Muhammad Ali — BaZi Chart Analysis

Muhammad Ali (born Cassius Marcellus Clay Jr.) was one of the most influential athletes and activists of the 20th century, widely regarded as the greatest heavyweight boxer in history. Born in Louisville, Kentucky, he began boxing at 12 and won Olympic gold in the light heavyweight division at the 1960 Rome Games before turning professional.

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 strong, in a 正印格 (Zheng Yin) structure — a chart organised around support, learning and backing.

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 — 劫财 (Jie Cai): the rival — competition and shared resources.
• Month stem — 劫财 (Jie Cai): the rival — competition and shared resources.
• Hour stem — 正财 (Zheng Cai): steady wealth — earned, incremental, held.

Read the gods as positions rather than personalities. Each label describes the relationship between a stem and the Day Master, so it is chart-relative by construction: move the day master and every god in the chart changes. This is the reason a per-chart table beats any generic account of Geng.

The branch relations the engine found

• 三合 · a full trine frame — 巳 (Si) / 酉 (You) / 丑 (Chou), in the year and hour and month branches, resolving to Metal. Three branches forming a complete elemental frame — the strongest constructive combination.
• 六害 · a harm — 丑 (Chou) / 午 (Wu), in the month and day branches. A friction relation — attrition rather than collision.

Reading it

A very strong Geng Metal day master in a Zheng Yin structure, and one of only two charts in this cohort carrying a full San He trine — Si–You–Chou resolving to Metal, the strongest constructive combination the system recognises, and here it reinforces an already dominant Metal day master. Jie Cai on both the year and month stems, Zheng Cai on the hour. The tradition reads a complete trine feeding a strong day master as force with no natural brake, where the guidance is about direction rather than restraint.

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

Your own chart runs through the same engine: the free BaZi chart calculator takes a birth date and time. The BaZi glossary covers every term used above — the Ten Gods, the branch relations, the pillar positions — and the celebrity chart index has the rest of these profiles.

Birth data as held on file: 1942-01-17, hour 18. The birth-data source is cited on the Chinese edition of this page.