Tharman Shanmugaratnam’s BaZi chart 尚达曼
President of Singapore, since 2023 · born 25 February 1957, Singapore · date source: Wikipedia
Western zodiac sign: Pisces.
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
Tharman Shanmugaratnam’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.
Quick answers
- What is Tharman Shanmugaratnam’s day master?
- Yang Earth, the Mountain: born on a Earth Dragon day (Wu Chen, 戊辰).
- What is Tharman Shanmugaratnam’s zodiac sign?
- The Rooster: born in a Fire Rooster year (Ding You, 丁酉), counted from the Start of Spring.
- What is Tharman Shanmugaratnam’s bone weight?
- 4.4 liang to 5.4 liang, depending on the hour, which is not public. How it is worked out ›
- Is Tharman Shanmugaratnam’s birth time known?
- No published time, so the hour pillar is cast all twelve ways below.
Compare your chart with Tharman Shanmugaratnam’s
Birth dates only: day masters, day pillars and signs.
The three pillars the date fixes
Year
Direct Resource
丁 Yin Fire
酉 Rooster
Month
Indirect Wealth
壬 Yang Water
寅 Tiger
Day
Day Master
戊 Yang Earth
辰 Dragon
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 Rooster hides Yin Metal (辛, Hurting Officer); the Tiger hides Yang Wood (甲, Seven Killings), Yang Fire (丙, Indirect Resource), Yang Earth (戊, Friend); the Dragon hides Yang Earth (戊, Friend), Yin Wood (乙, Direct Officer), Yin Water (癸, Direct Wealth).
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
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 Tiger month (Yin, 寅), when Wood rules the season. In that season Yang 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.)
Day pillar: Earth Dragon (Wu Chen, 戊辰)
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 Wood of the Great Forest (大林木), and it says:
Wood of the wild hills, unfit for timber; likes Water.
The original Chinese
山林山野处不材之木，喜水
This is what the book says of every Wu Chen day, not of Tharman Shanmugaratnam. The Wu Chen 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
All five elements appear among the six known characters. Hidden stems are not counted here.
All twelve hours, cast one by one
Of the twelve hours, 4 read strong and 8 weak (strong: the Dragon, Snake, Horse, Goat hours). Strength, and the useful element that follows from it, depend on the hour — the date alone cannot settle them.
| Hour | Solar time | Hour pillar | Its ten god | Three tests | Strength | Favoured |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rat (子) | 00–01 | 壬子Water Rat | Indirect Wealth (偏财) | out of season rooted outnumbered | weak | Fire, Earth |
| Ox (丑) | 01–03 | 癸丑Water Ox | Direct Wealth (正财) | out of season rooted outnumbered | weak | Fire, Earth |
| Tiger (寅) | 03–05 | 甲寅Wood Tiger | Seven Killings (七杀) | out of season rooted outnumbered | weak | Fire, Earth |
| Rabbit (卯) | 05–07 | 乙卯Wood Rabbit | Direct Officer (正官) | out of season rooted outnumbered | weak | Fire, Earth |
| Dragon (辰) | 07–09 | 丙辰Fire Dragon | Indirect Resource (偏印) | out of season rooted backed | strong | Metal, Water, Wood |
| Snake (巳) | 09–11 | 丁巳Fire Snake | Direct Resource (正印) | out of season rooted backed | strong | Metal, Water, Wood |
| Horse (午) | 11–13 | 戊午Earth Horse | Friend (比肩) | out of season rooted backed | strong | Metal, Water, Wood |
| Goat (未) | 13–15 | 己未Earth Goat | Rob Wealth (劫财) | out of season rooted backed | strong | Metal, Water, Wood |
| Monkey (申) | 15–17 | 庚申Metal Monkey | Eating God (食神) | out of season rooted outnumbered | weak | Fire, Earth |
| Rooster (酉) | 17–19 | 辛酉Metal Rooster | Hurting Officer (伤官) | out of season rooted outnumbered | weak | Fire, Earth |
| Dog (戌) | 19–21 | 壬戌Water Dog | Indirect Wealth (偏财) | out of season rooted outnumbered | weak | Fire, Earth |
| Pig (亥) | 21–23 | 癸亥Water Pig | Direct Wealth (正财) | 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.
Tharman Shanmugaratnam’s bone weight (Cheng Gu, 称骨)
Lunar date: day 26 of the 1st month, Fire Rooster year (丁酉年正月廿六). Its weights: year 1.4 liang, month 0.6 liang, day 1.8 liang — 3.8 liang before the hour. Over the twelve hours that makes 4.4 liang to 5.4 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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