How the Bazi Star Ratings Are Worked Out

A star rating from 1 to 5 shows how a given year, month or ten-year Luck Pillar interacts with your Bazi chart. More stars means the period carries more supportive influences for that area, and fewer stars means more friction. Three stars is neutral. Every rating comes with its reasons, so you can see what drove it.

The five areas are Overall, Career, Wealth, Relationships and Energy & wellbeing. The stars are a reading aid for reflection and planning. They are not a prediction, and they do not replace a full reading.

For reference only. The stars are a general, rule-based guide. For an accurate reading of your own chart, check with Master Mandy Lim: message on WhatsApp.

First the tool estimates whether your Day Master has a lot of its own support. It adds up the elements of the visible characters, with the month branch counted most because it describes the season of birth.

The share of weight that belongs to the Day Master's own element, or the element that produces it, gives the estimate: 50% or more is strong, under 33% is weak, and anything in between is balanced.

• Strong: the helpful elements are the ones that use up energy: output, wealth and authority. Peers and resources are eased off.
• Weak: the helpful elements are the Day Master's own element and the element that produces it.
• Balanced: the scarcest elements (up to two) are treated as helpful, and any element that appears three or more times is eased off.

A year, month or Luck Pillar has its own stem and branch. The tool checks three things.

1. Element fit. Do the period's stem and branch elements belong to your helpful elements (+) or the ones to ease off (−)?
2. Ten Gods. Which Ten God is the period stem, and which are hidden in the period branch (the main hidden stem counts fully, the others 0.4)? These are grouped as peer, output, wealth, officer and resource stars.
3. Branch relations. Does the period branch clash with, combine with, harm or form a punishment with a branch in your chart? A clash scores −1, a punishment −0.6, a harm −0.5 and a combination +0.6, and the effect depends on which pillar it touches.

A period stem that directly clashes with your Day Master (Jia–Geng, Yi–Xin, Bing–Ren, Ding–Gui) lowers Overall and Energy.

Turning scores into stars. The score is centred on 3 stars, multiplied by 1.25, rounded to the nearest half star, and limited to 1 to 5.

• A year is the year pillar's score blended with your current Luck Pillar (75% year, 25% Luck Pillar).
• A month is the month pillar's score blended with that year's score (55% month, 45% year). Bazi months start at solar terms, for example Tiger month begins around 4 February.
• A Luck Pillar is scored on its own stem and branch.

A woman born on 15 June 1990 at 08:30 (UTC+8) has the Day Master Xin (yin Metal). Metal and Earth give her only 19% of the weight, so the tool treats her Day Master as weak, and her helpful elements are Metal and Earth. In 2027 (Ding-Wei, Fire Goat) the year stem is her Seven Killings. The Goat branch combines with both her month and year branches (+), her current Luck Pillar adds a resource star (+), and the Seven Killings stem is heavy for a lighter Day Master (−). The tool shows 4 stars for Career, and lists each of these reasons so you can judge them yourself.

You can reproduce this with the free Bazi calculator. Your own result will differ.

• They use one simplified rule set. A trained reader weighs more, including the season in detail, hidden-stem strength, the Useful God, and combinations of three branches.
• They do not know your circumstances, decisions or questions.
• Without a birth time the Hour pillar is missing, so ratings that touch later life and children are less precise.
• The wellbeing stars are not medical advice.
• The calculator uses the clock time you enter and does not apply true solar time.

If you want the chart read for your own questions and timing, see the online Bazi reading or pricing. For terms, see the Bazi glossary.