Birthday horoscopes, or eight characters, are actually another way of saying the four pillars in the Zhouyi terminology. The four pillars refer to the time of birth, namely year, month, day and hour. Humans use one word each for heavenly stems and earthly branches to express year, month, day and time, such as Jiazi year, Bingshen month, Xinchou day, Renyin time, etc. Each column has two characters, and four columns have eight characters, so fortune telling is also called "testing eight characters". According to the relationship between the heavenly stems, earthly branches, yin and yang and the five elements' attributes, we can speculate on the faults, misfortunes and blessings of the human body. But what we are going to talk about here is not how to "test the horoscope", but how to calculate the horoscope.
The four pillars are arranged in eight characters.
The four pillars refer to the year, month, day and time of a person's birth. The arrangement of the four pillars refers to finding out a person's birth date and horoscope. It is mainly carried out in four steps.
Near Column
The Nian Column, that is, the year a person is born is represented by the stems and branches. Note that the dividing line between the previous year and the next year is based on the intersection moment of the Beginning of Spring. divided by the first day of the first lunar month. For example, someone was born at 22:17 on February 4, 2000 in the solar calendar. Since the beginning of spring in the lunar calendar in 2000 is 20:32 in the solar calendar, February 4, 2000, this person's The Year Pillar is Gengchen in 2000, not Mao in 1999.
The Moon Pillar
The Moon Pillar uses the stems and branches to represent the season of the year and month in which a person was born. . Note that the dividing line between the lunar stems and branches is not based on the first day of each month in the lunar calendar, but based on the festival. Before the festival, it is the festival of the previous month, and after the festival, it is the festival of the next month.
January Yin month, February, Mao month, March, Chen month, April, Si month
From Beginning of Spring to Jingzhe, from Jingzhe to Qingming, from Qingming to Beginning of Summer, from Beginning of Summer to Mangzhong
May, Midday, June Month July Shen month August Unity month
From Mangzhong to Xiaoshu to Beginning of Autumn From Beginning of Autumn to White Dew From White Dew to Cold Dew
September Xu month October October Hai month November Zi month, twelfth month, Chou month
From cold dew to the beginning of winter, from the beginning of winter to heavy snow, from heavy snow to light cold, from light cold to the beginning of spring
Seasonal meaning: