Yin Yang & Five Elements

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Enter your birth details. We build your BaZi Four Pillars on the Chinese solar calendar and measure the exact percentage of Yin and Yang and of the five elements — Wood, Fire, Earth, Metal and Water — in your chart.

With a birth time we add the hour pillar — the full eight characters. Without it the balance is read from six.

Fill in the birth details and tap Find My Balance.

About the Yin Yang & Five Elements (Wu Xing) Calculator

In Chinese metaphysics, every birth moment is written as eight characters — the BaZi Four Pillars of the year, month, day and hour, each made of a Heavenly Stem and an Earthly Branch. Every character carries a polarity, Yin or Yang, and one of the five elements (Wu Xing): Wood, Fire, Earth, Metal and Water. Counting them reveals your personal energy mix — which elements you have in abundance, and which are scarce.

This calculator is a percentage balancing tool: it converts your chart into exact percentages. The Yin-Yang split shows whether your nature leans receptive and reflective (Yin) or active and outward (Yang). The five-element split shows your strongest and weakest elements, your Day Master (the stem of your day pillar — the character that represents you), and simple, practical ways to strengthen whatever is lacking through colours, directions, seasons and habits.

How it is calculated

  • The pillars follow the Chinese solar (Hsia) calendar — the year changes at Li Chun (the Sun at 315°) and the months at the solar terms, computed from the Sun's true position at your birth time and place.
  • The day pillar follows the continuous sexagenary cycle, with births after 11 PM counted into the next day's Zi hour by the traditional rule.
  • Element percentages count the four visible stems and the hidden stems inside each branch with classical 60/30/10 weighting — the method most BaZi practitioners use.

Enter your exact birth time if you know it: the hour pillar adds two of the eight characters, and near the solar-term boundaries even the month can shift. Wu Xing balancing is a guidance tradition — enjoy it alongside, not instead of, advice from a qualified astrologer.