James Soong’s BaZi chart 宋楚瑜
Founder of the People First Party · Governor of Taiwan Province, 1994–1998 · born 30 April 1942, Xiangtan, Hunan, China · date source: Wikipedia
Western zodiac sign: Taurus.
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
James Soong’s day master is Yin Water: the Mist.
Clever and quiet, and deeper than it looks. The day master comes from the day of birth alone; about one person in ten shares it.
Quick answers
- What is James Soong’s day master?
- Yin Water, the Mist: born on a Water Ox day (Gui Chou, 癸丑).
- What is James Soong’s zodiac sign?
- The Horse: born in a Water Horse year (Ren Wu, 壬午), counted from the Start of Spring.
- What is James Soong’s bone weight?
- 4.0 liang to 5.0 liang, depending on the hour, which is not public. How it is worked out ›
- Is James Soong’s birth time known?
- No published time, so the hour pillar is cast all twelve ways below.
Compare your chart with James Soong’s
Birth dates only: day masters, day pillars and signs.
The three pillars the date fixes
Year
Rob Wealth
壬 Yang Water
午 Horse
Month
Hurting Officer
甲 Yang Wood
辰 Dragon
Day
Day Master
癸 Yin Water
丑 Ox
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 Horse hides Yin Fire (丁, Indirect Wealth), Yin Earth (己, Seven Killings); the Dragon hides Yang Earth (戊, Direct Officer), Yin Wood (乙, Eating God), Yin Water (癸, Friend); the Ox hides Yin Earth (己, Seven Killings), Yin Water (癸, Friend), Yin Metal (辛, Indirect Resource).
- 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.
- Indirect Wealth (Pian Cai, 偏财)
- What you control, same polarity. Wealth that comes sideways rather than by salary — the uneven kind.
- 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.
- 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 Officer (Zheng Guan, 正官)
- What controls you, opposite polarity. Authority in its orderly form: office, rule, the structure you fit into.
- 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.
- Indirect Resource (Pian Yin, 偏印)
- What produces you, same polarity. Support of an indirect kind — the tradition treats it as nourishment that can also crowd out the Eating God (食神).
Day master
What the classic Di Tian Sui (滴天髓) says of this stem, word for word
Yin Water (癸) is the weakest, reaching the ford of heaven. Getting the dragon it moves, and the work of transformation is spirit itself. It does not fret at Fire and Earth, and does not reckon Yang Metal (庚) or Yin Metal (辛). Binding Yang Earth (戊) and seeing Fire, the transformed image is true.
癸水至弱，达于天津，得龙而运，功化斯神，不愁火土，不论庚辛，合戊见火，化象斯真。
Born in a Dragon month (Chen, 辰), when Earth rules the season. In that season Yin Water is dead (Si, 死): the season controls it. (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.)
Day pillar: Water Ox (Gui Chou, 癸丑)
The classic San Ming Tong Hui (三命通会) gives each of the sixty day pillars an image, its sound element (Na Yin, 纳音). For this one it is Mulberry Wood (桑柘木), and it says:
Wood harmed by too little water; likes Metal, Water and autumn.
The original Chinese
伤水少之木，喜金水及秋
This is what the book says of every Gui Chou day, not of James Soong. The Gui Chou day pillar › (what the classic says at each birth hour, what the branch holds, and others born on one)
Elements in the six known characters
None of the six is Metal. 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 Water day master reads weak. Whatever the hour, the support-and-restrain method favours Metal, Water — the date alone settles it.
| Hour | Solar time | Hour pillar | Its ten god | Three tests | Strength | Favoured |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rat (子) | 00–01 | 壬子Water Rat | Rob Wealth (劫财) | out of season rooted outnumbered | weak | Metal, Water |
| Ox (丑) | 01–03 | 癸丑Water Ox | Friend (比肩) | out of season rooted outnumbered | weak | Metal, Water |
| Tiger (寅) | 03–05 | 甲寅Wood Tiger | Hurting Officer (伤官) | out of season rooted outnumbered | weak | Metal, Water |
| Rabbit (卯) | 05–07 | 乙卯Wood Rabbit | Eating God (食神) | out of season rooted outnumbered | weak | Metal, Water |
| Dragon (辰) | 07–09 | 丙辰Fire Dragon | Direct Wealth (正财) | out of season rooted outnumbered | weak | Metal, Water |
| Snake (巳) | 09–11 | 丁巳Fire Snake | Indirect Wealth (偏财) | out of season rooted outnumbered | weak | Metal, Water |
| Horse (午) | 11–13 | 戊午Earth Horse | Direct Officer (正官) | out of season rooted outnumbered | weak | Metal, Water |
| Goat (未) | 13–15 | 己未Earth Goat | Seven Killings (七杀) | out of season rooted outnumbered | weak | Metal, Water |
| Monkey (申) | 15–17 | 庚申Metal Monkey | Direct Resource (正印) | out of season rooted outnumbered | weak | Metal, Water |
| Rooster (酉) | 17–19 | 辛酉Metal Rooster | Indirect Resource (偏印) | out of season rooted outnumbered | weak | Metal, Water |
| Dog (戌) | 19–21 | 壬戌Water Dog | Rob Wealth (劫财) | out of season rooted outnumbered | weak | Metal, Water |
| Pig (亥) | 21–23 | 癸亥Water Pig | Friend (比肩) | out of season rooted outnumbered | weak | Metal, Water |
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.
James Soong’s bone weight (Cheng Gu, 称骨)
Lunar date: day 16 of the 3rd month, Water Horse year (壬午年三月十六). Its weights: year 0.8 liang, month 1.8 liang, day 0.8 liang — 3.4 liang before the hour. Over the twelve hours that makes 4.0 liang to 5.0 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.
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