BaZi · Zi Wei Dou Shu · Qi Men
Know your season. Time your moves.
Your birth chart, read through classic Chinese astrology in plain English. Free, private, under a minute.
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How it works
- 1
Enter when and where you were born
Date, time (or a rough window), birth city and sex at birth. We apply the right time-zone rules for that place and year.
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Meet your core chart
Your chart’s centre of gravity, shown as one of ten core essences — with the classical terms one tap away.
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Get your daily season
A short morning reading on what to lean into and what to go easy on, read from your chart and the day’s energy.
Meet the archetypes
Ten core essences. Everyone has one at the centre of their chart.
The Steadfast Pillar
Unwavering conviction and principled leadership — deep moral roots, whose shadow is rigidity under pressure.
The Resilient Weaver
Ultimate adaptability and connection — cut down to the root, only to quietly bloom again.
The Luminary
Boundless generosity and warmth — charismatic and giving, with anger that flares and fades like a solar storm.
The Alchemist's Flame
Intense, transformative focus — turning raw experience into art or wisdom, but holding onto old embers.
The Silent Sentinel
Absolute stoicism and trust — an unmoving mountain that risks a quiet avalanche of buried feeling.
The Nurturing Garden
Unconditional empathy and care — fertile soil for others to grow in, if its own boundaries can hold.
The Arbiter's Blade
Justice, endurance, and raw execution — decisive and honest, learning the grace of gentleness.
The Refined Artisan
Aesthetic perfection and sharp intellect — elegant and exacting, sensitive to criticism.
The Boundless Tide
Extroverted curiosity and restless freedom — visionary and adaptable, wary of stagnation.
The Pervasive Mist
Ultimate intuition and unseen currents — a mystic prone to overthinking and quiet alienation.
Same chart, two ways to read it.
Every chart on Sky & Season has two readings of the same calculation: the Inner Constellation tells it as a story, in plain words; Classic shows the traditional chart underneath. Try it on a sample.
Sample · Mei’s chart
Core essence
The Boundless Tide
Extroverted curiosity and restless freedom — visionary and adaptable, wary of stagnation.
Mei tends to move around obstacles rather than through them, carries a lot beneath a calm surface, and recovers fast. That is how the Inner Constellation reads her chart: no terms to learn.
Mei is fictional. Nothing here is a real person’s chart.
Explore Mei’s full sample chart →Your Daily Season
A short reading each morning: what today tends to reward for you, what to go easy on, and why — in one line.
Try 7 days freeToday’s season for The Resilient Weaver
A quiet-building day. Finish what is half-done.
Why: the day’s energy meets your chart as The Steward — it tends to reward patience and completion more than bold starts.
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