Understanding Your BaZi or Four Pillars Astrology Chart

There are twelve Chinese Zodiac animals and in BaZi, or Four Pillars Astrology, they are blended with one of the five elements (wood, fire, earth, metal and water), creating sixty possible combinations. These combinations describe specific energies at a given moment in space and time. In BaZi they describe the combination of specific energies at the time of your birth.

There are four particular energies (animal/element combinations) that are used to help express how your higher self experiences the world of form based on your particular pillars installed at the time of your birth. These pillars will ‘color’ the way you see and experience everything until you cultivate the vision to see beyond the material. Each of the sixty combinations flow well with some other combinations and create friction with others.

These sixty combinations (12 Chinese Zodiac animals and the 5 Elements) are the Chinese Clock. They always move in the same direction, regardless of if it is the cycle of the day, the month, hour, or year. We break the 4 pillars into 2 groups, your Sun & Moon pillars:

Sun Pillars

• Year pillar is your outer most self, your ancestral home and resting place, which includes your health and wellness 

• Day master pillar is your innermost self and the pillar that will most closely describe how you react in your day to day life

Moon Pillars

• Month pillar is how you emotionally respond to and see events. The pillar where you feel the world of career and wealth. 

• Hour pillar is how you respond and show up in regards to sexuality, children and idiosyncrasies in your personality

Your report is the first step in the path of utilizing BaZi to gain a deeper understanding of self. 

We recommend reading multiple descriptions for a well rounded view. See our website for a list of recommended books and resources to help deepen your understanding.

Although the words here are in English, the original writings are symbols. Just as a picture speaks a thousand words, symbols also have many words to describe their micro and macro meanings. 

In the following descriptions, the outline of the element's influence on the animal is to aid one in understanding what the animal/element combination is attempting to describe. To learn more about how each animal and element combination works in different applications and combinations, look to five-element theory and the horary clock. Read up on the five elements to deepen your understanding. 

May this information help guide others to their higher self.