What are the ten gods in Bazi?

The ten gods (十神, also 十星 or 通変星 in Japanese) name the relationship between your Day Master and every other stem in your chart. There are five element relationships, each split into a yin-yang pair: Friend and Rob Wealth, Eating God and Hurting Officer, Indirect and Direct Wealth, Seven Killings and Direct Officer, Indirect and Direct Resource.

How do I find the ten gods in my chart?

Find your Day Master (the stem of the day pillar), then compare it with each other stem using the chart above. Our calculator does it for you: the label above every stem and next to every hidden stem is its ten god.

How is the ten gods mix calculated?

Every stem except the Day Master, and every hidden stem, is turned into its ten god. Stems count 1; hidden stems are weighted as main, middle or residual qi; the totals become percentages. A large share means that energy weighs heavily in your chart, but whether it helps depends on your Day Master's strength.

Can I find my ten gods without a birth time?

Yes. The year, month and day pillars give most of your ten gods; only the hour pillar's stem and hidden stems stay blank, and the mix shifts a little. Add the time later if you find it.

Is my strongest ten god my structure?

Not necessarily. The structure comes from the month branch: which of its hidden stems shows on a stem, or else its main qi. It often matches the strongest god, but not always.

What are main stars and secondary stars?

Taiwanese chart apps call the ten gods of the stems 'main stars' and those of the hidden stems 'secondary stars'. Main stars act openly; secondary stars work behind the scenes. A god that appears in both is the most stable.

Are some ten gods good and others bad?

No. Each is helpful or harmful depending on balance. A weak Day Master needs Friend and Resource; a strong one is better served by Output, Wealth and Officer. Even Seven Killings and Hurting Officer, the feared ones, mark leaders and talents when they are well controlled.

Why are they called gods?

The word 神 here means a force or spirit, not a deity. The ten gods are ten kinds of influence acting on you, named for what they do: friends, eating, wealth, officers and seals.

Ten gods calculator

The ten gods of every pillar, your hidden stems, your mix and your structure

Updated October 15, 2026

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Example chart

Day Master 丁 Ding Fire; your strongest ten god is Friend

庚午辛巳丁丑丁未

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HourStemFriend丁未Hidden

DayStemDay Master丁丑Hidden

MonthStemInd. Wealth辛巳Hidden

YearStemDir. Wealth庚午Hidden

丁Friend
己Eating God

Your ten gods mix

Self35%

Friend25%
Rob Wealth10%

Output28%

Eating God25%
Hurting Officer3%

Wealth28%

Indirect Wealth13%
Direct Wealth15%

Power5%

Seven Killings5%
Direct Officer0%

Resource3%

Each stem counts 1; hidden stems are weighted as main, middle or residual qi. The Day Master itself is not counted.

Your ten gods

Friend25%

Your peers, your will and your staying power.

About Friend

Your structure

Yue Jie structure (月劫格)

Born in a 巳 month; the month branch hides 丙, 庚, 戊. The month's main qi 丙 is the Day Master's Rob Wealth; for a yin Day Master this is called Yue Jie. So the chart forms the Yue Jie structure (月劫格).

Yue Jie structure (月劫格)

This year and your luck pillar

This year, 2026 (丙午), has 丙 on top: a Rob Wealth year for you.

Rob Wealth

Your current luck pillar 丁丑 (2022–2031) has Friend on its stem.

Friend

Ten gods that help you

Your Day Master is Strong; Water, Metal help you.

Seven Killings Direct Officer Indirect Wealth Direct Wealth

Ten gods to go easy on

Friend Rob Wealth Indirect Resource Direct Resource

Missing from your chart

Direct Officer Direct Resource

Following the Zi Ping Zhen Quan, the structure is taken from the month branch; special structures (follow, dominant) need the whole chart.

How the ten gods are calculated, in three steps

In Bazi your Day Master is you. Every other stem in the chart, visible or hidden, relates to it in one of five ways: it is the same element, the element you produce, the element you control, the element that controls you, or the element that produces you. Split each by yin and yang and you get the ten gods, the vocabulary every reading is built on.

1
Find your Day Master
In your four pillars, the stem of the day pillar is the Day Master: it stands for you.
2
Compare the elements
Compare every other stem, including hidden stems in the branches, with the Day Master: same element, the one you produce, the one you control, the one that controls you, the one that produces you.
3
Compare yin and yang
Within each relation, the same yin or yang gives Friend, Eating God, Indirect Wealth, Seven Killings or Indirect Resource; the opposite gives Rob Wealth, Hurting Officer, Direct Wealth, Direct Officer or Direct Resource.

Example: a Jia Wood Day Master meets Geng Metal. Metal controls Wood, so it is the element that controls you; Jia and Geng are both yang, so Geng is Jia's Seven Killings.

Ten gods derivation: pick a Day Master and watch the stems turn into gods

Choose a Day Master and the five-element wheel turns to it. Tap any stem to see how its ten god is worked out.

木Self

火Output

土Wealth

金Power

水Resource

Day Master

甲

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甲庚=Seven Killings

庚 Gēng for 甲 Jiǎ: Metal controls Wood, the element that controls you, both yang, so it is Seven Killings.

Courage, pressure and the power to command.

About Seven Killings

producescontrolsThe element that controls you

Five relationships, ten gods

Each group holds a pair: one with the same yin or yang as your Day Master and one with the opposite. For Wealth, Power and Resource, the opposite-polarity god is the "direct" one, balanced and orderly; the same-polarity god is the "indirect" one, freer and more forceful.

Self
The same element as you
Your peers and your will: siblings, friends, rivals.
Friendsame yin/yang Rob Wealthopposite yin/yang
Output
The element you produce
What you give out: talent, expression, children.
Eating Godsame yin/yang Hurting Officeropposite yin/yang
Wealth
The element you control
What you manage and earn: money, assets, a man's partner.
Indirect Wealthsame yin/yang Direct Wealthopposite yin/yang
Power
The element that controls you
What disciplines you: work, status, rules, a woman's partner.
Seven Killingssame yin/yang Direct Officeropposite yin/yang
Resource
The element that produces you
What supports you: learning, mentors, your mother.
Indirect Resourcesame yin/yang Direct Resourceopposite yin/yang

How the ten gods produce and control each other

The five families follow the element cycle too: Resource feeds Peers, Peers feed Output, Output feeds Wealth, Wealth feeds Officer, Officer feeds Resource, and each controls the one two steps ahead. Pick a family to see its links and classic combinations.

Output

Output produces Wealth: talent and skill turn into income.
Output controls Officer: talent pushes back against pressure and rules.
Peers produce Output: energy and confidence become expression and work.
Resource controls Output: learning and rules rein in expression.

Related combinations

Output produces Wealth (食傷生財) — Eating God or Hurting Officer feeding Wealth: talent and skill turned into income.
Eating God restrains Seven Killings (食神制殺) — Skill and composure master pressure: the combination the classics praise most.
Hurting Officer meets the Officer (傷官見官) — Talent collides with authority; the classics warn of 'a hundred kinds of trouble'.
The owl steals the food (梟神奪食) — Indirect Resource strikes Eating God, blocking enjoyment, health and creativity; Wealth restrains the owl.
Hurting Officer paired with Resource (傷官配印) — Direct Resource refines Hurting Officer: raw talent becomes recognized expertise.

Ten gods lookup chart

Find your Day Master in the first column and read across: each heavenly stem in your chart is the ten god in that cell. Hidden stems in the branches work the same way.

Self
Output
Wealth
Power
Resource

Tap any cell to see how it is derived.

Day Master	甲Jiǎ	乙Yǐ	丙Bǐng	丁Dīng	戊Wù	己Jǐ	庚Gēng	辛Xīn	壬Rén	癸Guǐ
甲Jiǎ
乙Yǐ
丙Bǐng
丁Dīng
戊Wù
己Jǐ
庚Gēng
辛Xīn
壬Rén
癸Guǐ

Ten gods meanings at a glance

The element relation, family members, personality keywords, and how each god shows when it helps and when there is too much of it.

Ten god	Relation to you	Core image	Family (men)	Family (women)	Keywords	When it helps	When excessive
Friend	The same element as you, same yin/yang	Peers, self-reliance	Brothers, friends	Sisters, friends	Independent, steady, proud, fair	Stands on its own, loyal friends	Stubborn rivalry, money shared away
Rob Wealth	The same element as you, opposite yin/yang	Rivalry, daring	Sisters, peers	Brothers, peers	Driven, bold, competitive, loyal	Daring and cool in a crisis	Impulsive losses, disputes
Eating God	The element you produce, same yin/yang	Talent, enjoyment	Juniors, students (traditionally grandchildren)	Daughters, students	Creative, gentle, tasteful, well-fed	Talent that pays, comfort	Laziness, energy drained
Hurting Officer	The element you produce, opposite yin/yang	Brilliance, rebellion	Juniors, subordinates (traditionally grandmother, grandsons)	Sons, juniors	Clever, articulate, inventive, proud	Brilliant, fame and fortune	Arrogance, quarrels, legal trouble
Indirect Wealth	The element you control, same yin/yang	Opportunity, money that moves	Father, lovers	Father, mother-in-law	Generous, sociable, quick, easygoing	Thriving deals, windfalls	Waste, gambling, romantic tangles
Direct Wealth	The element you control, opposite yin/yang	Steady income, duty	Wife	Assets, father's side of the family	Diligent, practical, reliable, thrifty	Stable income, a secure home	Stinginess, bound by money
Seven Killings	The element that controls you, same yin/yang	Pressure, authority	Sons, rivals	Lover, a forceful partner	Decisive, brave, commanding, forceful	Authority, rising to a crisis	Overload, accidents and conflict
Direct Officer	The element that controls you, opposite yin/yang	Order, reputation	Daughters, bosses	Husband	Upright, principled, responsible, disciplined	Smooth promotion, good name	Rigidity, pressure, anxiety
Indirect Resource	The element that produces you, same yin/yang	Intuition, specialist knowledge	Stepmother, unconventional teachers	Stepmother, unconventional teachers	Perceptive, original, deep, solitary	Mastery of a specialty, insight	Suspicion, isolation, the owl steals the food
Direct Resource	The element that produces you, opposite yin/yang	Protection, learning	Mother, teachers	Mother, teachers	Kind, studious, calm, generous	Academic success, helpful mentors	Dependence, passivity

Reading the ten gods in the year, month, day and hour pillars

The same ten god means different people and life stages depending on its pillar. The month branch commands the chart and weighs most.

PillarStands forLife stage

YearAncestors, parents, childhood homeAbout 1–16
MonthParents and siblings, career, societyAbout 17–32
DayThe day stem is you; the day branch is the spouse palaceAbout 33–48
HourChildren, juniors, later lifeFrom about 49

Stem gods and hidden-stem gods

A ten god on a heavenly stem shows openly and acts directly; Taiwanese charts call it the main star. A ten god hidden in a branch works in the background (the secondary star) until a luck pillar or year brings it out.

Hidden stems come as main, middle and residual qi, the main qi strongest. A god that shows on a stem and is also rooted in a branch is the most stable of all.

The ten gods one by one

Ten gods combinations: twelve classic patterns

Ten gods are read in combination, not one by one. These are the pairings the classics name most often.

The twelve combinations

Ten gods: common questions

Classical sources

The definitions and combinations on this page follow these classics of Zi Ping astrology, rewritten in plain language.

01《淵海子平》Compiled by Xu Sheng (Song dynasty); the earliest systematic reading of the ten gods and family relations from the Day Master.
02《子平真詮》By Shen Xiaozhan (Qing dynasty); takes the structure from the month branch and explains using the ten gods directly or by restraint.
03《三命通會》Compiled by Wan Minying (Ming dynasty); the great compendium of ten gods, structures and symbolic stars.
04《滴天髓》On the character of the stems and the momentum of the elements; best known through Ren Tieqiao's commentary.

See the ten gods in your own chart

The calculator labels every stem and hidden stem in your chart with its ten god, and shows how strong your Day Master is.

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