Last updated- 13/07/26

BaZi/SaJu/Fortune Telling- what is all this mumbo jumbo??

SaJu is the Korean name meaning 4 pillars of destiny (Sa= 4 & Ju= Pillars) and BaZi denotes something similar (Ba= 8 & Zi=Characters in Chinese which make up the 4 pillars). Reading the future or ‘fortune telling’ happens to be one of the outcomes of being able to read a BaZi chart accurately. Why is this the case/how is this possible?

From here on down, I want to preface this by saying that although there are plenty of different opinions of what BaZi is online, I will be writing my own thoughts on this all. So this is my own personal take on things you won’t find anywhere else!

Please note: In no way am I encouraging you to adopt my beliefs. These opinions are entirely my own, even my own master has her own different opinions. So don’t take things too seriously and read with an open mind! Also, it’s hard to answer what BaZi is, as to understand one thing means a need for an explanation on a broader concept. I will try break things up and share my view the best I can, in as little words as possible.

To put it simply & mechanically: BaZi is an ancient Chinese birth chart reading system involving your birth chart’s 8 character make up (representing your base character composition as a human being), and the timeline and flow of universal energies that interact with your base make up over time. Attempting to read it, is in my opinion, the act of trying to read the secret/internal ‘coding’ to our lives. To be more specific scientifically, I believe it is the act of attempting to read the influence of neutrinos (click link) passing through our bodies at all times and the effects they cause on our body/mind at a quantum level. I believe these neutrinos have some effect on us in a way that influences our ability for total self-control and free will, puppeteering us to feel, think, and make decisions in ways that cause us to create pre-destined, predictable outcomes.

In other words, I believe what we broadly call ‘universal energy’ in modern day jargon, is partially the interpretation of different ‘flavours’ of neutrinos passing through us and changing its vibe’ as it passes through us to communicate a different ‘aura’. Because the different ways our bodies (each different to the next) react to the flavour of neutrino affecting us in the moment, and because that movement of the neutrino is moving in a certain direction through a predictable 60-year cycle, and because the flow of your chart is laid out from the moment of your birth, it allows a practitioner to have an idea of what is going to happen to you based off the interaction of the type of neutrino (and its corresponding anti-matter partner a.k.a anti-neutrino) colliding with your 8 character base makeup at any given time will be. Though I do not know which type of neutrino is creating which outcome, I theorise that this interaction of neutrinos affecting our base composition + its interactions with the 60 year cycle are what influence our thoughts, emotions, actions, and therefore behaviour, and also that of those around us. Because we all start on different points on the 60 year cycle depending on our gender + the timing of our birth, and because of the numerous possible 8 character configurations available, the interaction of energies possible for people at any given time are countless, and we can clearly see that reflected in the many different types of personalities and reactions people have when they are exposed to the same stimulus, at the same time in the world.

Though each 60 year cycle is the same in its ordering of years, it is also slightly different as time goes by. This is because the world and universe is also going through a different cycle of its own, creating different energetic results and outcomes for different generations- hence the cyclic but slightly different differences in people’s thoughts and behaviours over Millenia. It’s partially why in my opinion many who study history come to realise the saying, “history doesn’t repeat itself, but it often rhymes”,

I will continue to refine and explain my belief over time. This is the core gist for now as confusing and jarring as it may sound.

To be more specific (I encourage you to read this even if it is long):

Imagine the 4 pillars/8 characters as like your body/bone structure/internal organs and working/make up. You are born with a certain set of preset characteristics and functions that will interact with the next 50 or so % of the equation which is the time flow or 'luck periods’ you enter as somewhat depicted on the spinning wheel above. If you put yourself in different situations/circumstances in life, you will react differently to the same stimulus. If you are put under stress, you will inevitably feel differently or feel pushed to act in a different way than when you are relaxed and happy, leading you to a different outcome. For example, think about yourself going through the 4 seasons of a year. I think in each season you are bound to feel a slight difference in yourself just by nature of the weather affecting your mood or thoughts on what to do or how you would do it. Now imagine this actually happening all year round, irrespective of the season. That behind the scenes, there is a universal weather storm, sending you energy every second of everyday that you are largely unaware of. We are constantly, from the moment we are alive, bombarded by these universal energies, which modern day quantum physics is understanding with the study of neutrinos, and there is a set timeline of these energies playing out on us at all times. Everyone begins at a different stage of the timeline, same sex twins have it a bit different but I won’t go into this right now. These universal energies and our individual different timelines collide with the numerous different possible set characteristic/bone structure combinations possible, and therefore cause many countless permutations and possibilities of personalities, actions/reactions, and therefore lived life experiences here on earth.

Whether we are aware of this or not, we are practically puppets to these energies, playing out and living life exactly as they are affecting us as they influence the actions we create and the actions of those around us. When we follow the universal energies and are aligned with them with trust, we call that following our intuition. By following our intuition, we are naturally aligning with our internal guidance system leading us to the predestined route our charts depict for our lives. It is also the case however that having complete disconnection from your intuition is also still leading you to the predetermined place, but you are likely going to have what feels like a rougher time going through the motions of things than some friend of yours who is always ‘connected to their intuition and following the flow of the universe’. Why is this the case? Because it’s impossible to fight the neutrinos as mere humans as they pass through our bodies and interact with our atoms to feel certain things that make us act in distinct ways, producing predictable outcomes. We are all at the mercy of this process, and even more so when we are not even consciously aware of any of it and how it is affecting our lives.

But here’s the difference: if you could know what was going to happen, how you were going to feel, when you need to be careful, or be easy on yourself etc that would be game changing, no? For example, even if we are bound to experience an event that eventually breaks us up with our spouse on a certain month, with this knowledge in mind before it happens, we can be compassionate to ourselves and to the other for the event occurring. This is different than experiencing confusion, anger, blame, or endless rumination for why things are happening the time and way it does. With this knowledge in hand, we can chuckle to ourselves and know that for whatever reason, this was always destined to happen in our lives at that point in time. Maybe you can reflect on the situation and look at it as a teacher, or view the outcome of the situation as the stimulus that pushed you onto the next best thing. Whatever it is, with prescience in mind, it becomes easier to understand that everything occurs ultimately at the right time, that there was only ever going to be one outcome. This all makes it easier to forgive yourself and the other on the lack of control we all experience in life, allowing you to find the silver lining in every moment.

I believe BaZi gives evidential support to the De Broglie-Bohm Pilot Wave Theory in quantum mechanics, and that this theory can help us to explain what is occurring at a quantum level throughout our known universe.

The reason for this is because if we all had free will, it would be literally impossible for me to accurately predict anything at all about someone’s life without knowing something about them beforehand. The fact that I can predict the gist of will happen and when to a random person’s life at different points and time in their life based off a chart generated from their birth details, whilst knowing absolutely nothing at all about them, proves that there is no such thing as free will. If everyone was making decisions by their own volition every second of every day, creating their life the way they wanted it to be, it would be literally impossible for me to guess anything at all about them with any precision. Being able to read a BaZi chart accurately proves that nothing is random, that there was never such a thing as an alternate outcome ‘if I had done this or that’, because it is always the thing that was shown on the chart that was going to happen. I also believe that it gives proof that we all live in some sort of simulation as mind-bending and scary as that might seem, as everything is happening on-time, in a pre-determined manner, and that BaZi is akin to reading the coding to the simulation.

As a side point to this all, I also think this connection is able to help to build on the misunderstanding of BaZi/astrology as a predominantly spiritual field to also a scientific one.

I also want it to be clear that I am not the first to think about this neutrino-human connection, but that full credit should be given to the creator of Human Design, who I believe was the first person to do so. His theory practically echoed my suspicions I carried to myself silently long before I ever discovered what Human Design or even what a neutrino was. As time passes through my practice of BaZi, and the study and experience of my chart as well as the lives of others, my conviction on this theory has only continued to grow. Though our modern science has yet to prove it scientifically, it truly seems to me to be the most probable explanation that answers some of the deepest questions of the mechanics of how our life on this universe comes to be.

How did this all come into creation?

Although you may find a certain set of replicated reasons online from different reputable practitioners, I cannot with good faith back it. Because honestly in my own opinion, I’m quite skeptical of what is said about how it all came to be and how we came to understand this all. It simply seems too mind-boggling for me to acknowledge that post-ice age humans figured this chart system out through millennia of trial and error and records upon records. To me, only an intelligence that understands the mechanics of the universe we live in wholly- including life and death and how the universe is bound together, can develop a system such as this. I don’t believe modern humans as we know it have achieved this. I therefore believe this knowledge was handed down to us or transmitted to us in some way by a higher intelligence or pre-ice age civilisation.

However it has come to us, it doesn't refute any of the truth of what it preaches and the results it produces. The accuracy cannot be denied, and that is why for me it’s not so important where this came from or how we came to understand it, but to view it as a blessing that we are able to have a tool like this in our hands to guide us through our time here on earth.

Are you a shaman/do you partake in witchcraft?

Absolutely not. Although I can see myself having fun dressing up in funky outfits, shaking broken tree branches and burning worn underwear for some whacky reason, I unfortunately am not a shaman or wizard, and simply have learned how to read the ancient chart system (after much mind bending effort) 1 v 1 under an experienced master as her apprentice.