GLOSSARY
Understand the term, then return to your question.
Short definitions for reading a chart without turning your life into a textbook.
Ten Gods
Shows autonomy, peers, and resources held in your own hands.
Rob WealthShows competition, partnership boundaries, and divided resources.
Eating GodShows steady output, craft, products, and the capacity to enjoy.
Hurting OfficerShows expression, rule-breaking, and turning skill into influence.
Direct WealthShows steady income, clients, cash flow, and practical duty.
Indirect WealthShows opportunity income, deals, networks, and resource leverage.
Direct OfficerShows rules, position, responsibility, and formal recognition.
Seven KillingsShows pressure, decisive action, risk, and hard competition.
Direct ResourceShows learning, protection, credentials, and senior support.
Indirect ResourceShows unconventional learning, intuition, and original solutions.
Twelve Palaces
The baseline of temperament and how you meet the world.
Siblings PalaceShows siblings, peers, partners, and lateral relationships.
Spouse PalaceShows partner traits, relationship patterns, and marital pressure.
Children PalaceShows children, juniors, intimacy, and people you lead.
Wealth PalaceShows earning style, cash flow, and financial choices.
Health PalaceShows constitutional tendencies, stress response, and recovery rhythm.
Travel PalaceShows travel, relocation, public image, and outside opportunity.
Friends PalaceShows friends, colleagues, teams, and network quality.
Career PalaceShows work style, career direction, and achievement path.
Property PalaceShows home, property, stored wealth, and stability.
Wellbeing PalaceShows inner wellbeing, enjoyment, and long-term mental strain.
Parents PalaceShows parents, seniors, managers, documents, and family origin.
Zi Wei Stars
Governs leadership, dignity, and command.
Tian JiGoverns thought, change, planning, and sensitivity.
Tai YangGoverns public influence, duty, and giving.
Wu QuGoverns execution, discipline, finance, and hard skill.
Tian TongGoverns ease, harmony, feeling, and quality of life.
Lian ZhenGoverns boundaries, desire, complex ties, and principle.
Tian FuGoverns stewardship, resources, reserves, and stability.
Tai YinGoverns accumulation, subtlety, inner security, and hidden wealth.
Tan LangGoverns desire, charm, talent, and varied opportunity.
Ju MenGoverns speech, doubt, negotiation, and dispute.
Tian XiangGoverns cooperation, standing, systems, and support.
Tian LiangGoverns protection, experience, principle, and resolution.
Qi ShaGoverns pioneering action, decision, pressure, and command.
Po JunGoverns disruption, rebuilding, cost, and a fresh start.
Bazi Basics
Two forces that alternate, complement, and transform.
Five ElementsWood, Fire, Earth, Metal, and Water describe relations and flow.
Heavenly StemsShows visible drives, acting style, and Ten-God roles.
Earthly BranchesShows roots, environment, timing, and concealed force.
Stems and BranchesStems and Branches together form the full timing structure.
Hidden StemsShows forces concealed inside each Earthly Branch.
Day MasterRepresents the person and anchors strength and Ten-God analysis.
Month CommandThe seasonal command and first measure of chart strength.
StrengthWeighs season, roots, visible support, control, and output.
Useful ElementThe chart's needed balancing direction, not a simple missing element.
Favorable ElementA force that supports the useful element and smoother flow.
Unfavorable ElementA force that can deepen imbalance and must be read with timing.
Na YinA sixty-pillar image system used as supporting context.
VoidShows where force may feel absent, delayed, or become real later.
Self SeatShows how the branch beneath a stem supports or restrains it.
Shen ShaAuxiliary markers that must be checked against structure and timing.
Tai YuanA supporting view of prenatal tone and early-life background.
Ming GongA supporting Bazi life palace used to refine life emphasis.
Shen GongA supporting body palace showing later effort and lived direction.
Luck PillarA ten-year phase that amplifies particular chart dynamics.
Annual FlowThe year's outside weather: which matters get triggered now.
Favourable ElementsThe force a chart most needs once it leans too far one way.
Monthly FlowSolar-term months used to pin down concrete windows.
ClashTwo forces meeting head-on, often bringing change or movement.
CombineTwo forces holding each other: support, or being tied down.