Ko Wen-je’s BaZi chart 柯文哲

Quick answers

What is Ko Wen-je’s day master?

Yang Metal, the Sword: born on a Metal Monkey day (Geng Shen, 庚申).

What is Ko Wen-je’s zodiac sign?

The Pig: born in an Earth Pig year (Ji Hai, 己亥), counted from the Start of Spring.

What is Ko Wen-je’s bone weight?

3.2 liang to 4.2 liang, depending on the hour, which is not public. How it is worked out ›

Is Ko Wen-je’s birth time known?

No published time, so the hour pillar is cast all twelve ways below.

Compare your chart with Ko Wen-je’s

Birth dates only: day masters, day pillars and signs.

The three pillars the date fixes

Day master

Born in a Goat month (Wei, 未), when Earth rules the season. In that season Yang Metal is rising (Xiang, 相): the season produces 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: Metal Monkey (Geng Shen, 庚申)

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 Pomegranate Wood (石榴木), and it says:

Pomegranate flower; likes summer, and does not suit autumn or winter.

This is what the book says of every Geng Shen day, not of Ko Wen-je. The Geng Shen 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 Wood, Fire. 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 Yang Metal day master reads strong. Whatever the hour, the support-and-restrain method favours Water, Wood, Fire — the date alone settles it.

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.

Ko Wen-je’s bone weight (Cheng Gu, 称骨)

Lunar date: day 3 of the 7th month, Earth Pig year (己亥年七月初三). Its weights: year 0.9 liang, month 0.9 liang, day 0.8 liang — 2.6 liang before the hour. Over the twelve hours that makes 3.2 liang to 4.2 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 ›