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.

Numerology · Life path

Life Path 4
The Builder

Makes things that hold weight, including the things nobody thanks you for.

What a 4 is

A 4 is the number of structure. Systems, foundations, repeatable process, the unglamorous scaffolding other people's visions stand on. A 4 is usually the reason a thing still works two years later.

The shadow of the 4

Rigidity. A 4 can defend the process past the point where the process still serves the purpose, and call that discipline.

The work: Build it. Then ask once a year whether it still deserves to exist.

How life path 4 is calculated

A life path comes from the whole date of birth. Reduce the month, the day and the year each to a single digit, then add the three and reduce again, keeping 11, 22 and 33 whenever they appear.

Worked example · 1985-01-07

Month 1 reduces to 1, day 7 to 7, year 1985 to 5. Then 1 + 7 + 5 = 13, which reduces to 4.

Find yours

What is your life path?

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Where the other mirrors say something similar

Numerology is one of six traditions Six Mirrors reads. The 4 has rough counterparts in Taurus and Capricorn in the Western zodiac and the earth element. None of them is a translation of the others: they were built separately and use different mathematics, which is exactly why it is worth knowing when they agree.

Read all six from one birth moment

Pythagorean method, master numbers preserved. The same calculation the full chart uses, verified against the engine across every date from 1940 to 2010.