ChanFlow guides
Your BaZi Day Master and ChanFlow’s twenty types
Your Day Master is the Heavenly Stem in the day pillar of your BaZi chart. ChanFlow gives each of the ten stems two type-card expressions, making twenty types. These names are ChanFlow’s own way of introducing the chart, rather than twenty classical BaZi categories.
Ten stems, five elements
Jia and Yi are Wood; Bing and Ding are Fire; Wu and Ji are Earth; Geng and Xin are Metal; Ren and Gui are Water. Each pair is conventionally described as yang and yin. Knowing the element is a starting point, not a full reading.
What do the two sides mean?
ChanFlow’s chart engine estimates the supporting share of the chart: the same element as the Day Master and the element that generates it. At 50% or above, the type card uses the strong side; below that, it uses the gentle side. These are the product’s classification rules, not a measure of your confidence, worth or ability.
A gentle-side card is not a worse result. A chart close to the middle may also show that you sit between the two expressions. A type name offers an image to reflect on; the rest of the chart gives it context.
How do I find my type?
Use the free type card after signing in and entering your birth details. If you do not know the birth time, mark it as unknown rather than guessing. The Day Master comes from the birth date, while the wider chart and supporting share can change when the hour is known.
What can’t a type card tell me?
A type cannot settle who you are, which career you should choose or whether a relationship will work. ChanFlow’s twenty names are not MBTI types and do not have a validated conversion into them. Read the descriptions as symbolic images and compare them with your own experience.
Explore all twenty types
The images below are the same names and descriptions used in the free cards. They describe the type’s symbolic expression, not every person who receives it.
Standing Timber
Once set on growing, it grows straight; the more weight, the straighter it stands.
Green Shoot
Wants to climb, steadies itself on something, and grows wild once the right support is found.
Wild Vine
Looks soft, grows anywhere; if it can go around, it never pushes through.
Shade Orchid
Sensitive to its ground; opens only in good soil, and then the whole room knows.
High Noon
Reaches everyone; can hide neither its warmth nor its temper.
First Light
The warmth is real, it just doesn't travel far; whoever stands close is warmed through.
Forge Fire
Quiet, steady, single-minded; it will burn one thing all the way through.
Night Lamp
Not much light, but most needed where it's dark; fears the wind, so it minds who stands near.
Mountain
So steady it seems fixed; you can lean on it, it just turns slowly.
Terraced Field
Not a mountain, but it built the ground up one terrace at a time; being leaned on was learned.
Fertile Ground
Takes in whoever comes and grows them; tends to plant over its own edges.
Spring Soil
Soft, truly, and truly nourishing; it comes alive only with sun on it.
Cast Iron
Speaks straight, acts hard, sides with the rule over the person; grinding makes it an edge.
Raw Gold
The hard core is there but unshaped; it shows only after grinding and fire.
Cut Stone
Particular, discerning, wants the surface and the substance both; rough work offends it.
Pearl in Water
Fine and sensitive, minds how it is held; cherish it and it shines.
Open Sea
Holds a great deal and can't quite say what it wants; when it comes, it comes as a tide.
Clear Spring
Not much water, but always moving and clear; easily carried off by something larger.
Monsoon
Feeling arrives as a whole sky; it waters the field and floods it too, and grieves on others' behalf.
Morning Dew
Subtle, sees what others miss; gone under a hard sun, so it needs shade.