Know your Ba Zi chart. Master your timing.

“Cut through fate.” — precision Ba Zi readings from Singapore.

Ba Zi (八字) maps the four pillars of your birth moment into a working chart of strengths, cycles and timing. We read it the way a master butcher works — following the natural grain, no guesswork, no theatrics.

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The Four Pillars

One birth moment, four pillars, one working map

Your year, month, day and hour of birth each carry a heavenly stem and an earthly branch — eight characters in all. Read together, they describe how you are built and when to move.

年YearAncestry, first impressions, the world you entered

月MonthCareer climate, parents, your season of birth

日DayThe Day Master — you, and the marriage palace

時HourAmbition, children, the later chapters

The App

Your chart, read — free, in the app

The Butcher Boy app plots your four pillars to the exact solar-term minute, writes a five-part reading from your actual chart, and gives you an AI companion that answers from your computed pillars — never a guess. Five questions a day, free.

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