- Fire
- Polarity
- Yin
- Zodiac-year dates
- 28 January 2017 – 15 February 2018
Four Pillars · 四柱
The chart beneath the animal labels
Each column joins a Heavenly Stem above an Earthly Branch below. The relation line names how each visible stem stands to the Day Master.
- 01Year pillar年柱
Yang Earth Dog
- Branch
- 戌 Xu · Dog
- To Day Master
- 比肩 Friend
Turns at Li Chun for the Four Pillars chart.
- 02Month pillar月柱
Yang Wood Tiger
- Branch
- 寅 Yin · Tiger
- To Day Master
- 七杀 Seven Killings
Opened by Start of Spring.
- 03Day pillar日柱
Yang Earth Tiger
- Branch
- 寅 Yin · Tiger
- To Day Master
- 日主 Day Master
The reference stem for the rest of the chart.
- 04Hour pillar時柱
Time not supplied
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戊 Wu is the Day Master. It is the reference used to name the chart’s Ten Gods relationships. Read the relationship rule →
Current cycle · 流年
2026 annual pillar
流年 means the running year. Its stem is read against the Day Master, and its branch is compared with each branch in the natal chart.
- Running year
- 丙午 Yang Fire Horse
- Li Chun boundary
- 4 February 2026
- Annual stem to Day Master
- 偏印 Indirect ResourceFire generates the Day Master; the polarities are same.
How the annual Horse meets your natal branches
A shared three-branch group is named as a shared group; two branches alone do not complete the full group.
Visible phase balance
What this chart is made of
Each pillar carries a phase in its stem and another in its branch. The 6 visible characters below are the first layer a reading compares with the Day Master.
- Wood3 / 6
controls the Day Master
- Fire0 / 6
Not present in the visible chart
- Earth3 / 6
same phase as the Day Master
- Metal0 / 6
Not present in the visible chart
- Water0 / 6
Not present in the visible chart
Fire and Metal and Water do not appear in these 6 visible characters. Add a birth time to include the hour’s two characters in this count. See how all five phases relate
Hidden stems inside your chart
Your 3 calculated branches contain 9 hidden-stem occurrences. Primary, middle and residual name each stem’s place inside its branch.
- Year · Dog 戌
- 戊 Wu · primary · Yang Earth · Friend
- 辛 Xin · middle · Yin Metal · Hurting Officer
- 丁 Ding · residual · Yin Fire · Direct Resource
- Month · Tiger 寅
- 甲 Jia · primary · Yang Wood · Seven Killings
- 丙 Bing · middle · Yang Fire · Indirect Resource
- 戊 Wu · residual · Yang Earth · Friend
- Day · Tiger 寅
- 甲 Jia · primary · Yang Wood · Seven Killings
- 丙 Bing · middle · Yang Fire · Indirect Resource
- 戊 Wu · residual · Yang Earth · Friend
Wood 2 · Fire 3 · Earth 3 · Metal 1 · Water 0. These are occurrences inside branches, counted separately from the visible characters; primary, middle and residual are not equal-strength weights.
Fire and Metal appear inside the branches even though absent from the visible-character count.
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