Why is my sidereal sun sign different from my normal one?

Western astrology uses the tropical zodiac, which is tied to the seasons and starts at the spring equinox. Vedic astrology uses the sidereal zodiac, which is tied to the actual constellations. The two have drifted about 24 degrees apart since they were aligned, so roughly four people in five get a different sign in each. Neither is wrong; they measure different things.

What is a BaZi day master?

In Chinese BaZi, your birth is written as four pillars of two characters each, covering the year, month, day and hour. The heavenly stem of the day pillar is the day master, and it stands for you. It is one of ten: a yin or yang form of wood, fire, earth, metal or water. Everything else in the chart is read in relation to it.

Do I need my exact birth time?

No, but it unlocks about half the reading. Without a time you still get your Sun in both zodiacs, your life path, your day master and your year animal. With a time and a place you also get your rising sign, your exact Moon and birth star, your Human Design type and bodygraph, and your Gene Keys.

Is Six Mirrors free, and does it store my birth details?

It is free and needs no account. Your birth date, time and place are computed in your own browser and stay there. The only thing sent anywhere is a one-way fingerprint of the birth moment so that charts can be counted; it carries no name, no email and no way to reach you.

What does it mean when several systems agree?

The six traditions share no history and no mathematics. When two or more of them independently point at the same theme in one birth, Six Mirrors names that as a thread and shows every fact it rests on. The convergence is the finding, rather than any single system's verdict.

Chinese BaZi · Day master 10 of 10

癸 Gui

Yin Water, mist, dew, quiet rain. The subtlest of the ten, reaching places force never could.

Element

Water

Polarity

Yin

Picture

mist, dew, quiet rain

Character

癸

What a Gui day master is

Yin Water is not the ocean but the moisture in the air. It penetrates rather than pushes, and it works by patience and permeation. Gui people are intuitive, perceptive about what is unspoken, and often underestimated right up until you notice how much has quietly changed.

In Chinese astrology your core element is Yin Water, pictured as mist and rain. You are subtle and intuitive, reaching places force never could. You nourish quietly, and given time you wear down what is rigid.

Gui at its best, and where it strains

Strength. Intuition and infiltration. Gui gets through where nothing forceful would.

Difficulty. Mist has no edges. Gui can lack definition, absorb other people's moods as its own, and be so indirect that its own needs never get stated.

Gui shares its element with Ren, the yang form of Water, and the two behave nothing alike. That is the whole reason BaZi uses ten stems rather than five.

The four relationships every BaZi reading runs on

Your day master is not read alone. Everything else in the chart is judged by how it treats Water, and the five elements move in two cycles: one that nourishes and one that restrains. For a Water day master those come out as follows.

Resource

Metal feeds Water. Support, learning, and the people who back you.

Output

Water produces Wood. Expression, the work you make, what comes out of you.

Wealth

Water controls Fire. What you act upon, and what you are able to hold.

Officer

Earth controls Water. Pressure, structure, authority, the thing that shapes you.

A chart with plenty of Metal and little Earth reads very differently from the reverse, even with the same day master. That balance is what a BaZi practitioner is actually looking at, and it is why two Gui people can be unrecognisable to each other.

Find your day master and your four pillars

BaZi pillars here use the solar calendar the tradition uses, so the year turns at Lichun in early February rather than at the lunar new year, and the hour pillar follows the late-Zi convention.