Marks and symbols

On the top half of every pillar card, on each point of the balance chart, and on every element row across the app. What each element means is in four pillars.

The bottom half of every pillar card is a branch, and each branch carries one of twelve animals. They run in a fixed order that repeats every twelve years, and the same twelve name the months and the two-hour windows of the day. The character beside each mark is the branch itself.

On Universe, beside each month, year and decade. These are energy leanings, not predictions — how a stretch of time meets your chart, not what will happen in it. The scoring behind them is in monthly luck, yearly luck and decade luck.

The key below holds every area mark the app draws. Each screen shows the ones its reading uses — the Traits tabs, the bars on your timeline, the daily reading — so one mark means the same area wherever it appears, and no screen shows all of them. See traits and life timeline.

Saju has a traditional vocabulary, and most writing about it uses those terms. Where a plainer word carries the same meaning, this app uses the plainer one — so if you have read about saju elsewhere, here is the join.

Day element

traditionally the day master — the element on your day stem, the one that stands for you. Not the element you have most of; see personality glyph.

Helpful and caution elements

traditionally Yongshin — what your chart is steadied by and what adds friction. See helpful and caution elements.

Monthly, yearly and decade luck

traditionally Wolun, Saewun and Daewun — the cycles that move over your fixed chart.