Four Pillars of Destiny

The part worth knowing is not what kind of person you are. It is which ten-year stretch you are standing in.

An example — someone born 1990-04-12. Yours takes about ten seconds.

You didn't change. The chapter did.

We read the years you have already lived — and describe them.
You decide whether it is right. You lived them; nobody has to take our word for it.
Only then do you pay, and only for the part you cannot check yet.

Free. No signup, no email, no card. Ten seconds, and you can leave with it. And no questions about you — anyone can be right after asking. Being right from a date alone is the entire point.

Date of birthUse the ordinary calendar date. If the only date you have is a lunar one, look up its solar equivalent first — entered as it stands it puts the whole chart on the wrong month.Time of birthLeave it if you don't know — your chapter years come out the same either way. It is worth digging out, though. Without it the chart is read on six slots instead of eight, and measured across twenty readings that costs more than it sounds: how far a description sits from one that would fit anyone drops by about a third.Where you were bornNot for the record — the chart is built from the clock where you were born, so a birth abroad needs that place and not this one. Pick the nearest city in the same time zone.

Sex at birth

MaleFemale

This sets which direction your chapters run in.

Your birth date, and nothing else.

Four pillars, and then the thing on top of them

The four pillars are the year, month, day and hour of a birth, each written as a pair of symbols. The day's first symbol is the reference point everything else is read against — it stands for the person.

On its own that produces a character sketch, which is unfalsifiable and therefore not very interesting. What makes this system different from a natal chart is the layer above it: the luck cycles, which cut a life into ten-year periods and give each one a distinct character. That produces claims with dates attached, and a claim with a date on it can be checked against what actually happened.

Why ten years

Each cycle advances one step along the same sequence the months follow, so the period changes wholesale rather than drifting. The consequence people notice is that a difficult stretch is bounded: it started in a particular year and it ends in a particular year, and the period after it has a different character by construction.

What you get here

Free: the full list of your chapters, and a description of the years you have already lived through in the current one — the part you can check. Paid: what the current chapter is for, the year it ends, and what the next one brings.