SEVENTEEN QUESTIONS · ANSWERED PLAINLY
Before you ask the coins, ask us.
What the reading is, what it is not, what BaZi actually measures, what we keep, and how to get your money back if it falls flat. No marketing answers on this page.
First, the honest version
What this site does, in one breath
You bring a question you are genuinely living inside. You shake a virtual tube and throw six lines — coin tosses, in the old method, three per line — which gives you one of the sixty-four hexagrams of the I Ching. Alongside that, your birth date, time and place are turned into a BaZi chart: eight characters from four pillars, carrying the five elements and their relationships.
A reader then puts the two together and writes, in plain English, what they say about the thing you asked about — including the months of the coming year where the situation opens and where it does not. That is the entire product. It is not a prediction service and it is not therapy; it is a very old method of looking at a situation, applied to a specific question, and written down in a way you can argue with.
The rest of this page is the questions people actually send us before buying, with the answers we actually send back. Some of them are about the method, some are about privacy and refunds, and one of them is the only question we will not answer at all.
The reading itself
What this is, and what it is not
Six questions about the method, answered without hedging.
About the reading
Is this fortune-telling?
Not in the sense most people mean. Fortune-telling promises a fixed tomorrow: this will happen, on this date, to this person. We do not claim that, and if a reading anywhere on this site sounds like it is promising a fixed tomorrow, that is a bug in the writing and you should tell us.
What actually happens is narrower and more useful. You bring a question. The coins give you a hexagram — one of sixty-four, with six lines that may or may not be changing. Your birth data gives you a BaZi chart: four pillars, a day master, ten gods, and a stack of relationships and elements that Chinese astrology has been mapping for a thousand years. A reader — in our case a language model prompted with the classical texts and a fixed method — puts those two things next to your question and explains the tension in it.
It has no power over weather, lottery numbers, medical results, or anyone else's decisions. It is a structured way to look at a situation you already know more about than you think you do.
How does the casting work?
The I Ching is not a card draw; it is a build. A hexagram is six lines, and each line is made from three coin tosses. Three tosses give you one line: two heads and a tail make a yang line, two tails and a head make a yin line, and the rare all-heads or all-tails tosses make a changing line — one that is on its way to becoming its opposite.
Six lines means eighteen tosses in the traditional hand method. Our tube does them for you. You shake, the coins fall, and each line is built from the bottom up: the first line is the beginning of the situation, the sixth is what it becomes. When a line is changing, the reading does not stop at your hexagram — it also reads the hexagram those changing lines turn into. That second hexagram is where the movement is; the first is where you are standing.
If you want the full method with the toss-by-toss detail, it is written out on the how it works page.
How accurate is it, really?
It depends entirely on what you mean by accurate, and we are not going to dodge the question. If you want a prediction with a scoreboard — will I get the job, yes or no, 83 percent — you will be disappointed, and you should not pay us.
What the reading is good at is structure. It is good at naming the shape of a situation: whether the energy around a decision is opening or closing, which months favour movement and which favour stillness, whether the obstacle you named is the real obstacle. Most people who come back buy a second reading not because we guessed an event correctly but because the framing matched something they had already half-noticed and not said out loud.
The honest summary: treat it as a second opinion from a tradition with a long memory, not as a forecast you can bet money on.
Do I have to believe in it for it to work?
No — and people who treat it as pure suggestion often get more out of it than people who treat it as scripture. The reading does not check your beliefs. What it does require is that you give it a real question instead of a test question.
The one thing that does change with belief is how you read the result. If you arrive wanting permission, you will find permission. If you arrive wanting to be told you are right, you will find that too. The report is written plainly on purpose, including the parts that are unflattering, because a reading that only agrees with you is worth exactly what you paid for it.
What kind of question should I bring?
A specific one, about something you are actually in the middle of. "Should I take the offer that expires Friday" is a good question. "What does my future hold" is not — it is too wide to read and the answer will be equally wide.
Good questions tend to be about a decision with a real cost, a relationship that has changed shape, or a year that needs planning. Questions about other people's private lives, medical diagnoses, and legal outcomes are the ones we push back on, because the reading has nothing honest to say about them.
You name the question at checkout, one sentence is enough. If the first version is too vague, we ask for a sharper one before casting rather than guessing.
Can I ask about another person?
You can ask about a relationship you are part of — that is what the Love reading is for. You cannot ask us to profile someone who has not consented: their chart, their intentions, their private life, whether they are cheating on someone else.
The line we hold is simple. Your question has to be about something you are a participant in, not a spectator to. "Is this relationship worth another year of my effort" is fine, and it is answered from your chart. "What is he really thinking about her" is not, and we will refund it rather than pretend to answer it.
If you have their birth data, we will not use it without their agreement. No exceptions.
BaZi and your chart
Your eight characters
What the birth data is for, what happens when it is incomplete, and why the report is tied to a specific year.
BaZi and your chart
What is BaZi, in plain terms?
BaZi means "eight characters", and it is the Chinese system of reading a life from the moment it began. You take the year, month, day and hour of a birth, and each one converts into two characters — one from the ten heavenly stems, one from the twelve earthly branches. Four pillars, eight characters, hence the name.
Those eight characters carry the five elements — wood, fire, earth, metal, water — in different amounts and relationships. One of them is you: the stem of the day pillar, called the day master. Everything else in the chart is read relative to that one character: what feeds it, what drains it, what it produces, who helps it and who competes with it.
Then there is timing. The twelve months of a year each carry their own element and branch, and each one interacts with your chart differently. That is why a BaZi report can say something as concrete as "your strong months are April, May and December" — not because those are lucky months in general, but because of how they sit against your eight characters.
What do you need from me to build the chart?
Three things: your date of birth, your time of birth, and your place of birth. The date and time become the four pillars, and the place is used to convert your clock time into solar time, which the traditional method requires.
An approximate place is fine — a city is enough, we do not need a hospital address. The time matters more, and it is worth doing some digging before you buy: a birth certificate, a hospital record, a parent who remembers whether it was before or after breakfast.
What if I do not know my birth time?
It happens more often than you would think, and you have two reasonable options. Both are honest; neither pretends to know something you do not.
The first is a solar-noon chart: we build the chart for 12:00 local time and mark the hour pillar as unverified. If you buy this, the hour-dependent parts of the report — the fourth pillar, some of the ten gods, and the sibling and children positions — are written as unconfirmed, and the rest of the reading is unaffected.
The second is to skip the hour entirely: three pillars instead of four, which is fully readable for love, money and the year, just narrower at the edges. Write which one you want in the notes at checkout, or reply to the delivery email and we rebuild it. The rebuild is free either way.
Which timezone and calendar do you use?
Local clock time at the birthplace, converted to true solar time for that longitude and that date. This matters more than most people expect: two birth records fifteen minutes apart can land in different hour pillars, and hour pillars decide a whole branch of the report.
We use the solar calendar for dates, with the Chinese solar terms for the month pillar — the month changes on the solar term, not on the first of the month. There is no leap-month handling to get wrong because we are not running a lunar calendar, and that is deliberate: the solar-term method is the one that stays stable across time zones and across the last century of daylight-saving changes.
The one place we do convert is the year boundary: the year pillar changes at the start of spring, not on 1 January. A birthday in late January is the classic case, and our chart builder handles it.
Why does the report care about 2026 in particular?
Because that is the year you are going to live in, and a BaZi report without a calendar is just a personality description. The annual pillar for 2026 interacts with your four pillars in specific ways: it can support your wealth stars, weaken your day master, or put a benefactor in the same branch as a rival.
That is where the monthly axis comes from. Each of the twelve month branches carries its own element, and each one gets a short judgement against your chart: a good month for asking, a good month for holding, a month to say less. A reading that said "you are generally a Fire person" would be true all year and useful none of it.
Buying, data, refunds
The practical questions
Nothing here is a legal trap. If it reads like one, tell us and we will rewrite it.
Buying, data and refunds
Do I need an account?
No. There is no sign-up before buying, no password to set, and no dashboard behind a login. You give an email address at checkout so the report has somewhere to go, and that is the whole of it.
The reason there is no account is that there is nothing to log into. A reading is a document, not a service; you do not need to manage it, sync it, or cancel it. If you lose the email, replying to any message from us is a faster recovery than a password reset would be.
Is my data stored? Do you sell it?
Your birth date, time, place and question are stored so the chart can be rebuilt and the report re-sent. That is the only reason they exist in our system, and they are not used to build a profile, retarget you with ads, or train anything third-party.
Your question text is the most sensitive thing you send us, and we treat it that way: it is not published, not quoted in marketing, not shown to another customer, and not attached to anything that identifies you publicly. We do not sell data, and we do not share it with advertisers.
Card details never reach us at all. Payment goes through our processor; what we receive back is whether the charge succeeded, the last four digits, and the name on the order.
To have everything deleted, reply to the delivery email with the word delete. We remove the order, the chart inputs and the question, then confirm it. Most requests are handled within two business days.
Is there a subscription?
No. Every price on the site is a one-time payment: $19.99 for a single reading, $59.99 for the bundle. Nothing renews, nothing auto-charges, and there is no trial that converts quietly after three days.
If you want a second reading next year, you buy a second reading next year. We would rather sell you something once and have you come back on purpose than tie you to a monthly line item you forget to cancel.
How do I receive the report, and how long does it take?
By email, as a link to your report. Most readings are delivered within a few minutes of payment; a busy evening can push it to about an hour, and a reading that needs a human look — an unclear birth time, a question that needs sharpening — can take up to a day. The delivery email tells you which case you are in rather than leaving you refreshing.
Your cast is saved with the reading. The six lines you threw, the changing lines, and the resulting hexagram are all in the document, so you can come back to it in a year and see exactly what you asked, which is often the most interesting part.
Can I get a refund?
Yes. Fourteen days, any reason, including "the reading did not land" and "I changed my mind about the question". Reply to the delivery email with the word refund and it is processed — no form, no survey, no attempt to talk you out of it.
Two things are worth knowing. First, you keep the document; we do not revoke it. Second, the refund takes a few business days to appear depending on your bank, which is out of our hands. If you paid by a method that cannot be reversed, we say so at checkout rather than after the fact.
Nothing arrived. What do I do?
Check the spam folder first — a report with a long link is exactly the shape of message filters dislike. If it is not there, reply to the order confirmation, or write to us from any address and include the name on the order. We re-send manually and, if the chart inputs need correcting, fix them at the same time.
If the payment went through and the report never arrives within a day, the reading is on us until it does. That has never turned into an argument and we do not intend to start one.
Still unsure
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If your question is not on this page, write to us before you buy. We would rather answer it than take a payment you regret.