Bill Gates — BaZi Chart Analysis

Born in Seattle, Bill Gates helped drive the microcomputer revolution by co‑founding Microsoft with Paul Allen in 1975. After Microsoft’s 1986 IPO and rapid stock growth, he became a billionaire at 31 and spent much of 1995–2017 near or at the top of Forbes’ global rich list.

The chart, as computed

Every pillar below is computed by this site's engine from the birth date on file, using the solar terms rather than the Gregorian month — so the Month pillar changes at the 節 boundary, not on the 1st. Nothing in this reading was written before the chart was computed.

Day Master: 壬 (Ren, yang Water). The engine reads this chart's day master as very weak, in a 七杀格 (Qi Sha) structure — a chart organised around pressure and the handling of force.

This is one of the minority of profiles here with a recorded birth hour, so all four pillars are computed and the hour column below is real rather than inferred.

What the ten gods put where

• Year stem — 伤官 (Shang Guan): the disruptor — talent that will not stay inside the rules.
• Month stem — 偏财 (Pian Cai): opportunistic wealth — the deal rather than the salary.
• Hour stem — 正印 (Zheng Yin): orthodox support — study, mentors, credentials.

Ten Gods describe relations. The label attaches to a stem only in relation to the Day Master, so nothing in the list above generalises to everyone sharing a Ren day master — it generalises to charts with this configuration, which is a much smaller set.

The branch relations the engine found

• 六破 · a break — 未 (Wei) / 戌 (Xu), in the year and month branches. A destabilising relation, weaker than a clash.

Reading it

A very weak Ren Water day master in a Qi Sha structure, with Shang Guan on the year, Pian Cai on the month and Zheng Yin on the hour — disruption, opportunity and orthodox support, one to each pillar. Only a single branch relation appears, the Wei–Xu break, so the chart's character comes from its stems rather than from combinations. A weak day master in a Qi Sha structure is classically read as a chart that operates under pressure it did not generate; whether that reads as burden or as leverage is what the resource pillar decides. All four pillars are present.

What this page does not claim

A BaZi chart is a symbolic framework for reading temperament and timing, not an explanation of a life. Everything above describes a configuration; none of it asserts that the configuration caused any documented event, and no reading here works backwards from a known biography to a chart feature that would have predicted it. Public birth records are also imperfect — where the hour is unknown, this page says so rather than assigning one.

This is not a substitute for medical, financial or legal advice.

Work out your own chart

To compare this against your own chart, run it through the BaZi chart calculator — it uses the same solar-term boundaries as the table above. Definitions for anything unfamiliar are in the BaZi glossary, and the celebrity index lists the other charted figures.

Birth data as held on file: 1955-10-28, hour 22. The birth-data source is cited on the Chinese edition of this page.