Learn Saju in six steps

Read them in order and you will be able to read your own chart, even if this is the first time you hear the word.

1. 1BasicsWhat is Saju?Saju sets the year, month, day and hour of your birth as four pillars and reads your nature and the flow of your life from the eight characters they hold. It is one of East Asia's oldest systems of thought.
2. 2BasicsThe Five ElementsWood, Fire, Earth, Metal and Water. Five kinds of movement that describe everything in the world, and the basic language for reading a Saju chart.
3. 3BasicsHeavenly Stems and Earthly BranchesThe eight characters of a Saju chart are written with ten characters of heaven and twelve characters of earth. These twenty-two characters are the alphabet of Saju.
4. 4BasicsYour Day Master and your personalityThe top character of your day pillar, the Day Master, stands for you in a Saju chart. Each of the ten Day Masters has its own natural grain.
5. 5IntermediateDaeun: your ten-year luckDaeun are the great seasons of life that change every ten years. If your birth chart is the land, Daeun is the wind and weather over it.
6. 6AdvancedYongsin and GisinYongsin is the element that brings your chart into balance; Gisin is the element that breaks it. The conclusions of a Saju reading come from here.