Li Na — BaZi Chart Analysis

Li Na is a former professional tennis player from Wuhan, China, widely regarded as a trailblazer for Chinese and Asian tennis. She reached a career-high ranking of world No. 2 in women’s singles and captured nine WTA singles titles, including the 2011 French Open and 2014 Australian Open.

The chart, as computed

The pillars below came out of the engine, not out of a reference table. The Month pillar turns on the 節 (the odd solar terms) rather than on the calendar month, which is why a birth in the first days of a Gregorian month often belongs to the previous 干支 month. The reading was written after the chart, never before it.

Day Master: 庚 (Geng, yang Metal). The engine reads this chart's day master as very weak, in a 偏财格 (Pian Cai) structure — a chart organised around opportunity rather than salary.

No birth hour is on record for Li Na. The hour pillar is therefore omitted rather than guessed, and nothing in this reading depends on it — no hour-branch relation, no luck-cycle direction, and no claim that would need the fourth pillar to stand up. Three pillars is a smaller chart, not a less accurate one.

What the ten gods put where

• Year stem — 食神 (Shi Shen): the output — expression, craft, ease of production.
• Month stem — 食神 (Shi Shen): the output — expression, craft, ease of production.

The Ten Gods are relational labels, not qualities: each one names how a stem stands to the Day Master, so the same 干支 means something different in a different chart. That is why the table above is worth more than any general description of Geng people.

The branch relations the engine found

• 六冲 · a direct clash — 辰 (Chen) / 戌 (Xu), in the day and year branches. Opposition between two branches — the classic marker of a position that will not hold still.
• 拱合 · an embraced trine — 寅 (Yin) / 戌 (Xu), in the month and year branches, resolving to Fire. Two branches that imply the missing third rather than containing it.
• 拱会 · an embraced assembly — 寅 (Yin) / 辰 (Chen), in the month and day branches, resolving to Wood. Two branches implying a seasonal block they do not literally complete.

Reading it

A very weak Geng Metal day master in a Pian Cai structure, with Shi Shen on both the year and month stems — doubled output on a day master with no reserves. Three branch relations, all involving Chen: a Chen–Xu clash, an embraced Yin–Xu Fire frame, and an embraced Yin–Chen Wood assembly. Classically doubled output on a very weak day master is read as talent that costs its holder to produce, and the clash on the day branch is where the tradition looks for the cost.

What this page does not claim

What is above is a configuration, described. It is not a causal account of anyone's life, and nothing here reasons backwards from a documented outcome to the chart feature that would have foretold it — that move is the standard way this genre goes wrong, and it is avoided deliberately. Birth records are imperfect too, and where the hour is missing this page leaves it missing.

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

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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: 1982-02-26, hour unknown. The birth-data source is cited on the Chinese edition of this page.