Shu Qi’s BaZi chart 舒淇
Actor · born 16 April 1976, Xindian, New Taipei, Taiwan · 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
Shu Qi’s day master is Yang Earth: the Mountain.
Honest and solid: does what they say they will. The day master comes from the day of birth alone; about one person in ten shares it.
The three pillars the date fixes
Year
Indirect Resource
丙 Yang Fire
辰 Dragon
Month
Indirect Wealth
壬 Yang Water
辰 Dragon
Day
Day Master
戊 Yang Earth
戌 Dog
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 Dragon hides Yang Earth (戊, Friend), Yin Wood (乙, Direct Officer), Yin Water (癸, Direct Wealth); the Dragon hides Yang Earth (戊, Friend), Yin Wood (乙, Direct Officer), Yin Water (癸, Direct Wealth); the Dog hides Yang Earth (戊, Friend), Yin Metal (辛, Hurting Officer), Yin Fire (丁, Direct Resource).
- 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).
- 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 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.
- Indirect Wealth (Pian Cai, 偏财)
- What you control, same polarity. Wealth that comes sideways rather than by salary — the uneven kind.
- 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 Resource (Zheng Yin, 正印)
- What produces you, opposite polarity. Straightforward support: what teaches, shelters and backs you.
Day master
What the classic Di Tian Sui (滴天髓) says of this stem, word for word
Yang Earth (戊) is solid and heavy, both centred and upright. Still it closes, moving it opens; it holds the mandate of the ten thousand things. Water moistens and things live; Fire parches and things sicken. If it stands in Gen (艮, the northeast) or Kun (坤, the southwest), it fears a clash and had better be still.
戊土固重，既中且正，静翕动辟，万物司命，水润物生，火燥物病，若在艮坤，怕冲宜静。
Born in a Dragon month (Chen, 辰), when Earth rules the season. In that season Yang Earth 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 Wood, 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 Yang Earth day master reads strong. Whatever the hour, the support-and-restrain method favours Metal, Water, Wood — 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 | Indirect Wealth (偏财) | in season rooted backed | strong | Metal, Water, Wood |
| Ox (丑) | 01–03 | 癸丑Water Ox | Direct Wealth (正财) | in season rooted backed | strong | Metal, Water, Wood |
| Tiger (寅) | 03–05 | 甲寅Wood Tiger | Seven Killings (七杀) | in season rooted backed | strong | Metal, Water, Wood |
| Rabbit (卯) | 05–07 | 乙卯Wood Rabbit | Direct Officer (正官) | in season rooted backed | strong | Metal, Water, Wood |
| Dragon (辰) | 07–09 | 丙辰Fire Dragon | Indirect Resource (偏印) | in season rooted backed | strong | Metal, Water, Wood |
| Snake (巳) | 09–11 | 丁巳Fire Snake | Direct Resource (正印) | in season rooted backed | strong | Metal, Water, Wood |
| Horse (午) | 11–13 | 戊午Earth Horse | Friend (比肩) | in season rooted backed | strong | Metal, Water, Wood |
| Goat (未) | 13–15 | 己未Earth Goat | Rob Wealth (劫财) | in season rooted backed | strong | Metal, Water, Wood |
| Monkey (申) | 15–17 | 庚申Metal Monkey | Eating God (食神) | in season rooted backed | strong | Metal, Water, Wood |
| Rooster (酉) | 17–19 | 辛酉Metal Rooster | Hurting Officer (伤官) | in season rooted backed | strong | Metal, Water, Wood |
| Dog (戌) | 19–21 | 壬戌Water Dog | Indirect Wealth (偏财) | in season rooted backed | strong | Metal, Water, Wood |
| Pig (亥) | 21–23 | 癸亥Water Pig | Direct Wealth (正财) | in season rooted backed | strong | Metal, Water, Wood |
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.
Shu Qi’s bone weight (Cheng Gu, 称骨)
Lunar date: day 17 of the 3rd month, Fire Dragon year (丙辰年三月十七). Its weights: year 0.8 liang, month 1.8 liang, day 0.9 liang — 3.5 liang before the hour. Over the twelve hours that makes 4.1 liang to 5.1 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.