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Your Chinese Birth Chart, Explained in English

Most horoscopes fit anyone. Your birth moment does not.

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.

Liki Astrology turns that structure into something readable in English.

What you get

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.

The reading is not a generic paragraph. It is tied to the chart:

  • the factors that shaped a judgment,
  • the time scope it applies to,
  • the classical source behind the rule,
  • and a clear label when the evidence is not enough.

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.

Why the chart comes first

A language model can write a convincing astrology paragraph without calculating anything. That is useful for prose and useless for checking.

Liki separates the work:

  1. The engine computes the chart from birth data.
  2. The rule layer matches chart factors to structured judgments.
  3. The explanation layer turns those judgments into plain English.

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.

Start with a free chart

Charting is free. Deep readings in Liki Chat are a separate paid service, shown clearly on the site.

If you have ever read a horoscope that could have described anyone, start with the birth moment instead.

Free chart: https://liki.hk

Liki Astrology is launching on Product Hunt on November 17:
https://www.producthunt.com/products/liki-astrology

Liki Astrology — Professional Chinese Astrology.

Traditional-practice perspective; not professional advice.

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