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Korean Saju · 사주 · the Four Pillars

Not your sun sign.
Your whole sky at the hour you were born.

Korea has read the heavens in a person for six hundred years. FourWeeks paints yours — and reads it to you, every day.

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You are born once — into an exact sky.

Five elements, each in its yin and its yang.

That weather never leaves you. We read it.

01 Why it’s different

Astrology reads the planets. Saju reads you — the exact moment and place you arrived.

A birth chart in the Western sense maps where the planets sat. Saju does something more personal: it takes the exact year, month, day, and hour of your birth — and the exact place, because the sun’s real position there bends your hour — and reads which of the five elements were moving, and in what private proportion no one else shares.

Western astrology

The planets & the sky’s geometry

Rich in its own right — and most people still only ever hear their sun sign.

Sunyour headline sign — the one everyone knows
Moonyour inner emotional weather
Risingthe mask you meet the world in
Housesthe twelve areas a life moves through
Your Saju

Five elements, in yin & yang

Wood, Fire, Earth, Metal, Water — each in two forms — weighed in a balance that is yours alone, down to the hour and the city.

Wood · a tree, a vine Fire · the sun, a candle Earth · a mountain, a field Metal · a blade, a jewel Water · the sea, the rain
02 오행 · Five elements, ten natures

Each element has a yang and a yin — a bold form and a quiet one.

This is the real heart of Saju: not five things, but ten. Yang Fire is the sun; Yin Fire is a single candle in the dark. Same element, two temperaments. The day you were born makes one of these ten your core — your Day Master.

Yang Wood
The Pine
Tall, upright, growing toward light. Principled, a little unbending.
Yin Wood
The Vine
Soft, adaptive, finds the way around. Resilient, quietly relentless.
Yang Fire
The Sun
Radiant, seen by all, warms a room. Generous, can overwhelm.
Yin Fire
The Candle
Focused, intimate, lights one thing well. Intense up close.
Yang Earth
The Mountain
Steady, immovable, others build on you. Slow to change.
Yin Earth
The Field
Fertile, nurturing, makes things grow. Gives, sometimes too much.
Yang Metal
The Blade
Decisive, direct, cuts to it. Strong, can be blunt.
Yin Metal
The Jewel
Refined, precise, values beauty. Sharp, a little proud.
Yang Water
The Sea
Deep, moving, hard to hold. Resourceful, restless.
Yin Water
The Rain
Gentle, pervasive, reaches everywhere. Perceptive, hard to read.

These ten are the Heavenly Stems — the true “types” of Saju. Where your sun sign is one of twelve, your Day Master is one of these ten, and the rest of your chart colors it further.

일간 · the Day Master

Every chart has one anchor. It’s you.

Your Day Master is the element of the day you were born — the single character that means “me.” Everything else in the chart is named by how it leans toward or against it: what feeds you, what drains you, what you control, what controls you, who’s your equal.

That’s why it never gets a label of its own — it is the label everything else is measured against.

Born a Yang Earth day? You’re 戊 — a mountain. Steady, the thing others build on. Now wealth, pressure, love and support each get their name from how they meet that mountain.
03 십성 · The Ten Gods

Ten ways the world relates to you — given a face.

The Ten Gods aren’t traits you simply “are.” Each one names a relationship between you (your Day Master) and another force in your chart — your money, your work, your rivals, your mentors. Born into your chart, they also rise and fall as time moves — a year can light one up. We give each a clear name; the traditional Korean term sits just beneath it.

God of Equals
비견 · 比肩
Your equal — allies, peers, self-trust. Shows up as independence.
God of Rivalry
겁재 · 劫財
The rival who shares your nature — drive, competition, the friend who’s also a mirror.
God of Nourishment
식신 · 食神
Ease and appetite — making things for the joy of it. Creativity, comfort.
God of Genius
상관 · 傷官
Brilliance that won’t stay caged — talent, performance, rule-breaking.
God of Harvest
정재 · 正財
Steady, earned money — the field you tend and the harvest you can count on.
God of Fortune
편재 · 偏財
Windfall and opportunity — deals, ventures, money that comes in waves.
God of Order
정관 · 正官
Rightful authority — title, structure, the rules you choose to keep.
God of War
편관 · 偏官
Raw pressure — the rival or deadline that sharpens you. Power, before it’s tamed.
God of Wisdom
정인 · 正印
Shelter and study — the mentor, the mother, what feeds and protects you.
God of Mysteries
편인 · 偏印
The night mind — intuition, niche genius, the unconventional insight.
04 대운 · Your decades

A life moves in seasons, ten years long.

Beyond the fixed chart, you walk through one element every decade — your Great Luck (대운). It’s the part no sun sign can give you: where you are now, what season is rising next, when the weather turns. Here’s a life, drawn in ten-year chapters.

0–9
甲寅
Wood · taking root
10s
乙卯
Fire · first spark
20s
丙辰
Earth · finding ground
30s
丁巳
Metal · the forge
40s
戊午
Water · running deep
50s
己未
Wood · spreading

This is the simplest read. With deeper lenses you can break a single decade down year by year and month by month — turning points, and the windows that favor a move. More ways to read it →

05 The daily read

One reading, tailored to your exact chart.

Each morning, today’s energy meets your pillars and becomes a single, specific line — drawn from your chart, not a horoscope written once for everyone born under a sign. The kind that occasionally reads you a little too closely.

Thursday, June 5
● 일진 己酉 — Earth day

Today you’re allowed to lean on someone.

Today’s Earth supports your Metal — the day brings help if you let it: an answer, a mentor, a rest you’ve been putting off. You carry a lot. Let something carry you back.

Do

  • Accept an offer of help
  • Ask the question you’ve avoided

Don’t

  • Insist on doing it alone
  • Mistake rest for falling behind
06 The schools

There isn’t one Saju. There are several ways to read a chart.

Masters read the same eight characters through different lenses. We give you the most widely-used one free — and the others are how you go deeper.

억부 · Balance
Strength & support

Find what your chart is short on and what it leans on. The everyday reading most people start with.

Free
격국 · Structure
Your chart’s shape

The archetype your pillars form — the “type” of life the chart is built around.

See it in the app →
조후 · Season
Climate at birth

Reads you through the season you were born into — heat and cold, wet and dry — and what restores balance.

See it in the app →

Korea has read this for six hundred years.
Now it reads you.

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