Basic Bazi Analysis

Now that you possess the basic knowledge required to analyze a Bazi chart, you should be
able to print out your chart and perform a basic analysis. The best way to read your Bazi
chart as a beginner is to do the following:
1. Get a print out of your Bazi chart by using the online calculator at www.joeyyap.com.
You will need to register--it's free!
2. Once you have the printout of your Bazi chart, you can begin by identifying your Day
Master. Based on your Day Master, you will be able to analyze basic personality types.
3. The next thing you have to do after identifying your Day Master, you need to determine
whether your Day Master is strong or weak. To do this, you must first find out if your Day
Master is born in season by looking at the Month pillar. If your Day Master is born in
season, it is considered strong. If, however, your Day Master is born out of season, it is
considered weak. Refer to Season of Birth table below:

Seasons of Birth
Dead Trap Weak Strong Prosperous Seasons
Earth Metal Water Fire

Wood

Spring

Metal Water Wood Earth

Fire

Summer

Wood Fire
Fire

Earth Water Metal

Earth Metal Wood Water

Autumn
Winter

Hour

Day

Month

Year

Yang Fire

Yin Fire

Yin Wood

Yang Metal

Horse

Snake

Rooster

Rat

Yang Fire

Yin Fire

Yin Metal

Yang Water

For example, the chart above belongs to a Yin Fire person born in Rooster (Yin Metal)
Month or Autumn. If you look at the Seasons of Birth table above, the Day Master in this
chart is considered Trapped.
4. The next step is to determine your Day Master's Favorable and Unfavorable elements.
You can use this information to strengthen or supplement your chart with the right
elements.
Strong Day Master
Favorable

Unfavorable

* Controlling another element

* The same element
* Being controlled by another
element
* Producing another element

* Elements that produces the Day

Master

Weak Day Master

Favorable

Unfavorable
* Controlling another element

* The same element

* Being controlled by another

* Element that produces the Day element
Master
* Producing another element

5. Now that you know your Day Master's Favorable and Unfavorable elements, you can
begin to identify your Resource, Influence, Wealth, Companion, and Output Stars. See the
Five Factors table below:
Day Master Wood Metal Water Earth Fire
Wealth

Earth Wood Fire

Output

Fire

Water Metal

Influence

Metal Fire

Resource

Water Earth Metal Fire

Water Wood Metal Earth

Earth Wood Water
Wood

Companion Wood Metal Water Earth Fire

Based on the table above, you can clearly see that a Wood person's wealth element is
Earth. This means that this person's wealth luck is strong when the Wood element in the
Luck Pillars is strong.
6. You can now look at the Luck Pillars and highlight the Pillars with Favorable elements
with yellow and the Unfavorable elements with red. Look at the following Luck Pillar that
belongs to a Yin Fire Day Master:
86

76

66

56

46

36

26

16

Yang
Fire

Yin Fire

Yang
Earth

Yin
Earth

Yang
Metal

Yin
Metal

Rat

Ox

Tiger

Rabbit

Dragon

Yang
Water

Yin
Earth

Yang
Wood

Yin
Wood

Yang
Earth

Snake
Yin Fire

Yang
Water

Yin
Water

Yang
Wood

Horse

Goat

Monkey

Yang
Fire

Yin
Earth

Yang
Metal

Based on the information above, you can determine which periods in this Ding Fire
person's life is the luckiest.
7. Finally, you can now check all the Earthly Branches and identify their relationship with
each other, e.g., Harms, Punishment, Destruction, and Clash. You may use the 12 Earthly
Branches Relationships Table for quick reference.

Hour

Day

Month

Year

Yang Fire

Yin Fire

Yin Wood

Yang Metal

86

Horse

Snake

Rooster

Rat

Yang Fire

Yin Fire

Yin Metal

Yang Water

76

66

56

46

36

26

16

Yin Fire

Yang
Earth

Yin
Earth

Yang
Metal

Yin
Metal

Yang
Water

Yin
Water

Yang
Wood

Rat

Ox

Tiger

Rabbit

Dragon

Horse

Goat

Monkey

Yang
Water

Yin
Earth

Yang
Wood

Yin
Wood

Yang
Earth

Yang
Fire

Yin
Earth

Yang
Metal

Yang
Fire

Snake
Yin Fire

You can see above that there is a clash between the Horse and the Rat. However, since they
are not next to each other, the negative effect is reduced significantly. Additionally, the Rat
also has a Destruction relationship with the Rooster, which means that this person may be
forced to do something h/she do not want to do. Alcohol abuse (self-punishment) is also a
possibility. Finally, in the Luck Pillars there's a Clash and Harm in the Year (Grandparents)
pillar, a Punishment in the Month (Parents) pillar, and the Si Snake (not marked) in the
Day Master (Spouse) is a Clash and Harm relationship with the Tiger in the Luck Pillar. Of
course that's not all of it. If you look closely, there are more.
Remember this is only basic Bazi information and designed only to teach you how to
identify and analyze certain aspects of a Bazi chart--there are more to the study of Bazi
than what I have provided here.