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Your Elemental Profile

See your Day Master, your dominant element, and one question worth sitting with. Free, and you see the first result before you give an email address.

10 reference guides

The Knowledge Hub

Source-aware guides to BaZi, the Five Elements, the Day Master, and what a chart can and cannot tell you.

22 works · Cited passages

The Classical Library

The Chinese texts themselves, with an English translation, a modern reading, and links to Wikisource, the Chinese Text Project, and Wikidata.

10 essays

The Journal

Essays that put classical ideas next to modern psychology, strategy, and the decisions people actually face.

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A Sample Reading

See exactly what a Complete Reading contains, with the chart and the questions it works through, before you spend anything.

Evidence levels C1 to C6

Sources and Evidence

What Eastern Lens cites, what it interprets, and what it refuses to claim.

What Eastern Lens is

BaZi, or the Four Pillars, maps a birth moment to a distribution of the Five Elements: Wood, Fire, Earth, Metal, and Water. The reading asks what that pattern makes easier and what it makes harder.

The method is built on a corpus of Chinese classical texts. The passages behind it are published in the Classical Library with the original Chinese, an English translation, and links to three independent sources, so the claims can be checked rather than taken on trust.

What Eastern Lens does not do is predict events, or replace medical, psychological, legal, or financial advice. The evidence levels on every claim say which of those it is.

Not sure which to pick?

Start with the sample reading. It shows a complete chart and the questions a full reading works through, with nothing to sign up for. If it does not sound like something you would actually use, the rest is not going to be for you either, and that is fine.