Lim Kit Siang’s BaZi chart 林吉祥
Politician · DAP leader for decades · born 20 February 1941, Batu Pahat, Johor, 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
Lim Kit Siang’s day master is Yin Earth: the Garden.
Patient and big-hearted: the ground other things grow from. 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
辛 Yin Metal
巳 Snake
Month
Hurting Officer
庚 Yang Metal
寅 Tiger
Day
Day Master
己 Yin Earth
亥 Pig
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 Snake hides Yang Fire (丙, Direct Resource), Yang Metal (庚, Hurting Officer), Yang Earth (戊, Rob Wealth); the Tiger hides Yang Wood (甲, Direct Officer), Yang Fire (丙, Direct Resource), Yang Earth (戊, Rob Wealth); the Pig hides Yang Water (壬, Direct Wealth), Yang Wood (甲, Direct Officer).
- Eating God (Shi Shen, 食神)
- What you produce, same polarity. Output that comes easily: making, feeding, expressing, without strain.
- Direct Resource (Zheng Yin, 正印)
- What produces you, opposite polarity. Straightforward support: what teaches, shelters and backs 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.
- 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.
- Direct Officer (Zheng Guan, 正官)
- What controls you, opposite polarity. Authority in its orderly form: office, rule, the structure you fit into.
- Direct Wealth (Zheng Cai, 正财)
- What you control, opposite polarity. Wealth held steadily — earned, kept, accounted for.
Day master
What the classic Di Tian Sui (滴天髓) says of this stem, word for word
Yin Earth (己) is low and damp, centred, upright, storing and hiding. It does not fret at Wood in plenty nor fear Water gone wild. With little Fire the Fire is dimmed; with much Metal the Metal shines. If things are to flourish, it should be helped and supported.
己土卑湿，中正蓄藏，不愁木盛，不畏水狂，火少火晦，金多金光，若要物旺，宜助宜帮。
Born in a Tiger month (Yin, 寅), when Wood rules the season. In that season Yin Earth 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.)
Elements in the six known characters
All five elements appear among the six known characters. Hidden stems are not counted here.
All twelve hours, cast one by one
In all twelve hours the Yin Earth day master reads weak. Whatever the hour, the support-and-restrain method favours Fire, Earth — the date alone settles it.
| Hour | Solar time | Hour pillar | Its ten god | Three tests | Strength | Favoured |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rat (子) | 00–01 | 甲子Wood Rat | Direct Officer (正官) | out of season rooted outnumbered | weak | Fire, Earth |
| Ox (丑) | 01–03 | 乙丑Wood Ox | Seven Killings (七杀) | out of season rooted outnumbered | weak | Fire, Earth |
| Tiger (寅) | 03–05 | 丙寅Fire Tiger | Direct Resource (正印) | out of season rooted outnumbered | weak | Fire, Earth |
| Rabbit (卯) | 05–07 | 丁卯Fire Rabbit | Indirect Resource (偏印) | out of season rooted outnumbered | weak | Fire, Earth |
| Dragon (辰) | 07–09 | 戊辰Earth Dragon | Rob Wealth (劫财) | out of season rooted outnumbered | weak | Fire, Earth |
| Snake (巳) | 09–11 | 己巳Earth Snake | Friend (比肩) | out of season rooted outnumbered | weak | Fire, Earth |
| Horse (午) | 11–13 | 庚午Metal Horse | Hurting Officer (伤官) | out of season rooted outnumbered | weak | Fire, Earth |
| Goat (未) | 13–15 | 辛未Metal Goat | Eating God (食神) | out of season rooted outnumbered | weak | Fire, Earth |
| Monkey (申) | 15–17 | 壬申Water Monkey | Direct Wealth (正财) | out of season rooted outnumbered | weak | Fire, Earth |
| Rooster (酉) | 17–19 | 癸酉Water Rooster | Indirect Wealth (偏财) | out of season rooted outnumbered | weak | Fire, Earth |
| Dog (戌) | 19–21 | 甲戌Wood Dog | Direct Officer (正官) | out of season rooted outnumbered | weak | Fire, Earth |
| Pig (亥) | 21–23 | 乙亥Wood Pig | Seven Killings (七杀) | out of season rooted outnumbered | weak | Fire, Earth |
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.
Lim Kit Siang’s bone weight (Cheng Gu, 称骨)
Lunar date: day 25 of the 1st month, Metal Snake year (辛巳年正月廿五). Its weights: year 0.6 liang, month 0.6 liang, day 1.5 liang — 2.7 liang before the hour. Over the twelve hours that makes 3.3 liang to 4.3 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.