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      That is the day itself, and everybody gets the same four answers. Below is the one reading that is only yours — your birth moment, cast by the same four systems, which mostly agree and sometimes do not.

      Your chart. Not your horoscope.

      Six systems read the same birth moment and disagree with each other. We cast the four that are pure arithmetic, show you each one’s answer, and then count where they overlap.

      No birthplace field, because we are not going to pretend. Houses, rising sign and the Zi Wei palaces need your exact coordinates. Everything on the next screen is arithmetic you can check by hand.

      Engraved plate: a circular chart instrument seen from overhead, an outer ring of twelve sectors and an inner ring of twelve offset sectors, six small dots on hairline leaders, one sector filled solid.
      The instrument, not the reading. Twelve divisions outside, twelve more inside and offset from them — which is the whole reason four systems can take one birth moment and put it in four different rooms.
      1. WesternSun sign, cast on the next screen
      2. BaziYear, day and hour pillars, cast
      3. NumerologyLife path number, cast
      4. TarotBirth card, cast from your date
      5. Zi Wei12 palaces · needs your coordinates
      6. NamesStroke count · on its own page
      Step 2 of 3 · Reading angle

      Four systems is a lot.
      What are you actually asking?

      Pick one and we read the same chart through that lens. You can come back and change it — the numbers do not move.

      Chart cast · 11 Apr 1996 · 07:20

      Three of four
      read outward.

      Life path
      7
      outward
      Sun sign
      Aries (Fire)
      outward
      Day pillar
      Yang Wood Rat
      outward
      Year pillar
      Yang Fire Rat
      outward
      Month pillar
      Yang Water Dragon
      not counted
      Hour pillar
      needs a birth time
      not counted
      Birth card
      The Emperor
      not counted

      Life path keeps 11, 22 and 33 as master numbers. The month and hour pillars are printed but not counted: the month stem is worked out from the year stem rather than standing on its own, and the hour needs a birth time not everyone has. The pillars come off the Julian day number, and the year pillar switches at the start of spring — the sun at 315° — not on 1 January, so early February births land on the right side. Times are Beijing time, uncorrected for longitude.

      Where each of those six came from

      What these chains are, and the one number you cannot check

      The first screen said the next one would be arithmetic you can check by hand. Here it is: one chain per figure, every step written out. The only number a calculator alone will not give you is the Julian day.

      Two of them turn over on the sun, not the calendar

      How each of these instants is worked out

      Each line above is the instant the sun crosses the next multiple of 30°, worked out for your own year rather than looked up in a table.

      Which of these four is actually a coin?

      Counted over — every one of them cast just now, in your browser.

      Each of the four reads outward when it meets the test under its name. The middle column is how often that happens across that window; the gap is how far that is from half, in percentage points.

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      How to read that grid, and where the window comes from

      Life path, value by value. Tinted cells are the odd ones, which read outward. 11, 22 and 33 are master numbers, kept instead of reduced. Yours is outlined.

      How often does a split like yours come up?

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      Why the coin column is there

      Measured over the same window. The right-hand column is what four fair coins would give, for comparison — not a prediction, just the shape to read the measurement against.

      The two we did not cast, and the long versions.