Chinese Astrology - your Date of Birth Holds the Key to your Future

The Chinese Four Pillars of Destiny is a system of Chinese astrology that can predict a person's destiny from cradle to grave. This amazingly accurate system make use of a person's date and time of birth to identify a set of eight characters comprising of four heavenly stems and earthly branches four (corresponding to eight characters). These eight characters are known in Chinese as Ba Zi.

The year, month, date and time of a person's birth is expressed as a set consisting of a heavenly stem on top and an earthly branch at the base, resulting in four columns of two characters each. This is how the four pillars of Destiny (also often called the birth chart) strains.

By analyzing your Four Pillars, an experienced and skilled practitioner will know your strengths and weaknesses, your characteristic, your talents, your desires, your career, your relationships, your health, your happiness, etc. Your Four Pillars can also reveal future events will take place along your life path. By knowing what and when an event will happen, you can be warned to be forearmed. Whether an event will prove to be promising or bleak, is partly dependent on how prepared you are for it and what proactive measures you can take to adjust the outcome in your favor. Timing adds an important facet in the analysis of a person's Four Pillars without which the predictive value of fortune telling is wasted on the person.

To determine your luck cycle or life path, the four pillars, in conjunction with an additional set of pillars known as the luck pillars, each representing a decade in your life. They are known as Decade Luck Pillars. The four pillars are the forerunners of our destiny and luck pillars are like signposts in the journey of our lives.