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BaZi Library

A concise reference for core terms and reading schools used across YinYang Agent.

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Five Elements

Wood, Fire, Earth, Metal, and Water as the core interaction vocabulary for chart structure.

A BaZi chart is one input among many — upbringing, choices, and effort all shape an outcome. These entries explain the terms as a reference, not a prediction.

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BaZiThe four-pillar method named for the eight stem-and-branch characters of a birth time.
Five ElementsWood, Fire, Earth, Metal, and Water as the core interaction vocabulary for chart structure.
Four PillarsA chart framework based on the year, month, day, and hour pillars of birth time.
Yin and YangThe complementary two-pole polarity assigned to every stem, branch, and element.
Generating CycleThe productive sequence in which each element nourishes the next.
Controlling CycleThe overcoming sequence in which each element restrains another.
Heavenly StemsThe ten ordinal symbols, each carrying one element and a yin-yang polarity.
Earthly BranchesThe twelve ordinal symbols tied to zodiac animals, double-hours, and hidden stems.
Hidden StemsThe one to three heavenly stems concealed within each earthly branch.
Sexagenary CycleThe sixty stem-and-branch combinations used to label years, months, days, and hours.
Day MasterThe heavenly stem of the day pillar, used as the reference point for many BaZi relationships.
Ten GodsA relationship system that maps other stems to the Day Master through element and yin-yang polarity.
Ten-God GroupsThe five paired families the Ten Gods fall into, grouped by their relation to the Day Master.
Ten-God AnalysisA relational reading method centered on how chart elements act toward the Day Master.
Day Master StrengthAn assessment of whether the Day Master is well supported or drained within the chart.
Month CommandThe earthly branch of the month pillar, the most weighted factor in judging strength and structure.
Element BalancingA practical reading lens for identifying overrepresented and underrepresented element patterns.
Useful and Favorable ElementsThe element a chart is read as needing, with the favorable and unfavorable elements derived from it.
Chart StructureThe organizing pattern of a chart, usually named from the dominant Ten-God of the month branch.
Climate BalancingCorrecting a chart's temperature and moisture by season, independent of raw strength.
Luck PillarsLonger timing cycles used to compare life periods against the natal chart.
Luck-Pillar TimingA timing approach that compares longer cycles with the natal chart and current questions.
Annual PillarsThe stem-and-branch pair of a specific year, the most granular common timing layer.
CombinationsThe principle of two stems or branches bonding and possibly transforming an element.
ClashesThe principle of two opposing branches colliding and exposing their hidden stems.
Casting the ChartConverting a birth date and time into the four stem-and-branch pillars.
The Reading WorkflowThe end-to-end sequence practitioners follow when approaching a chart.
Reading Luck and Annual CyclesOverlaying luck pillars and yearly cycles on the natal chart through their interactions.
One Fate, Two Luck, Three Feng ShuiA Qing-era folk maxim ranking the factors traditionally said to shape a life.
Modifying One's FateThe traditional idea that one's life is not wholly fixed and can be reshaped through conduct.
Liaofan's Four LessonsA Ming-dynasty family text arguing that cultivating goodness and humility can change one's fate.
Accumulating Hidden VirtueThe tradition's emphasis on doing good — especially quietly — as a factor a person controls.
Self-Cultivation, Study, and HabitThe classical view that conduct, learning, and habit are the agency-bearing complements to fate-reading.
Feng ShuiA traditional form of geomancy, included only as adjacent context to the birth chart.
Schools and LineagesThe major methodological traditions of BaZi, whose boundaries are fuzzy and a matter of emphasis.
Classical TextsThe handful of historical treatises that anchor the BaZi tradition.

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