Four Pillars In Chinese Horoscope

The use of Four Pillars in Chinese horoscope can be stretched back to the Han Dynasty. But the method of Four Pillars in Chinese is still used to large extent in Feng Shui astrology and general analysis today. The Four Pillars of Destiny relate to the four components that create a person's destiny or fate. Year, month, day, and time or hours are the four elements of Four Pillars, which are used alongside fortune telling practices such as Zi wei dou shu.

The Chinese horoscope Four Pillars or Columns chart falls into columns. Each pillar or column comprises of a stem and a branch and each of these columns relate to the year, month, day and hour of birth. The Four Pillars of Destiny are:

Year Pillar - Representing the Society Palace and your ancestors
Month Pillar - Representing the Parents / Childhood / Siblings Palace
Day Pillar- Representing the Marriage Palace
Hour Pillar- Representing the Children Palace

These elements of Four Pillars chart reveal the fate of an individual and his future happenings. Using the method of Four Pillars in Chinese horoscope can help one to some extent in finding his future and plan his path in the right direction. The four pillars chart must be balanced to have a life free of troubles and disorder. One has to trace the right elements that are required for the chart to be balanced evenly. It is only then the total potential of an individual can be exploited in the right spirits. The elements of Four Pillars that can lead to imbalance are known as unfavorable elements. They create obstacles in all our efforts.

Give below are the important elements of Four Pillars that help shape our destiny:

Wealth Element
This element in the Four Pillars of destiny is controlled by our birth. For males, the spouse element is the equivalent to their wealth element.

Power Element
The element in the four pillar chart that controls the birth element is the power/status element. In females, the spouse element stands for the element influencing their birth element.

Intelligence Element
As one of the elements in Four Pillars in Chinese horoscope, the talent and intelligence element is produced by ones birth.

Friend/colleague/sibling Element
The friend/colleague/sibling element is the same as the birth element.

Resource/support Element
This resource/support element in the four pillar chart nourishes ones birth element.