How to Find Your Birth Time Using Chinese Astrology

Everyone knows that date of birth is essential to astrological calculations, both Chinese and otherwise. But did you know that your time of birth is also critical?

Many systems of astrology can do without your time of birth. The reading would be more precise if that information were available, but even without it, you’d still expect a reasonably accurate birth chart.

Not so for Chinese astrology.

In the Chinese astrology method of bazi, your natal chart consists of the hour, day, month and year pillars. Without the time of birth, your chart will, at best, be 75% accurate.

If you’re just curious about your life, this is enough. But if you want to craft a strategy for life, if you want to gain insight into your inner world, if you want to be prepared for pitfalls ahead, you need the hour pillar.

The hour pillar reveals your thoughts, relationship with children and subordinates, investment preferences, desires and aspirations, and your life after the age of 60. It lays the foundation of your future, and your legacy. For long-term thinkers, the hour pillar is a must for future planning.

Not only that, some methods of astrology require the time of birth. Qimen dunjia and zi wei dou shu, for example, need the time of birth to craft an accurate destiny profile.

Without your time of birth, you won’t know who is your qimen guardian of destiny. You won’t know how to tap into your full potential for manifestation, to create the future you deserve. You also won’t be aware of other deities and talents that lie dormant within you.

Bazi describes what is defined by Heaven—and what is defined is also bounded. It is difficult to step beyond those bounds. Qimen shows you how you can transform your destiny and escape your inherent limitations—but only if you know what talents you can tap into.

Zi wei dou shu is renowned for its accuracy and comprehensiveness. However, it also requires accurate information. A difference of a mere hour is enough to generate a radically different—and inaccurate—chart.

Time of birth is critical to Chinese metaphysics. Yet it may be difficult to obtain your time of birth. The time of birth may not recorded in the birth certificate. The hospital may have lost the original records. A child may be delivered at home by a midwife, and nobody thought to record the time of birth.

Situations like these create a blind spot. Without knowledge of your time of birth, how do you unlock your full potential, create the future you always dreamed of, and leave behind an enduring legacy?

Chinese metaphysics has the answer.

The Bazi Approach

When a client approaches a bazi consultant to determine his time of birth, the consultant begins with a comprehensive interview.

Questions include children, career, work style and responsibilities, investment preferences, relationships, and everything else that falls under the auspices of the hour pillar.

Armed with this information, the bazi consultant compares different configurations of hour pillars to determine which combination of traits most closely matches the answers he received.

To be sure, the consultant will only be able to narrow down the hour of birth to a two-hour window. Yet for the purposes of Chinese metaphysics, it is accurate enough. It will help the client plot his qimen and zi men dou shu charts, and discover where his potential lies.

The Zi Wei Dou Shu Approach

Working with bazi alone can be a tricky and tedious task. Zi Wei Dou Shu offers a way to narrow down the hour of birth with increased confidence.

A zi wei dou shu birth chart is composed of twelve palaces. Among these palaces include siblings, spouse, children. parents and friends. These palaces describe the chart holder’s social circles.

The client may not know his time of birth. But he may be able to find out the birthdate and time of the people around him. The consultant can then plot their charts, read the palaces that govern their relationship with the client, and predict the stars that would appear in the client’s chart.

After that, the consultant would plot 12 different charts for the client, and pin down the chart that most accurately describes the client.

Which Approach is Best?

Both approaches are sound. A skilled and knowledgeable bazi consultant will be able to determine your hour after the interview. A zi wei dou shu consultant will find the right stars after exhaustively plotting multiple charts.

And there’s no reason they can’t borrow methods from each other.

The great beauty of Chinese metaphysics is that all its myriad systems come from the same cultural paradigm. The major methods of divination, astrology and feng shui tend to complement each other. After all, they simply reflect different ways of seeing the same universe.

Once you have your time of birth, you will gain awareness into your future. With this knowledge, you can actively shape your future. You became an active participant in the creation of your destiny, instead of letting life happen to you. You can tap into your gifts of manifestation, attract the people and opportunities you need, and build a better tomorrow.

This is what the best metaphysics consultants offer. More than just telling you your fortunes, a metaphysics consultant will empower you with a strategy to realise your vision of your life, in accordance with your true self.

After pinning down your time of birth, a consultant will then show you how to make the most of your gifts. You can improve your relationship with your children and subordinates, formulate an investment strategy, optimise your work style, and attract opportunities with the help of your guardians of destiny.

Metaphysics is a powerful tool to help you to transform your life and manifest the future you desire. Our goal is to empower you to create health, happiness and abundance in your life.

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