About

Older than the zodiac.
Read from the calendar,
not the sky.

FateForm casts a BaZi chart — the four pillars of your birth time — and reads it back to you in plain language. No horoscope, no daily forecast, no sign.

I

What a chart actually is

Western astrology asks where the planets were. This asks what the calendar said. The Chinese sexagenary calendar names every year, month, day and hour with a pair of characters, and the pair sitting over your day of birth is the day master — the one of ten that the rest of the reading is measured against.

历 I

Your birth time becomes a calendar date

Not the Gregorian date — the Chinese sexagenary calendar, which counts in sixty-unit cycles rather than months. The boundary between one month and the next is a solar term, an astronomical event, not the first of the month.

柱 II

The date becomes eight characters

Year, month, day and hour each take a stem and a branch. Ten stems, twelve branches, eight positions. This is the chart, and it is fixed for life.

读 III

The chart is read against itself

What the reading looks for is imbalance — which of the five elements crowds the chart, which is missing, and what the day stem has to work with. The interpretation follows from the distribution.

II

How this one is built

Most free BaZi calculators round the hour and approximate the solar term. Both errors move the chart.

Calculation Solar terms from astronomical ephemeris, not from an approximate table. Hour pillars use true solar time for the birth longitude, so the same clock time in Chengdu and Shanghai does not produce the same hour branch.
What we store Nothing that identifies you. A reading lives at its own link; there is no account and no email required.
What this is not Not prediction. A chart describes a starting condition and a set of tendencies. It does not contain events, and anyone who tells you it does is selling something else.
Tradition Zi Ping BaZi, the classical four-pillars method as it settled in the Song dynasty. Where schools disagree — and on hidden stems they disagree a great deal — the reading says so rather than picking silently.

Ten seconds, and no account.

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