The Saju Guide

Korean Four Pillars, explained properly.

• Why ChatGPT Gets Your Saju Wrong

  ChatGPT can interpret a saju chart beautifully — it just can’t calculate one. How solar terms, Ipchun, and minute-level astronomy trip up every chatbot.

• The Five Elements in Saju: What Your Balance Says About You

  Wood, fire, earth, metal, water — how the five elements of Korean saju cycle, what dominance or absence means, and how a yongsin restores your balance.

• Gunghap: How Koreans Read Compatibility Before Anything Gets Serious

  Gunghap is the Korean art of reading romantic compatibility through saju — what a matchmaker checks in two charts, and why a clash was never a verdict.

• The 12 Korean Zodiac Animals and Where They Live in Your Saju

  You know your year animal, your tti. But every pillar in a Korean saju chart carries a branch — an animal — and your day branch sits closest to the private self.

• What If You Don’t Know Your Birth Time? Reading Saju Without the Hour Pillar

  No birth time? You can still read three of saju’s four pillars. What a three-pillar chart reveals, what it can’t, and how to track down your missing hour.

• How Saju Compatibility Actually Works: Day Masters, Branches, and Balance

  Behind a gunghap score sits real mechanics — day masters that generate or control, branch harmonies and clashes, and charts filling each other’s gaps.

• Your Day Master Element: What Wood, Fire, Earth, Metal, or Water Says About You

  Your saju day master carries one of five elements — wood, fire, earth, metal, or water. Here is the core temperament each one quietly hands you at birth.

• Saju vs Bazi: Is Korean Four Pillars the Same as Chinese?

  Korean saju and Chinese bazi share one root system — same stems, branches, elements, sixty-year cycle. The math is nearly identical. The differences are cultural.

• Saju vs Western Astrology: What’s Actually Different

  Korean saju and Western astrology read fate from different skies. Day master vs sun sign, five elements vs four, the sixty cycle, and birth-time precision.

• The 10 Day Masters of Korean Saju: Which One Are You?

  Meet the ten day masters of Korean saju — tall tree, vine, sun, candle, mountain and more — and learn what your ilgan quietly reveals about who you are.

• What Is Saju? Korea’s Four Pillars of Destiny, Explained

  Saju, Korea’s Four Pillars of Destiny, turns your birth year, month, day, and hour into eight characters. What palja means and how Koreans read it today.

• Yongsin: The One Element That Balances Your Saju Chart

  The yongsin is the element your saju chart needs most — the one that steadies a chart running too strong or too weak. Here is how to find yours.