Consult the Yi, read the pattern of a life —
and keep the steering wheel in your own hands.
2026 is 丙午 Bǐng Wǔ — the Fire Horse year; on 4 February 2027 the wheel turns to 丁未 Dīng Wèi, the Fire Goat. Your sign is set by your birth year — and the year turns at 立春 Lìchūn, not on 1 January, so a January or early-February birthday may belong to the animal before. Tap a sign to read its character and its 2026 & 2027 notes, or run the finder: it uses the same solar-term engine as our BaZi charts, so the two always agree.
Most astrology sites hand your birth date to a language model and read you the story it invents. WenYiJu does the older thing: a deterministic engine computes your chart by the classical rules — solar terms 节气 set the month pillar, 立春 Lìchūn opens the year, your local birth time is converted to the Beijing-time basis and can be corrected to true solar time 真太阳时 by birthplace longitude. Same birth data in, same chart out — and every paragraph of the report carries a basis line naming the rule it came from. The Chinese terms stay, with pinyin, because they are the method's own vocabulary.
Born 15 June 1990, 10:30 · male — pillars 庚午 壬午 辛亥 癸巳, Day Master 辛 Xīn Metal. The Character chapter opens:
“You are 辛 Xīn Metal — the finished jewel, not the ore. Refined, exacting, quietly proud: this day master notices the flaw in the diamond and the hairline crack in the story. Beneath the polish there is real hardness — jewellery-grade steel.”
Each year the nine stars 九星 move house. In 2027 丁未 Dīng Wèi (from 立春, 4 February), star 9 九紫 takes the centre: the wealth star 八白 visits the south-east, while Five Yellow 五黄 — the year's corner to keep quiet — sits in the north. Here is the year's chart; the full page turns it into room-by-room guidance.
The chart is the house's weather — your Kua 命卦 is your own compass. From your birth year alone it names your four favourable directions — 生气 Shēngqì (vitality), 天医 Tiānyī (health), 延年 Yánnián (relationships), 伏位 Fúwèi (stability) — and the full report scores every direction of the 2027 chart against them.
BaZi — “eight characters” — writes the moment of your birth as four pillars: year, month, day and hour. Each pillar is one Heavenly Stem 天干 over one Earthly Branch 地支. The stem of the day pillar is your Day Master 日主 — the “you” of the chart — and the reading studies how the five elements 五行 in the pattern feed and check each other, and how the ten-year luck cycles 大运 move through it. Less a star sign, more a wiring diagram — drawn by rules that have been stable for a thousand years.
Your zodiac sign 生肖 comes from the year pillar alone — one animal shared by everyone born in the same year. A BaZi chart uses the full date and time, down to the double-hour, so it is yours alone. On this site we say: the zodiac is the costume, the chart is the body. Start with the costume if you like — then cast the chart.
Yes — with one honest caveat. The year, month and day pillars do not depend on the hour at all, and they carry most of the reading. If the hour is unknown, enter noon as the traditional stand-in: the hour pillar is then read lightly, and the passages that lean on it say so. If you later find the birth time — a certificate, a parent's memory — cast again; the first three pillars will not have changed.
We don't sell it as that. WenYiJu presents BaZi, the zodiac, flying-star feng shui and the almanac as classical Chinese culture — a traditional language for describing patterns and tendencies. Nothing here is a prediction, and nothing is a basis for medical, legal or financial decisions. Know the pattern, not the fate — and keep the steering wheel in your own hands.
The chart itself and the Character chapter are free in full, right now, in your browser. The other five chapters open with the Full BaZi Report: one card payment of $29.99, and when you return, the whole report is unlocked on this device — no account to create.
Because they are the technical vocabulary of the system — as Sanskrit is to yoga, or French to ballet. 天干 Tiāngān and 地支 Dìzhī are not decoration: each names a distinction the method itself makes, and a loose English paraphrase would blur it. Every kept term arrives with its pinyin and a plain-English note at first use, so nothing is left as a mystery — but the original word stays on the page.
English at home, Chinese at the grandparents' table? WenYiJu also reads Chinese names — what a name sounds like, and what it carries — and helps choose one for a baby, bilingually.
BaZi (八字, "eight characters") records a birth moment as four pillars — year, month, day, hour — each written with one Heavenly Stem 天干 (ten: 甲乙丙丁戊己庚辛壬癸) over one Earthly Branch 地支 (twelve: 子丑寅卯辰巳午未申酉戌亥). The day stem is the Day Master 日主 — the "you" of the chart. Solar terms, not calendar months, set the month pillar. Enter the birth date and time as it was locally where you were born: we convert it to Beijing time, the classical basis, before casting.
The 生肖 Shēngxiào — the twelve animal signs — is the front door of Chinese astrology: the sign you can find from a birth year alone, the one printed on calendars, red packets and restaurant placemats from Taipei to Toronto. Each year is carried by one animal and one heavenly stem 天干, and the pair repeats every sixty years.
One detail matters, and many quick calculators get it wrong: the zodiac year turns at 立春 Lìchūn — the Beginning of Spring, around 4 February — not on 1 January and not on Lunar New Year. Born in January or the first days of February, your animal may belong to the previous year. This page runs on the same solar-term engine as our BaZi charts, so the two always agree.
The year notes are written for each sign as a whole — weather for a twelfth of humanity, in the traditional style. They describe tendencies and suggest postures; they are not predictions about any one life. For the reading that is actually about you — your day master, your elements, your luck cycles — that is the BaZi chart.
In the 玄空飞星 Xuánkōng Fēixīng school — "Flying Stars" — nine numbered stars move through the nine palaces of a home on a yearly cycle. Each year a different star takes the centre, and the whole chart turns with it: the corner that fed your work last year may be the corner to keep quiet this year. Below: the year's chart, plain-English guidance for every direction, and your personal 命卦 Mìngguà (Kua) number — the half of classical feng shui that is about you, not the house.
How to use the chart: stand at the centre of your home with a compass (a phone compass is fine) and divide the floor plan into the eight directions. The chart is drawn the traditional way — south at the top. The guidance is about furniture, light, clutter and use — the everyday levers — offered as cultural practice and entertainment, not as a promise about events.
The Eight Mansions 八宅 school gives every person a Kua number 命卦 from their birth year and sex. It sorts you into the East group 东四命 or the West group 西四命 and names your four auspicious directions — the ones tradition favours for your bed head, your desk and your door. The year is counted from 立春 Lìchūn, exactly as in BaZi: a January birthday may belong to the year before, and this calculator handles that for you.
Where the two halves meet: your four personal directions, read against the flying stars visiting those same corners of your home in the year you choose. Find your Kua number in step 3 first — then combine. The first two directions are on the house; the full room-by-room plan opens with the report.
Settle on one specific question, then shake. Each shake tosses three coins: heads count 3, tails count 2 — a total of 6, 7, 8 or 9 builds one line, from the bottom up, six times. We read trends and suggestions only — never verdicts.
看名 — reading a Chinese name. This page is written for the Chinese diaspora and for cross-cultural families: parents choosing a Chinese name for a child, and adults who carry one — given by grandparents, chosen for study, work or marriage — and want to see how it sounds and what it carries. English for the explanation, 中文 for the name itself: if your name is written in characters, it can be read — meaning first, sound second, structure third.
起名 Qǐmíng — naming the classical way, written for Chinese and cross-cultural families: if one parent grew up with a naming master 命名师 and the other with a baby-name book, this page is where the two traditions meet. The engine reads the baby's own BaZi chart, draws characters from the elements the chart welcomes, filters them by the zodiac's preferred radicals 偏旁， and checks the sound against your surname. Enter the surname in Chinese characters — 李， 王， 陈 — and read the suggestions together.
One stick per day, drawn from a classical set of sixteen. Think of a question, breathe, and draw. The same day always draws the same stick — it is a thought for the day, not a reroll.
One short email a week: the days ahead in the almanac 黄历， one idea from the classics worth sitting with, and first word of new readings. Free — traditional culture and quiet entertainment, never fortune-telling, never spam.
Legend credits Yuan Tiangang 袁天罡 of the Tang dynasty with "weighing" a birth: the year, month, day and hour each carry a weight in liang 两 and qian 钱 (10 qian = 1 liang). The total — from 2.1 to 7.3 liang — points to one of 53 classical verses. One unified table for everyone. Note: this page weighs by the Gregorian month and day — a popular modern simplification of the lunar original. Kept here as folk custom and parlour entertainment, exactly as it has been passed around for a thousand years.
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