About & method
ask48 is a cultural and entertainment BaZi brand: Four Pillars · Eight Characters. This preview is a static site you can review locally before anything is bound to a domain.
What this preview does
It converts a birth date and time into the four pillars (year, month, day, hour) and writes a short automatic note. Compatibility reading and crystal pairing are out of scope here.
How the chart is calculated
The conversion uses the open-source library lunar-javascript (v1.7.8, MIT License, by 6tail). The library includes 寿星-style astronomical routines for solar terms. It is vendored in this site so a chart can be calculated offline, in the browser, with no third-party API. The library is used only to obtain stems, branches, hidden stems, and related calendar facts — not to generate prose.
How the automatic note is written
The note is a modest sketch from publicly described 子平 rules: a seasonal-count view of five-element strength (旺衰) used to suggest “useful” and “heavy” elements, plus plain-language Ten Gods (十神) meanings for what actually appears in the chart. The wording is original to ask48. It is not copied from paid BaZi sites, and it is not a consultant’s personal or experiential reading. Structure (格局), clever use of “useful gods” beyond this sketch, and any 1:1 advice are reserved for a separate conversation.
Known limitations
Personal reading
A one-to-one personal reading — including experiential interpretation — is separate from this automatic text. Nothing on this page should be read as a “master” claim or as a substitute for that conversation.
Coming later
Compatibility reading (合盘) and crystal pairing are planned for a later version. They are not part of this preview, and nothing here is a shop or a subscription.
Credit
Calendar conversion: lunar-javascript v1.7.8, MIT License, https://github.com/6tail/lunar-javascript. Brand and automatic wording: ask48.