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Saju (사주) is the Korean name for the Four Pillars system that Chinese calls BaZi and Japanese calls 四柱推命: eight characters worked out from the moment you were born. These guides explain how a chart is built, what its parts are called and what the tradition associates with them, with sources, and with the odd aside from Horan, a fictional tiger.
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- What is saju?Saju is the Korean name for the Four Pillars chart (BaZi in Chinese, 四柱推命 in Japanese). What it is, where it comes from, and what it can and can’t do.
- Saju, BaZi and 四柱推命: what’s the same and what differsKorean saju, Chinese BaZi and Japanese 四柱推命 build the same eight-character chart. What’s shared, what differs in names and habits, and what doesn’t.
- How to read a saju chartRead a saju (BaZi, 四柱推命) chart step by step: the four pillars, ten stems, twelve branches, hidden stems, Day Master, twelve stages and void, with tables.
- The ten gods (십신)The ten gods (십신, 十神, 通変星) of saju and BaZi: the rule behind them, a 10×10 lookup table, Korean and Japanese names, and what each is associated with.
- What’s my element? There are two answersTwo answers: your year element (last digit of your birth year, counted from Ipchun) and your Day Master element, the one saju and BaZi actually read.
The Korean zodiac
2027, the Fire Goat year
- 2027 is the Year of the Fire Goat (丁未, Ding Wei)2027 is 丁未, the Fire Goat (Korea's Red Sheep). When it starts (Feb 3, 8:46 PM ET), its 12 month pillars and what it emphasizes for each Day Master.
- Ipchun: the moment your zodiac year actually changesIpchun 2027 is 8:46 PM ET on Feb 3 (10:46 AM Feb 4 in Seoul). Why it, not Lunar New Year, sets your saju year, with every year since 1930.
- Your zodiac animal and the 2027 Fire GoatWhat 2027 (丁未) means for each of the 12 zodiac animals in saju: the clash, the combination and the folklore, with no predictions. Then check your chart.
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