How to Read Saju: Five Steps to Understand Your Four PillarsFree

To read your saju, you first need to convert your birth year, month, day, and hour using the Korean perpetual calendar. Based on this information, four pillars are formed: the Year Pillar, Month Pillar, Day Pillar, and Hour Pillar.

Each pillar is divided into a Heavenly Stem on top and an Earthly Branch on the bottom, making eight characters in total. If you do not know your birth hour, you can still read your chart using six characters by leaving out the Hour Pillar.

Once you lay out your eight characters, the very first thing to find is the Day Master, which is the top character of your Day Pillar. The character sitting in this Day Master spot represents the main character of your chart and the real you.

People often know only their Korean zodiac animal from their birth year, but that animal is merely the bottom character of your Year Pillar. To truly understand yourself, you must look at your Day Master first.

After identifying your Day Master, count the five energies of Wood, Fire, Earth, Metal, and Water present in your chart. In this step, you take a quick look to see which elements are abundant and which are lacking in your characters.

By checking whether the elements are balanced or leaning to one side, you can understand the natural flow of your innate energy, just like reading the weather or the seasons.

Based on your Day Master, the relationships with the other characters are given roles called the Ten Gods. These are Friend, Rob Wealth, Eating God, Hurting Officer, Indirect Wealth, Direct Wealth, Seven Killings, Direct Officer, Indirect Resource, and Direct Resource.

Through these ten roles, you can picture how people, money, work, and study are positioned in your life.

Over your innate characters, the 10-year luck cycle that changes every decade and the year's luck that arrives annually flow together. When these moving cycles meet your eight characters, they form combinations that help you or clashes that bump against you.

By watching where combinations and clashes occur, you can anticipate when to move forward and when to pause for a breath, just like sensing the changing of the seasons.

When you enter your birth date and time into the Korean perpetual calendar, your unique Four Pillars and eight characters will unfold right away. Your personal reading begins the moment you check your Day Master, the top character of your Day Pillar.

Take your time to see which elements you might lack and how the year's luck interacts with your characters, and meet the flow of your life directly.