Each family is one of the five elements, named by how it treats your True Self. How much of each your house holds, and how energy passes between them, is drawn on the water clock.
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Picture an old Chinese water clock, the 漏刻 lòukè: bronze vessels stacked so that each one drips into the next. Here each vessel holds one of the five elements, filled to how much of it your house has. The water runs clockwise, the way each element feeds the next, starting from you at the top.
合婚 hé hūn, “joining the charts”, is how families once read a match. Set another saved person beside this chart to see how your houses meet: the bonds below are calculated from both charts, and the full reading is written for the two of you.
Background for the curious. Open a drawer.
The top character of every pillar is a kind of weather in Heaven. Your house has four skies, one over each part.
These four come from a set of ten: five elements, each in a Yang form (big, outward) and a Yin form (small, inward). Tap any one to read it.
Out of roughly 8.1 billion people alive. Estimated from the world's age structure and a mild birth-season curve, with 30,000 simulated charts for the patterns. Treat these as approximate.