Free Chinese Metaphysics Tools and Calculators

These tools are for cultural reflection and self-exploration based on traditional Chinese metaphysics systems. They are not predictions, and results should be used as one of many inputs in personal reflection and planning. Everything runs in your browser, nothing needs an account, and the birth details you enter are never sent anywhere.

Quick Definition

BeyondBazi offers free tools across three traditions. Bazi Four Pillars: a full chart calculator with luck pillars, a two-chart compatibility tool, and a Bazi versus Zi Wei comparison. Feng shui and almanac: a daily almanac, an auspicious date finder across a range, a single date checker, and an Eight Mansions Kua number calculator. Zi Wei Dou Shu: a chart generator and an annual forecast. There is also a Day Master reflection quiz. All are free, need no signup, run entirely in your browser, and are built for reflection rather than prediction.

Bazi Four Pillars 八字

The Four Pillars chart converts a birth moment into eight characters across four stem and branch pairs. It is the foundation the rest of the site refers back to.

Feng Shui and Almanac 風水 · 黃曆

Where Bazi reads a person, these tools read place and time: compass directions from the Eight Mansions system, and the day-by-day conventions of the traditional almanac.

Zi Wei Dou Shu 紫微斗數

The Purple Star system maps a birth moment onto twelve palaces populated by named stars. It is a separate tradition from Bazi with its own logic and vocabulary.

Quizzes

A lighter way in. No birth details needed, and nothing here calculates a chart.

Common Questions

What free Chinese metaphysics tools does BeyondBazi offer?
Tools across three traditions. Bazi Four Pillars has a full chart calculator with luck pillars, a two-chart compatibility tool, and a Bazi versus Zi Wei comparison. Feng shui and almanac has a daily almanac, an auspicious date finder over a range, a single date checker, and an Eight Mansions Kua number calculator. Zi Wei Dou Shu has a chart generator and an annual forecast. There is also a Day Master reflection quiz. Everything is free, needs no signup, and runs in your browser.
Are these tools free and do they require an account?
All tools are free with no account, no email address, and no usage limit. Calculations run in JavaScript in your own browser, so the birth details you enter are not sent to a server. Some tools save your last chart in local storage so you do not have to retype it, and clearing your browser data removes that straight away.
What calculation conventions do these tools use?
The Bazi tools follow the Zi Ping method throughout. The astrological year begins at Li Chun, the solar term near 4 February, rather than at Chinese New Year, and each month begins at its own solar term rather than at a new moon. Day pillars come from the Julian Day Number, and solar terms are calculated from apparent solar longitude rather than read from a table. The almanac tools share the same engine, so the day pillar in the date checker matches the one in the daily almanac.
Are these tools predictions of the future?
No. Every tool here is built as a reflection aid rather than a forecast. They report what traditional systems describe for a given chart or date, drawn from documented conventions, and make no claim about what will happen or what anyone should do. Historians of Chinese divination generally describe these traditions as frameworks for timing, self-examination, and moral reasoning within their culture, and that is the spirit the tools are written in.
Which tool should I start with?
If you are new to Chinese metaphysics, start with the Bazi calculator, since the Four Pillars chart is the foundation most other readings refer back to. If you would rather not enter birth details yet, the Day Master quiz or today's almanac are gentler entry points. If your question is about timing rather than about yourself, the date checker and date finder address that directly.

A note on how to hold all this. These systems came out of particular places and centuries, and they carried real weight in the households that used them. Treating them as harmless entertainment misses something, and treating them as certainties about a person or an outcome misses something else. The middle position, which is where these tools sit, is to take them seriously as a body of thought worth understanding, and to hold their conclusions loosely. If you want the background rather than the output, the articles cover where each system came from and how it is meant to be read.

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