I notice an awful lot of people are searching for BaZi calculators. Hmmm. Hadn’t realised they were quite that hard to find.
There are several free websites out there that offer free BaZi calculators (requiring the requisite sign up before you can use it but rarely asking for money).
I think more accurate to the point is the fact that not all calculators out there are created equal. Joey Yap’s BaZi Ming Pan calculator is 99 percent error free and Joey has put a lot of resources into developing it. It’s free to use but requires registration – do the needful and get the chart this way. This calculator will accurately generate your BaZi (Four Pillars) and Luck Pillars but it currently includes a profiling system developed by Joey – I do not really subscribe to some of the views relating to the profiling system so my recommendation is just to use the calculator to obtain the BaZi, but take the profiling stuff at face value.
I have had some people write to me to ask about calculators that use the Lunar method to compute the BaZi chart. I have looked into these calculators and as far as I can tell, it does not make sense.
BaZi is a system derived from the Solar calendar (vs the Lunar Calendar). As such, it is ridiculous to use the Lunar Calendar to compute the BaZi chart. The correct astrological system that is to be used with the Lunar Calendar is Zi Wei Dou Shu or Purple Star Astrology. BaZi is on the other hand designed for use with the Solar Calendar, because it ties into Feng Shui.
For Westerners, the Lunar calendar is of no significance to you because your date of birth is not expressed in a Lunar calendar context. It is expressed in a Gregorian calendar context, which is easily cross-referenced to the Solar Calendar using any old Ten Thousand Year Calendar aka Chinese Almanac to obtain the BaZi chart.
If you are Asian and born in the last 60 years, you will also likely have a birth certificate that records your date of birth in Gregorian calendar terms. So again, no problems with plotting the BaZi chart. Where the Lunar calendar usually comes into play is when a person is born on a certain date, but the birth certificate reflects not the date of birth, but the date of birth registration. This is common in some Asian countries for citizens over the age of 50 who may have been born in a village or a place far out in the boonies. In such instances, the person usually knows their Lunar Calendar birthday – only in that instance need a conversion take place to the Solar Calendar date, to obtain the BaZi chart.
Otherwise, the Solar and Lunar calendar really are like East and West. They do not meet.
It ain’t rocket science getting your BaZi chart. What you do have to be careful about is using a reliable calculator. There are certain calculators out there which are wrong when it comes to the Branches, particularly the Pig (Hai) branch. And of course, I do not agree with the calculator that using a mixture of Solar and Lunar calendars for the obvious reasons above (the inventors obviously have their own reasoning – I just don’t agree with it).
Has the Joey Yap BaZi Ming Pan ever been wrong?
I have had clients who have come to see me, insisting the Joey Yap calculator is wrong, when in fact, their personal calculation was wrong due to a certain common mistake they made with computing the transit point of each month. The calculator is only as fallible as the person who uses it (wrong date input perhaps?) but being a machine, it of course, is open to possible error (although I have yet to come across one in a consultation).
As such, when in doubt, we refer to the Ten Thousand Year Calendar itself. And that, cannot be wrong for sure.
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Very nice tips. Thanks for sharing!
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Hi ,
I ‘m confused very much about using bazi to determent favourite colors and jobs. My fengshui adviser told me that wood and fire( as color :red, green ) are my favorable elements and travel agent are not suit for me to pursues(water element’s job) but in there is one site(I won’t mention which one) that I found , they said opposite!!!!
Please help, tell me what you think ! I’m very confused!!!!!
My birthday is May 13 1967 , female at 5am , south Vietnam. I live in Canada now.
Thank you,
Lina
@Lina – as you have a feng shui advisor, perhaps you should take up this matter with him/her. Out of professional courtesy, and without actually knowing what he/she told you, I cannot comment on your questions because that would be inappropriate.
That being said, please note that
a) websites are free. So they can say anything they want and are not answerable for the advice they give. I assume you paid your Feng Shui advisor, to which, he/she is accountable/answerable to you for the advice they give.
b) your feng shui advisor is advising you on your FENG SHUI which relates to your living space and work space. BaZi is connected to that but relates to your life path if you like so in one sense, why are you taking advice on your career from your Feng Shui consultant unless he/she has also seen your BaZi? It’s not the same thing.
c) In any case, colours only amount to 10% of psychological value in BaZi. And the school of Feng Shui that I subscribe to has absolutely ZERO opinion on colours because that’s really not that important.
Hi ,
Thank you for your reply.
My Bazi were also read , that’s the thing. I love travel very much and have been to lots of places. Now, I’m unemployed after 15 years of steady job and would like to try something new…But I’m told because I’m a double fire person and travel is consider water , it would be against my fire element….I reach out to you because I need second opinion here, Madame. Please give me some advice.
Respectfully,
Lina.
@ Lina – Travel is considered Water confirm. on the other issues, for professional reasons, I cannot comment.
Hi there,
I was born on the 4th March 1981, at 23.30pm….. I’m confused what to put as my DOB in calculating my bazi whether on the 5th or 4th…
Many thanks
4th.
Hi,
Can you give a free overview if possible regarding my bday if Im gonna be successful or not november 18 1987 7.30am