Eastern Metaphysics, Explained ClearlyChinese metaphysics knowledge base covering the Five Elements, BaZi fundamentals and I Ching concepts.

What is BaZi and how is a Four Pillars chart built? The complete beginner overview — from birth time to chart structure — and the entry point to the whole system.

The first pair of concepts in all Eastern metaphysics: not good versus evil, but the two states of energy behind every change.

Wood, Fire, Earth, Metal and Water — the operating system beneath BaZi, Liu Yao and all Chinese metaphysics. Master the generating and overcoming cycles to read any chart.

Jia, Yi, Bing, Ding, Wu, Ji, Geng, Xin, Ren, Gui — the ten letters of the BaZi alphabet, each a concrete image of Yin-Yang and Five Element energy.

Zi, Chou, Yin, Mao… — the twelve coordinates that carry time, zodiac animals and hidden stems: the richest and most intricate layer of a BaZi chart.

The one character in your chart that represents you. Finding your Day Master and judging its strength is where every real BaZi reading begins.

Direct Officer, Seven Killings, wealth stars, output stars — the dictionary that translates element relationships into career, money and relationships.

The chart is the script; luck cycles are the schedule. Ten-year Dayun pillars and annual Liunian explain the timing dimension of a life.

Rat to Pig — the twelve animals are the most familiar face of the Earthly Branches. From zodiac personality to your Ben Ming Nian, the friendliest doorway into Chinese metaphysics.

Lunar months, solar terms and the sixty JiaZi cycle — the coordinate system of time behind BaZi. Understand the calendar, and you understand where the eight characters come from.

A complete beginner guide to the 78-card Rider-Waite tarot: Major and Minor Arcana, reversals, spreads and how to ask — with all 22 Major Arcana cards explained one by one.

100+ BaZi and metaphysics terms in one page, A–Z by pinyin — a quick-reference dictionary for every reading.