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Chinese Metaphysics · BaZi 八字 婚姻

Read the Four Pillars for love.

BaZi reads a marriage from three places at once: the Spouse Star and the partner it describes, the Day Branch as the palace of the marriage, and the Day Master's own capacity to hold a bond. This course reads all three together, times the marriage year through the luck pillars, and puts two charts side by side in the traditional method of compatibility — with a library of worked love charts.

8 modules48 lessonsLifetime access

  • 配偶星 — the Spouse Star by element and stem, and the partner the chart actually points toward.
  • The Day Branch as the marital palace: what the Day Master sits on, and what a clash to it does.
  • Capacity — whether the Day Master can hold the wealth or the officer it is drawn to.
  • The marriage year: reading the luck pillar and the annual pillar that bring a bond forward or hold it back.
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A BaZi chart: the four pillars and their Ten GodsThe natal chart of the course's example — the year pillar 己亥, the month pillar 丁卯, the day pillar 丙辰 and the hour pillar 丁酉 — each with its Heavenly Stem, its Earthly Branch, its Ten God and the stems hidden inside the branch, and below them the first four Ten-Year Elemental Phases: 丙寅, 乙丑, 甲子 and 癸亥.四柱 · The Four Pillars日主 丙 · Yang FireYear年柱傷官己亥壬七殺甲偏印Month月柱劫財丁卯乙正印Day日柱日主丙辰戊食神乙正印癸正官Hour時柱劫財丁酉辛正財天干地支藏干大運 · Ten-Year Elemental Phasesfrom age 44丙寅14乙丑24甲子34癸亥
The Four Pillars, with the Day Master at the centre and the Spouse Star marked.

The Problem

A chart is not a verdict.

Love is where fortune-telling does its worst work. A reader sees a weak Day Master and a heavy Spouse Star and tells someone they will be dominated for life; another sees two Spouse Stars and announces a second marriage. Neither is what the chart says. BaZi reads relationship, pressure and capacity — what a person is drawn to, what they can hold, and when the pressure arrives. This course teaches that reading with its limits intact: a chart describes a type, not a person; it cannot promise a marriage, and it cannot excuse behaviour.

  • The partner

    配偶星 is not a photograph of one person. It reads the kind of partner the chart is drawn to and draws toward it — temperament, standing and element — and two people who share it do not marry the same man or woman.

  • The palace

    The Day Branch is the marriage read from the inside: what the Day Master sits on, and whether that seat supports it or drains it. Read with the branch's own clashes and combinations, it is the closest thing BaZi has to the marriage itself.

  • The capacity

    A chart full of wealth stars is not a rich chart, and a chart full of Spouse Stars is not a married one. Whether the Day Master can command what it conquers is the question the classical texts ask first — and the one most readings skip.

  • The timing

    BaZi is a timing system before it is anything else. The luck pillar and the annual pillar say when a bond forms, when it is tested and when it is remade — which is the part a person actually wants to know.

The curriculum

8 modules · 48 lessons

  1. Foundations - How BaZi Reads Love6 lessons
    1. What a Relationship Reading Is, and What It Is Not
    2. The Three Places Love Lives in a Chart
    3. Spouse, Officer and Wealth: Who the Partner Is in the Ten Gods
    4. Why a Chart Describes a Type, Never a Person
    5. The Limits of a Love Reading
    6. Setting Up a Relationship Reading
  2. The Spouse Star - Reading the Partner6 lessons
    1. The Spouse Star and the Peach Blossom Star
    2. The Spouse Star by Element and Stem
    3. The Spouse Star in Each of the Four Pillars
    4. A Strong Spouse Star and a Weak One
    5. A Spouse Star Hidden in the Branches
    6. A Chart With No Spouse Star
  3. The Day Branch - the Palace of the Marriage6 lessons
    1. The Day Branch as the Marital Palace
    2. The Day Master and the Day Branch Together
    3. Sitting on Wealth, Officer, Resource, Output or Peer
    4. When the Day Branch Is Clashed
    5. Day Branch Combinations and the Company It Keeps
    6. The Day Branch Through the Luck Pillars
  4. The Spouse Palace and the People Around It6 lessons
    1. The Hour Pillar and the Children Question
    2. The Month Pillar and the Family You Marry Into
    3. The Year Pillar and the Marriage You Were Born Into
    4. Reading the Spouse Palace Across All Four Pillars
    5. In-Laws, Siblings and Rivals in the Chart
    6. Reading a Marriage From One Chart Alone
  5. Capacity - Who Can Hold a Marriage6 lessons
    1. What the Day Master's Strength Says About Partnership
    2. When the Spouse Star Overwhelms the Day Master
    3. The Useful God and the Partner You Need
    4. Element Balance and the Partners Who Restore It
    5. The Chart That Marries Late, and the Chart That Marries Badly
    6. Reading Capacity Honestly - the Limits of Compatibility
  6. Compatibility and the Marriage Year6 lessons
    1. The Day Pillar Method - Comparing Two Day Masters
    2. Tong Gong and the Shared Palace of a Couple
    3. The Four Pillars of a Marriage - He Hun as a Tradition
    4. Marriage Timing - Reading the Year the Bond Forms
    5. The Luck Pillar That Brings a Marriage Forward or Holds It Back
    6. The Year of the Wedding - Reading One Date
  7. The Marriage Years6 lessons
    1. The First Luck Pillar of a Marriage
    2. The Seven-Year and Ten-Year Pressures on a Bond
    3. The Year the Officer Star Arrives
    4. Reading Separation and Reconciliation in the Chart
    5. The Second Marriage Indicator
    6. When the Chart Says Wait
  8. Case Studies and the Ethics of a Love Reading6 lessons
    1. The Chart That Married Late
    2. The Chart With Two Spouse Stars
    3. Compatibility Reading for a Couple Already Together
    4. The Chart of a Marriage Under Pressure
    5. A Reconciliation Question
    6. The Reading That Must Not Be Given

What's included

  • 48 lessons in 8 modules
  • Lifetime access
  • Online, at your own pace
  • Payment plan: 3 monthly payments, then it stops automatically.
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Taught by Master Sean Chan

A Singapore-based astrologer and Chinese-metaphysics consultant with more than 15 years of practice and 10,000+ clients served — the same standard here as in private consultation, with every claim checked against the chart.

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Common Questions

Before you read a love chart.

  • Do I need the BaZi Masterclass first?

    No. This course stands on its own: the Ten Gods, the Day Master, the branches and the luck pillars are all defined as they are used, so a newcomer can follow it from the first lesson. If you already read charts you will move quickly through the foundations and spend your time in the technique, the timing and the case studies.

  • How is this different from the Masterclass, or from The Wealth Pillar?

    The Masterclass teaches the whole system and treats marriage as one case study among many. The Wealth Pillar reads the Ten Gods for career and money — its partnerships are business partnerships. This course takes the single question of love and marriage and goes all the way down: the Spouse Star star by star, the Day Branch as a palace, capacity to hold a bond, the marriage year, and the two-chart method of compatibility. None of the three covers that ground at this depth.

  • Will it tell me whether my marriage will last?

    No — and any course that promises that is not reading the chart. A reading describes structure and pressure: what a bond is made of, where the friction sits, and when it is tested. It cannot decide an outcome, and this course is explicit about why, and about what a reader should refuse to say.

  • Can it tell me who I should marry?

    It teaches the traditional method of compatibility — comparing two day pillars, reading the branches of two people together — which says where there is ease and where there is friction. That is a real and useful reading. It does not choose a person for anyone, and the course says so plainly rather than pretending otherwise.

  • When does the course open?

    It is being written now and is not yet on sale: the modules and lessons below are the full plan. Enrolment opens when the lessons are ready, and the price shown is the price it will open at.

  • How is the course delivered?

    Entirely online, on this academy, in written lessons and fully self-paced: no deadlines, no scheduled classes to keep, and no app to install. Lifetime access is included.

Enrolment

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The complete BaZi reading of love and marriage — the Spouse Star and the partner it describes, the Day Branch as the palace of the marriage, the Day Master's capacity to hold a bond, the marriage year read through the luck pillars, the traditional method of compatibility, and a library of worked love charts.

  • Every module and lesson of the course, opened in full on the day it launches
  • Self-paced, in your browser on a phone, tablet or computer
  • Lifetime access is included

BaZi for Love and Marriage: The Spouse Star and the Marriage Palace

8 modules · 48 lessons · lifetime access

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