Henry Golding’s BaZi chart 亨利·高汀
Actor · born 5 February 1987, Sarawak, Malaysia · date source: Wikipedia
No birth time has been published. The date fixes three of the four pillars; the fourth is one of twelve. Below, everything the date settles is computed, and everything that turns on the hour is cast all twelve ways — without picking one on anyone’s behalf.
In short
Henry Golding’s day master is Yin Wood: the Vine.
Gentle and kind, and puts roots down deep once it finds its place. The day master comes from the day of birth alone; about one person in ten shares it.
The three pillars the date fixes
Year
Eating God
丁 Yin Fire
卯 Rabbit
Month
Direct Resource
壬 Yang Water
寅 Tiger
Day
Day Master
乙 Yin Wood
酉 Rooster
Hour
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one of twelve — see below
What the labels mean
Each pillar is two characters: a stem on top (an element, yin or yang) and a branch below (one of the twelve zodiac animals). The day stem is the day master — the person. The label above each other stem is its ten god (Shi Shen, 十神): what that element is to the day master.
Each animal also hides stems of its own, strongest first: the Rabbit hides Yin Wood (乙, Friend); the Tiger hides Yang Wood (甲, Rob Wealth), Yang Fire (丙, Hurting Officer), Yang Earth (戊, Direct Wealth); the Rooster hides Yin Metal (辛, Seven Killings).
- Eating God (Shi Shen, 食神)
- What you produce, same polarity. Output that comes easily: making, feeding, expressing, without strain.
- Friend (Bi Jian, 比肩)
- Same element, same polarity as you. A peer: someone standing where you stand, competing for the same thing and equally able to share the load.
- Direct Resource (Zheng Yin, 正印)
- What produces you, opposite polarity. Straightforward support: what teaches, shelters and backs you.
- Rob Wealth (Jie Cai, 劫财)
- Same element, opposite polarity. A peer who takes rather than shares — the tradition reads it as what draws on your resources through people close to you.
- Hurting Officer (Shang Guan, 伤官)
- What you produce, opposite polarity. Output with an edge on it. The name means it injures the Direct Officer (正官), which is why the tradition reads it as talent that does not sit well with authority.
- Direct Wealth (Zheng Cai, 正财)
- What you control, opposite polarity. Wealth held steadily — earned, kept, accounted for.
- Seven Killings (Qi Sha, 七杀)
- What controls you, same polarity. Pressure with nothing softening it: demand, risk, and whatever you answer to whether you chose it or not.
Day master
What the classic Di Tian Sui (滴天髓) says of this stem, word for word
Yin Wood (乙) though soft cuts the sheep and dismembers the ox. Holding Yin Fire (丁) and embracing Yang Fire (丙), it bestrides the phoenix and mounts the monkey. On empty wet ground, riding the horse is a worry still; but vine tied to Yang Wood (甲), it can take spring or autumn.
乙木虽柔，刲羊解牛，怀丁抱丙，跨凤乘猴，虚湿之地，骑马亦忧，藤罗系甲，可春可秋。
Born in a Tiger month (Yin, 寅), when Wood rules the season. In that season Yin Wood is thriving (Wang, 旺): the season is its own. (One of five seasonal states, Wang Xiang Xiu Qiu Si, 旺相休囚死, after the San Ming Tong Hui, 三命通會, book 2.)
Elements in the six known characters
None of the six is Earth. The hour pillar’s two characters may supply it or may not — that depends on the hour. Hidden stems are not counted here.
All twelve hours, cast one by one
In all twelve hours the Yin Wood day master reads strong. Whatever the hour, the support-and-restrain method favours Fire, Earth, Metal — the date alone settles it.
| Hour | Solar time | Hour pillar | Its ten god | Three tests | Strength | Favoured |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rat (子) | 00–01 | 丙子Fire Rat | Hurting Officer (伤官) | in season rooted backed | strong | Fire, Earth, Metal |
| Ox (丑) | 01–03 | 丁丑Fire Ox | Eating God (食神) | in season rooted outnumbered | strong | Fire, Earth, Metal |
| Tiger (寅) | 03–05 | 戊寅Earth Tiger | Direct Wealth (正财) | in season rooted backed | strong | Fire, Earth, Metal |
| Rabbit (卯) | 05–07 | 己卯Earth Rabbit | Indirect Wealth (偏财) | in season rooted backed | strong | Fire, Earth, Metal |
| Dragon (辰) | 07–09 | 庚辰Metal Dragon | Direct Officer (正官) | in season rooted outnumbered | strong | Fire, Earth, Metal |
| Snake (巳) | 09–11 | 辛巳Metal Snake | Seven Killings (七杀) | in season rooted outnumbered | strong | Fire, Earth, Metal |
| Horse (午) | 11–13 | 壬午Water Horse | Direct Resource (正印) | in season rooted backed | strong | Fire, Earth, Metal |
| Goat (未) | 13–15 | 癸未Water Goat | Indirect Resource (偏印) | in season rooted backed | strong | Fire, Earth, Metal |
| Monkey (申) | 15–17 | 甲申Wood Monkey | Rob Wealth (劫财) | in season rooted backed | strong | Fire, Earth, Metal |
| Rooster (酉) | 17–19 | 乙酉Wood Rooster | Friend (比肩) | in season rooted backed | strong | Fire, Earth, Metal |
| Dog (戌) | 19–21 | 丙戌Fire Dog | Hurting Officer (伤官) | in season rooted outnumbered | strong | Fire, Earth, Metal |
| Pig (亥) | 21–23 | 丁亥Fire Pig | Eating God (食神) | in season rooted backed | strong | Fire, Earth, Metal |
Each row is exactly what the full calculator would say for a birth in that hour. Strength comes from three tests: in season (De Ling, 得令) — born in the season of the day master’s own element; rooted (De Di, 得地) — the same element hidden in a branch; backed (De Shi, 得势) — as much support around it as drain. Two of three reads strong. The favoured elements come from support and restrain (Fu Yi, 扶抑): a strong day master wants draining, a weak one wants support. There are three other methods for the useful element — climate (Tiao Hou, 调候), bridging (Tong Guan, 通關) and disease and cure (Bing Yao, 病藥) — each from its own text; see the useful god page. Hours are solar time at the birthplace, so a clock time needs correcting first; and a birth after 23:00 falls in the late Rat hour, where the two schools disagree about whether the day has turned.
Henry Golding’s bone weight (Cheng Gu, 称骨)
Lunar date: day 8 of the 1st month, Fire Rabbit year (丁卯年正月初八). Its weights: year 0.7 liang, month 0.6 liang, day 1.6 liang — 2.9 liang before the hour. Over the twelve hours that makes 3.5 liang to 4.5 liang.
Bone weighing is a folk almanac sum over the calendar positions of the year, month, day and hour — not the elements, and not the chart above. How heavy is heavy? The tables and the spread ›
And yours?
You have your own birth time, so your chart needs no table of twelve — all four pillars, corrected to true solar time with the timezone actually in force where and when you were born.
About this page
This page computes; it does not interpret. The birth date is public and its source is linked; the birth time is not, so the hour pillar and everything that depends on it are set out all twelve ways.
Nothing here claims that anyone is who they are because of a chart, and nothing here forecasts years, health or lifespan for anyone living.