What saju is
Four pillars, eight characters.
Saju reads a birth as four pillars: the year, month, day and hour. Each pillar is two characters, and every character belongs to one of five elements.
In Korea people read it for all kinds of things, fortunes included. We use it for one thing, which is describing what someone is like. Nothing here is a prediction.
How ours is different
This is the short version.
We ask for a date and no time. So we read three pillars, six characters, and skip the hour.
Your code comes from two of them. The first half is your day stem, the character that stands for you. The second half is your month branch, read against it.
The colors behind your result count all six.
A full reading also takes the hour and weighs every character against the others. Ours doesn't. We'd rather tell you now.
Ten K-Types
Five elements, each one big or fine.
Gunghap 궁합
Two birthdays, side by side.
Put two birthdays next to each other and see where they pull together and where they push. Koreans have compared pairs this way for centuries.
Compare two birthdays →How this was calculated
You can check our work.
Your pillars come from a published Korean manseryeok covering 1900 to 2050. It's the same perpetual calendar a Korean reader works from. We didn't rebuild it and we don't approximate it.
Put the same date into any Korean manseryeok and you'll get the same three pillars. There are two exceptions, both because we skip the hour. A birth in the last hour before midnight, or on a day the solar month turns, can land one pillar over.