Read the chart and current cycles
First your Day Master strength and favorable elements, then where you stand: which luck cycle, which year — the background for every judgment.
Chart first
Generate your chart to unlock the luck timeline
The luck timeline is built from your chart: generate a Four Pillars chart on the homepage first, then this page unfolds Da Yun decades, annual and monthly cycles.
What is the fortune timeline
Fortune is not recalculating your natal chart — it is putting it on a timeline: a luck cycle every ten years, an annual pillar every year, a monthly pillar every month. The same chart meets different stem-branch combinations in different windows, and the tides shift with them.
How a reading is formed
Overlay the current stems and branches
Put the current cycle/year/month pillars next to your natal chart: which Ten Gods they form with your Day Master, which natal pillars they combine or clash with.
Turn facts into guidance
The computation yields facts ("indirect wealth reveals this year", "the month branch clashes your day branch"); translating them into phase themes and actions is the reading.
What to look for
The timeline is long — grab the layers first, then the details.
Cycle, year, and month layers
The decade cycle sets the ten-year tone, the annual pillar the year's theme, the monthly pillar the rhythm. Smooth above and bumpy below is friction; bumpy above is when strategy truly needs adjusting.
Current pillars vs. your Day Master
Whether each node's stem-branch is wealth, officer, or resource to your Day Master decides the phase's main subject: opportunity, pressure, or recovery.
Interaction with the natal chart
A combining or clashing relationship between an annual pillar and the natal chart may be discussed as part of a traditional reading, especially when the day branch is involved. Consider the full chart and timing context rather than interpreting one relationship on its own.
Theme and action
Every node's reading lands on "what suits this phase, what to watch" — fortune is a weather forecast, not a verdict.
The program computes; AI interprets
Cycle layout, stem-branch relations, and Ten God mapping are all deterministic code; AI only organizes the computed facts into readable guidance. Computing and interpreting are separate — the former is always verifiable.
How to use
Pick the profile
The timeline follows the active profile — confirm whose chart you are reading at the top first.
Read the decade background first
Use the layer filters to find the current cycle, understand the ten-year tone, then zoom into years and months — forest first, trees second.
Read it against your life
Put each node back into your actual situation: job changes, moving, relationships — use fortune as the reference frame, not the decision maker.
FAQ
How is this different from a zodiac horoscope?
Zodiac horoscopes group people by sign, while BaZi readings use a person's Four Pillars chart and its relationships with timing cycles. People with the same zodiac sign may therefore receive different chart-based interpretations.
Why do two people get different readings on the same day?
Because the current pillars interact with each chart differently: the same year may be wealth for you and officer for them, with different combinations and clashes.
When does the fortune update?
Nodes switch at solar terms: years at Lichun, months at each term. The timeline auto-locates by the current date.
Must I follow every do-and-avoid suggestion?
No. Treat them as traditional interpretive references about themes that may warrant attention, not as probabilities or instructions. Make decisions based on real-world conditions; the reading is only one perspective.
Can AI change my chart or recalculate my fortune?
No. Charting and fortune computation are fully deterministic code; AI only interprets and never touches a stem or branch.
How do I get more out of the reading?
Map it onto your actual phase — job hunting, a relationship, health — paired with the current year's theme, fortune reads best; or ask the AI directly about your concrete situation.