Bruce Lee — BaZi Chart Analysis

Bruce Lee (1940–1973) was born in San Francisco’s Chinatown and raised in Hong Kong. A martial artist, actor, filmmaker, and thinker, he founded Jeet Kune Do by fusing Wing Chun, boxing, street fighting, and Zen–Taoist ideas into a new approach to combat and life. Regarded as the first truly global Chinese film star, he reshaped both martial arts and action cinema within a very short span.

The chart, as computed

The chart below is computed rather than looked up. Solar terms set the Month pillar and 立春 sets the Year pillar, so neither follows the Gregorian calendar, and a birth date close to either boundary lands differently than a naive reading of the date would suggest.

Day Master: 甲 (Jia, yang Wood). The engine reads this chart's day master as somewhat strong, in a 偏印格 (Pian Yin) structure — a chart organised around unorthodox, self-supplied resource.

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 — 七杀 (Qi Sha): pressure — authority experienced as force.
• Month stem — 伤官 (Shang Guan): the disruptor — talent that will not stay inside the rules.
• Hour stem — 偏财 (Pian Cai): opportunistic wealth — the deal rather than the salary.

A Ten God is a relation, not a trait. 正官 is not a kind of person — it is what a particular stem is to this day master, which means the same 干支 carries a different god in someone else's chart. General descriptions of Jia types are therefore weaker than the table above, which is specific to this one.

The branch relations the engine found

• 六冲 · a direct clash — 辰 (Chen) / 戌 (Xu), in the year and day branches. Opposition between two branches — the classic marker of a position that will not hold still.
• 自刑 · a self-punishment — 辰 (Chen) / 辰 (Chen), in the year and hour branches. A branch repeated against itself.

Reading it

A somewhat strong Jia Wood day master in a Pian Yin structure: unorthodox resource, self-supplied rather than inherited or credentialed. The chart's defining feature is the Chen–Xu clash between the day and hour branches together with the Chen–Chen self-punishment — two destabilising relations in the same corner of a chart that is otherwise well-supported. Qi Sha on the year and Shang Guan on the month put pressure and expressive force adjacent to each other. This is one of the minority of profiles in this corpus with a recorded birth hour, so all four pillars are present.

What this page does not claim

This is interpretation of a computed configuration, and the boundary matters. Nothing above says the chart caused anything, and nothing above was reverse-engineered from what the subject is known to have done. Where the birth hour is not on record, the hour pillar is absent rather than estimated.

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

Work out your own chart

The same engine that computed the pillars above will compute yours: enter a birth date and time in the free BaZi chart calculator. If you want the terminology first, the BaZi glossary defines the Ten Gods, the branch relations and the pillar positions used on this page. More figures are in the celebrity chart index.

Birth data as held on file: 1940-11-27, hour 7. The birth-data source is cited on the Chinese edition of this page.