{"version":"https://jsonfeed.org/version/1.1","title":"BaziRoute Learn BaZi","home_page_url":"https://baziroute.com/learn","feed_url":"https://baziroute.com/feed.json","description":"Plain-English guides to BaZi calculation, structure and interpretation.","language":"en","items":[{"id":"https://baziroute.com/learn/what-is-bazi","url":"https://baziroute.com/learn/what-is-bazi","title":"What Is BaZi?","summary":"A plain-English introduction to the Four Pillars, Day Master, Five Elements and luck cycles.","content_text":"BaZi, also called the Four Pillars of Destiny, is a traditional Chinese system that represents a birth moment as four pairs of Heavenly Stems and Earthly Branches.","date_published":"2026-10-27T00:00:00.000Z","date_modified":"2026-10-27T00:00:00.000Z","tags":["Start here","BaZi","Four Pillars"]},{"id":"https://baziroute.com/learn/how-to-read-a-bazi-chart","url":"https://baziroute.com/learn/how-to-read-a-bazi-chart","title":"How to Read a BaZi Chart","summary":"A step-by-step method for reading the Four Pillars, Day Master, Ten Gods, hidden stems, element labels and calculation uncertainty.","content_text":"Read a BaZi chart in layers. First confirm the input and calculated Four Pillars, then identify the Day Master, map the visible and hidden stem relationships, and only then add interpretation from a named tradition. This sequence prevents symbolic commentary from quietly changing the chart facts.","date_published":"2026-10-27T00:00:00.000Z","date_modified":"2026-10-27T00:00:00.000Z","tags":["Start here","BaZi","Four Pillars"]},{"id":"https://baziroute.com/learn/five-elements","url":"https://baziroute.com/learn/five-elements","title":"Five Elements in BaZi","summary":"Understand Wood, Fire, Earth, Metal and Water beyond simple personality labels.","content_text":"The Five Elements describe patterns of movement and relationship. They are not five ingredients with fixed numerical scores in every tradition.","date_published":"2026-10-27T00:00:00.000Z","date_modified":"2026-10-27T00:00:00.000Z","tags":["Core concepts","BaZi","Four Pillars"]},{"id":"https://baziroute.com/learn/ten-gods","url":"https://baziroute.com/learn/ten-gods","title":"The Ten Gods in BaZi","summary":"How the Ten Gods organize relationships between the Day Master and every other stem.","content_text":"The Ten Gods are relationship categories, not literal deities. They describe how another element stands in relation to the Day Master.","date_published":"2026-10-27T00:00:00.000Z","date_modified":"2026-10-27T00:00:00.000Z","tags":["Core concepts","BaZi","Four Pillars"]},{"id":"https://baziroute.com/learn/luck-pillars","url":"https://baziroute.com/learn/luck-pillars","title":"BaZi Luck Pillars","summary":"How ten-year cycles add timing layers to a natal Four Pillars chart.","content_text":"Luck pillars, often translated as Da Yun, divide later life into roughly ten-year periods represented by stem-and-branch pairs.","date_published":"2026-10-27T00:00:00.000Z","date_modified":"2026-10-27T00:00:00.000Z","tags":["Time and cycles","BaZi","Four Pillars"]},{"id":"https://baziroute.com/learn/true-solar-time","url":"https://baziroute.com/learn/true-solar-time","title":"True Solar Time in BaZi","summary":"Why a birth clock time is not always the same as the Sun’s local time.","content_text":"True solar time adjusts civil clock time for longitude and the annual equation of time. Some BaZi practitioners use it; others do not.","date_published":"2026-10-27T00:00:00.000Z","date_modified":"2026-10-27T00:00:00.000Z","tags":["Calculation method","BaZi","Four Pillars"]},{"id":"https://baziroute.com/learn/solar-terms-and-bazi","url":"https://baziroute.com/learn/solar-terms-and-bazi","title":"Solar Terms and BaZi Year Boundaries","summary":"How Lichun and the monthly jie boundaries are calculated, why they differ from January 1 and Lunar New Year, and when a birth time is close enough to matter.","content_text":"BaZi year and month pillars are tied to solar terms, not the civil calendar. The year commonly changes at Lichun, when the Sun reaches 315 degrees of apparent ecliptic longitude under BaziRoute’s current rule profile. The month changes at one of twelve jie boundaries.","date_published":"2026-10-27T00:00:00.000Z","date_modified":"2026-10-27T00:00:00.000Z","tags":["Calculation method","BaZi","Four Pillars"]},{"id":"https://baziroute.com/learn/historical-time-zones","url":"https://baziroute.com/learn/historical-time-zones","title":"Historical Time Zones in BaZi Calculation","summary":"Why older birth times need more than a current UTC offset, and how IANA history, daylight saving, war-time changes and sourced manual overrides affect a chart.","content_text":"A birthplace and birth time are only useful after the correct historical civil offset has been identified. Modern time zones are not reliable substitutes for the rules in force at the birth date, especially before 1970. Daylight saving, war-time changes and administrative decisions can all affect the local instant used by the chart.","date_published":"2026-10-27T00:00:00.000Z","date_modified":"2026-10-27T00:00:00.000Z","tags":["Calculation method","BaZi","Four Pillars"]},{"id":"https://baziroute.com/learn/bazi-vs-chinese-zodiac","url":"https://baziroute.com/learn/bazi-vs-chinese-zodiac","title":"BaZi vs the Chinese Zodiac","summary":"Understand why a zodiac animal comes from one year branch while a BaZi chart uses the year, month, day and hour with a Day Master at its center.","content_text":"The Chinese zodiac animal and a BaZi chart are related but not interchangeable. The familiar animal comes mainly from a year branch. A complete BaZi chart contains four stem-and-branch pairs and analyzes their relationships around a Day Master. The distinction matters most around calendar boundaries and whenever a reading tries to infer a whole life from one animal.","date_published":"2026-10-27T00:00:00.000Z","date_modified":"2026-10-27T00:00:00.000Z","tags":["Start here","BaZi","Four Pillars"]},{"id":"https://baziroute.com/learn/bazi-compatibility","url":"https://baziroute.com/learn/bazi-compatibility","title":"How BaZi Compatibility Works","summary":"Compare two charts by Day Master relation, mutual Ten Gods and same-pillar branch interactions without a compatibility score.","content_text":"BaZi compatibility compares structures between two calculated charts. It does not ask an AI to decide whether two people are fated to be together. The first useful step is to calculate both charts and keep the structural facts separate from assumptions about behavior.","date_published":"2026-10-27T00:00:00.000Z","date_modified":"2026-10-27T00:00:00.000Z","tags":["Two-chart comparison","BaZi","Four Pillars"]},{"id":"https://baziroute.com/learn/day-master-guide","url":"https://baziroute.com/learn/day-master-guide","title":"How to Find Your Day Master","summary":"Find the Heavenly Stem of your Day Pillar and learn what it does in a BaZi chart.","content_text":"Your Day Master is the Heavenly Stem of the Day Pillar. It gives the reading a stable reference point, but it is only one part of the chart.","date_published":"2026-10-27T00:00:00.000Z","date_modified":"2026-10-27T00:00:00.000Z","tags":["Start here","BaZi","Four Pillars"]}]}