Bazi, commonly known as the “Four Pillars of Destiny” or “The Eight Characters,” is an ancient Chinese system of charting a person’s destiny based on his birth. The information generates a chart four columns wide and two rows high that includes information about the person’s marriage, life, future, income and relationships. A person uses the charts to gain insight into his future and prepare for the fate life has dealt him. Charts can be generated using online websites or manually.
Obtain your full birth data, including date, time of birth and the time zone you were born in.
Draw a chart that is four columns wide and two rows high. Allow enough space in the chart to draw your Chinese symbols. The spaces can be as large or as small as you are comfortable with, based on your Chinese symbol writing capabilities.
Find the page for the year of your birth in the Chinese Alamance, also known as the “Ten Thousand Years Calendar,” based on your gender. There will be two symbols immediately before the year in the series of symbols at the top of the page. Place the next to the last symbol in the last box on the first row of your chart. Then place the last symbol in the last box on the second row.
Locate the month of your birth across the top of the year page of the Alamance. This is the second pillar for your chart. There are two symbols for the month, one for each row in the chart. Place the first symbol in the third box on the top row of your chart. The second symbol goes in the third box on the second row of the chart.
Locate the day of your birth in the left most column on the page. Record the first symbol in the second box on the first row of your chart and the second symbol in the third box on the second row.
Slide your finger down the column to the day of your birth. Place the symbol that appears there in the first box on the first row of your chart.
Locate the Chinese symbol for the day of your birth on the top of the Day Master chart in the Alamance.
Use the column on the left to find the hour you were born, based on the 24 hour clock system. For example 8 p.m. is represented on the line for “19-21.” The symbol that follows the hour is your hour symbol and should be placed in the first box on row two.
Follow the line across to the day of your birth. Where the day and the hour of your birth intersect on the Day Master chart provides you with the symbol for the first box on row one. This will provide verification that you have gotten the symbol correct.