What is Four Pillars of Destiny

Four Pillars of Destiny is also known as BaZi Chinese Astrology.

Ba Zi: means  Ba = Eight,  Zi = Word.

Chinese Astrology Bazi or Four Pillars of Destiny which use the birth day and birth time (year, month, day and time) as a data source to read or analyse a person's whole life. By calculating the Four Pillars Bazi Chinese Astrology chart with Luck Pillar and Yearly Pillar, a Chinese Astrology consultant can analyse weatlh, relationships, career and many other aspects of an individuals' destiny.

In Chinese Astrology the Heavenly Stems and Earthly Branches are used to represent the year, month, day and time of a persons birth date.

Each BaZi, Chinese Astrology chart has a year pillar, month pillar, day pillar (also called Day Master) and hour pillar - For each pillar consists of one Heavenly Stem and one Earthly Branch -  Four pillars x 2 Chinese Characters which creates eight words (Bazi - Eight Characters) in total. The correct way in Chinese Astrology to write out a BaZi Chinese Astrology chart is starting at the right hand side with the Heavenly Stem year then work left to the time and repeat the process by moving down to the Earthly Branch year (see example below).

1955 October, 28, 0700-0900 (This is an example of a very wealthy mans' Four Pillars Chinese Astrology Bazi chart)