The parts of a reading, opened carefully.

What is a Day Master?

The one part of a BaZi chart that stands for you, how it is found, and why everything else is read around it.

Why the Chinese year starts on February 4

BaZi changes year at Start of Spring, not at Lunar New Year. Here is why, and who it affects.

Why Aster uses two systems

Western astrology describes who a person is. BaZi describes their season. A pair needs both.

Reading your mother

What a pair reading can show about you and a parent, and what it should never claim.

What is BaZi?

How the four pillars turn a birth moment into a reading of structure, timing, and compatibility, and what each layer can help you notice.

The 24 solar terms

Why your Chinese month can change several days into a Western month, which boundaries alter a pillar, and what that means in your reading.

The 12 Chinese zodiac animals

What each animal means as an earthly branch, why its position matters, and why your year animal is only one part of your chart.

Reading your child: the five temperaments

Why one child blooms under praise and another shrinks from it, and what your child's Day Master element can tell you about how they take the world in.

Moon and Moon

What two Moon placements say about whether two people can rest in the same room, and what they leave out.

The same fight

Why a pair keeps having one argument, read through synastry rather than Sun signs.

One birth time

What a pair reading can see when only one person knows their birth time, and what stays honest about the other.

Venus and Venus

How two people offer care, what each person notices, and why affection can be present without being recognised.

Mercury and Mercury

How two minds form an answer, and why timing can matter more than agreement.

Mars and Saturn

The push-and-hold pattern that can make two capable people experience each other as the obstacle.

Your ten-year chapter

What a BaZi chapter changes, why its start date is personal, and what remains yours throughout it.

When the Chinese month turns

Why a BaZi month changes at a solar boundary rather than on the first day of the calendar month.

Western and Chinese astrology together

One birth moment, two systems, and a clear division between character and timing.

BaZi compatibility

What a full BaZi compatibility reading actually compares (eight characters each) and why the year animals are the least of it.

How to read your BaZi chart

Five steps, no prior knowledge needed: from your birth date to a chart you can actually read.

Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce: a BaZi compatibility reading

Two 1989 charts, three pillars each, read the way Aster reads every pair: public birth dates, no birth times, every pillar checked by the engine.

Why do BaZi calculators disagree?

Four honest reasons two calculators can give you different pillars, and the one question that tells you whether it matters for you.

The ten Day Masters

The part of a BaZi chart that stands for you, all ten in plain words.

2027, the Fire Goat year

What the coming year does to each person at your table.

Chinese zodiac compatibility

How the twelve year signs relate, pair by pair, and what the year sign cannot tell you.