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      <title>Professional Chinese Astrology Inside Your AI Assistant</title>
      <dc:creator>ml8s</dc:creator>
      <pubDate>Sun, 15 Nov 2026 02:02:25 +0000</pubDate>
      <link>https://dev.to/ml8s/professional-chinese-astrology-inside-your-ai-assistant-3phb</link>
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      <description>&lt;p&gt;An AI assistant can write about BaZi. The harder question is whether it can compute the chart.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Most assistants cannot. They can produce a fluent paragraph about your “day master” or “palace” without calculating the four pillars, checking solar-term boundaries, or showing which rule produced the conclusion. The answer sounds specific. It is still generated text.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Liki Skill changes the workflow inside the assistant you already use.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;h2&gt;
  
  
  What the Skill does
&lt;/h2&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Liki Skill brings the Liki engine into Claude, Codex, Cursor and other compatible AI hosts. It covers BaZi, Zi Wei Dou Shu, Liu Yao, Qi Men Dun Jia, Feng Shui, Chinese almanac date selection and Chinese naming.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;The Skill is not a prompt that asks the model to “act like an astrologer.” It gives the assistant a defined workflow:&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;collect the birth data that the chart actually needs,&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;call the charting engine,&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;match the result against rule tables,&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;return factors, time scope and classical sources,&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;and state clearly when the birth time or the evidence is insufficient.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;

&lt;p&gt;The model explains. The engine computes. The Skill coordinates the handoff.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;h2&gt;
  
  
  Why the Skill matters
&lt;/h2&gt;

&lt;p&gt;A raw tool endpoint is not a product. Chinese astrology needs a sequence: calibration, charting, rule matching, interpretation and boundary handling. The Skill carries that sequence, so the assistant does not improvise the order or skip the missing-data step.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Under the hood, the Skill uses MCP-compatible tools to reach the engine. MCP is the connection layer, not the product. The product is the Skill experience: install it, ask a real question, and get an answer that can be checked.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;h2&gt;
  
  
  Example questions
&lt;/h2&gt;

&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;“Cast my BaZi chart and explain the day master and element balance.”&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;“Which Zi Wei palaces are activated next year?”&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;“Compare these two dates for a launch, using my chart and the Chinese almanac.”&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;“My birth hour is uncertain. Calibrate it against these events and tell me what remains undetermined.”&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;“Suggest names that support the element my chart needs, with the reasoning.”&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;

&lt;p&gt;The assistant should call the tool, not invent the chart. If it cannot call the tool, it should say so.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;h2&gt;
  
  
  Install
&lt;/h2&gt;



&lt;div class="highlight js-code-highlight"&gt;
&lt;pre class="highlight shell"&gt;&lt;code&gt;npx skills add ml8s/liki
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;

&lt;/div&gt;



&lt;p&gt;The Skill is free to install and use. Charting on the website is also free; deeper Liki Chat readings are a paid web product.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Repository and integration notes:&lt;br&gt;
&lt;a href="https://github.com/ml8s/liki" rel="noopener noreferrer"&gt;https://github.com/ml8s/liki&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;h2&gt;
  
  
  What it is not
&lt;/h2&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Chinese astrology is a traditional system of interpretation, not a scientific prediction engine. Liki Skill is not medical, legal or financial advice, and it does not guarantee outcomes. When the evidence is missing, it should say so.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Liki Skill is launching on Product Hunt on November 17:&lt;br&gt;
&lt;a href="https://www.producthunt.com/products/liki-skill" rel="noopener noreferrer"&gt;https://www.producthunt.com/products/liki-skill&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Liki Astrology — Professional Chinese Astrology.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;
Traditional-practice perspective; not professional advice.&lt;/p&gt;

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      <title>Your Chinese Birth Chart, Explained in English</title>
      <dc:creator>ml8s</dc:creator>
      <pubDate>Sun, 15 Nov 2026 01:59:32 +0000</pubDate>
      <link>https://dev.to/ml8s/your-chinese-birth-chart-explained-in-english-193b</link>
      <guid>https://dev.to/ml8s/your-chinese-birth-chart-explained-in-english-193b</guid>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;Most horoscopes fit anyone. Your birth moment does not.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Chinese astrology starts from a specific date, time and place. Those inputs produce a chart: four pillars in BaZi, twelve palaces in Zi Wei Dou Shu, and a set of relationships that change with solar terms, true solar time and the year being examined. The chart is not a mood. It is a structure.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Liki Astrology turns that structure into something readable in English.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;h2&gt;
  
  
  What you get
&lt;/h2&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Enter your birth details and Liki computes a real chart. BaZi and Zi Wei are calculated separately, then read together. You can look at personality, relationships, career, family and timing without learning a new vocabulary first.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;The reading is not a generic paragraph. It is tied to the chart:&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;the factors that shaped a judgment,&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;the time scope it applies to,&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;the classical source behind the rule,&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;and a clear label when the evidence is not enough.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;

&lt;p&gt;That last part matters. Chinese astrology has a long tradition of hour calibration because birth time is fragile. A recorded time near an hour boundary can move the hour pillar. Liki can calibrate against events you already know, and it says “undetermined” when the data cannot support a conclusion.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;h2&gt;
  
  
  Why the chart comes first
&lt;/h2&gt;

&lt;p&gt;A language model can write a convincing astrology paragraph without calculating anything. That is useful for prose and useless for checking.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Liki separates the work:&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;ol&gt;
&lt;li&gt;The engine computes the chart from birth data.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;The rule layer matches chart factors to structured judgments.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;The explanation layer turns those judgments into plain English.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ol&gt;

&lt;p&gt;You can ask why a conclusion appeared. The answer should point back to the chart, the rule and the time scope, not to another confident sentence.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;h2&gt;
  
  
  Start with a free chart
&lt;/h2&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Charting is free. Deep readings in Liki Chat are a separate paid service, shown clearly on the site.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;If you have ever read a horoscope that could have described anyone, start with the birth moment instead.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Free chart: &lt;a href="https://liki.hk" rel="noopener noreferrer"&gt;https://liki.hk&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Liki Astrology is launching on Product Hunt on November 17:&lt;br&gt;
&lt;a href="https://www.producthunt.com/products/liki-astrology" rel="noopener noreferrer"&gt;https://www.producthunt.com/products/liki-astrology&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Liki Astrology — Professional Chinese Astrology.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;
Traditional-practice perspective; not professional advice.&lt;/p&gt;

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