Your Five Elements chart, from your birth date
Free Chinese Five Elements (Wuxing) calculator. See your Four Pillars, your yin–yang balance, which elements you have most and least of, and the colors that balance you.
Four Pillars 年月日时
Yin–yang balance
Counted across the visible characters of your chart. Each stem and branch is either yang (active) or yin (receptive).
Five Elements in your chart
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What is Wuxing?
Wuxing (五行), the Five Elements, are Wood, Fire, Earth, Metal and Water. They sit at the heart of Chinese metaphysics, medicine and feng shui. Your birth date maps to four pairs of characters, the Four Pillars (八字), and each character carries one element and a yin or yang polarity.
Counting them shows which elements your chart has plenty of and which are scarce. Tradition says that wearing, or living around, the colors of a scarce element brings it back into balance.
Common questions
How do I find my element?
Enter your birth date above. The calculator builds your Four Pillars and counts the element of each character; the element you have most of is your strongest, and the one you lack is the one tradition says to add.
Do I need my birth time?
No. Without it you get three pillars (six characters). With it you get the hour pillar too, which makes the count complete.
Why does my zodiac differ from January birthdays?
The Chinese zodiac year starts at Lichun (立春), around February 4, not January 1. People born in January or early February belong to the previous zodiac year.