Saju Glossary
From what the Four Pillars are to Manseryeok calculation standards, Day Master, Day Pillar, Five Elements, Ten Gods, Shinsal, combinations and clashes, Luck Pillars and yearly luck, strong and weak Day Masters and the Useful God, and daylight saving and local mean time corrections. Each article gives the answer first, with headings written exactly as people ask. All free, and if you get curious about your own chart while reading, you can see it right away.
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Basics
What is Saju (the Four Pillars of Destiny)?
Saju (四柱, Four Pillars of Destiny) writes the year, month, day and hour of your birth as four pillars in the s…
Read →What are the Five Elements, and why does their balance matter in Saju?
The Five Elements (五行) are the five energies of Wood (木), Fire (火), Earth (土), Metal (金) and Water (水), and ev…
Read →If I don't know my birth time, can I still get a Saju reading?
Yes. Even with just the three pillars of year, month and day (six characters), without the Hour Pillar, the Da…
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Structure
What is the Day Master, and what is the character of each of the 10 Heavenly Stems?
The Day Master (日干) is the upper character of your birth-day pillar, the reference point among the eight chara…
Read →What is the Day Pillar, and why is the Day Branch called the spouse palace?
The Day Pillar (日柱) is the two-character stem-and-branch pair of your birth day. The upper character, the Day …
Read →What are the Ten Gods, and what does each of the ten mean?
The Ten Gods (十神) are ten names given to the other characters in a chart according to their element and yin-ya…
Read →What are Shinsal, and how do you find Peach Blossom, Traveling Horse and Canopy Star?
Shinsal (神煞) are names given to specific combinations of characters in a chart. They divide into auspicious st…
Read →What are the combinations, clashes, punishments, destructions and harms in Saju, and what happens with each?
Combinations, clashes, punishments, destructions and harms (合沖刑破害) are the relationships that arise when chara…
Read →What are strong and weak Day Masters, and how is the Useful God (complementary element) determined?
A strong (身强) or weak (身弱) Day Master refers to whether the Day Master has much or little power within the cha…
Read →What are the Twelve Life Stages, and how do you read a Day Pillar's Life Stage?
The Twelve Life Stages (十二運星) divide the energy state of a Heavenly Stem meeting each of the twelve Earthly Br…
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Luck Cycles
What are the 10-year Luck Pillars, and how is the starting age calculated?
The 10-year Luck Pillars (大運) are the major currents of life that change every decade. They start from the Mon…
Read →What are yearly luck and monthly luck, and how do you read this year's fortune?
Yearly luck (歲運) is the fortune for a year, created when that year's stem and branch meet your chart, and mont…
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Calculation Standards
What is a Manseryeok, and which kind is accurate?
A Manseryeok (萬歲曆) is the almanac that converts solar or lunar dates into the stem-and-branch pairs (the sexag…
Read →If I was born between 11 p.m. and 1 a.m. (the Rat hour), which day is my Day Pillar?
The Rat hour (子時) runs from 11 p.m. to 1 a.m. The traditional method (the standard Rat hour) treats 11 p.m. as…
Read →Does daylight saving time affect Saju? Why do people born in 1987–1988 need to recheck their Hour Pillar?
Korea observed daylight saving time in 1948–1951, 1955–1960 and 1987–1988, moving clocks forward one hour, and…
Read →Why does Saju correct for the birthplace's local mean time, and why subtract 32 minutes for Seoul?
The Hour Pillar in Saju is set by the position of the sun (solar time), not by the clock. Korea Standard Time …
Read →I only know my lunar birthday. Can I still get a Saju reading? What about leap months?
Yes. Saju is based on solar terms rather than the lunar calendar, so a lunar birthday is first converted to th…
Read →Is the zodiac animal based on Lunar New Year or on Ipchun? What animal is an early-February birthday?
In Saju theory, the zodiac animal, that is, the Year Pillar, changes at Ipchun, the Start of Spring (February …
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Comparisons
What does Saju compatibility look at, and how is it scored?
Saju compatibility overlays the eight characters of two people and looks at four things: ① the relationship be…
Read →How do Saju and tarot differ, and which suits which kind of question?
Saju is a system that reads innate temperament and the long currents of 10-year and 1-year cycles from the eig…
Read →What is the difference between a zodiac fortune and my Saju New Year fortune?
A zodiac fortune is the simplest kind, looking only at the combinations and clashes between the single branch …
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