$9 Mini Element Compass Report

See the full pattern behind your Five Elements reading.

Enter your birth date, optional birth time, and one question after checkout. Your complete digital report appears on-screen instantly, with a saved link for return visits.

Your Four Pillars and Ming Path element balance
Day Master context and focus-lens interpretation
30-day rhythm, seven-day practices, and saved access
Open the free readingSecure Dodo checkout · One-time purchase · no subscription

What happens next

  1. 1. Complete checkout through Dodo.
  2. 2. Add your details on the short intake page.
  3. 3. View the full report immediately and keep the saved access link.
How this calculation works

The current method uses birthplace, historical timezone and daylight saving time, and true solar time when birth time is available. The saved report records the method version used.

Sample report — Maya · Career

See the evidence before you buy.

This example is calculated by the same deterministic Five Elements engine used after checkout.

Mini Element Compass Report

The Steady Earth / 厚载

This sample reads Maya through the Career lens: Earth leads the chart, while Wood asks for deliberate care.

Four pillars

四柱干支

Your four pillars are the year, month, day, and hour of your birth, each written as a paired Chinese sign — the traditional backbone of a Five Elements chart.

Year

丁丑

Month

戊申

Day

戊子

Hour

丙辰

Five element ledger

五行分野

Ming Path element balance from the same birth chart.

36%

29%

14%

14%

7%

Day master

Yang Earth

Your day master — the core of your chart — is Yang Earth, set by your day of birth. Born in the 戊申 month, it sits out of season: the season of your birth gives your element little support, so it stands more on its own. You carry the same weight with none of the ground beneath it, and steadiness can harden into a heaviness that is hard to set down on your own.

Report access

$9 Mini Element Report

The full report is available once checkout is connected.

Open your free reading

Chart at a glance

The numbers this report is reading from

Chart at a glance: Earth leads at 36%, the current you know best; Wood, at 7%, is the one quietly asking for more room. The rest of this reading sits between those two.

Each pillar marks a different ground. Your year pillar (丁丑) holds your roots — the family and early ground you grew from. Your month pillar (戊申) carries how you meet the world and the work in front of you. Your day pillar (戊子) is you yourself, the Yang Earth read above. Your hour pillar (丙辰) is the quieter, inward end of the day — the private side fewer people see. Read together, they are less a verdict than four angles on the same person.

Why this pattern

The mechanism behind the read

Earth leads your chart at 36%, while Wood, at just 7%, is the part you tend to least — often the room left for your own wants. Laozi: 知人者智,自知者明 — to know others is wisdom; to know yourself is clarity. You have the first; the second, the Wood you give least room, is the work.

Inner Pattern

How the chart tends to move

You start slowly and stay long. You decide by asking who will be affected, rarely by asking what you want. You relate by holding — you are the one who stays when others leave — and you recover slowly, often by tending something smaller than the problem. Your tender edge: you can care for everyone and still not know how to let yourself be cared for. Being needed feels safe; being held feels foreign.

Included in your report

The rest opens with your own chart.

Correspondences
Thirty-Day Rhythm
Seven-Day Rituals
Journaling Prompts
Focus Lens

Disclaimer

Ming Path is for entertainment, cultural exploration, journaling, and self-reflection only. It does not provide medical, legal, financial, psychological, or professional advice. Do not use it as the sole basis for major life decisions.

Three-step path

Open your full report now — $9, instant, on-screen.

Open your free reading

Open the free reading

Read the first pattern and notice which element feels strongest this week.

Open your full report now

$9, instant, on-screen after checkout and intake.

Return anytime

Use your saved report link to return to the report anytime.