BaZi has a learning curve most sites never explain — they sell you the fog. Here is the actual machinery: short, honest, in order. Start at the top if you're new.
Eight characters, one birth moment, and a sixty-cycle clock — plus what this art can and cannot do.
→ 木The five elements aren't things. They're actions your chart performs on the world, and on itself.
→ 食Output, wealth, authority, resource, peers — five relationships in two polarities each. Your inner cast.
→ 庚Yang Metal cuts; Yin Water seeps. The ten stems are the ten root personalities of the tradition.
→ 運Same vehicle, different roads. How your chart's backdrop shifts every decade — and how to read it.
→ 用The element that steadies your whole chart, and the cheapest daily ways to feed it.
→Reading order matters — each article assumes the ones above it.